What the surgeon sees, the room sees too.
The surgeon operates with their eyes in the console viewer, the only person who can see the field. We take that 3D endoscopic feed and broadcast, transmit and record it without degrading the picture.
3D
NATIVE ENDOSCOPIC FEED
0
INTERFERENCE WITH THE CONSOLE
3
COMPATIBLE BRANDS
HD
NO INTERMEDIATE RE-ENCODING
THE PROBLEM
A picture locked inside a viewer.
Robot-assisted surgery poses a particular teaching problem: the whole procedure happens inside the console. The optics mounted at the tip of the endoscope give the surgeon a high-definition 3D view of the anatomy — but nobody else has access to it. Our job is to extract that feed and share it. We work with:
Intuitive Surgical — da Vinci®
Olympus
Karl Storz
Urology
Gastrointestinal
Gynaecology
Thoracic
ENT
THE SETUP
Three things to do, in this order.
Take the feed, carry it, display it. The theatre's own equipment stays untouched: we connect to the outputs provided for the purpose, never inserting ourselves into the surgical chain.
1
Taking the feed
Capture of the 3D endoscopic feed at the stack output, at its original resolution. Our broadcast mixer takes Intuitive Surgical, Olympus and Karl Storz outputs.
2
Transmission
Live delivery over internet or satellite to the congress hall, a remote theatre or an online audience. The dual feed is carried with no loss of sync.
3
Installation in the room
Physical installation of display screens in the operating theatre and the conference room. Stereoscopic projection with glasses supplied for the whole audience.
CONSTRAINTS
What we don't touch.
A surgical robot mid-procedure isn't equipment you improvise around. Eight rules our team applies every time.
CONSOLE
No work on the surgeon's console
OUTPUTS
Connected to the manufacturer's own video outputs
CLEARANCE
No cabling within reach of the robot's arms
FALLBACK
Can be pulled out instantly without stopping the procedure
PASSIVE
Our chain never enters the surgical circuit
EMC
Equipment compatible with the electromagnetic environment
ASEPSIS
Team trained in movement rules inside the sterile field
TESTING
Full check the day before, never on the day
COMPATIBILITY
3 brands
Intuitive Surgical, Olympus and Karl Storz. Our broadcast mixer takes their endoscopic outputs with no interface box in between.
EQUIPMENT
Works with what you already have.
Our broadcast equipment is compatible with the main 3D endoscopy brands on the market. You replace nothing and add no proprietary box to your theatre: we adapt to the installation already in place.
DELIVERY
HD 3D pictures live during the surgery
TRANSMISSION
Internet or satellite link, depending on the site
DISPLAY
Physical installation of screens in the theatre
RECORDING
Capture kept for replay and training
AND THEN
The robotic feed isn't only for the live.
Mixing with the other sources
The endoscopic feed alternates in the control room with the room cameras and console views. The audience understands the procedure and its context, not just the inside of the patient.
Robotic surgery training
Robot-assisted surgery training centres need clean, repeatable footage. We capture your teaching sessions the same way we capture your procedures.
Recording and VOD
Post-production, chaptering and publication on your platform. The 3D feed is kept at its original resolution for later teaching use.