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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wenyi Zhao, Weston, FL (US);
Catherine J. Mohr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Sorger, Belmont, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A bleeding detection system may receive, from an image capture system during a surgical procedure, a first frame of data of a scene of a surgical site and identify, based on the first frame, a region of blood in the scene. The system may receive, from the image capture system subsequent to receiving the first frame, a second frame of data of the scene, the second frame including data representative of the region of blood. The system may estimate, based on the first frame and the second frame, motion of blood flow in the region of blood and generate data representative of a combined image comprising the second frame and a visual indicator indicating the motion of blood flow in the region of blood. The system may transmit, during the surgical procedure, the data representative of the combined image to a display unit for display of the combined image.