Patent ID: 8903728

Claim:
A system for endoscopic surgery having a function of controlling, through voice recognition, a connected peripheral device, comprising: storage unit that stores a command for controlling the peripheral device and whether or not the command is valid or invalid in an associated manner for each combination of an operator and a procedure of an endoscopic surgery; a specification unit that receives specification of the operator and the procedure; a conversion unit that recognizes an input voice, and converts the voice into a voice command; a determination unit that refers to the storage unit, and determines whether or not the voice command obtained by the conversion unit is identical to a command that has been set to be valid for the combination of the operator and the procedure specified by the specification unit; a transmission unit that halts a transmission process to a peripheral device that corresponds to a command that has been determined to be invalid by the determination unit; and a scene specification unit that receives specification of a scene of the endoscopic surgery, wherein: in the conversion unit, a voice command is information obtained by conversion into a character string; the storage unit stores, for each of the operators and the procedures, whether each of the commands is valid or invalid for each of the scenes; and when a scene has been received in the scene specification unit, the determination unit determines whether or not the character string is identical to a command that has been set to be valid in the storage unit for the received scene for the operator and the procedure received in the specification unit.