MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEDICAL APPARATUS BY USING THE MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20160232314A1
• Filed: 02/04/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HSIEH, Jongjyh, KIM, Jong-pil, KIM, Su-jin, LEE, Woong
• Granted Patent: US 10,928,977 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a touch screen and a method of controlling a medical apparatus by using the mobile terminal are provided. The method may include displaying, in response to determining that at least one medical apparatus is within a certain range from the mobile terminal based on location information of the at least one medical apparatus, at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus, detecting a user input for selecting first identification information from the at least one piece of identification information, and displaying, in response to a user input, a user interface for controlling a first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information, on the touch screen.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a medical apparatus by using a mobile terminal that includes a touch screen, the method comprising:

displaying, in response to determining that at least one medical apparatus is within a certain range from the mobile terminal based on location information of the at least one medical apparatus, at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus;

detecting a user input for selecting first identification information from the at least one piece of identification information; and

displaying, in response to the user input, a user interface for controlling a first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information, on the touch screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one medical apparatus is at least one medical apparatus selected from a plurality of installed medical apparatuses that are found by a medical apparatus management server or the mobile terminal and determined to be within the certain range from the mobile terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a second user input for selecting second identification information from the at least one piece of identification information; and

displaying, in response to the second user input for selecting the second identification information, the user interface for controlling the first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information and a user interface for controlling the second medical apparatus that corresponds to the second identification information, on the touch screen.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the user interface for controlling the first medical apparatus comprises simultaneously displaying the user interface for controlling the first medical apparatus and the at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus comprises displaying the at least one piece of identification information on a layout based on a location where the at least one medical apparatus is installed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of user interaction elements in the user interface are arranged in a same order, a same direction, or both the same order and the same direction as a plurality of UI elements in a manipulator of the first medical apparatus.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first identification information is at least one selected from location information of the first medical apparatus, a model name of the first medical apparatus, a manufacturer of the first medical apparatus, an image of the first medical apparatus, and a shortcut icon of an application related to the first medical apparatus.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, in response to a user input that is performed via the user interface, a result of controlling the medical apparatus related to a body of a patient.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information is at least one selected from coordinate information, distance information, and direction information of the at least one medical apparatus.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, in response to an occurrence of an emergency situation of a patient while controlling the first medical apparatus, notification information that indicates the emergency situation on the touch screen.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising changing at least one of a plurality of user interaction (UI) elements in the user interface from an activated state to a deactivated state or from a deactivated state to an activated state, based on the location information of the at least one medical apparatus.

12. A mobile terminal for controlling a medical apparatus, the mobile terminal comprising:

a touch screen configured to display, in response to determining that at least one medical apparatus is within a certain range from the mobile terminal based on location information of the at least one medical apparatus, at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus; and

a processor configured to control the touch screen to, in response to a user input for selecting first identification information from the at least one piece of identification information being detected via the touch screen, display a user interface for controlling a first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the at least one medical apparatus is at least one medical apparatus selected from a plurality of installed medical apparatuses that are found in a medical apparatus management server or the mobile terminal and determined to be within the certain range from the mobile terminal.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the touch screen detects a second user input for selecting second identification information from the at least one piece of identification information, and

the processor is further configured to control the touch screen to, in response to the second user input for selecting the second identification information, display the user interface for controlling the first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information and a user interface for controlling the second medical apparatus that corresponds to the second identification information on the touch screen.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the touch screen simultaneously displays the user interface for controlling the first medical apparatus and the at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein in response to the at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus being displayed on the touch screen, the touch screen displays the at least one piece of identification information on a layout based on a location where the at least one medical apparatus is installed.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein a plurality of user interaction (UI) elements in the user interface are arranged in a same order, a same direction, or both the same order and the same direction as a plurality of UI elements in a manipulator of the first medical apparatus.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the first identification information is at least one selected from location information of the first medical apparatus, a model name of the first medical apparatus, a manufacturer of the first medical apparatus, an image of the first medical apparatus, and a shortcut icon of an application related to the first medical apparatus.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein in response to a user input that is performed via the user interface, the touch screen displays a result of controlling the medical apparatus related to a body of a patient.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the location information is at least one selected from coordinate information, distance information, and direction information of the at least one medical apparatus.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein in response to an occurrence of an emergency situation of a patient while controlling the first medical apparatus, notification information that indicates the emergency situation is displayed on the touch screen.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein at least one of a plurality of user interaction (UI) elements in the user interface is changed from an activated state to a deactivated state or from a deactivated state to an activated state, based on the location information of the at least one medical apparatus.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program that performs:

displaying, in response to determining that at least one medical apparatus is within a certain range from the mobile terminal based on location information of the at least one medical apparatus, at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus, on a touch screen;

detecting a user input for selecting first identification information from the at least one piece of identification information; and

displaying, in response to the user input, a user interface for controlling a first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information, on the touch screen.