Contactless operation of medical devices using a pointing apparatus
AssigneesFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. Kgaa
InventorsChristoph Hitzelberger, Waldemar Witt, Martin Pospiech
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Abstract
Contactless operation of a medical device, such as a hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) device, is provided via a mobile pointing apparatus and a receiving arrangement associated with the medical device. The mobile pointing apparatus includes a signal emitter for emitting an optical or electromagnetic signal, and the receiving arrangement associated with the medical device determines a pointing target of the mobile pointing apparatus relative to the medical device based on the signal emitted by the mobile pointing apparatus and triggers a function of the device based on the pointing target of the mobile pointing apparatus.
Claims8
A system for contactless operation of a medical device, comprising:
- an electromagnetic pointing apparatus, comprising at least one electromagnetic signal emitter configured to emit a radar signal;
- at least three receivers configured to receive the radar signal emitted by the at least one electromagnetic signal emitter;
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- a processor configured to:
- determine a pointing target of the electromagnetic pointing apparatus relative to the medical device based on the received radar signal;
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- trigger a function of the medical device based on the determined pointing target of the electromagnetic pointing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.