Patent ID: 11937769
Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B  G  H | IPC A  B  G  H

Claim 3:
4. A method, comprising:
detecting a medical imaging device within bounds of a surgical operating room;
connecting the medical imaging device to a surgical hub including an imaging module;
transmitting a livestream of a surgical site in the surgical operating room from the medical imaging device to the imaging module;
capturing, by the imaging module, at least one image frame from the livestream, at a frame capturing rate dependent upon a detected motion in the surgical site;
deriving information relevant to a surgical activity performed by an end effector of a modular surgical device at the surgical site from data extracted from the at least one image frame, wherein deriving information relevant to the surgical activity comprises:
retrieving a candidate image;
performing an image recognition algorithm on the at least one image frame and the candidate image to obtain an image recognition algorithm output;
comparing the image recognition algorithm output to a pre-selected range; and
accepting or rejecting the candidate image as the at least one image frame based on the comparison;

transmitting the information from the surgical hub to the medical imaging device; and
overlaying the information onto the livestream.