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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2019
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Siddarth Sen, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geoffrey A. Richmond, San Jose, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary surgical instrument tracking system includes at least one physical computing device that determines, based on endoscopic imagery of a surgical area and using a trained neural network, an observation for an object of interest depicted in the endoscopic imagery, associates, based on a probabilistic framework and kinematics of a robotically-manipulated surgical instrument located at the surgical area, the observation for the object of interest to the robotically-manipulated surgical instrument, and determines a physical position of the robotically-manipulated surgical instrument at the surgical area based on the kinematics of the robotically-manipulated surgical instrument and the observation associated with the robotically-manipulated surgical instrument.