Ophthalmic microscope with improved documentation capability
AssigneeHaag-Streit AG
InventorsJörg Breitenstein, Frank Zumkehr
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Abstract
An ophthalmic microscope assembly has an ophthalmic microscope with a camera, a voice recorder with speech-to-text conversion, a measurement unit for carrying out measurements, and a report generator for generating reports. Depending on the physical input, such as the voice data from the voice recorder, the image data from the camera, the data measured by the measurement unit, as well as the current operating settings of the microscope, report generator automatically generates a report. Depending on the same data, a guide automatically generates guidance to the user and/or performs measurements and takes images. A microphone is placed below the ocular or on the frame of a display of the microscope.
Claims27
An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
- a processing unit,
- an ophthalmic microscope with a camera, and
- a voice recorder,
- wherein the microscope sends operating data indicative of one or more operating parameters of the microscope to the processing unit, and
- wherein the processing unit associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the operating data by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images.
An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
- a processing unit;
- an ophthalmic microscope with a camera;
- and
- a voice recorder;
- wherein the processing unit associates, in a report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the ophthalmic microscope by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images,
- wherein said processing unit comprises a categorizer attributing a current session to a subset of a plurality of predefined categories,
- wherein at least some of the categories are guided categories, and
- wherein the processing unit comprises a list storing, for each guided category, a list of required measurements, and
- the ophthalmic microscope assembly comprises a guide that tests if the current session is categorized as a guided category and, if yes
- displays guidance on a display and/or
- automatically executes at least part of the required measurements.
An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
- a processing unit;
- an ophthalmic microscope with a camera, and
- a voice recorder;
- wherein the processing unit associates, in a report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images,
- wherein said processing unit comprises a categorizer attributing the voice data and/or the image data of a current session and/or the current session itself to a subset of a plurality of predefined categories,
- wherein the processing unit comprises a storage storing a plurality of report templates, and a report generator generating the report as a function of a first template of the report templates,
- wherein, based on the subset, the report generator
- selects the template and/or
- displays one or more templates for selection of the first template by the user.
An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
- a processing unit;
- an ophthalmic microscope with a camera;
- and
- a voice recorder;
- wherein the processing unit associates, in a report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images,
- wherein the microscope sends operating data indicative of one or more operating parameters of the microscope to the processing unit, and
- wherein the processing unit
- associates the operating data with at least one of the voice data and the image data and/or
- associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the operating data,
- wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises:
- a patient's headrest;
- a microscope housing including microscope optics and the camera;
- a translational stage between the headrest and the microscope housing, wherein the translational stage is adapted to displace the microscope housing with respect to the headrest along
- a horizontal direction Z defining a distance between the headrest and the ophthalmic microscope housing,
- by an X-offset along a horizontal direction X perpendicular to direction Z, and
- a pivotal connection mounted to the translational stage, wherein the pivotal connection provides for a rotation of the microscope housing with respect to the translational stage by a pivot angle about a vertical pivot axis, wherein the operating data is indicative of at least one of:
- the X-offset along the horizontal direction X, or
- the pivot angle about the pivot axis, and
- wherein the ophthalmic microscope assembly comprises at least one of:
- a detector detecting the X-offset,
- a detector detecting the pivot angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.