A surgical imaging system including: 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.
