REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF CAPTURED IMAGE SEQUENCE

• US 20080183049A1
• Filed: 01/31/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Neupert, Peter, Karkanias, Chris Demetrios, Hodges, Stephen E.
• Application Number:
  US11/669,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20080183049A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1113 Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7267 involving training the classification device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7285 for synchronising or triggering a physiological measurement or image acquisition with a physiological event or waveform, e.g. an ECG signal A61B6/5205, A61B6/541, A61B8/5207, A61B8/543 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system that can enable remote monitoring and/or compliance determination by viewing sequences of images captured during an event is disclosed. For example, the innovation can employ captured event sequences to enable a viewer or third party to assess a subject'"'"'s activities and/or actions. The granularity of the capture of event sequences can be programmed and triggered based upon sensory data. The system also provides mechanisms to locate images or sequences, playback images or sequences or images as well as to set compliance parameters associated with a preference or life style.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates remote monitoring of an individual, comprising:

an event recorder component that captures a plurality of images associated with an event, the event represents an interval in the individual'"'"'s activity; and

an interface component that enables a viewer to remotely access a subset of the images associated with the event.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an event management component that facilitates remote access to the subset of the plurality of the images.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a remote monitoring component that facilitates the viewer to monitor the events in real-time.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a playback configuration component that facilitates configuration of the subset of the images in accordance with a user preference.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a playback filtering component that facilitates selection of the subset of images.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a compliance management component that facilitates establishing compliance criteria and comparing the subset of the images to the compliance criteria to make a compliance determination.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a compliance tracker component that automatically tracks compliance of the event as a function of the subset of the images in view of the compliance criteria.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a notification component that generates an alert that advises a viewer of a deviation by the individual as a function of the compliance criteria.

9. The system of claim 7, further comprising a report generation component that generates a report that identifies the compliance as a function of the compliance criteria.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an event analysis component that dynamically analyzes the subset of images as a function of third-party generated compliance criteria and establishes a compliance determination based upon the analysis.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a sensor component that gathers information that triggers image capture via the event recorder component.

12. The system of claim 11, the sensor component includes at least one of a physiological and an environmental sensor component.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising an event annotation component that employs information to annotate the subset of the images;

the annotation facilitates compliance determination via analysis of the subset of the images.

14. The system of claim 11, the information includes at least one of activity information, medication information, exercise information, time/date information, environmental data or physiological data.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a trigger criteria creation component that facilitates establishment of triggering criteria which is employed to prompt capture of the plurality of images.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising a compliance criteria creation component that enables establishment of the compliance criteria.

17. A method of monitoring activity of an individual, comprising:

capturing a sequence of images associated with an action of the individual;

remotely accessing a subset of the images associated with the action; and

determining compliance of the action represented within the subset of images as a function of a predefined compliance criterion.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

establishing triggering criteria which prompts capture of the sequence of images; and

establishing the compliance criterion used to determine compliance as a function of the subset of the images.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

defining a querying of an event sequence store;

locating the subset of images from the event sequence store as a function of the query; and

retrieving the subset of images from the event sequence store.

20. A system that facilitates remote access to captured images associated to a wearer of an event recorder, comprising:

means for establishing triggering criteria;

means for establishing compliance criteria;

means for capturing a sequence of images associated with an event based upon the triggering criteria;

means for annotating images with information associated with at least one of identity of the user, an environmental condition, a physiological condition, a date or a time of day;

means for remotely accessing a subset of the annotated images; and

means for automatically establishing a compliance determination as a function of content of the annotated subset of images in view of the compliance criterion.