Method for operating a medical-optical display system

1. A method for operating a medical-optical display system for displaying an object image (OB) of an observed object (O), said object image having been obtained by means of a medical-optical observation apparatus wherein the medical-optical display system comprises a data superimposition unit for superimposing data of at least one image data record (BD) into the object image (OB), said method including the steps of:

determining at least one region (B) with little activity within the object image (OB) by:

capturing raw image data records (RD), which represent a time sequence of individual object images (OB),

ascertaining the time variability of image points in the raw image data records (RD),

comparing the time variability (V) to a set variability limit (GV);

clustering those image points whose ascertained time variability lies below the variability limit (GV) in order to produce at least one contiguous area with little time variability; and

specifying the at least one contiguous area with little time variability as the at least one region (B) with little activity; and

superimposing the at least one image data record (BD) into the at least one region (B) with little activity.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein individual contiguous areas with little time variability are merged into a larger contiguous area with little time variability by image processing and wherein the larger contiguous area with little time variability is specified as the at least one region (B) with little activity.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the image points are the pixels of the raw image data records (RD).

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the image points are pixel groups, composed of pixels, of the raw image data records (RD).

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the location in the at least one region (B) with little activity at which the image data record (BD) is superimposed is determined taking into account the size and/or form of the image content displayed in the image data record (BD).

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a depth map of the observation object (O) is used to exclude certain regions in the raw image data records (RD), in which much activity is to be expected, in advance from being the at least one region (B) with little activity and/or wherein regions in the raw image data records (RD), in which appliance displays or faces are imaged, are recognized on the basis of a pattern recognition and excluded in advance from being the at least one region (B) with little activity.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable code for carrying out the method according to claim 1 when the computer-program code is executed on a computer.

8. A medical-optical display system for displaying an object image (OB) obtained by a medical-optical observation apparatus having

a data superimposition unit that is embodied to superimpose at least one image data record (BD) into the object image (OB), and

a region determination unit that is embodied to determine at least one region (B) with little activity within the object image (OB), the region determination unit comprising:

a read-in unit for reading raw image data records (RD), which represent a time sequence of individual object images (OB),

an evaluation unit for ascertaining the time variability of image points in the raw image data records (RD),

a comparison unit for comparing the time variability (V) to a set variability limit (GV),

a cluster unit for clustering those image points whose ascertained time variability lies below the variability limit (GV) in order to produce at least one contiguous area with little time variability, and

a specification unit for specifying the at least one contiguous area with little time variability as the at least one region (B) with little activity,

wherein the data superimposition unit is embodied to superimpose the at least one image data record (BD) into the at least one region (B) of the object image (OB) with little activity.

9. The medical-optical display system according to claim 8 , moreover comprising a medical-optical observation apparatus for observing an object (O) and for recording an image of the observed object (O) as the object image (OB).

10. The medical-optical display system according to claim 8 , wherein

an image processing unit is present, said image processing unit merging individual contiguous areas with low time variability into a larger contiguous area with low time variability by image processing, and

the specification unit is configured to specify the larger contiguous area with little time variability as the at least one region (B) with little activity.

11. The medical-optical display system according to claim 8 , wherein the image points are the pixels of the raw image data records (RD).

12. The medical-optical display system according to claim 8 , wherein the image points are pixel groups, composed of pixels, of the raw image data records (RD).

13. The medical-optical display system according to claim 8 , wherein the data superimposition unit is embodied to take into account the size and/or form of the image content displayed in the image data record (BD) for the purposes of determining the location in the at least one region (B) with little activity at which the at least one image data record (BD) is superimposed.

14. The medical-optical display system according to claim 8 , wherein the region determination unit comprises a pre-selection device which, on the basis of a depth map of the observation object (O), excludes certain regions in the raw image data records (RD), in which much activity is to be expected, in advance from being the at least one region (B) with little activity and/or which, on the basis of a pattern recognition, excludes regions in the raw image data records (RD), in which appliance displays or faces are imaged, in advance from being the at least one region (B) with little activity.