Graphical user interface system and method for representing and controlling surgical parameters

• US 10,492,946 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2017
• Issued: 12/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcon Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Novartis Ag
• Inventors: Boukhny, Mikhail
• Primary Examiner(s): Roane, Aaron F
• Application Number:
  US15/700,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20170367886A1
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 606 1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00199 with a console, e.g. a control panel with a display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00225 Systems for controlling multiple different instruments, e.g. microsurgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00745 using mechanical vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Graphical user interface system and method for displaying and controlling a surgical device, such as a device used in phacoemulsfication procedures. A graphical user interface is displayed on a display screen and includes one or more representations of operating parameters, such as aspiration rate, vacuum, and power that are used to control the surgical device. A parameter is adjusted by moving a portion of a representation from a first location on the display screen to a second location on the display screen to change the operating parameter and control the surgical device.

Claims

1. An interface for displaying and controlling parameters related to the operation of a surgical device, the displayed and controlled parameters being displayed on a display screen, the interface comprising:

a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface being displayed on the display screen, the graphical user interface including representations of the displayed and controlled parameters, at least one of the representations being a linear representation having a first end and a second end, the first end representing a starting value of the displayed and controlled parameter, the second end representing an ending value of the displayed and controlled parameter, the at least one displayed and controlled parameter being adjustable by moving at least one of the first end and the second end from a first location on the display screen to a second location on the display screen, thereby controlling the operation of the surgical device.

2. The interface of claim 1, the graphical user interface including a numerical field, the numerical field being located at the first end of the linear representation and indicating the starting value of the displayed and controlled parameter.

3. The interface of claim 1, the graphical user interface including a numerical field, the numerical field being located at the second end of the linear representation and indicating the ending value of the displayed and controlled parameter.

4. The interface of claim 1, the starting value being user-adjustable between zero and an intermediate value that is greater than zero.

5. The interface of claim 1, the graphical user interface including one or more numerical fields that are separate from the representations, the numerical fields indicating a current power level, a current duration of power, a current vacuum pressure, or a current aspiration rate.

6. The interface of claim 1, the graphical user interface including a representation of stages of a surgical procedure involving the surgical device.

7. The interface of claim 6, the representation of the displayed and controlled parameters being displayed relative to the representation of the stages of the surgical procedure.

8. The interface of claim 6, the representation of stages being vertical dividers, a stage of the surgical procedure being defined between two vertical dividers.

9. The interface of claim 8, the representation of the displayed and controlled parameter being adjustable by moving the first end or the second end of the representation of the displayed and controlled parameter along a vertical divider.

10. The interface of claim 8, the representation of the displayed and controlled parameter extending between two vertical dividers.

11. The interface of claim 8, wherein the representations of the displayed and controlled parameters comprises a plurality of representations of displayed and controlled parameters extending between the a first vertical divider and a second vertical divider,

wherein each of the plurality of representations of the displayed and controlled parameters has a first end at a location along the first vertical divider and a second end at a location along the second vertical divider,

wherein the first ends of each of the plurality of representations of the displayed and controlled parameters are moveable along the first vertical divider independently of each other to adjust the staring value of the respective displayed and controlled parameters, and

wherein the second ends of each of the plurality of representations of the displayed and controlled parameters are moveable along the second divider independently of each other to adjust the ending value of the respective displayed and controlled parameters.

12. The interface of claim 1, wherein the first end is moveable along a first vertical divider to adjust the starting value of the displayed and controlled parameter, and wherein the second end is moveable along a second vertical divider to adjust the ending value of the displayed and controlled parameter.

13. The interface of claim 1, the graphical user interface including a representation of a control member for use in operating the surgical device.

14. The interface of claim 13, the graphical user interface including a representation of stages of a surgical procedure involving the surgical device, the representation of the control member being moveable between the stages of the surgical procedure by displacement of the control member.

15. The interface of claim 14, the representation of the control member being a vertical line, the vertical line being moveable horizontally to indicate the stage of the surgical procedure.

16. The interface of claim 1, the graphical user interface being split into first and second sections, the first section including a representation of power.

17. The interface of claim 16, the second section including a representation of vacuum or aspiration.

18. The interface of claim 16, the second section including a representation of stages of the surgical procedure.

19. The interface of claim 1, the surgical device being a phacoemulsification device.

20. The interface of claim 1, the displayed and controlled parameter representations being adjustable to provide continuous, pulsed power or burst power.