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US 8,543,069 B2Granted
Systems, methods and apparatus for auxiliary ethernet port for wireless portable X-ray detector
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsNirmal Mukund Kari, Scott William Petrick, Christopher Unger
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Abstract
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which a portable imaging device is operable to communicate to other devices through both a wired communication path and a wireless communication path.
Claims23
A portable imaging device comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory operably coupled to the processor;
- a detector connection point operably coupled to the processor and operable to communicate data through a wired communication path the data further comprising image data;
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- a wireless transceiver operably coupled to the processor and operable to communicate data with a digital medical diagnostic imaging system through a wireless communication path,
- wherein the image data further comprises high-resolution images and low-resolution images,
- wherein the processor is operable to withhold the high-resolution images from transmission through the wired communication path, the processor is operable to transfer nearly immediately the low-resolution images through the wireless communication path and the processor is operable to store the high-resolution images to the memory until the wired communication path is active, and the processor is operable to the high-resolution images through the wired communication path upon activation of the wired communication path.
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An imaging system comprising:
- a digital medical diagnostic imaging system;
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- at least one portable imaging device operable to communicate data with the digital medical diagnostic imaging system through at least one of a wired communication path, and a wireless communication path, wherein the data further comprises image data, wherein the image data further comprises high-resolution images and low-resolution images, the least one portable imaging device is operable to store the high-resolution images until the wired communication path is active, and the least one portable imaging device is operable to transfer nearly immediately the low-resolution images through the wireless communication path.
A method for communicating data between a portable imaging device and a digital medical diagnostic imaging system, the method comprising:
- determining whether a wired communication path is established between the portable imaging device and the digital medical diagnostic imaging system;
- upon a condition in which the wired communication path is established, using the wired communication path to communicate the data between the portable imaging device and the digital medical diagnostic imaging system, wherein the data further comprises image data, wherein the image data further comprises high-resolution images and low-resolution images;
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- upon a condition in which the wired communication path is not established:
- establishing a wireless communication path between the portable imaging device and the digital medical diagnostic imaging system;
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- using the wireless communication path to communicate only the low-resolution images from the memory between the portable imaging device and the digital medical diagnostic imaging system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.