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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2008
Pedro Gregorio, Verdun, CA;
Neil T. Olien, Montreal, CA;
David W. Bailey, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven P. Vassallo, Redwood City, CA (US);
Pedro Gregorio, Verdun, CA;
Neil T. Olien, Montreal, CA;
David W. Bailey, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven P. Vassallo, Redwood City, CA (US);
Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of providing a surgical training apparatus which comprises a plurality of mechanical interfaces each of which is configured to receive a user tool operable by a user. Each mechanical interface of the plurality is configured to allow movement of its respective user tool in a rotational degree of freedom and a linear degree of freedom. The apparatus includes one or more sensors which are coupled to the mechanical interfaces and configured to simultaneously sense positional information of each user tool during movement. A computer coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to run a software application simulating each user tool as a respective simulated surgical tool operating on a simulated body part in a displayed graphical environment, wherein the computer updates movement of each simulated user tool in the graphical environment based on said positional information.