METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED RECORDING AND PLAYBACK OF VIDEO AUDIO AND DATA INPUTS

• US 20080124694A1
• Filed: 11/27/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KB Port, LLC
• Original Assignee: KB Port, LLC
• Inventors: Olmstead, Clifford, Miller, Charles G.
• Granted Patent: US 10,002,539 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/262
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

A method for the integrated recording and playback of video, audio and data inputs using training simulators comprises the step of simultaneously receiving at least one data source input, audio input and video input into a common digital memory buffer in a time stamped manner for at least a given training event, wherein at least one of the data source inputs is a data record throughout the event of at least one simulated parameter of the training simulator, wherein at least one audio input is an audio record of the training event and at least one video input is a video record of the training event, and wherein the common memory buffer allows independent, simultaneous, synchronized, user controlled playback of the individual inputs received within the memory buffer. The system provides for contemporaneously flagging the common memory buffer during the event through a wireless controller.

Claims

1. A method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator comprising the steps of:

Capturing at least one video image of the subject during at least part of the session from at least one video camera;

Capturing at least one audio record of at least a portion of the session from at least one microphone;

Integrating each video image and each audio record into a common log file;

Contemporaneously flagging the common log file by at least one moderator during the session through a wireless controller, wherein each flag is a time sequenced moderator input into the common log file.

2. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein flagging controller is a handheld device with a plurality of independent input buttons that each provide for independent flags to be entered into the log file.

3. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 2 wherein the flagging controller includes independent functionality.

4. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 3 wherein the independent functionality of the flagging controller includes one of a laser pointer and an audio recorder.

5. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 further including the step of capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to at least one simulated parameter of a training simulator, and wherein the data source inputs of the training simulator are integrated into the common log file.

6. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 5 wherein the training simulator is a patient simulator.

7. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein a plurality of video cameras are provided with at least one video camera being wirelessly coupled to the common log file.

8. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 7 wherein the common log is on a central controller and further comprising the step of automatically synching the each wireless video camera to the central controller when the wireless video camera is within range of the central controller.

9. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 7 wherein the common log is on a central controller that has an independent display.

10. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the common log file allows independent, simultaneous, synchronized, user controlled playback of the individual inputs received within the common log file.

11. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the session includes a polygraph of the subject and further includes the step of capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to at least one parameter of the polygraph, and wherein the data source inputs of the polygraph are integrated into the common log file.

12. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the session is a deposition of the subject and further includes a stenographer and the step of capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to stenographic output of the stenographer, and wherein the data source inputs of the stenographer are integrated into the common log file.

13. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the session includes at least two moderators each having an independent flagging controller, and wherein the common log file is configured to differentiate the flagging controllers.

14. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 further comprising the step of editing the log file after the session.

15. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 further comprising the step of using an Identification Card to input the identity of at least one subject or moderator into to common log file.

16. A method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator comprising the steps of:

Capturing at least one video image of the subject during at least part of the session from at least one video camera;

Wirelessly transmitting at least one video image to a central controller;

Capturing at least one audio record of at least a portion of the session from at least one microphone;

Wirelessly transmitting at least one audio record to a central controller;

Capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to at least one simulated parameter of a training simulator;

Wirelessly transmitting at least one audio record to a central controller; and

Integrating each video image and each audio record and each data source input into a common log file.

17. The method of conducting a session comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 16 further including the step of contemporaneously flagging the common log file by at least one moderator during the session through a wireless controller, wherein each flag is a time sequenced moderator input into the common log file.

18. A method for the integrated recording and playback of video, audio and data inputs using training simulators comprising the step of simultaneously receiving at least one data source input, at least one audio input and at least one video inputs into a common digital memory buffer in a time stamped manner for at least a given training event, wherein at least one of the data source inputs is a data record throughout the event of at least one simulated parameter of the training simulator, wherein at least one audio input is an audio record of the training event and at least one video input is a video record of the training event, and wherein the common memory buffer allows independent, simultaneous, synchronized, user controlled playback of the individual inputs received within the memory buffer.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the simulator is a patient simulator and further including the step of contemporaneously flagging the common memory buffer during the event through a wireless controller, wherein each flag is a time sequenced moderator input into the common memory buffer.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein at least one data source input, at least one audio input and at least one video input are wirelessly coupled to the common memory buffer.