Portable Device Medical Testing Calibration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional medical testing and diagnosis methods are inconvenient for patients and professionals, often resulting in inaccuracies and unnecessary resource allocation due to the need for in-person visits, which can lead to false-positive or false-negative diagnoses.

Innovation Solution

The development of methods and systems for conducting medical examinations using portable consumer devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that allow patients to perform self-testing and self-examination through interactive medical testing environments, calibrated to individual users and environments, with results analyzed and interpreted by medical professionals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If patients travel to medical establishments for testing, then medical professionals can conduct examinations, but patients experience significant inconvenience in terms of time, money, and scheduling

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedical diagnosis accuracyVSAvoidpatient travel time and scheduling

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables patients to perform self-testing using portable consumer devices with interactive medical testing environments. Patients can conduct vision, hearing, and other medical examinations at home without needing to travel to medical facilities, thereby eliminating travel time and scheduling inconveniences while maintaining diagnostic accuracy through calibrated testing protocols

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates virtual copies of medical examination environments on portable devices. The interactive testing environments replicate professional medical examination procedures on smartphones and tablets, allowing patients to receive accurate diagnostic results without physically visiting medical establishments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Loss of time

If patients perform self-testing at home, then travel and scheduling inconveniences are eliminated, but testing accuracy may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepatient travel timeVSAvoidtesting accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates interactive feedback mechanisms that guide patients through calibrated testing procedures. The system provides real-time instructions, monitors patient responses, and adjusts testing parameters to ensure accurate results. This feedback loop maintains testing precision by ensuring patients understand and follow proper testing protocols despite performing tests at home

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent dynamically adjusts testing parameters based on individual patient characteristics and environmental conditions. The system calibrates testing protocols to account for variations in home testing environments, device specifications, and patient abilities, thereby maintaining measurement precision while enabling self-testing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If medical professionals conduct in-person examinations, then diagnostic accuracy is maintained, but medical professionals are distracted from more important tasks

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvediagnostic accuracyVSAvoidmedical professional efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables patients to autonomously perform medical examinations using portable devices with interactive testing environments. This self-service capability eliminates the need for medical professionals to conduct routine screenings, allowing them to focus on more complex cases and improve overall productivity while maintaining diagnostic accuracy through calibrated testing protocols

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces portable consumer devices as intermediaries between patients and medical professionals. These devices host interactive testing environments that replicate medical examination capabilities, serving as a mediator that allows patients to receive accurate diagnostics without requiring direct professional involvement for routine testing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9721065B2Interactive medical diagnosing with portable consumer devices

Publication Date: 2017.08.01 COCHLEAR LIMITED

AI summary

Medical tests and examinations are performed with consumer computing devices. The medical tests and examinations are selected and customized in accordance with conditions present in the testing environment, as well as physical characteristics of a user taking the test. The tests can include visual acuity tests, colorblindness tests and other medical tests, such as hearing tests.