METHOD OF DERIVING A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DISPLAY OBJECTS ON AN EXTERNAL DISPLAY

• US 20090043175A1
• Filed: 02/09/2007
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Tessel, Uli, Greiner, Harald, Hassing, Kai
• Granted Patent: US 8,872,844 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Technique for deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display-objects on an external display (13) within a patient-monitoring system (1), in which only a small amount of data has to be transmitted to the external display device (3) and at the same time the user of the external display (13) gets the same “look and feel” as he is used to from the built-in display (12) of a patient monitor (2).

Claims

1. A method of deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on an external display within a patient-monitoring system, comprising the steps of:

processing monitoring data and generating communication data from the monitoring data by means of a first display management device, which is comprised in a patient monitor, wherein the communication data exclusively comprise logical data necessary for deriving a graphical representation of domain specific display objects on the external display,

transmitting the generated communication data to an external display device, which is connectable to the patient monitor, via a communication link,

processing the transmitted communication data and generating imaging information from the communication data by means of a second display management device, which is comprised in the external display device, and

deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on the external display from the generated imaging information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein no communication data is transmitted to the external display device if the monitoring data does not change.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein graphical support data is included into the communication data.

4. A patient monitoring system, comprising

a patient monitor which comprises a first display management device adapted to process monitoring data and further adapted to generate communication data from the monitoring data, wherein the communication data exclusively comprises logical data necessary for deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on an external display, and

an external display device, connectable to the patient monitor via a communication link that is adapted to transmit the communication data, which external display device comprises a second display management device adapted to process the transmitted communication data and further adapted to generate imaging information from the communication data so as to derive a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on the external display from the generated imaging information.

5. The patient monitoring system as claimed in claim 4, wherein a second patient monitor serves as an external display device.

6. The patient monitoring system as claimed in claim 4, wherein first and second display management devices are identical.

7. A computer program for display management in a patient monitor of a patient-monitoring system, the computer program comprising computer instructions to process monitoring data and to generate communication data from the monitoring data when the computer program is executed in a computer of the patient monitor, said communication data exclusively comprising logical data necessary for deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on an external display.

8. A computer program for display management in an external display device of a patient-monitoring system, the computer program comprising computer instructions to process communication data and to generate imaging information from the communication data, and computer instructions to derive a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on an external display from the generated imaging information, when the computer program is executed in a computer of the external display device.