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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Niels Smaby, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gregory W. Dachs, II, San Mateo, CA (US);
Nicola Diolaiti, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pushkar Hingwe, Los Altos, CA (US);
Thomas R. Nixon, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce M. Schena, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nitish Swarup, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a plurality of manipulators and a controller. The controller is configured to detect mounting of a first imaging device to a first manipulator of the plurality of manipulators, determine a first reference frame for the first imaging device based on the mounting of the first imaging device to the first manipulator, detect mounting of a second imaging device to a second manipulator of the plurality of manipulators, select the first imaging device as a reference imaging device, and in response to selecting the first imaging device as the reference imaging device, control the second imaging device relative to the first reference frame. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to select the first imaging device as the reference imaging device in response to the first imaging device being mounted prior to the second imaging device operator selection or based on a type of the first imaging device.