User interface for a robot
AssigneeCmr Surgical Limited
InventorAndrew Scholan
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Abstract
A robotic system including: a robot arm; a camera for capturing motion of the robot arm; an input mechanism for detecting user input; a display device; and a controller. The controller can operate in (i) a first mode configured to drive the display device to display a video stream captured by the camera in a first format and to drive the robot arm such that motion by the user in a first direction causes the robot arm to move a reference part in a second direction; and (ii) a second mode configured to drive the display device to display the video stream in a second format reflected with respect to the first format and to drive the robot arm such that motion by the user in the first direction causes the robot arm to move the reference part in a direction opposite to the second direction.
Claims19
A robotic system comprising:
- a robot arm;
- a camera for capturing a video stream representing motion of the robot arm;
- an input mechanism for detecting the motion of a user;
- a display device;
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- a controller for driving the robot arm to operate in response to motion of the user as detected by the input mechanism and for driving the display device to display a video stream captured by the camera;
- the controller being capable of operating in:
- a first mode in which the controller drives the display device to display the captured video stream in a first format and in which the controller drives the robot arm such that motion by the user in a first direction as detected by the input mechanism causes the robot arm to move a reference part in a second direction;
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- a second mode in which the controller drives the display device to display the captured video stream in a second format that is reflected with respect to the first format and in which the controller drives the robot arm such that motion by the user in the first direction as detected by the input mechanism causes the robot arm to move the reference part in a direction opposite to the second direction.
A robotic system comprising:
- a first robot arm;
- a second robot arm;
- a camera for capturing a video stream representing motion of the first and second robot arms;
- a display device;
- an input mechanism for detecting the motion of a user, the input mechanism being capable of independently detecting motion of two hands of the user;
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- a controller for driving the robot arm to operate in response to motion of the user as detected by the input mechanism, the controller being configured so as to:
- in a first mode (i) drive the motion of a first one of the robot arms in dependence on a motion sensed in respect of a first hand of the user, (ii) drive the motion of a second one of the robot arms in dependence on a motion sensed in respect of a second hand of the user, and (iii) drive the display device to display the captured video stream in a first format;
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- in a second mode (i) drive the motion of the second one of the robot arms in dependence on a motion sensed in respect of the first hand of the user, (ii) drive the motion of the first one of the robot arms in dependence on a motion sensed in respect of the second hand of the user, and (iii) drive the display device to display the captured video stream in a second format that is reflected with respect to the first format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.