Patent ID: 11941734
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  B  Y | IPC A  B  G

Claim 9:
10. A computer-implemented method comprising:
displaying an image of a work site to be displayed on a display, the image captured by an image capture device from a perspective of an image reference frame, the image of the work site including an image of a first working end of a first tool operatively coupled to a first robotic arm;
determining a position of the first working end of the first tool in the image of the work site;
rendering a tool information overlay at the position of the first working end of the first tool in the image of the work site, wherein the tool information overlay visually indicates state information for the first tool; and
changing the tool information overlay while the first tool is in a first operational state, wherein changing the tool information overlay includes changing a brightness of the tool information overlay.