Surgical Goggles with External Processing for Gesture Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical goggles lack integrated solutions for enhanced lighting, direct recording, and efficient control of medical equipment, leading to limitations in visibility, record-keeping, and timely adjustment during surgical operations due to weight burdens and imperfect lighting angles.
Innovation Solution
The goggles incorporate an imaging device, lighting elements, a data transmission device, and a recognition processing module, allowing for improved lighting, recording, and hand gesture control of medical equipment through a collaborative system that balances weight distribution and reduces operator burden.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If recording devices and lighting devices are mounted on goggles, then recording function and lighting function are improved, but weight increases causing burden to operator
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the heavy processing and storage functions from the goggles to external devices. The goggles only contain a camera for capturing images and a lightweight processor for basic hand gesture recognition, while a separate terminal device handles complex processing and data storage. This extraction eliminates the need for heavy batteries and large storage units in the goggles, significantly reducing weight while maintaining recording functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal device serves multiple functions: it receives images from the goggles camera, performs hand gesture recognition processing, stores surgical video data, and provides user notifications. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single universal device, the system avoids duplicating components in the goggles, thereby reducing overall weight while improving reliability of recording and control functions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple devices are mounted on goggles for recording and lighting, then functional completeness is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service through automatic hand gesture recognition. The processor continuously monitors images from the camera, automatically identifies hand gestures without user intervention, and triggers corresponding operations (recording, lighting control, device adjustment). This eliminates the need for manual controls, buttons, or switches, making the goggles extremely easy to operate while maintaining complete functional control over surgical equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor acts as an intermediary between the camera images and the control operations. It translates visual information (hand gestures) into control commands for the surgical devices. This intermediary layer simplifies the user interface to merely pointing and gesturing, while the processor handles the complexity of coordinating multiple devices (camera, lights, surgical equipment), thereby improving ease of operation without sacrificing functional completeness.
3Measurement precision
If lighting devices are mounted on goggles, then lighting angle precision is improved, but weight increases causing burden to operator
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the lighting function from traditional heavy operating lamps to lightweight LED light sources integrated into the goggles. These miniaturized LEDs provide sufficient illumination for surgical work while being mounted directly on the operator's head, ensuring precise lighting angles that follow eye movement. The extraction of lighting from external lamps eliminates the need for heavy lamp fixtures and adjustment mechanisms, significantly reducing weight while maintaining precise lighting control.
4Adaptability or versatility
If hand gesture recognition system is added to goggles, then control capability of medical equipment is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The processor serves as an intermediary that handles the complexity of hand gesture recognition. It receives raw image data from the camera, processes the images to identify hand gestures, and translates them into control commands for medical equipment. By concentrating all processing complexity in this single intermediary component, the system achieves sophisticated control capability while keeping the overall architecture manageable and the user interface simple.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enhances visibility, facilitates efficient recording and control of surgical procedures, reduces operator burden, and improves the timeliness and appropriateness of medical device operation by integrating imaging, lighting, and gesture control functions into a balanced and ergonomic design.
Implementation Method 1
A plurality of light-emitting elements are provided on an outer edge of each of the rim sections and are in electrical connection with the control module
Implementation Method 2
at least one imaging device in electrical connection with the control module for recording a surgical operation and capture an image of a movement of a hand gesture
Data Source
AI summary
A structure includes a goggles body including rim sections and temple sections, an imaging device arranged between the rim sections, light-emitting elements arranged on an outer edge of the rim sections, and an electricity supply element, a control module, a storage device, and a data transmission device arranged in the temple sections. A server host device is also included. The server host device includes a wireless transmission module, a recognition processing module, and a driving processing element. As such, a surgeon may wear the goggles body in a surgical operation to acquire supplemented lighting in the eyesight range and a function of recording the entire process of the surgical operation. The surgeon may take a motion of a predetermined hand gesture to issue a control instruction corresponding thereto in order to execute the control instruction on a medical device to allow the surgeon to control hardware necessary for the operation.