Composite Video Display System for Multi-Source Healthcare Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video distribution systems in healthcare environments, such as operating rooms, face challenges with information overload and limited interaction capabilities when displaying video data from multiple sources on a single screen, as they often require separate displays for each source and lack true integration and user-configurable composite display options.
Innovation Solution
A video display processing system that includes a video source input component, a compositing component, and a composite video output component, capable of receiving video data from multiple sources, generating a composite video image based on user-defined configurations, and outputting it to a display, allowing seamless interaction with multiple information systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple video sources are displayed on separate dedicated screens, then each video source can be displayed in its own context with full interaction capability, but information overload occurs and navigation to specific information becomes extremely difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple video sources from different information systems onto a single display screen using a composite display system. The system receives video data from multiple sources, composites them into a single integrated display, and maintains the ability to interact with each source simultaneously. This merging approach eliminates information overload and navigation difficulty while preserving full interaction capability with all video sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite display system provides multi-functional capability by simultaneously displaying and enabling interaction with multiple video sources from different information systems on a single screen. The system acts as a universal interface that handles PACS, EMR, anesthesiology, and other medical systems through one integrated display, replacing the need for multiple dedicated screens.
2Loss of information
If a video hub is used to display multiple video sources on a single screen, then information overload is reduced, but only one video source can be active for user interaction at a time and true integration is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a composite display system that merges multiple video sources onto a single screen while maintaining simultaneous interactivity. Unlike traditional video hubs that only allow one active source, this system combines all video sources and enables users to interact with multiple sources concurrently through the unified display interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite display system acts as an intermediary between multiple information systems and the user. It receives video data from various sources, processes and composites them into a unified display, and enables interaction with all sources through this intermediary layer, achieving true integration that video hubs cannot provide.
3Adaptability or versatility
If video routing and combining hardware is used to display multiple video sources, then video distribution is achieved, but the systems are expensive and have hard limits on the number of inputs
Solution Approach 1:
The composite display system provides universal functionality that allows an unlimited number of video inputs from different information systems to be displayed and interacted with simultaneously. This software-based approach replaces expensive hardware video routers and eliminates input limits, providing adaptability to any number of video sources without increasing device complexity.
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AI summary
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a video display processing system including a video source input component, a compositing component, and a composite video output component. The video source input component is adapted to receive video data from a plurality of video sources. The compositing component is adapted to generate a composite video image from the video data. The composite video image is based at least in part on a configuration. The configuration specifies an arrangement of the video data. The composite video output component adapted to output the composite video image.