Patent ID: 6766204
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: A61B,B25J,G05B,H04N

Abstract:
A surgical control system arranged to cause a desired orientational relationship between a hand-held part of a master control and an end effector of an associated slave, as viewed in a displayed image on a viewer, to be established when operative control between the master control and the slave is interrupted, the control system includinga processor arrange to cause the end effector to remain stationary; and a processor arrange to compute a current orientation of the end effector relative to a viewing end of an image capturing device operatively associated with the viewer; and to compute a desired corresponding orientation of the hand-held part of the master control at which the desired orientational relationship between the hand-held part of the master control and the end effector would be established, wherein the hand-held part of the master control is moved into the desired orientation computed by the processor while the processor causes the end effector to remain stationary.