Enhanced video interaction for a user interface of a telepresence network

• US 10,334,205 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2017
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Teladoc Health, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Touch Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Pinter, Marco, Jordan, Charles S., Sanchez, Daniel, Hanrahan, Kevin, Temby, Kelton, Lambrecht, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US15/401,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20170127019A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• Field of Search: 345473, 348 1403, 348 1405, 348159, 348143, 348169, 348 1401, 348 1404, 348 1407, 348 1408, 348149, 3482084, 3482221, 34823199, 348239, 348553, 370338, 433 29, 4554561, 4554563, 4555561, 455566, 701533, 709203, 709205, 709204, 709231, 382115, 704275, 715777, 386231, 386248, 600509
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

A telepresence device may relay video, audio, and/or measurement data to a user operating a control device. A user interface may permit the user to quickly view and/or understand temporally and/or spatially disparate information. The telepresence device may pre-gather looped video of spatially disparate areas in an environment. A temporal control mechanism may start video playback at a desired point in a current or historical video segment. Notations may be associated with time spans in a video and recalled by capturing an image similar to a frame in the time span of the video. An area of interest may be selected and video containing the area of interest may be automatically found. Situational data may be recorded and used to recall video segments of interest. The telepresence device may synchronize video playback and movement. A series of videos may be recorded at predetermined time intervals to capture visually trending information.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer-readable instruction code for performing a method of generating pre-session video loops, the method comprising:

adjusting a camera on a telepresence device in the vicinity of a patient to identify one or more areas of interest, the telepresence device including a camera, a display device, a microphone, and a speaker;

sequentially targeting each area of interest with the camera;

recording video of each area of interest for a predetermined time period; and

transmitting the recorded video to a remotely located control device;

establishing a two-way audio/video communication session between the control device and the telepresence device, wherein the recording step occurs prior to the control device establishing the two-way audio/video communication session;

displaying, during the communication session, a user interface on a display of the control device, the user interface including live video of the patient captured by the camera of the telepresence device in a first portion of the user interface and the recorded video in a second portion of the user interface.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein recording video of each area of interest comprises continuously cycling through the one or more areas of interest until receiving a connection request from the remotely located control device.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more areas of interest contain an object selected from the group consisting of a patient'"'"'s face, an EKG monitor, a chart, and a fluid bag.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises recording a time code indicating when the video of the one or more areas of interest was recorded.