Patent ID: 11937769
Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B  G  H | IPC A  B  G  H

Claim 11:
12. A method, comprising:
detecting a modular surgical device within bounds of a surgical operating room;
connecting the modular surgical device to a surgical hub;
transmitting a livestream of a surgical site in the surgical operating room to an imaging module of the surgical hub;
capturing, by the imaging module, at least one image frame from the livestream, at a frame capturing rate dependent upon a detected motion in the surgical site; and
inferring progression of a surgical activity performed by an end effector of the modular surgical device at the surgical site from data extracted from the at least one image frame, wherein the end effector includes a first jaw and a second jaw configured to engage tissue, and wherein the surgical activity comprises applying a tissue treatment to tissue grasped by the first jaw and the second jaw, wherein inferring progression of the surgical activity comprises:
retrieving a candidate image;
performing an image recognition algorithm on the at least one image frame and the candidate image to obtain an image recognition algorithm output;
comparing the image recognition algorithm output to a pre-selected range; and
accepting or rejecting the candidate image as the at least one image frame based on the comparison.