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Patent No.:

US 12718561 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2022

Protection of personally identifiable content in a video stream generated by an imaging device during a medical procedure

Applicant:

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yidan Qin, Chicago, IL (US);

Maximilian H. Allan, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Mahdi Azizian, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:

ALG Intellectual Property, LLC

Primary Examiner:

Tauqir Hussain

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/96 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/41 (2022.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/96 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 2201/03 (2022.01);
Abstract

An illustrative image processing system is configured to apply a video stream to a machine learning model, the video stream generated by an imaging device during a medical procedure performed with respect to a patient; classify, based on an output of the machine learning model, an image frame included in the video stream as an ex-body frame that depicts content external to a body of the patient: and apply, based on the classifying the image frame as the ex-body frame, a privacy enhancing operation to the image frame.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Qin, Yidan. (2026). Protection of personally identifiable content in a video stream generated by an imaging device during a medical procedure (U.S. Patent No. 12718561). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12718561

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