MONITOR FOR MEASURING VITAL SIGNS AND RENDERING VIDEO IMAGES

• US 20080221399A1
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sotera Wireless Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Triage Wireless, Inc.
• Inventors: Visser, Henk, Banet, Matthew John, Zhou, Zhou, Fleming, Adam Michael, Hunt, Kenneth Robert, Dhillon, Marshal Singh, Terry, Andrew Stanley
• Application Number:
  US11/682,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20080221399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02125 of pulse wave propagation time
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02141 Details of apparatus construction, e.g. pump units or housings therefor, cuff pressurising systems, arrangements of fluid conduits or circuits A61B5/02233, A61B5/0235 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0261 using optical means, e.g. infrared light
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

The invention features a vital sign monitor that includes: 1) a sensor component that attaches to the patient and features an optical sensor and an electrical sensor that measure, respectively a first and second signal: and 2) a control component. The control component features: 1) an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the first signal and second signal into, respectively, a first digital signal and a second digital signal; 2) a CPU configured to operate an algorithm that generates a blood pressure value by processing with an algorithm the first digital signal and second digital signal; 3) a display element; 4) a graphical user interface generated by computer code operating on the CPU and configured to render on the display element the blood pressure value; and 5) a software component that renders video images on the display element. To capture video and audio information, the device further includes both a digital camera and a microphone.

Claims

1. A device for monitoring a patient'"'"'s vital signs, comprising:

a sensor component that attaches to the patient and comprises an optical sensor and an electrical sensor that measure, respectively, a first and second signal;

an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the first signal and second signal into, respectively, a first digital signal and a second digital signal;

a control component comprising;

a CPU configured to operate an algorithm that generates a blood pressure value by processing with an algorithm the first digital signal and second digital signal,

a display element,

a graphical user interface generated by computer code operating on the CPU and configured to render on the display element the blood pressure value, and,

a software component that renders video images on the display element.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the control component further comprises a digital camera.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the control component further comprises a microphone.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the control component further comprises a touch panel connected to the display element.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the control component further comprises a touch panel controller in electrical communication with the CPU and the touch panel.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a plurality of icons, each corresponding to a different operation on the device.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the CPU comprises compiled computer code configured to render video images when an icon is addressed through the touch panel.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the compiled computer code further comprises a video driver.

9. The device of claim 6, wherein the CPU comprises compiled computer code configured to play audio information when an icon is addressed through the touch panel.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the compiled computer code further comprises an audio driver.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the control component further comprises a wireless modem.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the control component further comprises a wireless modem in electrical communication with the CPU, the wireless modem configured to receive video information over a wireless interface and provide the video information to the CPU.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the control component further comprises a wireless modem configured to operate on a wide-area wireless network.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the control component further comprises a wireless modem configured to operate on a CDMA, GSM, or IDEN wireless network.

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the control component further comprises a wireless modem configured to operate on a local-area wireless network.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the control component further comprises a wireless modem configured to operate on a local-area network based on a protocol selected from:

802.11, 802.15, 802.15.4.

17. A device for monitoring a patient'"'"'s vital signs, comprising:

a body-worn component that attaches to the patient and comprises;

a sensor that measures at least one vital sign,

a microprocessor that receives and processes the at least one vital sign from the sensor, and

a first short-range wireless transceiver in electrical communication with the microprocessor that wirelessly transmits the at least one vital sign;

a control component comprising;

a second short-range wireless transceiver that receives the at least one vital sign from the first short-range wireless transceiver,

a CPU configured to receive and process the at least one vital sign,

a display element,

a graphical user interface generated by computer code operating on the CPU and configured to render on the display element the at least one vital sign, and,

a software component that renders video images on the display element.

18. The device of claim 17, further comprising a digital camera.

19. The device of claim 17, further comprising a microphone.

20. The device of claim 17, further comprising a touch panel connected to the display element.

21. The device of claim 20, further comprising a touch panel controller in electrical communication with the CPU and the touch panel.

22. The device of claim 20, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a plurality of icons, each corresponding to a different operation on the device.

23. The device of claim 22, wherein the CPU comprises compiled computer code configured to render video images when an icon is addressed through the touch panel.

24. The device of claim 17, wherein the compiled computer code further comprises a video driver.

25. The device of claim 22, wherein the CPU comprises compiled computer code configured to play audio information when an icon is addressed through the touch panel.

26. The device of claim 25, wherein the compiled computer code further comprises an audio driver.

27. A device for monitoring a patient'"'"'s vital signs, comprising:

a body-worn component that attaches to the patient and comprises;

a sensor that measures at least one vital sign,

a microprocessor that receives and processes the at least one vital sign from the sensor, and

a first short-range wireless transceiver in electrical communication with the microprocessor that wirelessly transmits the at least one vital sign;

a control component comprising;

a second short-range wireless transceiver that receives the at least one vital sign from the first short-range wireless transceiver,

a CPU configured to receive and process the at least one vital sign,

a display element,

a graphical user interface generated by computer code operating on the CPU and comprising a first and second icon, the graphical user interface configured to render on the display element the at least one vital sign when the first icon is addressed, and,

a software component that renders real-time video and audio information on the display element when the second icon comprised by the graphical user interface is addressed.