US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods implementing distance-based image sensor windowing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,809, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods implementing distance-based image sensor windowing" was invented by William Jason Culman (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system may include a stereoscopic imaging device comprising: a first image sensor having a first pixel array and configured to provide a first windowed output, the first windowed output comprising first image information associated with pixels included within a first window of the first pixel array, and a second image sensor having a second pixel array and configur...