US 9,544,533 B2Granted

Converter device and system including converter device

AssigneeBlack Diamond Video, Inc.

InventorEdward Priest

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Abstract

Systems and apparatus may include converter device(s), a matrix switch, processor(s), and memory(s), where one or more of the converter devices provide video input signals to the matrix switch. A processor may determine if one of a plurality of video signals input to the matrix switch includes data representative of identification information overlain on a video image derived from one of the plurality of video signals. The determination may be based on a flag value stored in the converter device(s). The flag value may be retrieved by a server coupled to the matrix switch. If the information is included in the video signal, the video signal may be passed through a path in a matrix switch configured by the processor. If the information is not included in the video signal, the data representative of identification information may be retrieved from the converter device and then overlain on the video image.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a communication interface that includes at least one input terminal adapted to communicatively couple the apparatus to video source equipment and at least one output terminal adapted to communicatively couple the apparatus to a video processing server, the input terminal adapted to receive video data from the video source equipment;
a converter circuit communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the converter circuit adapted to convert the received video data from a first format to a second format and transmit the converted video data in the second format from the output terminal to the video processing server;
a non-volatile memory circuit storing at least one flag value indicative of whether the video source equipment provides video signals to the apparatus having at least one of an equipment identifier or patient information superimposed on one or more video images of the video signals;
a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the converter circuit, and the non-volatile memory circuit, the processing circuit adapted to
receive a query from the video processing server requesting transmission of the flag value, and
transmit the flag value to the video processing server in response to receiving the query to allow the video processing server to superimpose at least one of the equipment identifier or the patient information onto one or more video images of the converted video data when the flag value indicates that at least one of the equipment identifier or the patient information is not superimposed on the one or more video images of the video signals provided by the equipment;
and
a housing that contains, at least partially, the processing circuit, the communication interface, the converter circuit, and the non-volatile memory circuit, the housing separate and independent to the video source equipment and the video processing server.

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A method operational at a converter device, the method comprising:

storing at a memory circuit of the converter device at least one flag value indicative of whether equipment coupled to the converter device provides video signals to the converter device having at least one of an equipment identifier or patient information superimposed on one or more video images of the video signals;
receiving video data at an input terminal of the converter device from the equipment, the input terminal removeably coupled to the equipment;
converting, at the converter device, the received video data from a first format to a second format;
transmitting, from an output terminal of the converter device, the converted video data in the second format to a video processing server, the output terminal removeably coupled to the video processing server;
receiving a query at the converter device from the video processing server requesting transmission of the flag value;
and
transmitting the flag value to the video processing server in response to receiving the query to allow the video processing server to superimpose at least one of the equipment identifier or the patient information onto one or more video images of the converted video data when the flag value indicates that at least one of the equipment identifier or the patient information is not superimposed on the one or more video images of the video signals provided by the equipment.

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A video processing server comprising:

a matrix switch configured to receive video data from a plurality of video sources and transmit video data to a plurality of video destinations;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the matrix switch and system memory, the processor adapted to
receive a first video signal from a converter device coupled to a video source, the first video signal based on an original video signal provided by the video source to the converter device,
transmit a query to the converter device requesting transmission of at least one flag value indicative of whether the video source provides video signals to the converter device having at least one of an equipment identifier or patient information superimposed on one or more video images of the video signals,
receive the flag value from the converter device,
generate a second video signal that includes at least one of the equipment identifier or the patient information superimposed onto the first video signal received when the flag value indicates that at least one of the equipment identifier or the patient information is not superimposed on the one or more video images of the video signals provided from the video source to the converter device, and
instruct the matrix switch to transmit the second video signal to a video destination device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/637,332Filed 3 Mar 2015 · us provisional application
Priority: 4 Mar 2014
Published: US 2015/0256790 A110 Sep 2015
Granted: 10 Jan 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G16H 20/40
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
A61B 1/0005
Display arrangement: combining images e.g. side-by-side, superimposed or tiled
A61B 1/041
Combined with photographic or television appliances: capsule endoscopes for imaging
A61B 5/0035
Features or image-related aspects of imaging apparatus, e.g. for MRI, optical tomography or impedance tomography apparatus; Arrangements of…:…