Medical Device Synchronization System for use in Cardiac & Other Patient Monitoring
First Claim
1. A system for synchronizing a plurality of different patient medical parameter processing devices, comprising:
- a master clock generator adaptively programmable to provide synchronization clocks having frequencies compatible with a plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data, for synchronization of processing of medical parameter data concurrently acquired from a single particular patient, said master clock generator being programmed by dividing a clock signal to provide a desired clock frequency in response to received frequency selection command data;
an output interface for providing said synchronization clocks to said plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data and providing synchronized output patient medical parameter data from said different medical devices for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display; and
an input interface for receiving said command data for determining clock division and generating said desired clock frequency.
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Abstract
A system provides synchronization between different medical signal (e.g., EKG and ICEG signal) acquisition and processing devices. A system synchronizes multiple different patient medical parameter processing devices, using a master clock generator. The master clock generator is adaptively programmable to provide synchronization clocks having frequencies compatible with multiple different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data and for synchronization of processing of medical parameter data concurrently acquired from a single particular patient. The master clock generator is programmed by dividing a clock signal to provide a desired clock frequency in response to received frequency selection command data. An output interface provides synchronization clocks to the multiple different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data and providing synchronized output patient medical parameter data from the different medical devices for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display. An input interface receives the command data for determining clock division and generating the desired clock frequency.
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16 Claims
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1. A system for synchronizing a plurality of different patient medical parameter processing devices, comprising:
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a master clock generator adaptively programmable to provide synchronization clocks having frequencies compatible with a plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data, for synchronization of processing of medical parameter data concurrently acquired from a single particular patient, said master clock generator being programmed by dividing a clock signal to provide a desired clock frequency in response to received frequency selection command data; an output interface for providing said synchronization clocks to said plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data and providing synchronized output patient medical parameter data from said different medical devices for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display; and an input interface for receiving said command data for determining clock division and generating said desired clock frequency. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system used by a patient medical parameter processing device in synchronizing patient medical parameter processing of a plurality of medical parameter processing devices, comprising:
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an input interface for receiving a synchronization clock provided by a master clock generator; a synchronization interface for using said synchronization clock for synchronizing processing of patient medical parameter data acquired concurrently from a single particular patient enabling a plurality of different medical devices to provide synchronized output patient medical parameter data for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display; and an output interface for providing synchronized output patient medical parameter data for synchronized display with output patient medical parameter data provided by another of said plurality of different medical devices for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A system for synchronizing a plurality of different patient medical parameter processing devices, comprising:
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a master clock generator adaptively programmable to provide synchronization clocks having frequencies compatible with a plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data, for synchronization of processing of medical parameter data concurrently acquired from a single particular patient, said master clock generator being programmed by dividing a clock signal to provide a desired clock frequency in response to received frequency selection command data; an output interface for providing said synchronization clocks to said plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data and providing synchronized output patient medical parameter data from said different medical devices for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display; an input interface for receiving said command data for determining clock division and generating said desired clock frequency; a plurality of different medical devices for acquiring patient medical parameter data, said plurality of different medical devices individually having a synchronization interface for receiving and using a synchronization clock provided by said master clock generator for synchronizing processing of patient medical parameter data acquired concurrently from said single particular patient enabling said plurality of different medical devices to provide synchronized output patient medical parameter data for presentation to a user in synchronized format on a display; and an adaptive delay generator for adaptively generating a time delay used in delaying synchronized output patient medical parameter data from one of said different medical devices for presentation to a user synchronized with output patient medical parameter data from another of said different medical devices for presentation on said display in response to received time delay selection command data.
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