Patent ID: 11918306
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 18:
19. One or more machine-readable non-transitory storage devices encoded with machine-readable instructions configured to cause one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
receiving a representation of a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images of portions of a human body, wherein the plurality of 2D images includes images of at least two different modalities, and the representation includes location information corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of 2D images;
displaying a first image of the plurality of 2D images on a display device in accordance with corresponding location information associated with the first image, the first image being of a first modality;
displaying a second image of the plurality of 2D images, the second image overlaid on and registered with respect to the first image in accordance with corresponding location information associated with the second image, the second image being of a second modality; and
displaying at least a third image of the plurality of 2D images, the third image overlaid on and registered with respect to the first image in accordance with corresponding location information associated with the third image, the third image being of the second modality;
wherein the second and third images are displayed together, each at a corresponding location as registered with respect to the first image, for at least a period of time, to provide a three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the portions of the human body on the display device;
and wherein the second image and the at least third image of the plurality of 2D images are acquired by a probe of an imaging device held by a robotic arm and at least one motion constraint is applied to the robotic arm.