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US 2014/0232824 A1Published application
Providing information of tools by filtering image areas adjacent to or on displayed images of the tools
AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsSimon P. DiMaio, Brian D. Hoffman, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul W. Mohr, David W. Robinson, Tao Zhao, Wenyi Zhao
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Abstract
An operator telerobotically controls tools to perform a procedure on an object at a work site while viewing real-time images of the object, tools and work site on a display. Tool information is provided by filtering a part of the real-time images for enhancement or degradation to indicate a state of a tool and displaying the filtered images on the display.
Claims10
A robotic system comprising:
- a tool;
- an image capturing device disposed to capture an image of a work site;
- a display;
- and
- a processor configured to filter part, but not all of the image of the work site to indicate that the tool is energized;
- and cause the image of the work site with the filtered part to be displayed on the display.
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A method for providing tool information on a display, the method comprising:
- capturing an image of a work site;
- filtering part, but not all of the image of the work site to indicate that a tool at the work site is energized;
- and
- displaying the image of the work site with the filtered part on a display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.