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Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2019
Applicant:

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Simon P. DiMaio, San Carlos, CA (US);

Ambarish G. Goswami, Fremont, CA (US);

Dinesh Rabindran, San Jose, CA (US);

Changyeob Shin, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/02 (2013.01); B25J 9/0084 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 15/0071 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is performed by a computing system. The method includes receiving image data from an imaging device, and determining, using the image data, a plurality of image-space tools, each image-space tool associated with a tool of a plurality of tools, each tool controlled by a manipulator of a plurality of manipulators. The method further includes determining a first correspondence between a first image-space tool of the plurality of image-space tools and a first tool of the plurality of tools based on a first disambiguation setting associated with the first tool.


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