# US 2026/0100137 A1 · Training users using indexed to motion pictures

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- Number: US 2026/0100137 A1
- Document ID: US20260100137A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/418,360
- Filed: 2025-12-12
- Published: 2026-04-09
- Earliest claimed: 2018-11-15
- Assignees: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Applicants: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Inventors: Anthony M. Jarc; Liheng Guo
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20260100137A1

## CPC

- G09B 5/02: with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
- G06F 3/011: {Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00)}
- G06F 3/0346: with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a three-dimensional [3D] space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
- G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
- G09B 19/24: Use of tools
- G16H 40/63: for local operation
- G16H 70/20: relating to practices or guidelines
- H04N 5/76: Television signal recording
- A61B 34/37: Leader-follower robots (A61B34/35 takes precedence)
- G16H 20/40: relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
- G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)

## Abstract

A system includes a sensor to sense a change in a position of an input control component and a tool; a storage medium embodies a collection of respective motion pictures, which show tool movement imparted by the control component in response to manual input provided by users, indexed based upon a metric; a storage medium embodies a set of instructions that cause a processor to perform operations comprising: determining a user's performance; recording a motion picture of the tool movement imparted by the master control component by the individual user; indexing the recorded motion picture to the collection of motion pictures; generating a user interface providing an interactive visual index; and displaying a selected motion picture on the display screen in response to user input at the interactive visual index.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system comprising:
one or more processors, coupled to memory, and configured to:
identify a plurality of motion pictures, each motion picture of the plurality of motion pictures configured to show a movement of a tool of a surgical system controlled by user input received at the surgical system from a respective user, the plurality of motion pictures indexed by a respective level of performance of one or more users with respect to one or more metrics associated with the movement of the tool by the respective user;
display a visual index from which to select a motion picture among the plurality of motion pictures based at least on the one or more metrics, the visual index comprising a range of values of the one or more metrics;
receive a selection of a location on the visual index corresponding to a value of the range of values of the one or more metrics, the value corresponding to the respective level of performance; and
display a motion picture, from the plurality of motion pictures, indexed by the respective level of performance corresponding to the value of the range of values of one or more metrics at the selected location on the visual index.