Patent ID: 11968458
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  H  G | IPC A  G  H

Claim 0:
1. An imaging system, comprising:
a rolling shutter sensor that captures a plurality of images of a scene;
a continuous illumination source that illuminates the scene;
a time-varying illumination source that illuminates the scene; and
a processor configured to:
synchronize the rolling shutter sensor and the time-varying illumination source to cause a first subset of lines of the rolling shutter sensor to be on-cadence with the time-varying illumination source and a second subset of lines to be off-cadence; and
separate the plurality of images into a plurality of feeds, wherein each of the plurality of feeds has a different contribution of the time-varying illumination source to an overall illumination of the scene, and wherein the plurality of feeds comprise a general-purpose feed from which the contribution of the time-varying illumination source to the overall illumination of the scene is removed and a special-purpose feed in which the contribution of the time-varying illumination source is isolated.