Patents by Inventor Simon P. DiMaio
Simon P. DiMaio has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8996173Abstract: In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgical system is controlled using the system control parameter. Thus, the minimally invasive surgical system includes a hand tracking system. The hand tracking system tracks a location of part of a human hand. A controller coupled to the hand tracking system converts the location to a system control parameter, and injects into the minimally invasive surgical system a command based on the system control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Tao Zhao
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Publication number: 20150080909Abstract: In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgical system is controlled using the system control parameter. Thus, the minimally invasive surgical system includes a hand tracking system. The hand tracking system tracks a location of part of a human hand. A controller coupled to the hand tracking system converts the location to a system control parameter, and injects into the minimally invasive surgical system a command based on the system control parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Brandon Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Paul E. Lilagan, Tao Zhao
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Publication number: 20150066053Abstract: A minimally-invasive surgical system includes a slave surgical instrument having a slave surgical instrument tip and a master grip. The slave surgical instrument tip has an alignment in a common frame of reference and the master grip, which is coupled to the slave surgical instrument, has an alignment in the common frame of reference. An alignment error, in the common frame of reference, is a difference in alignment between the alignment of the slave surgical instrument tip and the alignment of the master grip. A ratcheting system (i) coupled to the master grip to receive the alignment of the master grip and (ii) coupled to the slave surgical instrument, to control motion of the slave by continuously reducing the alignment error, as the master grip moves, without autonomous motion of the slave surgical instrument tip and without autonomous motion of the master grip.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, William C. Nowlin, Günter D. Niemeyer, David S. Mintz
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Patent number: 8935003Abstract: In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgical system is controlled using the system control parameter. Thus, the minimally invasive surgical system includes a hand tracking system. The hand tracking system tracks a location of part of a human hand. A controller coupled to the hand tracking system converts the location to a system control parameter, and injects into the minimally invasive surgical system a command based on the system control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Intuitive Surgical OperationsInventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Paul E. Lilagan, Tao Zhao
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Patent number: 8903549Abstract: A minimally-invasive surgical system includes a slave surgical instrument having a slave surgical instrument tip and a master grip. The slave surgical instrument tip has an alignment in a common frame of reference and the master grip, which is coupled to the slave surgical instrument, has an alignment in the common frame of reference. An alignment error, in the common frame of reference, is a difference in alignment between the alignment of the slave surgical instrument tip and the alignment of the master grip. A ratcheting system (i) coupled to the master grip to receive the alignment of the master grip and (ii) coupled to the slave surgical instrument, to control motion of the slave by continuously reducing the alignment error, as the master grip moves, without autonomous motion of the slave surgical instrument tip and without autonomous motion of the master grip.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Opeations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, William C. Nowlin, Günter D. Niemeyer, David S. Mintz
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Publication number: 20140277736Abstract: A robotic system includes a processor that is programmed to determine and cause work site measurements for user specified points in the work site to be graphically displayed in order to provide geometrically appropriate tool selection assistance to the user. The processor is also programmed to determine an optimal one of a plurality of tools of varying geometries for use at the work site and to cause graphical representations of at least the optimal tool to be displayed along with the work site measurements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Craig R. Gerbi, Theodore W. Rogers, Wenyi Zhao
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Publication number: 20140282196Abstract: A robotic system provides user selectable actions associated with gaze tracking according to user interface types. User initiated correction and/or recalibration of the gaze tracking may be performed during the processing of individual of the user selectable actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Wenyi Zhao, Christopher J. Hasser, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul E. Lilagan, David D. Scott, Paul W. Mohr, Simon P. DiMaio, David W. Robinson, Tao Zhao
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Publication number: 20140232824Abstract: An operator telerobotically controls tools to perform a procedure on an object at a work site while viewing real-time images of the object, tools and work site on a display. Tool information is provided by filtering a part of the real-time images for enhancement or degradation to indicate a state of a tool and displaying the filtered images on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Simon P. DiMaio, Brian D. Hoffman, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul W. Mohr, David W. Robinson, Tao Zhao, Wenyi Zhao
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Patent number: 8712151Abstract: A local contrast enhancement method transforms a first plurality of color components of a first visual color image into a modified brightness component by using a first transformation. The first plurality of color components are in a first color space. The modified brightness component is a brightness component of a second color space. The second color space also includes a plurality of chromatic components. The method transforms all the color components of the first color space into the chromatic components of the second color space. The method then transforms the modified brightness component and the chromatic components of the second color space into a plurality of new color components, in the first color space, of a second visual color image. The method transmits the plurality of new color components to a device such as a display device. The second visual color image has enhanced contrast in comparison to the first visual color image.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Wenyi Zhao, Simon P. DiMaio, Catherine J. Mohr, David D. Scott, Tao Zhao
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Publication number: 20140111623Abstract: A stereo imaging system comprises a stereoscopic camera having left and right image capturing elements for capturing stereo images; a stereo viewer; and a processor configured to modify the stereo images prior to being displayed on the stereo viewer so that a disparity between corresponding points of the stereo images is adjusted as a function of a depth value within a region of interest in the stereo images after the depth value reaches a target depth value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Wenyi Zhao, Catherine J. Mohr, Simon P. DiMaio
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Patent number: 8682489Abstract: In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgical system is controlled using the system control parameter. Thus, the minimally invasive surgical system includes a hand tracking system. The hand tracking system tracks a location of part of a human hand. A controller coupled to the hand tracking system converts the location to a system control parameter, and injects into the minimally invasive surgical system a command based on the system control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Intuitive Sugical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Tao Zhao, Karlin Y. Bark
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Publication number: 20140055489Abstract: An operator telerobotically controls tools to perform a procedure on an object at a work site while viewing real-time images of the work site on a display. Tool information is provided in the operator's current gaze area on the display by rendering the tool information over the tool so as not to obscure objects being worked on at the time by the tool nor to require eyes of the user to refocus when looking at the tool information and the image of the tool on a stereo viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Daniel J. Halabe, Tao Zhao, Simon P. DiMaio, Christopher J. Hasser, Catherine J. Mohr, Paul W. Mohr, David Q. Larkin, Brian David Hoffman, Wenyi Zhao
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Patent number: 8543240Abstract: In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgical system is controlled using the system control parameter. Thus, the minimally invasive surgical system includes a hand tracking system. The hand tracking system tracks a location of part of a human hand. A controller coupled to the hand tracking system converts the location to a system control parameter, and injects into the minimally invasive surgical system a command based on the system control parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Karlin Y. Bark
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Publication number: 20130245641Abstract: A minimally-invasive surgical system includes a slave surgical instrument having a slave surgical instrument tip and a master grip. The slave surgical instrument tip has an alignment in a common frame of reference and the master grip, which is coupled to the slave surgical instrument, has an alignment in the common frame of reference. An alignment error, in the common frame of reference, is a difference in alignment between the alignment of the slave surgical instrument tip and the alignment of the master grip. A ratcheting system (i) coupled to the master grip to receive the alignment of the master grip and (ii) coupled to the slave surgical instrument, to control motion of the slave by continuously reducing the alignment error, as the master grip moves, without autonomous motion of the slave surgical instrument tip and without autonomous motion of the master grip.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, William C. Nowlin, Günter D. Niemeyer, David S. Mintz
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Publication number: 20130245375Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for a minimally invasive surgical system is disclosed. The method includes capturing and displaying camera images of a surgical site on at least one display device at a surgeon console; switching out of a following mode and into a masters-as-mice (MaM) mode; overlaying a graphical user interface (GUI) including an interactive graphical object onto the camera images; and rendering a pointer within the camera images for user interactive control. In the following mode, the input devices of the surgeon console may couple motion into surgical instruments. In the MaM mode, the input devices interact with the GUI and interactive graphical objects. The pointer is manipulated in three dimensions by input devices having at least three degrees of freedom. Interactive graphical objects are related to physical objects in the surgical site or a function thereof and are manipulatable by the input devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicants: The Johns Hopkins University c/o John Hopkins Technology Transfer, Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Simon P. DiMaio, Christopher J. Hasser, Russell H. Taylor, David Q. Larkin, Peter Kazanzides, Anton Deguet, Balazs Peter Vagvolgyi, Joshua Leven
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Patent number: 8520027Abstract: In a minimally invasive surgical system, a plurality of video images is acquired. Each video image includes images of the surgeon's hand(s), and of a master manipulator. The images of the surgeon's hand(s) and the master manipulator are segmented from the video image. The segmented images are combined with an acquired surgical site image. The combined image is displayed to the person at the surgeon's console so that the console functions as a see-through console.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Tao Zhao
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Patent number: 8398541Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for a minimally invasive surgical system is disclosed. The method includes capturing and displaying camera images of a surgical site on at least one display device at a surgeon console; switching out of a following mode and into a masters-as-mice (MaM) mode; overlaying a graphical user interface (GUI) including an interactive graphical object onto the camera images; and rendering a pointer within the camera images for user interactive control. In the following mode, the input devices of the surgeon console may couple motion into surgical instruments. In the MaM mode, the input devices interact with the GUI and interactive graphical objects. The pointer is manipulated in three dimensions by input devices having at least three degrees of freedom. Interactive graphical objects are related to physical objects in the surgical site or a function thereof and are manipulatable by the input devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignees: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Simon P. DiMaio, Christopher J. Hasser, Russell H. Taylor, David Q. Larkin, Peter Kazanzides, Anton Deguet, Bálazs Peter Vágvölgyi, Joshua Leven
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Publication number: 20130046137Abstract: A surgical instrument has a distal end portion with an outer surface with an outer radius. One or more image capture elements are movably mounted in the distal end portion. In a first state, the one or more image capture elements are un-deployed. In the first state, a surface having an aperture of at least one of the one or more image capture elements is enclosed within the outer surface of the surgical instrument so that the surface having the aperture does not extend beyond the outer surface. In a second state, the one or more image capture elements are deployed. In the second state the surface having the aperture of the at least one of the one or more image capture elements extends beyond the outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Tao Zhao, Simon P. DiMaio, David W. Bailey, Amy E. Kerdok, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Austin Reiter, Christopher J. Hasser
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Publication number: 20120209287Abstract: A local contrast enhancement method transforms a first plurality of color components of a first visual color image into a modified brightness component by using a first transformation. The first plurality of color components are in a first color space. The modified brightness component is a brightness component of a second color space. The second color space also includes a plurality of chromatic components. The method transforms all the color components of the first color space into the chromatic components of the second color space. The method then transforms the modified brightness component and the chromatic components of the second color space into a plurality of new color components, in the first color space, of a second visual color image. The method transmits the plurality of new color components to a device such as a display device. The second visual color image has enhanced contrast in comparison to the first visual color image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Wenyi Zhao, Simon P. DiMaio, Catherine J. Mohr, David D. Scott, Tao Zhao
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Publication number: 20120120245Abstract: Provided are a system and method for image sharpening is provided that involves capturing an image, and then decomposing the image into a plurality of image-representation components, such as RGB components for example. Each image-representation component is transformed to obtain an unsharpened multi-resolution representation for each image-representation component. A multi-resolution representation includes a plurality of transformation level representations. Sharpness information is transported from an unsharpened transformation level representation of a first one of the image-representation components to a transformation level representation of an unsharpened multi-resolution representation of a second one of the image-representation components to create a sharpened multi-resolution representation of the second one of the image-representation components. The sharpened multi-resolution representation of the second one of the image-representation components is then transformed to obtain a sharpened image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Wenyi Zhao, Simon P. DiMaio, David D. Scott