System and method for smoke detection during anatomical surgery

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9805472
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14862437

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Various aspects of a system and method for smoke detection during an anatomical surgery are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, the method is implementable in a surgical scene analysis engine, which is communicatively coupled to an image-capturing device that captures one or more video frames. The method includes the estimation of a partially visible region in a current video frame, based on a temporal difference between the current video frame and a previous video frame from the one or more video frames. Thereafter, one or more candidate pixels are detected in the estimated partially visible region in the current video frame. Further, a smoke region is determined in the partially visible region, based on pruning of one or more candidate pixels.

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  • SONY CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chou, Chen-Rui San Jose, US 14 512
Liu, Ming-Chang San Jose, US 120 1741

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