Hand-held medical-data capture-device having a digital infrared sensor with no analog sensor readout ports and interoperation with electronic medical record systems through a static IP address

A non-touch thermometer to measure a temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:

• a microprocessor;
• a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of the temperature;
• a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor;
• a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor;
• a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and providing at least two images to the microprocessor;
• a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor with no analog-to-digital converter operably coupled between the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports, the digital infrared sensor further comprising a low noise amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital signal processor, and a pulse width modulator in a single industry standard package;
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• a display device operably coupled to the microprocessor,
• wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine the temperature from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal,
• wherein the wireless communication subsystem transmits to a static Internet Protocol address in order to reduce Internet Protocol discovery burden on the non-touch thermometer,
• wherein the microprocessor further comprises:
• a pixel-examination-module configured to examine a plurality of pixel values of the at least two images, a temporal-variation module to determine temporal variation of the plurality of pixel values between the at least two images being below a particular threshold, a signal processing module configured to amplify the temporal variation resulting in amplified temporal variation, and a visualizer to visualize a pattern of flow of blood in the amplified temporal variation in the at least two images.

A non-touch thermometer to measure a temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:

• a microprocessor;
• a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of the temperature;
• a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor;
• a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor;
• a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and providing at least two images to the microprocessor;
• a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor with no analog-to-digital converter operably coupled between the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports, the digital infrared sensor further comprising a low noise amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital signal processor, and a pulse width modulator in a single industry standard package;
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• a display device operably coupled to the microprocessor,
• wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine the temperature from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal,
• wherein the wireless communication subsystem transmits to a static Internet Protocol address in order to reduce Internet Protocol discovery burden on the non-touch thermometer,
• the microprocessor including a cropper that is operable to receive the at least two images and operable to crop the images to exclude a border area of the images, generating at least two cropped images, the microprocessor also including a temporal-variation-amplifier of at least two cropped images that is operable to generate a temporal variation, the microprocessor also including a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the temporal-variation-amplifier that is operable to generate at least one vital sign from the temporal variation and the microprocessor also operably coupled to the display device that is operable to display the at least one vital sign.