US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 17 for "Predicting stereoscopic video with confidence shading from a monocular endoscope" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,888, issued on March 17, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Predicting stereoscopic video with confidence shading from a monocular endoscope" was invented by Steven J. Levine (Framingham, Mass.), Meir Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.) and Samuel B. Kesner (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system includes an image processing device configured to receive an endoscopic video feed and generate a stereoscopic video feed with confidence shading overlays on display. The confidence shading is based on a level of confidence associated with uncertain regions within images making up the stereoscopic vide...