Interactive user interfaces for robotic minimally invasive surgical systems

US8398541B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC. · US
• THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · US

Inventors

• Simon P. DiMaio · Redwood City, US
• Christopher J. Hasser · Los Altos, US
• Russell H. Taylor · Severna Park, US
• David Q. Larkin · Menlo Park, US
• Peter Kazanzides · Towson, US
• Anton Deguet · Baltimore, US
• Balazs Peter Vagvolgyi · Baltimore, US
• Joshua Leven · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 11, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 11, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2090/378
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for a minimally invasive surgical system is disclosed. The method includes capturing and displaying camera images of a surgical site on at least one display device at a surgeon console; switching out of a following mode and into a masters-as-mice (MaM) mode; overlaying a graphical user interface (GUI) including an interactive graphical object onto the camera images; and rendering a pointer within the camera images for user interactive control. In the following mode, the input devices of the surgeon console may couple motion into surgical instruments. In the MaM mode, the input devices interact with the GUI and interactive graphical objects. The pointer is manipulated in three dimensions by input devices having at least three degrees of freedom. Interactive graphical objects are related to physical objects in the surgical site or a function thereof and are manipulatable by the input devices.