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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2009
Applicant:
Paul Moraviec, Eversley, GB;
Inventor:
Paul Moraviec, Eversley, GB;
Assignee:
Freehand 2010 Limited, Guildford, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06T 7/2033 (2013.01); A61B 2019/2215 (2013.01); A61B 2019/2223 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5229 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5248 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surgical mechanism control system comprising: a beam emitter unit configured to emit only a single beam and adapted to be attached to a surgeon; a first pair of discrete beam detectors each adapted to detect an incident beam emitted by the beam emitter unit and output a corresponding control signal when in incident beam is detected; and a control unit configured to receive one or more control signals output by the beam detectors and control a surgical mechanism in accordance with the one or more control signals.