Patent ID: 11937891
Assignee: ASENSUS SURGICAL US, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 6:
7. A system comprising:
a camera positionable at a surgical site within a body cavity to capture images of the surgical site;
a display for displaying images of the surgical site captured by the camera; and
an eye tracking system positionable to detect the direction of a gaze of a user towards the display,
wherein the system is configured to distinguish blood vessels from surrounding tissue in the camera images and to, in response to detection of the user's gaze towards a blood vessel in an image that is displayed on the display, add indicia to the displayed camera images, the indicia overlaying a first region of the image comprising both a first portion at which the user's gaze meets the camera display and a second portion that is displayed on the camera display but is outside the first portion, to highlight a full length of the blood vessel visible on the camera display to differentiate said full length from the surrounding tissue.