Patent ID: 9305218
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G16H

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for automatically identifying a surgical instrument, the apparatus comprising: a capture module comprising hardware to capture multiple attributes of the surgical instrument, wherein the capture module comprises an image capture device including at least a first camera and a second camera, wherein the first camera captures a first image of the surgical instrument, wherein the second camera captures a second image of the surgical instrument, and wherein the first and second cameras are relatively positioned to capture respective first and second perspectives of the surgical instrument; an attribute database comprising multiple stored attributes of a plurality of reference surgical instruments; a comparison module programmed to generate a comparison score for the surgical instrument, wherein the comparison module is programmed to generate the comparison score by receiving multiple attributes captured by the capture module and comparing it to the multiple attributes stored in the attribute database, and wherein the comparison module is programmed to generate the comparison score by at least comparing the first and second images of the surgical instrument to the stored images of the plurality of reference surgical instruments; and an exporting module configured to receive and export the comparison score generated by the comparison module, wherein the image capture device is configured to capture an image of teeth of the surgical instrument, and wherein the comparison module is programmed to generate the comparison score by at least comparing the captured image of the teeth of the surgical instrument to stored images of teeth of the plurality of reference surgical instruments.