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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2023
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey Dicarlo, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geoff Richmond, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus may configure an illuminator to illuminate a scene with non-white light. The illuminator includes a plurality of color component illumination sources. The non-white light is light other than white light and is generated by a combination of light output by the plurality of color component illumination sources. The apparatus may also control a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light and adjust pixel values of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene to decrease noise of the color channel in the frame of the scene.