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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Keith P. Laby, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert M. Ohline, Redwood City, CA (US);
Christoph M. Pistor, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles E. Swinehart, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce R. Woodley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amir Belson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates, generally, to controlling a steerable instrument having an elongate body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for sensing the shape of a steerable instrument and controlling the steerable instrument in response to a control signal from a user input device and a shape signal corresponding to the sensed shape of at least a portion of the steerable instrument. The present invention also relates to a system for sensing the shape of a flexible instrument with an optical shape sensor.