Graphical User Guidance for a Robotic Surgical System

A robotic surgical system comprising:

• a robotic surgical instrument;
• one or more handheld user input devices;
• a display device;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• display, in a first region of the display device, a view of a surgical site inside a patient taken by an image capture device of the robotic surgical system;
• and
• display, in a second region of the display device, user feedback information;
• wherein the processor is further configured to overlay a guidance message on top of the view of the surgical site in the first region, wherein the guidance message provides user instructions for interacting with the one or more handheld user input devices to engage the robotic surgical instrument, and wherein only guidance messages are overlaid on top of the view of the surgical site.

A robotic surgical system comprising:

• means for displaying a graphical user interface on a display device, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a first region displaying a view of a surgical site inside a patient taken by an endoscopic camera of the robotic surgical system and a second region;
• means for displaying user feedback information in the second region;
• and
• means for overlaying a guidance message on top of the view of the surgical site in the first region, wherein the guidance message that provides user instructions for interacting with a user input device to engage a robotic arm of the robotic surgical system.