Methods and apparatus for medical device cursor control and touchpad-based navigation
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1. Medical apparatus with a user interface comprising:
- a processor that executes an application that generates a user interface for display on a monitor, the user interface including text and/or graphics comprising buttons, widgets or other items selectable and/or manipulable by a user (collectively, “
hotspots”
),a video memory that is in communications coupling with the application and that stores information (“
screen-representative information”
) representing the user interface generated by the application,a touchpad subsystem that is in communications coupling with the application and with a touchpad and that generates a notification in response to a gesture thereon, where the touchpad is separate from the monitor and that gesture is a swipe, and where the notification includes a magnitude and a direction of the swipe on the touchpad,the application responding to the notification by activating a next said hotspot and displaying on the user interface an effect of such activation on the user interface,wherein the application activates said next hotspot as a function of the magnitude and the direction of the swipe on the touchpad with respect to a location of a currently activated hotspot.
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Abstract
The invention provides, in some aspects, medical apparatus with software-based cursor control and graphical user interface hotspot selection. This can be used, by way of non-limiting example, as part of a graphical user interface by which doctors, nurses, patient care technicians, other health care providers, and/or patients can enter data into enter data and/or to control the apparatus and/or associated medical equipment.
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1. Medical apparatus with a user interface comprising:
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a processor that executes an application that generates a user interface for display on a monitor, the user interface including text and/or graphics comprising buttons, widgets or other items selectable and/or manipulable by a user (collectively, “
hotspots”
),a video memory that is in communications coupling with the application and that stores information (“
screen-representative information”
) representing the user interface generated by the application,a touchpad subsystem that is in communications coupling with the application and with a touchpad and that generates a notification in response to a gesture thereon, where the touchpad is separate from the monitor and that gesture is a swipe, and where the notification includes a magnitude and a direction of the swipe on the touchpad, the application responding to the notification by activating a next said hotspot and displaying on the user interface an effect of such activation on the user interface, wherein the application activates said next hotspot as a function of the magnitude and the direction of the swipe on the touchpad with respect to a location of a currently activated hotspot. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. Medical apparatus with a user interface comprising:
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a processor that executes an application that generates a user interface for display on a monitor, the user interface including text and/or graphics comprising buttons, widgets or other items selectable and/or manipulable by a user (collectively, “
hotspots”
),a video memory that is in communications coupling with the application and that stores information (“
screen-representative information”
) representing the user interface generated by the application,a cursor subsystem that is coupled to the video memory and that modifies at least a portion of the screen-representative information therein with information (“
cursor-representative information”
) representing a cursor,graphics logic that is coupled to the video memory and to the monitor and that drives the screen-representative information and the cursor-representative information in the video memory to the monitor for display thereby of graphics and/or text generated by the application overlaid with a graphic of the cursor, a touchpad subsystem that is in communications coupling with the application and with a touchpad and that generates a notification in response to a gesture thereon, where the touchpad is separate from the monitor and that gesture is a swipe, and where the notification includes a magnitude and a direction of the swipe on the touchpad, the application responding to the notification by activating a next said hotspot and displaying on the user interface an effect of such activation on the user interface, wherein the application activates said next hotspot as a function of the magnitude and the direction of the swipe on the touchpad with respect to a current position of the cursor. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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