Patent ID: 7907166
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A robotic surgical system comprising: a master control console having a stereo viewer to view stereo images of a surgical site; a surgical manipulator coupled to the master control console to receive control signals, the surgical manipulator including a stereo telestration system coupled between the stereo endoscopic camera and the stereo viewer; and a telestration generator coupled to the stereo telestration system, the telestration generator to generate telestration graphics for overlay on the stereo images of the surgical site; wherein the stereo telestration system is configured to generate left and right images of the telestration graphics by effectively positioning the telestration graphics at a desired depth relative to the stereo images of the surgical site by adjusting a disparity between the left and right images of the telestration graphics and combine the left and right images of the telestration graphics with corresponding left images and right images of the stereo images of the surgical site for stereo viewing of the telestration graphics with the stereo images of the surgical site in the stereo viewer.