Live feed ultrasound via internet streaming
OwnerSeth Wallack, David Winterinventors
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Abstract
The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a system and method for real time evaluation of ultrasound video images taken at a first local location and evaluated at a second remote location. The system transmits a continuous live video feed from a veterinary ultrasound at the first location to a viewer at the remote location for real time study, review, and collaboration. In the method, the ultrasound video images are converted from analog ultrasound video to digital ultrasound video, where the digital ultrasound video is processed into multiple streams and transmitted across multiple broadband channels, each channel carrying a different stream. The multiple streams are aggregated into a reconstituted video and displayed for evaluation at the remote location.
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A method for transmitting a real time ultrasound video feed to a veterinary ultrasound evaluator, the method comprising the steps of:
- acquiring, at a portable ultrasound system, an analog ultrasound video of a veterinary subject at a first location;
- converting, at a portable computer, the analog ultrasound video to a digital ultrasound video;
- transmitting, via a communications link, the digital ultrasound video from the portable computer to a network transceiver, wherein the communications link comprises a IEEE 802.11 communications link,
- processing, at the network transceiver, the digital ultrasound video into multiple streams;
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- transmitting, at the network transceiver, the multiple streams over multiple cellular channels, each cellular channel carrying one of the multiple streams, wherein the multiple cellular channels are facilitated through separate and distinct cellular aircards.
A method for transmitting an ultrasound video feed to a veterinary ultrasound evaluator, the method comprising the steps of:
- acquiring, at a portable ultrasound system, an ultrasound video feed of a veterinary subject;
- converting, at a portable computer, the ultrasound video feed to a digital ultrasound video;
- transmitting, via a IEEE 802.11 wireless communications link, the digital ultrasound video to a network transceiver,
- processing, at the network transceiver, the ultrasound video feed into multiple video streams;
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- transmitting, at the network transceiver, the multiple video streams over multiple cellular channels, each cellular channel carrying one of the multiple streams, wherein the multiple cellular channels are facilitated through separate and distinct cellular aircards.
A veterinary ultrasound system comprising:
- a portable computer comprising an input to acquire an analog ultrasound video of a subject at a first location, an analog-to-digital video conversion card to convert the analog ultrasound video to a digital ultrasound video, and a communications card to transmit the digital ultrasound video via a wireless communications link;
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- a network transceiver to receive the digital ultrasound video via the wireless communications link, process the digital ultrasound video into multiple streams, and transmit the multiple streams over multiple cellular channels, each cellular channel carrying one of the multiple streams, wherein the network transceiver comprises a WiFi router and the wireless communications link comprises a WiFi link, and multiple, separate and distinct cellular aircards to facilitate the multiple cellular channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.