Biological information measurement and display apparatus

• US 9,655,566 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2015
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Auchi, Ryota, Nagase, Kazuya
• Primary Examiner(s): MANUEL, GEORGE C
• Application Number:
  US14/642,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20150257714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0475 Special features of memory means, e.g. removable memory cards
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/72 Signal processing specially adapted for physiological signals or for diagnostic purposes character recognition, recognising digital ink, document-oriented image-based pattern recognition G06V30/00; recognition or understanding of postal images G06V30/424
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7425 Displaying combinations of multiple images regardless of image source, e.g. displaying a reference anatomical image with a live image geometric transforms for image registration G06T3/14; enhancement using image fusion G06T5/50; algorithms for registration of images G06T7/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A biological information measurement and display apparatus includes: a measuring unit measuring biological information; a first processor operating on a first operating system, and arithmetically processing the biological information measured by the measuring unit, to produce a calculation process signal; a second processor operating on a second operating system, being communicable with the first processor, and editing and processing the calculation process signal transmitted from the first processor, to produce an edition process signal; and an output controller receiving the calculation process signal produced by the first processor, and the edition process signal produced by the second processor, and outputting the received calculation process signal and the received edition process signal, the calculation process signal and the edition process signal output from the output controller being displayed in real time on a displaying unit.

Claims

1. A biological information measurement and display apparatus comprising:

an apparatus body;

a first operating system;

a second operating system;

a first processor which is configured to operate on the first operating system, and which is configured to arithmetically process biological information measured by a measuring unit, to produce a calculation process signal;

a second processor which is configured to operate on the second operating system, which is communicable with the first processor, and which is configured to edit and process the calculation process signal transmitted from the first processor, to produce an edition process signal;

an output controller which is configured to receive the calculation process signal produced by the first processor, and the edition process signal produced by the second processor, and which is configured to output the received calculation process signal and the received edition process signal; and

a library which is communicable with the first processor and the second processor, and which is configured to store custom application software, wherein

the calculation process signal and the edition process signal output from the output controller are displayed in real time on a displaying unit,

the first operating system, the second operating system, the first processor, the second processor, and the output controller are housed in the apparatus body, and

the second processor receives the calculation process signal through the library, and produces the edition process signal by using the custom application software.

2. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the edition process signal is a signal which is produced by editing and processing a plurality of kinds of calculation process signals measured by a plurality of the measuring units.

3. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein display contents of the edition process signal are displayed in a manner visually distinguishable from the display contents of the calculation process signal.

4. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein display contents of the edition process signal are displayed in a circumferential region of the displaying unit.

5. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein display contents of the edition process signal are displayed in a circumferential region of the displaying unit.

6. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein display contents of the edition process signal are displayed in a manner visually distinguishable from the display contents of the calculation process signal.

7. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein display contents of the edition process signal are displayed in a circumferential region of the displaying unit.

8. The biological information measurement and display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein display contents of the edition process signal are displayed in a circumferential region of the displaying unit.