Patent ID: 11864728
Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A surgical image acquisition system comprising:
an imaging device comprising:
an illumination source to emit light having a specified central wavelength; and
a light sensor to receive a portion of light reflected from a tissue sample;

a surgical hub comprising a situational awareness module; and
a computing system comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores machine executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
receive, from the imaging device, imaging data based on the light reflected from the tissue sample;
calculate tissue refractive index data from the imaging data;
calculate structural data related to a characteristic of a structure within the tissue sample based on the tissue refractive index data; and
transmit the imaging data to the situational awareness module,

wherein the situational awareness module comprises an artificial intelligence module trained to determine a position of the imaging device based on the imaging data, and
wherein the characteristic is a surface characteristic or a structure composition.