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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2011
Mark R. Disilvestro, Columbia City, IN (US);
Jason T. Sherman, Warsaw, IN (US);
Edward J. Caylor, Iii, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Mark R. DiSilvestro, Columbia City, IN (US);
Jason T. Sherman, Warsaw, IN (US);
Edward J. Caylor, III, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
DePuy Synthes Products, LLC, Raynham, MA (US);
Abstract
A registration pointer includes a camera located in an elongated shaft having a distal end configured to be contacted to a bone of a patient to register the bone to a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system. The camera may be a hemispherical camera and may include a panoramic camera and a wide-angle camera equipped with a fish-eye lens. The registration pointer is configured to transmit images received by the cameras to the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system for display thereon. The computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system may be configured to generate an image, such as a hemispherical image, based on the images received from the registration pointer.