Patent ID: 9632573
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A61B,B25J,G06F,Y10S,Y10T

Claim:
1. A medical manipulator comprising: a plurality of input units selectively used by an operator, wherein one of the plurality of input units is used at a time by the operator; an operating unit configured to have a plurality of slave arms, each of the plurality of slave arms corresponding to one of the plurality of input units; an imaging sensor configured to acquire image data of one of the plurality of input units which is currently used by the operator; and a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to recognize the one of the plurality of input units which is currently used by the operator as a currently used input unit based on the image data acquired by the imaging sensor; and the processor being configured to access a plurality of process conditions, each of the plurality of process conditions corresponding to one of the plurality of input units; the processor being further configured to generate a manipulation signal by processing an input with respect to the currently used input unit based on one of the process conditions which corresponds to the currently used input unit, wherein the process conditions are different from each other, and one of the plurality of slave arms which corresponds to the currently used input unit is selectively operated by the manipulation signal.