Hand-held medical-data capture-device having variation amplification and having detection of body core temperature by a microprocessor from a digital infrared sensor and interoperation with electronic medical record systems via an authenticated communication channel
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; and
a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of a temperature of a human,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 the temperature of the 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 a connection is established by the wireless communication subsystem to an external apparatus and the temperature and vital sign data is pushed from the device through the wireless communication subsystem, thereafter the external apparatus controls flow of the data between the device and the external apparatus, wherein the connection further comprises an authenticated communication channel.
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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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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; and a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of a temperature of a human, 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 the temperature of the 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 a connection is established by the wireless communication subsystem to an external apparatus and the temperature and vital sign data is pushed from the device through the wireless communication subsystem, thereafter the external apparatus controls flow of the data between the device and the external apparatus, wherein the connection further comprises an authenticated communication channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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