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Surgical assistant system

Granted 13 Oct 2015 · no office action yet

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Abstract

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.

Claims

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Classifications

12 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section A — Human necessities
  • A61B17/32
  • A61B17/068
  • A61B17/00
  • A61B19/08
  • A61B1/00
  • A61B1/04
  • A61B19/00
  • A61B18/14
  • A61B17/29
  • A61B19/10
Section B — Performing operations; transporting
  • B25J13/02
Section G — Physics
  • G06F3/01

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Examiner
John P Leubecker
art unit 3779 · TC 3700
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2 priority documents
Priority
4 Aug 2011
earliest claimed
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TypeDocumentDate
provisionalUS 615152034 Aug 2011
related publicationUS 20140148818 A129 May 2014

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