US Patent:
20180271615, Sep 27, 2018
Inventors:
Amit MAHADIK - San Jose CA, US
Jagadish VENKATARAMAN - San Jose CA, US
Ramanan PARAMASIVAN - San Jose CA, US
Brad HUNTER - Hollister CA, US
Afshin JILA - San Jose CA, US
Kundan KRISHNA - Fremont CA, US
Hannes RAU - Milpitas CA, US
International Classification:
A61B 90/00
A61M 13/00
A61B 18/14
A61B 17/32
A61B 90/30
A61B 34/30
A61K 49/00
Abstract:
A surgical system for providing an improved video image of a surgical site including a system controller that receives and processes video images to determine a video signature corresponding to a condition that interferes with a quality of the video images, with the system controller interacting with a video enhancer to enhance the video images from a video capturing device to automatically control the video enhancer to enhance the video images. The surgical system can also review the video images for a trigger event and automatically begin or stop recording of the video images upon occurrence of the trigger event.