Virtual Hand-Washing Coach
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1. A system for monitoring an arbitrarily complex hand-washing process or any part thereof, comprising:
- a computing device connected to one or more of;
a user ID subsystem,a set of two or more hand-washing monitoring cameras mounted in proximity to a sink and orientedso as to view all hand and/or arm motions of a user performing said set of hand-washing motionsand further oriented so as to allow the computing system to reconstruct sequences of three dimensional images of the hand and/or arm motions from the composited camera images,a video monitor positioned so as to be visible to the user,one or more speakers positioned so that audio emitted from the speakers is audible to the user;
said computing device containing an algorithm for identifying a user based on input from the user IDsubsystem;
said computing device providing audio and/or video instructions to the user on how to perform eachstep of said processes;
said computing device containing an algorithm for analyzing images from said set of hand-washing monitoring cameras and making a determination whether the user has satisfactorily performed eachstep of said processes;
said computing device informing the user via audio and/or video feedback if any step or series of steps of said processes has not been performed satisfactorily, determining appropriate possible actions for the user to take based on a set of rules about the degree of compliance required for a particular step or series of steps and requesting that the user select from among those possible actionsand perform the selected action.
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Abstract
An interactive monitoring system for arbitrarily complex hand-washing processes from simple hand-washing to full surgical scrub comprising user identification, multi-camera monitoring of hand-washing motions, various media for instructional or other feedback to the user, and a central computing system for storing hand-washing and instructional rules, instructional and other media, user-specific characteristics and rules and data on the status, quality and compliance of all hand-washing events monitored.
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1. A system for monitoring an arbitrarily complex hand-washing process or any part thereof, comprising:
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a computing device connected to one or more of; a user ID subsystem, a set of two or more hand-washing monitoring cameras mounted in proximity to a sink and oriented so as to view all hand and/or arm motions of a user performing said set of hand-washing motions and further oriented so as to allow the computing system to reconstruct sequences of three dimensional images of the hand and/or arm motions from the composited camera images, a video monitor positioned so as to be visible to the user, one or more speakers positioned so that audio emitted from the speakers is audible to the user; said computing device containing an algorithm for identifying a user based on input from the user ID subsystem; said computing device providing audio and/or video instructions to the user on how to perform each step of said processes; said computing device containing an algorithm for analyzing images from said set of hand-washing monitoring cameras and making a determination whether the user has satisfactorily performed each step of said processes; said computing device informing the user via audio and/or video feedback if any step or series of steps of said processes has not been performed satisfactorily, determining appropriate possible actions for the user to take based on a set of rules about the degree of compliance required for a particular step or series of steps and requesting that the user select from among those possible actions and perform the selected action. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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