Hand-held medical-data capture-device determining a temperature by a microprocessor from a signal of a digital infrared sensor and detecting vital signs through variation amplification of images and having interoperations with electronic medical record systems to transmit the temperature, vital signs and device information
First Claim
1. A device comprising:
- a microprocessor;
a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor;
a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and providing at least two images to the microprocessor;
a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports; and
a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor;
wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine a temperature of a human from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal and the microprocessor including a cropper that is operable to receive the at least two images and operable to crop the at least two images to exclude a border area of the images, generating at least two cropped images, the microprocessor also including a temporal-variation-amplifier of the at least two cropped images that is operable to generate a temporal variation of the at least two cropped images, the microprocessor also including a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the temporal-variation-amplifier that is operable to generate at least one vital sign from the temporal variation,wherein the wireless communication subsystem further comprises a component that is operable to transmit a representation of the temperature of the human, a representation of the vital sign, and representation of date and time, operator identification, patient identification and manufacturer, model number and firmware revision of the device.
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Abstract
In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
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13 Claims
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1. A device comprising:
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a microprocessor; a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor; a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and providing at least two images to the microprocessor; a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports; and a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor; wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine a temperature of a human from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal and the microprocessor including a cropper that is operable to receive the at least two images and operable to crop the at least two images to exclude a border area of the images, generating at least two cropped images, the microprocessor also including a temporal-variation-amplifier of the at least two cropped images that is operable to generate a temporal variation of the at least two cropped images, the microprocessor also including a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the temporal-variation-amplifier that is operable to generate at least one vital sign from the temporal variation, wherein the wireless communication subsystem further comprises a component that is operable to transmit a representation of the temperature of the human, a representation of the vital sign, and representation of date and time, operator identification, patient identification and manufacturer, model number and firmware revision of the device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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