Patent Document ID: 9330477
Application ID: 13622820
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A digital stereo microscope apparatus, comprising: a display unit fixed and located over an area of interest such that a human operator places hands, tools, or a combination thereof in the area of interest and views a magnified and augmented live stereo view of the area of interest with eyes of the human operator having a view substantially collocated and in a direct field and line of view with the hands, tools, or combination thereof of the human operator in the area of interest, wherein the human operator is able perform head movement without losing the live stereo view on the display unit; an image display located on a front side of the display unit relative to the human operator providing the magnified and augmented live stereo view; an optical system and an image acquisition system located in part on a back side of the display unit providing image capture and data capture of the area of interest; wherein the optical system and the image acquisition system comprises at least one objective lens and at least one image sensor; and a processing system communicatively coupled to the image acquisition system and the image display providing the magnified and augmented live stereo view to the image display based on the image capture and the data capture of the area of interest from the optical system and the image acquisition system, wherein the optical system and the image acquisition system is configured to provide the image capture with adjustments to provide the magnified and augmented live stereo view, in real-time, performed by the processing system utilizing stereopsis.