Tele-presence robot system with software modularity, projector and laser pointer

• US 9,983,571 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Teladoc Health, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Touch Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Wang, Yulun, Pinter, Marco, Hanrahan, Kevin, Sanchez, Daniel Steven, Jordan, Charles S., Roe, David Bjorn, Rosenthal, James, Walters, Derek
• Primary Examiner(s): Holwerda, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US14/518,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20150038983A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,317 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401, 348 1403, 348 1405, 348 1408, 700245, 700248, 700259
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/30 Surgical robots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/35 for telesurgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/37 Master-slave robots A61B34/35 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/361 Image-producing devices, e.g. surgical cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 19/022 using lasers
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 5/00 Manipulators mounted on wheels or on carriages B25J1/00 takes precedence; programme-controlled manipulators B25J9/00 ; vehicle aspects B60, B62, e.g. remote-controlled steering for motor vehicles B62D1/24; control of position of vehicles G05D1/00
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/161 Hardware, e.g. neural networks, fuzzy logic, interfaces, processor
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/162 Mobile manipulator, movable base with manipulator arm mounted on it
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1689 Teleoperation
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1697 Vision controlled systems
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/414 Structure of the control system, e.g. common controller or multiprocessor systems, interface to servo, programmable interface controller
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 901/01 Mobile robot

Abstract

A remote control station that accesses one of at least two different robots that each have at least one unique robot feature. The remote control station receives information that identifies the robot feature of the accessed robot. The remote station displays a display user interface that includes at least one field that corresponds to the robot feature of the accessed robot. The robot may have a laser pointer and/or a projector.

Claims

1. A method for creating a display user interface for a robot system, comprising:

accessing, from a remote control station, one of a plurality of telepresence robots, the plurality of telepresence robots including a first robot that has a first capability and a second robot that does not have said first capability;

and,

displaying the display user interface at the remote control station, the display user interface displays at least one field that corresponds to said first capability when the first robot is accessed and does not display said at least one field when the second robot is accessed, wherein the remote control station includes software with at least one object that relates to said first capability, the remote control station instantiates the at least one object when the first robot is accessed and does not instantiate the at least one object when the second robot is accessed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said first capability includes a mobile platform and said at least one field corresponds to a robot platform.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said first capability includes a projector and the at least one field is a projector field.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said first capability includes a laser pointer and the at least one field is a graphic corresponding to the laser pointer.