SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION MONITORING IN AN EMS ENVIRONMENT

• US 20140093135A1
• Filed: 09/27/2013
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: REID, C. Shane, ASHMORE, Chad, GOTSCHALL, Robert H., BURES, Martin
• Application Number:
  US14/040,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20140093135A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A method for tracking interactions in an emergency response environment according to embodiments of the present invention includes receiving color images and depth information from within a field of view of a sensor array; maintaining an emergency encounter record; monitoring one or both of a position of an object and movement of the object in the emergency response environment based on the color images and depth information received by the sensor array; and recording an occurrence of a condition in the emergency encounter record, wherein the condition is based on the one or both of the position of the object and the movement of the object.

Claims

1. A method for tracking interactions in an emergency response environment, the method comprising:

receiving color images and depth information from within a field of view of a sensor array;

maintaining an emergency encounter record;

monitoring one or both of a position of an object and movement of the object in the emergency response environment based on the color images and depth information received by the sensor array; and

recording an occurrence of a condition in the emergency encounter record, wherein the condition is based on the one or both of the position of the object and the movement of the object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a human, and wherein monitoring one or both of the position of the object and movement of the object comprises monitoring one or both of the position of the human and movement of an at least partial skeletal approximation of the human.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the human is a first object, wherein the condition comprises the at least partial skeletal approximation of the human coming within a certain distance of a second object.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the human is a first human, and wherein the second object is a second human.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the condition comprises the first human touching the second human.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second human is a patient being treated by the first human in the emergency response environment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein recording the occurrence of the condition comprises recording a time at which the condition occurs.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein recording the occurrence of the condition further comprises recording a type of the condition.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein recording the occurrence of the condition further comprises recording as video footage the color images received during the occurrence of the condition.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving streaming clinical data about a patient, and

correlating at least a portion of the streaming clinical data in the emergency encounter record with the occurrence of the condition.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein correlating the at least the portion of the streaming clinical data comprises flagging the at least the portion of the streaming clinical data corresponding to a time of the occurrence of the condition.

12. A system for tracking interactions in an emergency response environment, the system comprising:

a sensor array, wherein the sensor array is adapted to receive color images and depth information in its field of view;

a control system communicably coupled to the sensor array, the control system configured to;

maintain an emergency encounter record;

monitor one or both of position and movement of an object in the emergency response environment based on the color images and depth information received from the sensor array; and

record an occurrence of a condition in the emergency encounter record, wherein the condition is based on the one or both of position and movement of the object.

13. A method for inventory control in an emergency response environment, the method comprising:

detecting three-dimensional movement of a human body in the emergency response environment with a sensor array, wherein the sensor array generates visual information and depth information about the emergency response environment;

detecting three-dimensional movement of an object in the emergency response environment;

determining an occurrence of contact between the human body and the object; and

recording an entry in an emergency encounter record based on the occurrence of the contact.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the object is a narcotic medication stored in an enclosure in the emergency response environment, the method further comprising:

determining, based on the detection of the three-dimensional movement of the human body and the object, an occurrence of intersection of the human body with the enclosure; and

recording an entry in the emergency encounter record based on the occurrence of the intersection.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the object is a narcotic medication stored in an enclosure in the emergency response environment, the method further comprising:

determining, based on the detection of the three-dimensional movement of the object, an occurrence of removal of the narcotic medication from the enclosure; and

recording an entry in the emergency encounter record based on the occurrence of the removal.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising updating an inventory database, based on the occurrence of the removal, to reflect that the narcotic medication has been used and needs restocking.