Systems and methods for control of imaging instrument orientation

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors are adapted to cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a roll position indicator for an imaging instrument coupled to a teleoperational assembly, wherein the imaging instrument has a view angle greater than 0° relative to an optical axis of the imaging instrument, and wherein the imaging instrument is a stereoscopic imaging instrument including first and second image sources;
• obtaining first image data from the imaging instrument coupled to the teleoperational assembly at a first roll position;
• obtaining subsequent image data from the imaging instrument coupled to the teleoperational assembly at a second roll position;
• and
• responsive to a roll movement of the imaging instrument between the first and second roll positions, transitioning between presentation of the first image data on a user display and presentation of the subsequent image data on the user display, wherein the transition between the presentation of the first image data and the presentation of the subsequent image data includes changing a position of presentation of the first and second image sources of the stereoscopic imaging instrument.