INSPECTION IMAGING SYSTEM, AND A MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A surgical imaging system comprising: an image capturing device operable to capture an image of a scene; a distance extraction device operable to extract distance information from a point in the scene, the distance information being the distance between the image capturing device and the point in the scene; an image generating device operable to generate a pixel, the generated pixel being associated with a pixel in the captured image and a value of the generated pixel being derived from the distance information; an image combining device operable to combine the generated pixel with the captured image, wherein the generated pixel replaces the pixel of the captured image it is associated with to form a composite image; and an image display device operable to display the composite image.