Single-Stream Sensor Protocol for Medical Data Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in minimally invasive surgeries using multiple data streams from multiple sensors is the increased resource intensity and cost associated with transmitting multiple data streams, which can lead to implementation errors due to asynchronous transmission and lack of signal integrity.
Innovation Solution
A single stream protocol (SSP) is implemented to combine and modulate multiple data streams from sensors using orthogonal codes, allowing transmission over a single channel, which includes spreading, combining, and modulating the data streams to generate a single modulated data stream for efficient transmission and demodulation back into separate streams.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple data streams are transmitted separately, then data transmission completeness is improved, but resource consumption and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate data streams into a single multiplexed data stream for transmission. The sensor device integrates data from multiple sensors (e.g., imaging sensor, light sensor, other sensor) and transmits them through one communication channel, reducing the number of transmission channels and processing units needed while maintaining data integrity through proper synchronization and timing information.
2Reliability
If multiple data streams are transmitted separately, then data integrity is improved, but transmission cost and resource intensity increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple data streams are merged into a single transmission channel, reducing the total number of transmissions required. This consolidation decreases energy consumption and resource intensity while maintaining signal integrity through synchronized timing and proper data structuring that preserves the relationship between different sensor data types.
3Productivity
If multiple data streams are transmitted asynchronously, then transmission efficiency is improved, but synchronization accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares and embeds timing information and synchronization data within the multiplexed data stream before transmission. This preliminary action ensures that when data streams are transmitted asynchronously, the receiving device can accurately reconstruct the temporal relationships and synchronize the data with high precision using the embedded timing references.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, techniques, and devices are disclosed and may include a first sensor configured to generate a first data stream, a second sensor configured to generate a second data stream, and at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing data stream management instructions. When executed by the at least one processor, the instructions causes the at least processor to receive the first data stream and the second data stream, spread the first data stream using a first code to generate a first coded data stream, spread the second data stream using a second code to generate a second coded data stream, combine the first coded data stream and the second coded data stream to generate a combined data stream, modulate the combined data stream to generate a modulated data stream, and transmit the modulated data stream via a single channel.