Method and system of communication for use in hospitals

A communication system comprising:

• a plurality of wearable devices, each wearable device being configured to view a patient from a different viewpoint;
• each wearable device including an identification circuit configured to identify a viewpoint of a corresponding user indicating a view that the corresponding user has of a patient;
• a gaze detection device configured to identify when one of the wearable devices is gazing in a direction of another of the wearable devices;
• each of the wearable devices including a directed coded beam transmitter and a coded beam detector, such that when a directed coded beam is transmitted from one of the wearable devices and detected by the beam detector of another of the wearable devices, an identification circuit of the another wearable device is configured to decode the coded beam so as to identify the coded beam transmitter of the one of the wearable devices;
• an exchange circuit arranged to cause one of the first wearable devices to exchange the viewpoint captured by the one of the wearable devices with the another of the wearable devices;
• each wearable device including:
• a projecting circuit arranged to project an exchanged viewing from the one of the wearable devices to be displayed to a user of the another of the wearable devices,
• such that in response to a first directed coded transmitted by the coded beam transmitter of a first wearable device being received by the beam receiver a second wearable device;
• a physiological signal monitoring module comprising physiological signal detectors and program logic to convey physiological signal information for the physiological signal detectors;
• wherein the exchange circuit is arranged to exchange the identified viewpoint captured by the first wearable device with the second wearable device and the projecting circuit of the second wearable device projects the viewpoint of the first wearable device to the user of the second wearable device when a conveyed physiological signal value exceeds a threshold value.

A method of communication for use in hospitals;

• in particular in intensive care units and emergency rooms or operating rooms, comprising:
• capturing, by a first wearable device, a viewpoint of a user of the first wearable device wearer;
• identifying, by a second wearable device, the viewpoint of the first wearable device;
• conveying physiological signal information;
• causing the first wearable device to exchange the captured viewpoint with a second wearable device when a conveyed physiological signal value exceeds a threshold value;
• and;
• providing the exchanged viewpoint to a user of the second wearable device wearer.

An interactive communication system for a plurality of wearable device viewpoint capturing devices interconnected by communications paths for use in hospitals;

• in particular in intensive care units and emergency rooms or operating rooms and on at least two of which devices viewpoints can be captured;
• comprising:
• means associated with at least one of said wearable devices for capturing, by said first wearable device, a viewpoint of a first wearable device wearer;
• and
• means associated with at least another of said wearable devices for identifying, by said another wearable device, the viewpoint of the first wearable device;
• means for conveying physiological signal information;
• means for causing the first wearable device wearer to exchange the captured viewpoint with a second wearable device wearer when a conveyed physiological signal value exceeds a threshold value;
• and;
• providing the exchanged viewpoint by the second wearable device as an exchanged viewpoint to the second wearable device wearer.