System for displaying vital sign data

• US 7,460,905 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2006
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Imajo, Kaoru, Li, Xiangji, Mase, Ryuzo
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, II; Charles A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Natnithithadha; Navin
• Application Number:
  US11/330,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20060161072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 600/300, 600/301, 600/544, 600/545, 128920-925
• US Class Current: 600/544
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0005 combining images e.g. side-by-side, superimposed or tiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/372 Analysis of electroencephalograms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/384 Recording apparatus or displays specially adapted therefor

Abstract

Each of a plurality of electroencephalographs is adapted to measure electroencephalograms of a patient and to be connected to a communication network. Each of the electroencephalographs is operable to analyze the electroencephalograms to generate electroencephalogram information. Each of a plurality of cameras is adapted to monitor a state that the patient is subjected to the electroencephalogram measurement to transmit the monitored state as image information to associated one of the electroencephalographs. A central control monitor is connected to the communication network and operable to simultaneously displaying the electroencephalogram information and a part of the image information which are transmitted from each of the electroencephalographs via the communication network.

Claims

1. A system for displaying vital sign data, comprising:

a plurality of electroencephalographs, each of which is adapted to measure electroencephalograms of a patient and to be connected to a communication network, each of the electroencephalographs being operable to generate electroencephalogram information which is information obtained by successively analyzing a plurality of electroencephalograms of uniform prescribed time intervals;

a plurality of cameras, each of which is adapted to monitor a state of the patient subjected to the electroencephalogram measurement, and to transmit the monitored state as image information to an associated one of the electroencephalographs; and

a central control monitor, connected to the communication network and operable to simultaneously display for a plurality of patients, in a first display region, the electroencephalogram information and a part of the image information which are transmitted from each of the electroencephalogram graphs via the communication network.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

each of the electroencephalographs comprises a storage adapted to store the electroencephalograms and the image information; and

the central control monitor is operable to receive a request including information indicative of a time point, and to display, in a second display region, the electroencephalograms and the image information of at least the time point which are read out from the storage in one of the electroencephalographs.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the central control monitor is operable to issue an alarm when a prescribed event is detected in at least one of the electroencephalographs.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the image information is obtained at a first frame rate and the part of the image information is extracted at a second frame rate which is lower than the first frame rate.

5. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the electroencephalogram information is obtained by subjecting the electroencephalograms to frequency analysis.

6. The system as set forth in claim 5, herein the frequency analysis is fast Fourier transform.

7. The system as set forth in claim 6, wherein the electroencephalogram information is a density spectral array of the electroencephalograms.

8. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the electroencephalogram information has a smaller data amount than that of the electroencephalograms.

9. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the electroencephalogram information has at least one channel, the number of said at least one channel being less than the number of channels of the electroencephalograms; and

the electroencephalogram information has an appearance different from that of the electroencephalograms.