Medical care experience

• US 20050203770A1
• Filed: 06/12/2003
• Published: 09/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Wegman, Maaike
• Application Number:
  US10/518,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20050203770A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders

Abstract

The invention relates to a method enabling a person to obtain information on medical care equipment (A), the method comprising a step of offering the option to indicate the medical care equipment (A) on a user interface (1), comprising a step of transmitting, on receipt of the indication of the medical care equipment (A), information (B) related to the indicated medical care equipment (A) to the user interface, and comprising a step of offering the person an option to select a viewpoint, a further step of selecting from a database (3a), comprising three-dimensional representations of medical care equipment, a three-dimensional representation (R) of the indicated medical care equipment (A), and a step of generating a two-dimensional view (V) from a selected viewpoint of the selected three-dimensional representation (R). The person can personally control the viewpoint from which he or she wishes the two-dimensional view to be generated, and can thus experience the medical care equipment, which he or she will later experience as a patient, from different angles and views as a spectator in real life.

Claims

1. A method enabling a person to obtain information on medical care equipment, the method comprising a first step of offering the person an option to indicate a selected medical care equipment (A) on a user interface (1), and a second step of transmitting, on receipt of an indication of the selected medical care equipment (A), information (B) relating to the indicated medical care equipment (A) to the user interface (1), characterized in that the method comprises:

a step of offering the person an option to select a viewpoint;

a further step of selecting, from a database (3a) comprising three-dimensional representations of medical care equipment, a three-dimensional representation (R) of the indicated medical care equipment (A); and

a step of generating a two-dimensional view (V) from a selected viewpoint of the selected three-dimensional representation (R).

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method comprises a step of offering an option to adjust the selected three-dimensional representation, representing a change in the configuration of the selected medical care equipment (A).

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method comprises a step of offering an option to generate a sequence of two-dimensional views.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information (B) comprises audible information (B′

) relating to the indicated medical care equipment (A).

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the medical care equipment (A) comprises a medical examination device.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a viewpoint may be selected from which a two-dimensional view of an inside area of a medical examination device is generated.

7. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the audible information (B′

) comprises operating sound of the indicated medical examination device.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first step is combined with offering the person the option to include information on facial characteristics of himself or herself with this indication, which information is included in the selected three-dimensional representation (R).

9. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first step is combined with offering the person the option to include the name of a medical care location (C), which indication is used for the selection of a three-dimensional representation (R) of the indicated medical care equipment (A).

10. A system enabling a person to obtain information on medical care equipment, comprising:

a user interface (1) comprising means (2,22) for indicating a selected medical care equipment (A) on the user interface (1); and

a computer means (3) for receiving an indication of the selected medical care equipment (A) from the user interface (1), and for transmitting, on receipt of said indication, information (B) relating to the indicated medical care equipment (A) to the user interface (1), characterized in that the system comprises;

means (2′

) for selecting a viewpoint;

a database (3a) comprising three-dimensional representations of medical care equipment;

means (3b) for selecting, from said database (3a), a three-dimensional representation (R) based on the indication of the selected medical care equipment (A);

means (3c) for generating a two-dimensional view (V) from a selected viewpoint of the selected three-dimensional representation (R).