Method and device for compressed optical representation of medical data
AssigneeB. Braun Melsungen AG
InventorsGuenter Schmid, Josef Herzner, Uwe Becker
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for simultaneous compressed visual representation of the data of three or more medically relevant parameters, wherein the data of the parameters are represented in a coordinate system with three or more dimensions, this coordinate system together with the data of the parameters represented therein is transformed into a two-dimensional coordinate system through a preset arithmetic rule and the result of this transformation is displayed in the display area of a display device, with the essential features of the data of at least one of the parameters being periodic over time. The invention further relates to a monitoring device wherein the inventive method is realized.
Claims16
A method of displaying a simultaneous compressed visual representation of medically relevant parameters comprising the steps of:
- (a) acquiring data of at least three disparate medically relevant parameters in which at least one of the three disparate medically relevant parameters defines a periodical curve over time,
- (b) establishing a three-dimensional coordinate system defined by at least three angularly related axes,
- (c) combining the acquired disparate data into a three-dimensional data volume substantially representative of the disparate data,
- (d) transforming the three-dimensional data volume into a substantially equivalent two-dimensional data representation, and
- (e) displaying the two-dimensional representation relative to the three-dimensional coordinate system including the at least three angularly related axes thereof thereby obtaining a simultaneous compressed visual representation of the at least three disparate medically relevant parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.