Surgical System High-Speed Startup SSD Pre-Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical devices, such as endoscopes, experience increased startup times due to advanced functionalities and network connections, which is undesirable in emergency situations where rapid startup is critical.
Innovation Solution
A surgical system that includes a surgical imaging device, an image processing unit, and a loading unit that reads and loads program space information from a memory after the operating system has started, utilizing a solid-state drive (SSD) and double-data-rate (DDR) RAM, with a high-speed startup mode to expedite the process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If medical devices are connected to hospital and external networks to exchange various types of information, then functionality and adaptability are improved, but startup time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-loading essential program spaces and data into the SSD before the device is needed. The system prepares the program space information in advance and stores it in a ready-to-load format, so that when startup is required, the device can quickly retrieve and execute the pre-prepared program space without performing time-consuming initialization tasks during the startup process itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the essential program space information from the complete operating system environment and separates it into a standalone, loadable format. By extracting only the critical program space data needed for immediate operation into the SSD, the system eliminates the need to load the entire OS during startup, thereby reducing startup time while maintaining necessary functionality.
2Ease of manufacture
If general-purpose OS is adopted in endoscope system, then ease of manufacture and adaptability are improved, but startup time increases to several tens of seconds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential program space information from the general-purpose operating system and stores it separately in the SSD. This extraction allows the system to maintain the benefits of using a general-purpose OS for ease of manufacture and adaptability, while simultaneously enabling rapid startup by loading only the extracted, essential program space data instead of the complete OS.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-preparing and storing the program space information in the SSD during the manufacturing or setup phase. This preliminary preparation ensures that when the device starts up, the essential program data is already in place and can be quickly loaded, eliminating the time-consuming OS initialization process while maintaining the use of a general-purpose operating system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If medical devices become more advanced with network connections and mobile device cooperation, then adaptability is improved, but startup time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the core program space information from the advanced medical device system and stores it separately in the SSD. This extraction enables the device to maintain advanced adaptability features such as network connections and mobile device cooperation capabilities, while achieving rapid startup by loading only the essential extracted program data without initializing all advanced features during startup.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring and storing the essential program space data in the SSD during device setup or manufacturing. This preliminary configuration allows the device to quickly load and become operational with core functions, while advanced features like network connectivity and mobile device cooperation can be activated subsequently without delaying the initial startup process.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a surgical system, a surgical device, and a surgical method with which startup time can be shortened.Upon receipt of an instruction from a startup execution process, a high-speed startup driver creates a high-speed startup image and writes it to an SSD. The startup execution process is a process that is executed first after an OS is started up, and has the function of executing, in cooperation with the high-speed startup driver, startup of various processes in an endoscope program, creation of a high-speed startup image, and return from the high-speed startup image. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a surgical system provided with an imaging device including an endoscope or a microscope.