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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2023
Applicant:
Asensus Surgical Us, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Inventor:
Kevin Andrew Hufford, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Asensus Surgical US, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 90/361 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); B25J 9/0021 (2013.01); B25J 9/023 (2013.01); B25J 9/16 (2013.01); B25J 9/1682 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00216 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2046 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2055 (2016.02); A61B 2034/305 (2016.02); A61B 34/76 (2016.02);
Abstract
A robotic surgical system includes an eye gaze sensing system in conjunction with a visual display of a camera image from a surgical work site. Detected gaze of a surgeon towards the display is used as input to the system. This input may be used by the system to assign an instrument to a control input device (when the user is prompted to look at the instrument), or it may be used as input to a computer vision algorithm to aid in object differentiation and seeding information, facilitating identification/differentiation of instruments, anatomical features or regions.