Patent Document ID: 20160247275
Application ID: 14855525
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for detection of surgical gauze during anatomical surgery, said system comprising: one or more circuits in an image-processing engine communicatively coupled to an image-capturing device, wherein said image-capturing device is configured to capture one or more video frames, said one or more circuits being configured to: determine a set of pixel characteristics based on color filtering performed on at least a portion of a video frame received from said image-capturing device; detect one or more blocks of pixels that correspond to a portion of a surgical gauze in said at least portion of said video frame based on said determined set of pixel characteristics; identify additional pixels that correspond to a remaining portion of said surgical gauze based on a plurality of metrics; and recognize said surgical gauze in said video frame based on said detection of said one or more blocks of pixels that correspond to said portion and said identification of said additional pixels that correspond to said remaining portion of said surgical gauze.