Patent ID: 9607528
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G09B

Claim:
1. A surgery simulator comprising: a display; a physical surrogate surgical interface that represents an interface between a user and a simulated patient in a simulated surgical scenario, the physical surrogate surgical interface being configured to be manipulated by the user; at least one sensor configured to sense the user's manipulation of the physical surrogate surgical interface; and a surgical simulation generator operatively connected to the at least one sensor and configured to generate a real time 3D surgical simulation of the simulated surgical scenario based on the manipulation sensed by the at least one sensor, the real time 3D surgical simulation comprising real time simulation state data, the surgical simulation generator being configured to render the real time simulation state data into a real time computer graphics generated video representation of the simulated surgical scenario and provide the real time computer graphics generated video representation to the display, wherein the surgical simulation generator is configured to simulate effects of the manipulation on both simulated hard tissue and simulated soft tissue of the simulated patient, wherein the simulated surgical scenario comprises manipulation of the simulated hard tissue and the simulated soft tissue, and wherein: