Target Acquisition System

• US 20090102933A1
• Filed: 09/23/2008
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Global Device Management, LLC
• Original Assignee: Global Device Management, LLC
• Inventors: Cormack, Randall Wayne, Bloom, Jonathan G., Harris, David P.
• Application Number:
  US12/235,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20090102933A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/211.400
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

A targeting system and method for remotely controlling the zoom and pan features of a device for display in an operating room is provided.

Claims

1. A system for remotely controlling an image on a display in an operating room comprising:

a display device including a display terminal positioned in a sterile area of the operating room, the display device configured to display a first video image and to manipulate the video image to provide a second video image;

a controller in communication with the display device configured to receive and display the first video image, the controller further configured to control the display device to cause the display device to provide the second video image, the controller including a graphical representation on the first image displayed on the controller of the parameters of the second image displayed on the display terminal of the display device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the display device is configured to include a zoom feature to manipulate the first video image.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the display device is configured to include a pan feature to manipulate the first video image.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller is a touch panel controller.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller is a computer.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the graphical representation is a rectangle superimposed on the first video image displayed on the controller.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the rectangle is formed from first and second horizontal lines and first and second vertical lines, wherein the controller can adjust the position of the first and second horizontal lines and first and second vertical lines to adjust the second video image.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein the rectangle can be moved to different parts of the first image and a corresponding enlarged image is presented on the display terminal of the display device.

9. The system of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of memory presets configured to store a corresponding plurality of second video images.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein each second video image is a zoomed area of the first video image at a select position.

11. A graphical user interface system including a controller and a remote display terminal, the graphical user interface system comprising:

an indicator field superimposed upon a first image shown on a controller, the indicator field showing the boundary of a second video image shown on the display terminal.

12. The graphical user interface system of claim 11 wherein the indicator field comprises first and second horizontal lines, and first and second vertical lines which intersect with the horizontal lines to form a rectangular box on the first image.

13. The graphical user interface system of claim 12 wherein the rectangular box can be adjusted on the first image from a first position to a second position.

14. The graphical user interface system of claim 11 further comprising a plurality of memory presets configured to store a corresponding plurality of second video images.

15. The graphical user interface system of claim 14 wherein each second video image is a zoomed area of the first video image at a select position.

16. The graphical user interface system of claim 11 wherein the indicator field is a transparent shaded region of the first video image.

17. A method of monitoring and controlling the display of a remote video display comprising the steps of:

providing a first video display device and a controller remote from the first video display device;

displaying a first video image on both the first video display device and the controller;

manipulating a portion of the first video to create a second video image for display on the first video display device; and

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providing a first graphical overlay on the first video image displayed by the controller representative of the second video image displayed on the first video display device.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising the step of:

controlling the second video image being displayed on the first video display device by the controller.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising storing a position of the first graphical overlay in a memory preset of the controller.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the controller includes a plurality of memory presets.