Switching control of an instrument to an input device upon the instrument entering a display area viewable by an operator of the input device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9108318-B2
Application number	US-201313764556-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2013
Priority date	Feb 15, 2012
Publication date	Aug 18, 2015
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015

Abstract

An operator telerobotically controls instruments to perform a procedure on an object at a work site while viewing real-time images of the work site on a display screen. An assistant controls movement of another instrument towards or away from the work site to relieve the operator from such task. Control of the instrument is automatically switched from the assistant to the operator upon the working end of the instrument entering the view on the display screen.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A robotic system comprising:
a camera;
an instrument manipulator;
an instrument that is mechanically coupled to the instrument manipulator;
an input device; and
a processor that is programmed to operatively couple the instrument manipulator to the input device upon determining that the instrument has entered an area of a field of view of the camera.

2. The robotic system of claim 1 ,
wherein the instrument manipulator is adapt…

Assignees

• Intuitive Surgical Operations

Inventors

• Diolaiti Nicola

Classifications

• A61B34/30 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G05B2219/39468

  Physics · mapped topic

• B25J9/1689

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• A61B34/37

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B90/361

  Human Necessities · mapped topic