Management of live remote medical display

• US 9,111,016 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2008
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stereotaxis, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Stereotaxis, Inc.
• Inventors: Besson, Guy, Garibaldi, Jeffrey M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sereboff, Neal
• Application Number:
  US12/168,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20090012821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,598 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/752 adapting media to network capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2365 Multiplexing of several video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2385 Channel allocation H04N21/266 takes precedence; Bandwidth allocation H04N21/24 takes precedence ; allocation of channels according to the instantaneous demands of the users in time-division multiplex systems H04J3/1682; admission control, resource allocation in open networks H04L12/5692; arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896; negotiating bandwidth in wireless networks H04W28/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4347 Demultiplexing of several video streams

Abstract

A system and method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display. The method includes assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information. Video data for the composite display is communicated over a network to a local display. Video data corresponding to the regions of the display are treated differently to provide a composite display with regions of different image quality.

Claims

1. A method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display, the method comprising:

assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information; and

communicating video data for the composite display to a local display over a network by a computer, differentially treating the video data corresponding to the regions by transmitting the video images for selected regions of the composite display at different resolutions than the video images for other regions.

2. A method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display, the method comprising:

assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information; and

communicating video data for the composite display to a local display over a network by a computer and preferentially allocating network transmission bandwidth to the video data corresponding to selected regions of the composite video display, wherein the network transmission bandwidth is allocated among the regions of the composite display based at least in part upon the medical systems currently being used, which is determined by detecting the region that the user is looking at.

3. A method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display, the method comprising:

assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information; and

communicating video data for the composite display to a local display over a network by a computer and selectively applying different methods and/or different degrees of compression to the video data corresponding to selected regions of the composite video display, the method or degree of compression being determined for the video data for the regions of the composite display based at least in part upon the medical systems currently being used, determined by detecting the region that the user is looking at.

4. A method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display, the method comprising:

assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information; and

communicating video data for the composite display to a local display over a network by a computer and selectively applying different information encoding to the video data corresponding to selected regions of the composite video display, by applying different resolution to the video data.

5. A method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display, the method comprising:

assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information; and

communicating video data for the composite display to a local display over a network by a computer and selectively applying different information encoding to the video data corresponding to selected regions of the composite video display, wherein the information encoding is for at least one selected from the group consisting of resolution, bandwidth, and compression, wherein the different information encoding for the video data for the regions of the composite display is determined based at least in part upon the medical systems currently being used by detecting the region that the user is looking at.