Patent ID: 11911003
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 18:
19. A surgical system comprising:
an illuminator comprising a white light illumination source and a hyperspectral illumination source;
a camera having a sensor assembly, the sensor assembly comprising a first image capture sensor and a second image capture sensor, the first image capture sensor configured to capture a sequence of visible color frames and the second image capture sensor configured to capture a sequence of hyperspectral frames; and
a controller configured to create a composite hyperspectral frame from a plurality of hyperspectral frames in the sequence of hyperspectral frames, the plurality of hyperspectral frames captured from a plurality of different camera locations and at a same waveband of hyperspectral light, and associate the composite hyperspectral frame with a visible color frame in the sequence of visible color frames, wherein the composite hyperspectral frame has a resolution that is higher than a resolution of each hyperspectral frame in the plurality of hyperspectral frames.