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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Marc R. Amling, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Marc R. Amling, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Karl Storz Imaging, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/005 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00011 (2013.01); A61B 1/00039 (2013.01); A61B 1/00078 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/0661 (2013.01); G06T 3/00 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscope, endoscopic system and method for filling a medical display with a medical image involving sizing the medical image so that it covers at least one of the dimensions of the medical display. Automatically sizing the medical image to fit either the vertical, horizontal, or corner-to-corner dimensions of the surgical display, the sizing of the image involving adjusting the image size to account for changing zoom factors, endoscopes and imaging conditions.