General purpose distributed operating room control system

• US 20060220784A1
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1994
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Incorporated (Intuitive Surgical Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Incorporated (Intuitive Surgical Holdings, LLC)
• Inventors: Wooters, Chares C., Wang, Yulun, Jordan, Charles S., Uecker, Darrin R.
• Application Number:
  US11/443,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20060220784A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/3.540
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00 Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets A61B18/00 takes precedence; contraceptive devices, pessaries, or applicators therefor A61F6/00; eye surgery A61F9/007; ear surgery A61F11/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00017 Electrical control of surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00203 with speech control or speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/70 Manipulators specially adapted for use in surgery
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23386 Voice, vocal command or message
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

The present invention pertains to control systems and provides a run time configurable control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system comprising a master controller having a voice control interface and means for routing control signals. The system additionally may include a plurality of slave controllers to provide expandability of the system. Also, the system includes output means for generating messages to the user relating to the status of the control system in general and to the status of devices connected thereto.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An operating room voice command system comprising:

a first medical device having a first device lexicon of verbal device commands associated therewith;

a second medical device having a second device lexicon of verbal device commands associated therewith; and

a control system in electrical communication with the first medical device and the second medical device, the control system having a voice interface for receiving a verbal device selection command included in a device selection lexicon, the device selection lexicon including a first device selection command and a second device selection command, the control system directing a command signal to a selected device in response to the verbal device selection command, the selected device being either the first medical device or the second medical device, the voice interface also for receiving a verbal device command associated with the selected device, the command signal corresponding to the device command, the control system identifying the device command from among the first device lexicon when the selected device is the first medical device, and the control system identifying the device command from among the second device lexicon when the selected device is the second medical device.