Video recording and image capture device
AssigneeKARL STORZ Imaging, Inc.
InventorBruce Kennedy
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Abstract
A video recording and image capture device for documenting surgical procedures that includes a main board for executing a plurality of software, a multimedia interface operable to receive a video signal and process it into an MPEG layer stream, the video interface connected on a first bus to the main board, a hard drive to record an MPEG layer stream as a file, an optical media drive to write an MPEG layer stream as a file, the hard drive and the optical media drive operably connected on a second bus, the bus being vertically stacked and connected to the main board, and a touchscreen interactive for user control, connected to the main board on a second bus to control the video interface.
Claims15
1-31. (canceled)
A video recording and image capture device for recording data comprising:
- a main board;
- a first and second bus in communication with said main board;
- an interface operable to receive a signal and forward the signal to said first bus;
- an imager in communication with said main board, said imager recording said signal while contemporaneously writing said signal, said imager operably connected to said second bus;
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- a touch screen connected to said second bus and responsive to a touch by a user, said touch screen for entering control commands for said interface.
An interface for processing a signal for recording video into a multiple frame layer comprising:
- a controller for an inter-ic bus for providing a multiple master digital connection;
- an analog to digital converter for converting a video signal to a first digital stream, said converter operably connected to said inter-ic bus;
- a video compression and decompression integrated circuit for encoding said first digital stream into a second digital stream having frames, and decoding said second digital stream, said video compression and decompression integrated circuit operably connected to said inter-ic bus;
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- a programmable buffer for selectively saving frames handled by said controller, said buffer operably connected to said controller and said video compression and decompression integrated circuit, and said buffer inserting said frames into said second digital stream for decoding.
A method for recording an MPEG file for documenting surgical procedures while displaying an MPEG stream and a plurality of selected still image files corresponding to the MPEG stream, comprising the steps of:
- providing a first digital data stream comprising a video signal,
- providing a second digital data stream comprising an audio signal,
- multiplexing an MPEG data stream from said first and second digital data stream,
- streaming said MPEG data stream to an imager operably connected on a bus;
- writing said MPEG stream to said imager;
- displaying said MPEG stream on a display unit;
- selecting a number of frames from said MPEG stream;
- converting the frames to still image files;
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- multiplexing a signal to said display unit by adding the still image files.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.