Patent ID: 8888763

Claim:
A surgical tool for performing a minimally invasive surgical procedure comprising: a handle portion and a distal portion; a sensor mounted on the distal portion, the sensor configured to generate sensor signals representing one or more characteristics of an object located near or adjacent to the distal portion of the surgical tool; a processing device configured to process the sensor signals to generate one or more output signals; and an output system for providing multiple outputs from the one or more output signals, the output system including a display device mounted on the handle portion, wherein the processing device is further configured to provide the one or more output signals to the display device and wherein the display device includes bar indicators that provide a visual output and a haptic output based on the output signals to provide feedback relating to the one or more characteristics of the object, wherein to provide the haptic output the bar indictors have surfaces that raise to correspond to a shape of the visual output.