Wearable Goggle System for Multi-Mode Surgical Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current imaging systems for surgical operations have low sensitivity and accuracy, require high costs and complex instrumentation, and often necessitate a team of experienced professionals, while also distracting surgeons with graphic displays on monitors.
Innovation Solution
A goggle system that includes a computing device and a goggle device worn by the user, equipped with a detector to acquire image data in multiple modes (e.g., visible light, near-infrared, hybrid), and an eye assembly to display these images, allowing for real-time visualization of surgical subjects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional imaging systems are used for surgical guidance, then surgeons can obtain image data, but the sensitivity and accuracy remain low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple imaging modalities (visible light, near-infrared, and other imaging modes) into a single goggle device that simultaneously acquires and displays multiple image types. This merging of imaging capabilities allows surgeons to view both anatomical structures and functional/tumor information in one integrated system, thereby improving measurement precision and reliability without requiring separate imaging systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The goggle device is designed as a universal imaging system that can perform multiple imaging functions simultaneously - visible light imaging, near-infrared imaging, and other imaging modes - all within a single wearable device. This multi-functionality enables the system to provide comprehensive surgical guidance with high sensitivity and accuracy across different tissue types and surgical needs.
2Measurement precision
If advanced imaging systems are used to improve sensitivity and accuracy, then imaging quality improves, but costs and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple imaging detectors and processing systems into a single wearable goggle device. By merging the visible light detector, near-infrared detector, and other imaging components into one unified system with shared processing electronics and display, the patent achieves high imaging quality without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The goggle device serves as a universal platform that performs multiple imaging functions simultaneously using shared hardware resources. The single device handles visible light imaging, near-infrared imaging, and other imaging modes through integrated detectors and processors, eliminating the need for multiple separate complex systems while maintaining high measurement precision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple imaging systems are used to provide comprehensive image data, then imaging capability improves, but the system becomes more complex and requires multiple professionals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple imaging modalities into a single integrated goggle device that simultaneously captures and processes visible light, near-infrared, and other imaging data. This consolidation provides comprehensive imaging versatility while simplifying the system architecture compared to using separate imaging systems, reducing the need for multiple specialized professionals.
Solution Approach 2:
The goggle device is designed as a universal imaging platform capable of performing multiple imaging functions simultaneously through integrated detectors and processing systems. This multi-functional design provides adaptability across different surgical needs while maintaining manageable system complexity through unified hardware and software architecture.
4Loss of information
If image data is displayed on external monitors, then surgeons can analyze image data, but surgeons become distracted from the surgery
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions image display from the traditional two-dimensional external monitor to a three-dimensional virtual reality environment through VR goggles. This dimensional change allows surgeons to view comprehensive image data in an immersive spatial context that does not require taking eyes off the surgical field, thereby maintaining surgical focus while providing complete image visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The goggle device acts as an intermediary between the surgical field and the surgeon's vision, overlaying or presenting multiple imaging modalities directly in the surgeon's field of view. This intermediary display system provides full image data visibility without requiring the surgeon to look at external monitors, thus eliminating distraction while maintaining complete information access.
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AI summary
A goggle system is provided. The goggle system includes a computing device, a goggle device configured to be worn by a user and including a detector configured to simultaneously acquire image data of a subject in a first image mode and a second image mode, at least one eye assembly configured to display at least one of an image in the first image mode, an image in the second image mode, and a hybrid image including pixels of image data from the first image mode and pixels of image data from the second image mode, and a communications module configured to transmit acquired image data from the goggle device to the computing device.