Device tracking and monitoring outside imaging field of view

Abstract

A system includes a memory, a processor, and a motor. Instructions from the memory cause the system to: receive images; receive encoding data corresponding to driving of an elongated device by the motor; determine positions of the elongated device; determine when at least a portion of the elongated device is outside of a field of view in the images or likely to leave the field of view in the images; determine whether to create extended image data to show positions of the elongated device outside of the field of view in the images; determine current locations, past locations and / or predicted locations of the elongated device outside of the field of view in the images based on pixel data in the images and the encoding data; and extend the images to show the locations of the elongated device outside of the field of view in the images in extended images.

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