Patent ID: 11972531
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving (i) data indicative of a live view of a surgical scene comprising at least a portion of an anatomical structure and (ii) data indicative of a synthetic representation of the surgical scene generated from imagery of the surgical scene captured by one or more imaging modalities;
presenting, on a display device, an augmented image of the live view based on at least the data indicative of the live view and the data indicative of the synthetic representation, the augmented image representing an occluding portion of the anatomical structure and an occluded portion of the anatomical structure occluded by the occluding portion;
identifying, from the data indicative of the synthetic representation, a first vector associated with a first part of the occluded portion of the anatomical structure; and
providing a measurement of the first part of the occluded portion of the anatomical structure based on at least a depth value of a location of the occluded portion along the first vector.