Method and apparatus for integrated recording and playback of video audio and data inputs

• US 10,002,539 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2007
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KB Port, LLC
• Original Assignee: KbPort, LLC
• Inventors: Miller, Charles G., Olmstead, Clifford
• Primary Examiner(s): Utama, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US11/945,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20080124694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,857 Days
• Field of Search: 434262, 434267, 600323
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

A method for the integrated recording and playback of video, audio and data inputs using training simulators comprises the step of simultaneously receiving at least one data source input, audio input and video input into a common digital memory buffer in a time stamped manner for at least a given training event, wherein at least one of the data source inputs is a data record throughout the event of at least one simulated parameter of the training simulator, wherein at least one audio input is an audio record of the training event and at least one video input is a video record of the training event, and wherein the common memory buffer allows independent, simultaneous, synchronized, user controlled playback of the individual inputs received within the memory buffer. The system provides for contemporaneously flagging the common memory buffer during the event through a wireless controller.

Claims

1. A method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator comprising the steps of:

Capturing at least one video image of the subject during at least part of the session with the training simulator from at least one video camera, the training simulator simulates physiological parameters including at least one of heart rate, breath rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, body temperature, pupil dilation and extremity changes;

Capturing at least one audio record of at least a portion of the session with the training simulator from at least one microphone;

Capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to at least one simulated parameter of the training simulator;

Integrating each of the data source inputs of the training simulator, each video image and each audio record into a common log file; and

Contemporaneously flagging the common log file by at least one moderator during the session through a wireless controller, wherein each flag is a time sequenced moderator input into the common log file,

wherein the common log file allows independent, simultaneous, synchronized, user controlled playback of the individual inputs received within the common log file.

2. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein flagging controller is a handheld device with a plurality of independent input buttons that each provide for independent flags to be entered into the log file.

3. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 2 wherein the flagging controller includes independent functionality.

4. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 3 wherein the independent functionality of the flagging controller includes one of a laser pointer and an audio recorder.

5. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the training simulator is a patient simulator.

6. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein a plurality of video cameras are provided with at least one video camera being wirelessly coupled to the common log file.

7. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 6 wherein the common log is on a central controller and further comprising the step of automatically synching the each wireless video camera to the central controller when the wireless video camera is within range of the central controller.

8. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 6 wherein the common log is on a central controller that has an independent display.

9. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the session includes a polygraph of the subject and further includes the step of capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to at least one parameter of the polygraph, and wherein the data source inputs of the polygraph are integrated into the common log file.

10. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 wherein the session is a deposition of the subject and further includes a stenographer and the step of capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to stenographic output of the stenographer, and wherein the data source inputs of the stenographer are integrated into the common log file.

12. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 further comprising the step of editing the log file after the session.

13. The method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator according to claim 1 further comprising the step of using an Identification Card to input the identity of at least one subject or moderator into to common log file.

11. A method of conducting a session with a training simulator comprising at least one subject and at least one moderator comprising the steps of:

Capturing at least one video image of the subject during at least part of the session with the training simulator from at least one video camera, the training simulator simulates physiological parameters including at least one of heart rate, breath rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, body temperature, pupil dilation and extremity changes;

Capturing at least one audio record of at least a portion of the session with the training simulator from at least one microphone;

Capturing data source inputs throughout at least a portion of the session which correspond to at least one simulated parameter of the training simulator;

Integrating each of the data source inputs of the training simulator, each video image and each audio record into a common log file; and

Contemporaneously flagging the common log file by at least one moderator during the session through a wireless controller, wherein each flag is a time sequenced moderator input into the common log file,

wherein the session includes at least two moderators each having an independent flagging controller, and wherein the common log file is configured to differentiate the flagging controllers.

14. A method for the integrated recording and playback of video, audio and data inputs using training simulators, the training simulators simulate physiological parameters including at least one of heart rate, breath rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, body temperature, pupil dilation and extremity changes, the method comprising the step of simultaneously receiving at least one data source input, at least one audio input and at least one video inputs into a common digital memory buffer in a time stamped manner for at least a given training event, wherein at least one of the data source inputs is a data record throughout the event of at least one simulated parameter of the training simulator, wherein at least one audio input is an audio record of the training event and at least one video input is a video record of the training event, and wherein the common memory buffer allows independent, simultaneous, synchronized, user controlled playback of the individual inputs received within the memory buffer.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the simulator is a patient simulator and further including the step of contemporaneously flagging the common memory buffer during the event through a wireless controller, wherein each flag is a time sequenced moderator input into the common memory buffer.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein at least one data source input, at least one audio input and at least one video input are wirelessly coupled to the common memory buffer.