Patent ID: 11918177
Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 0:
1. An imaging system, comprising:
a light source including one or more light emitters to emit a plurality of wavelengths of light;
a camera coupled to receive the light reflected back from tissue in or on a body;
a database including reflectance data for a plurality of tissue types of the body; and
a controller coupled to the light source, the database, and the camera, wherein the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the imaging system to perform operations, including:
in response to the camera receiving the light reflected back from the tissue, generating image data with the camera;
receiving the image data from the camera with the controller;
comparing, with the controller, the image data to the reflectance data in the database;
determining a tissue type in the image data in response to comparing the image data to the reflectance data, wherein determining the tissue type includes calculating a probability that the image data includes the tissue type using the image data and the reflectance data;
changing the plurality of wavelengths of light emitted from the light source from a first emission profile to a second emission profile based upon a probability threshold of tissue identification;
combinatorially searching through multiple different emission profiles to select one of the multiple different emission profiles that provides a highest identification probability; and
using the selected one of the multiple different emission profiles to identify the tissue type.