Patent ID: 11950758
Assignee: KARL STORZ IMAGING, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  H

Claim 0:
1. A camera system configured to display an image onto a display unit as the camera system is handed from a first person to a second person, the camera system comprising:
a camera head unit having a memory and electric components configured to capture an image, the memory configured to store a preferred orientation of the image established by a user and a second orientation that is different than the preferred orientation, the second orientation being an image of a surgical site;
an orientation unit disposed on the camera head unit, the orientation unit configured to detect a spatial orientation of the camera head unit and detect vector information of the camera head unit; and
a display control unit configured to process the vector information detected by the orientation unit and the preferred orientation and the second orientation stored in the memory and process the image so as to adjust an orientation of the image captured by the camera head unit to be oriented in the preferred orientation as the camera head unit is handed from the first person to the second person.