Patent ID: 11950758
Assignee: KARL STORZ IMAGING, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  H

Claim 8:
9. A method for maintaining an orientation of a video image on a display unit in a preferred orientation, the video image captured by a video camera, the video camera being handed from a first person to a second person, the method comprising the steps of:
storing a preferred orientation of an image established by a user;, pointing the video camera at a surgical site by the first person and establishing a second spatial orientation;
recording the second spatial orientation;, handing the video camera to the second person;
determining a vector information of the video camera as the video camera is handed to the second person; and
providing a display control unit, the display control unit processing the preferred orientation, the second spatial orientation and the vector information so as to maintain the video image in the preferred orientation as the video camera is handed from the first person to the second person.