Surgical assistant system
Granted 13 Oct 2015 · no office action yet
Assignee: Olympus Corporation
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Inventors: Masatoshi Iida, Takahiro Komuro · Examiner: John P Leubecker · AU 3779 · TC 3700
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A surgical assistant system includes: an operation unit configured to give an input; an arm unit on which a treatment tool is mounted; an operation imaging unit configured to acquire an operation image that is an image including the operation unit; an endoscope configured to acquire an internal-body image; a mode control unit having a plurality of operation modes and configured to enable one of the plurality of operation modes to be set as a setting operation mode; a driving unit configured to enable the arm unit to be operated based on the input given by the operation unit and the setting operation mode; a synthetic image creation unit configured to synthesize images using at least the operation image to create a synthetic image based on the setting operation mode; and a display unit configured to display the synthetic image.
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2 priority documents›Priority documents — 2
| Type | Document | Date |
|---|---|---|
| provisional | US 61515203 | 4 Aug 2011 |
| related publication | US 20140148818 A1 | 29 May 2014 |
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