Medical Overlay Mirror

• US 20160100810A1
• Filed: 10/13/2015
• Published: 04/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ventrk LLC
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Allen, Paul G., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 9,615,799 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2044/007 Devices for determining the condition of hair or skin or for selecting the appropriate cosmetic or hair treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 44/005 for selecting or displaying personal cosmetic colours or hairstyle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00207 with hand gesture control or hand gesture recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0079 using mirrors, i.e. for self-examination
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/749 Voice-controlled interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels

Abstract

Medical overlay mirror methods and related systems.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a light reflecting structure;

a data presentation device proximate to said light reflecting structure; and

a medical overlay engine operably couplable to said data presentation device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said light reflecting structure comprises:

at least one of a plane mirror, a convex mirror, or a concave mirror.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said light reflecting structure comprises:

a partially silvered mirror.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said data presentation device proximate to said light reflecting structure comprises:

said data presentation device integral with said light reflecting structure.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said data presentation device proximate to said light reflecting structure comprises:

said data presentation device operably coupled with said light reflecting structure.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said data presentation device proximate to said light reflecting structure comprises:

said data presentation device in physical communication with said light reflecting structure.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said data presentation device in physical communication with said light reflecting structure comprises:

said data presentation device connected with a housing connected with said light reflecting structure.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said data presentation device comprises:

a light generation device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said data presentation device comprises:

an image representation presentation device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said data presentation device comprises:

a laser-diode device.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one image storage device operably couplable with said data presentation device.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one medical-overlaid engine reception device operably couplable with said data presentation device.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one image transmission device operably couplable with an input capture device.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one image capture device operably couplable with said medical overlay engine.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein said at least one image capture device comprises:

at least one image representation capture device located to capture a field of view of said light reflecting structure.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein said at least one image capture device comprises:

at least one image representation capture device alignable relative to a field of view of said light reflecting structure.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein said at least one image capture device comprises:

at least two image representation capture devices alignable relative to a field of view of said light reflecting structure.

18. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one input capture device operably couplable with said data presentation device.

19. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one image registration engine operably couplable with said data presentation device.

20. A system comprising:

a light reflecting surface;

an image representation capture device having an image field corresponding to said light reflecting surface; and

at least one medical-overlaid image reception device operably couplable with said image representation capture device.

21. The system of claim 20, further comprising:

at least one image sorting engine operably couplable with said image representation capture device.

22. The system of claim 20, further comprising:

at least one data presentation device operably couplable with said image representation capture device.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein said light reflecting surface comprises:

at least one of a plane mirror, a convex mirror, or a concave mirror.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein said light reflecting surface comprises:

a partially silvered mirror.

25. A method comprising:

accepting input related to at least a part of an image of a light reflecting structure; and

presenting one or more medically-overlaid images related to at least a part of the image of the light reflecting structure.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein said accepting input related to at least a part of an image of a light reflecting structure comprises:

accepting touch input to a surface proximate to the at least a part of the image of the light reflecting structure.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein said accepting touch input to a surface proximate to the at least a part of the image of the light reflecting structure comprises:

detecting input to a touch sensitive device associated with the light reflecting structure.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein said accepting touch input to a surface proximate to the at least a part of the image of the light reflecting structure comprises:

detecting input to a mouse associated with the light reflecting structure.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein said accepting input related to at least a part of an image of a light reflecting structure comprises:

accepting input of at least one of a user touching herself, a user gesturing, or a user speaking in relation to the at least a part of the image of the light reflecting structure.