US 11,787,060 B2
Remote presence system mounted to operating room hardware
Yulun Wang, Goleta, CA (US); Charles S. Jordan, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Marco Pinter, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Daniel Steven Sanchez, Santa Barbara, CA (US); and Kevin Hanrahan, Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Assigned to TELADOC HEALTH, INC., Purchase, NY (US)
Filed by TELADOC HEALTH, INC., Purchase, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/134,751.
Application 17/134,751 is a continuation of application No. 12/151,740, filed on May 7, 2008, granted, now 10,875,182.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/070,348, filed on Mar. 20, 2008.
Prior Publication US 2021/0220998 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01); G16H 80/00 (2018.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01)
CPC B25J 9/1689 (2013.01) [B25J 19/023 (2013.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 80/00 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tele-presence system, comprising:
a boom attached to a fixed structure at a first location; and,
a robot face coupled to said boom, said robot face including a robot monitor, a robot camera, a robot speaker, and a robot microphone, wherein the robot face is configured to:
communicate with a remote control station at a second location via a network;
display an image captured by a camera of the remote control station on the robot monitor;
transmit an image captured by the robot camera to the remote control station for display on a monitor of the remote control station;
reproduce, via the robot speaker, a sound captured by a microphone of the remote control station;
transmit a sound captured by the robot microphone to the remote control station for reproduction by a speaker of the remote control station;
pan relative to the boom in response to input from a user received via a user input device of the remote control station; and,
tilt relative to the boom in response to input from a user received via a user input device of the remote control station.
 
11. A tele-presence system that can be implemented with a medical table, comprising:
a robot face at a first location, the robot face includes a monitor, a robot camera, a robot speaker and a robot microphone; and
an attachment mechanism that attaches said robot face to the medical table; wherein the robot face is configured to:
communicate with a remote control station at a second location via a network;
display an image captured by a camera of the remote control station on the robot monitor;
transmit an image captured by the robot camera to the remote control station for display on a monitor of the remote control station;
reproduce, via the robot speaker, a sound captured by a microphone of the remote control station;
transmit a sound captured by the robot microphone to the remote control station for reproduction by a speaker of the remote control station;
pan relative to the medical table in response to input from a user received via a user input device of the remote control station; and,
tilt relative to the medical table in response to input from a user received via a user input device of the remote control station.