Graphical user interface including a pop up window for an ocular surgical system

• US 7,983,771 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Issued: 07/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcon Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Novartis Ag
• Inventors: Tran, Nam (Gus) H., Boukhny, Mikhail, Thoe, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Shechtman; Sean P
• Application Number:
  US11/193,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20060248477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,181 Days
• Field of Search: 700 11- 16, 700/83, 700/87, 700/90, 600/126, 604/22, 604/120, 715/700, 715784-787, 715/830, 715/973, 345/23, 345/24, 345/173, 702/89, 702/104
• US Class Current: 700/83
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00199 with a console, e.g. a control panel with a display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00977 the depression depth determining the power rate
• 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: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/973 Scroll tool, e.g. window scroll bar

Abstract

A graphical user interface for use in an ocular surgical system, such as phacoemulsification and vitreo-retinal surgical systems. A display screen shows a display element that includes a representation of a parameter of pulses generated by the ocular surgical system relative to a position of the controller. A window is displayed on the display screen and generated in response to touching the display screen of the ocular surgical system. The window includes a display element having a value of a parameter of the system. A value of the parameter is changed by touching the display screen at the adjustment element. The window can also include a representation of the parameter of the pulses relative to the position of the controller and an adjustment element for changing a value of the parameter represented in the display element. The representation in the window can be linear or non-linear, indicating the function of the parameter relative to a position of a controller, such as a foot pedal. A current representation of the parameter displayed in the window is changed to a different representation of the parameter in response to touching the display screen at the window. The window is closed by touching the display screen at a pre-defined area of the window. The window can also be configured to fade away or close after a pre-determined amount of time of inactivity or in response to a user.

Claims

1. A user interface for an ocular surgical system that generates pulses that are adjusted in response to a controller based on settings displayed on a display screen of the ocular surgical system, the user interface comprising:

a display element that is shown on the display screen and that includes a linear or non-linear representation of a function of a parameter of pulses generated by the ocular surgical system relative to a position of the controller; and

a window that is displayed on the display screen and generated in response to touching the display screen, the window including a display element having a representation of the function of the parameter of the pulses relative to the position of the controller;

wherein a current representation of the function of the parameter that is displayed in the window is changeable to a different representation in response to touching the display screen at the window or to touching the display screen at the display element in the window.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the window is generated in response to touching the display screen at the display element.

3. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the window includes at least one adjustment element for changing a value of the parameter.

4. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the adjustment element is an arrow or a slide bar.

5. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the adjustment element includes a pair of arrows and a slide bar.

6. The user interface of claim 1, wherein after the parameter is adjusted, the window is closed by touching the display screen at a pre-defined area of the window.

7. The user interface of claim 1, wherein at least three different representations of the function of the parameter are sequentially displayed in the display element in the window by touching the display screen at the display element to scroll through the at least three different representations.

8. The user interface of claim 1, further comprising a value that includes a value of the parameter, wherein the value is displayed in the display element and in the window.

9. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the non-linear representation is an exponential or a polynomial.

10. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the window occupies a portion of the display screen.

11. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the parameter is an ultrasonic or a non-ultrasonic parameter.

12. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the window fades away or closes after a pre-determined amount of time of inactivity.

13. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the window fades or closes in response to a user.

14. The user interface of claim 1, further comprising a menu or list of values of the parameter, wherein the parameter value is adjusted by selecting a new value the menu or list.

15. The user interface of claim 1 being a user interface for a phacoemulsification surgical system.

16. The user interface of claim 1 being a user interface for a vitreo-retinal surgical system.

17. A user interface for an ocular surgical system that generates pulses that are adjusted in response to a controller based on settings displayed on a display screen of the ocular surgical system, the user interface comprising:

a display element that is displayed on the display screen and includes a linear or non-linear representation of a function of a parameter of pulses generated by the ocular system relative to a position of the controller;

a window that is displayed on the display screen and generated in response to touching the display screen, the window including;

a display element that includes a representation of the function of the parameter of the pulses relative to the position of the controller, and

an adjustment element for changing a value of the parameter represented in the display element, wherein

a current representation of the function of the parameter is changed to a different representation in response to touching the display screen at the window, a value of the parameter is changed by touching the display screen at the adjustment element, and after the parameter is adjusted, the window is configured to be closed at least by touching the display screen.

18. The user interface of claim 17, wherein a current representation of the function of the parameter that is displayed in the window is changed to a different representation in response to touching the display screen at the window.

19. The user interface of claim 18, wherein a current representation of the function of the parameter displayed in the window is changed to a different representation in response to touching the display screen at the display element in the window.

20. The user interface of claim 17, wherein the adjustment element is an arrow or a slide bar.

21. The user interface of claim 17, wherein the adjustment element includes a pair of arrows and a slide bar.

22. The user interface of claim 17, wherein at least three different representations of the function of the parameter are sequentially displayed in the display element in the window by touching the display screen at the display element to scroll through the at least three different representations.

23. The user interface of claim 17, further comprising a value that includes a value of the parameter, wherein the value is displayed in the display element and in the window.

24. The user interface of claim 17, wherein the non-linear representation is an exponential or a polynomial.

25. The user interface of claim 17, wherein the parameter is an ultrasonic or a non-ultrasonic parameter.

26. The user interface of claim 17, wherein the window fades away or closes after a pre-determined amount of time of inactivity.

27. The user interface of claim 17, further comprising a menu or list of values of the parameter, wherein the parameter value is adjusted by selecting a new value in the menu or list.

28. The user interface of claim 17 being a user interface for a phacoemulsification surgical system.

29. The user interface of claim 17 being a user interface for a vitreo-retinal surgical system.

30. A user interface for an ocular surgical system that generates pulses that are adjusted in response to a controller based on settings displayed on a display screen, the user interface comprising:

a display element that is displayed on the display screen and includes a linear or non-linear representation of a function of a parameter of the pulses relative to a position of a foot pedal,

a window that is displayed on the display screen and generated in response to touching the display screen, the window including;

a display element having a representation of the function of the parameter of the pulses relative to the position of the controller, and

an adjustment element for changing a value of the parameter,

wherein at least three representations of the function of the parameter are sequentially displayed in the display element in the window by touching the display screen at the display element in the window to scroll through the at least three representations, the representation that is displayed in the display element in the window being a selected representation of the parameter, and wherein a value of the parameter is changed by touching the display screen at the adjustment element, and after the parameter is adjusted, the window is configured to be closed at least by touching the display screen.

31. The user interface of claim 30, wherein the adjustment element is an arrow or a slide bar.

32. The user interface of claim 30, wherein the parameter is a power, an on-time or an off-time of pulses generated by the ocular surgical system.

33. The user interface of claim 30, wherein the non-linear representation is an exponential or a polynomial.

34. The user interface of claim 30, wherein the window fades away or closes after a pre-determined amount of time of inactivity.

35. The user interface of claim 30, further comprising a menu or list of values of the parameter, wherein the parameter value is adjusted by selecting a new value from the menu or list.

36. The user interface of claim 30 being a user interface for a phacoemulsification surgical system.

37. The user interface of claim 30 being a user interface for a vitreo-retinal surgical system.