Patents by Inventor Christoph Hauger

Christoph Hauger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250213391
    Abstract: An eye surgery surgical system includes a visualization device for visualizing the position of at least one trocar point for a trocar on the sclera of a patient's eye. The trocar serves to introduce a surgical instrument configured for surgical interventions on the fundus of the patient's eye into the patient's eye. The eye surgery surgical system also includes a computer unit which is configured to provide the position of the at least one trocar point to the visualization device. Here, the computer unit contains a trocar point computation routine configured to calculate the position of the at least one trocar point from the location of at least one surgical site in a model of the patient's eye and from geometric data relating to at least one surgical instrument introducible into the patient's eye through the trocar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag, Holger Matz, Christoph Hauger
  • Publication number: 20250185885
    Abstract: A visualization system includes an observation apparatus having a first image recording device to observe an operation region with a first observation plane, and an endoscope having a probe and a second image recording device to observe the operation region with a second observation plane. A display device represents a first image recorded by the first image recording device in a first orientation and a second image recorded by the second image recording device in a second orientation. The visualization system further includes a tracking system to determine an orientation of the endoscope relative to the observation apparatus and a controller configured to transform the second image based on the orientation of the endoscope relative to the observation apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Martin Fanenbruck, Helge Jess, Roland Guckler
  • Publication number: 20250134600
    Abstract: A microscopy system includes a microscope, a stand configured to mount the microscope and including a drive device configured to move the microscope, a detection device configured to detect a spatial position of a target fastened to a body part or to an instrument, wherein the position detection device includes the target with at least one marker element and an image capture device configured to optically capture the target. The microscopy system further includes at least one control device configured to operate the microscopy system according to the detected position of the target, wherein the position detection device is configured to determine the position of the target by evaluating a two-dimensional image of the image capture device. In addition, a method for operating the microscopy system is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christian Voigt, Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 12285359
    Abstract: An eye surgery surgical system includes a visualization device for visualizing the position of at least one trocar point for a trocar on the sclera of a patient's eye. The trocar serves to introduce a surgical instrument configured for surgical interventions on the fundus of the patient's eye into the patient's eye. The eye surgery surgical system also includes a computer unit which is configured to provide the position of the at least one trocar point to the visualization device. Here, the computer unit contains a trocar point computation routine configured to calculate the position of the at least one trocar point from the location of at least one surgical site in a model of the patient's eye and from geometric data relating to at least one surgical instrument introducible into the patient's eye through the trocar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag, Holger Matz, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 12288352
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-assisted method for position determination for an intraocular lens supported by machine learning. The method comprises providing a scan result for an eye. The scan result here represents an image of an anatomical structure of the eye. The method further comprises use of a trained machine learning system for the direct determination of a final location of an intraocular lens to be fitted, wherein digital data of the scan of the eye is used as the input data for the machine learning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Hendrik Burwinkel, Holger Matz, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 12262866
    Abstract: A visualization system includes an observation apparatus having a first image recording device to observe an operation region with a first observation plane, and an endoscope having a probe and a second image recording device to observe the operation region with a second observation plane. A display device represents a first image recorded by the first image recording device in a first orientation and a second image recorded by the second image recording device in a second orientation. The visualization system further includes a tracking system to determine an orientation of the endoscope relative to the observation apparatus and a controller configured to transform the second image based on the orientation of the endoscope relative to the observation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Martin Fanenbruck, Helge Jess, Roland Guckler
  • Publication number: 20250072977
    Abstract: Various examples relate to techniques for recording, in association with surgery carried out on a patient, measurement data with depth resolution, such that, on the basis thereof, it is possible to determine a transformation specification which mediates between images captured by means of a robotic visualization system, e.g. a surgical microscope, and preoperative volume image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Stefan SAUR, Christoph HAUGER
  • Patent number: 12171499
    Abstract: An eye surgery surgical system includes a device for displaying a relative position of a section of a surgery object in a 3D reconstruction of a region of an eye, a device for continuously providing at least two data records relating to at least partly overlapping portions of the region of the eye and of the section of the surgery object to a computer, a computer program for continuously ascertaining the relative position of the section of the surgery object and continuously ascertaining the 3D reconstruction of the eye from the data records provided. The program includes a first routine for continuously ascertaining the relative position of the section of the surgery object and the 3D reconstruction of the region of the eye from the data records provided via a registration method and a second routine for adapting the registration method based on a criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 12156707
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement 10 with an OCT device 20 for scanning an object region volume 22 arranged in an object region 18 with an OCT scanning beam 21, comprising an item 24 which has a section 84 that is arrangeable in the object region 18 and is localizable in the object region volume 22 by means of the OCT device 20, and having a computing unit 60 connected to the OCT device 20 and having a computer program for determining a 3-D reconstruction of the object region volume 22 and determining the location of the portion of the object 24 in the object region volume 22 by processing OCT scan information obtained with the OCT device 20 by scanning the object region volume 22. According to the invention, the computer program has a calculation routine for determining a target area in the 3-D reconstruction of the object region volume 22, which routine determines a reference variable for the object 24 for the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Holger Matz, Christian Voigt, Christoph Hauger, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag
  • Publication number: 20240390102
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a visualization system in a surgical application, wherein at least one image representation of a region to be operated on and/or operated on is captured by means of a capturing device, wherein the at least one image representation is displayed on a main display device, wherein a pose of a visualization device that can be worn on the head relative to a display surface of the main display device is captured by means of a pose sensor system, and wherein at least one three-dimensional augmentation information item corresponding to the at least one image representation displayed is generated and/or provided and is displayed on a display device of the visualization device, wherein the augmentation information item is generated and/or provided in consideration of the captured pose in such a way that the at least one image representation displayed on the main display device is extended into a three-dimensional region by the at least one three-dimensional augmentation in
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan SAUR, Christoph HAUGER, Christop SCHAEFF
  • Publication number: 20240394825
    Abstract: An eye surgery visualization system, an operating method, and a computer program with a program routine for registering a patient's eye model to a patient's eye based on a patient's eye registration structure and a model registration structure, in which object region image data related to an image of the patient's eye captured by an image capture device is linked to optical imaging parameters of the image capture device to provide in the form of data a patient's eye coordinate system which is fixed in relation to the patient's eye and referenced to a model coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph HAUGER, Thomas LANG, Frank DEUBEL
  • Patent number: 12153220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a head-mounted visualization system having a wearing system, at least one light-transmissive optical system, an image generation device designed to generate image information based on the image data supplied to the image generation device, wherein the optical system is designed to supply image information generated by the image generation device to a person wearing the visualization system, and a polarization unit designed to polarize light penetrating the optical system differently in two spatial regions. The invention further relates to a surgical visualization system having such a head-mounted visualization system and to a visualization method for a surgical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Christoph Schaeff, Stefan Saur
  • Patent number: 12144570
    Abstract: A robotic surgical system for treating a patient includes a surgical robot with a moveable robot member, an actuator for moving the robot member to 6D poses in a surgical field and for driving the robot member to act in the surgical field, a robot sensor for providing robot sensor data, and a control device for controlling the actuator according to a control program and under feedback of the robot sensor data, a processing unit configured to provide the control program to the control device, and to include and utilize a virtual anatomical model, a virtual surgical robot simulating movement and driving of the robot member, a surgical simulator, a sensor simulator, and a machine learning unit to create the control program, the machine learning unit reading the sensor simulator, the virtual surgical robot, and the virtual surgical field and feeding the virtual surgical robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger
  • Publication number: 20240349997
    Abstract: A fiberscope for stereoscopic imaging has at least one wavefront manipulator which, for creating a sample beam, is configured to pre-shape a wavefront of the light from a light source such that the pre-shaped light is focusable substantially on an object point in an object region and raster-deflectable to a multiplicity of object points. The fiberscope also includes an illumination fiber for supplying the pre-shaped sample beam to the object region, and a detector fiber for supplying scattered light reflected and/or scattered at the respective object point to a detector which captures the scattered light and is connected to a computer unit. The computer unit is configured to compose the stereoscopic image from the captured scattered light. A method is for acquiring stereoscopic image data from a fiberscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Christoph Schaeff, Fang You
  • Patent number: 12125135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for acquiring and visualizing OCT signals, comprising an OCT system and a display means designed for the time-resolved display of image data. The system further comprises a control unit configured to drive the OCT system to acquire a time-resolved OCT signal of a selected field of view of the sample and to determine a time-resolved OCT image on the basis of the acquired time-resolved OCT signal and a specifiable virtual viewing direction and to display the time-resolved OCT image on the display means. The present invention also relates to a corresponding method for acquiring and visualizing OCT signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Tilman Schmoll, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag, Joachim Steffen
  • Patent number: 12066613
    Abstract: An optical imaging device includes at least a first and a second image recording units for generating a first and a second original images of an object, wherein the original images differ at least with regard to an image parameter, wherein the image recording units are arranged such that original images are recorded from the same perspective, an image processing unit configured to further process the original images and an image display unit configured to reproduce displayed images generated from the processed original images. The image processing unit is configured to supplement at least one of the two original images with image information from the other original image to generate a displayed image. In addition, a corresponding method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alois Regensburger, Christoph Hauger, Susanne Kohlhammer
  • Patent number: 12051194
    Abstract: A scanning image generation apparatus is provided and includes an image information acquisition unit for scanning grid points of an object and for acquiring, on the basis of the scanned grid points, items of image information that represent an image. An evaluation unit has a software routine for evaluating at least some of the items of image information and for classifying the items of image information as usable or unusable on the basis of the evaluation. The apparatus also includes a release unit which enables an image recording if the evaluated items of image information are classified as usable by the evaluation unit. The scanning image generation apparatus moreover includes a memory with at least one quality profile stored thereon. The quality profile contains a person-specific software routine for evaluating and classifying the items of image information. The software routine is loadable into the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Gerald Panitz
  • Patent number: 12023208
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a visualization system in a surgical application, wherein at least one image representation of a region to be operated on and/or operated on is captured by means of a capturing device, wherein the at least one image representation is displayed on a main display device, wherein a pose of a visualization device that can be worn on the head relative to a display surface of the main display device is captured by means of a pose sensor system, and wherein at least one three-dimensional augmentation information item corresponding to the at least one image representation displayed is generated and/or provided and is displayed on a display device of the visualization device, wherein the augmentation information item is generated and/or provided in consideration of the captured pose in such a way that the at least one image representation displayed on the main display device is extended into a three-dimensional region by the at least one three-dimensional augmentation in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Christoph Schaeff
  • Publication number: 20240120094
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining the refractive power of an intraocular lens includes providing a physical model for determining refractive power and training a machine learning system with clinical ophthalmological training data and associated desired results to form a learning model for determining the refractive power. A loss function for training includes: a first component taking into account clinical ophthalmological training data and associated and desired results and a second component taking into account limitations of the physical model wherein a loss function component value is greater the further a predicted value of the refractive power during the training is from results of the physical model with the same clinical ophthalmological training data as input values. Moreover, the method includes providing ophthalmological data of a patient and predicting the refractive power of the intraocular lens to be used by means of the trained machine learning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hendrik BURWINKEL, Holger MATZ, Stefan SAUR, Christoph HAUGER
  • Patent number: 11953687
    Abstract: A head-mounted visualization unit is provided with an at least partially light-transmissive optical system. The optical system has a first optical channel assigned to a first eye of a user and a second optical channel assigned to a second eye of the user. The first optical channel is substantially transmissive to optical radiation of a first polarization and substantially opaque to optical radiation of a second polarization, with the first polarization substantially orthogonal to the second polarization. The second optical channel is substantially transmissive to optical radiation of the second polarization and substantially opaque to optical radiation of the first polarization. A polarizer and a light attenuator are arranged in the first optical channel. The light attenuator is arranged downstream of the polarizer in a direction toward the first eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Stefan Saur, Christoph Schaeff