Contactless control of medical systems

Patent Number: 9387049

Patent Date: 2016-07-12

Patent type: utility

The present invention pertains to a method and apparatus for contactless control of a medical imaging system. A medical image can be acquired and displayed, and an aspect of the image can be altered based on a tracked position of a user body part. The user can be sensed by a sensing device, and the user body part tracked by a tracking unit in a first processing unit. A second processing unit can be coupled to the first processing unit and can have a control unit for controlling the medical imaging system.

Inventors

First Name Last Name City State Country
Steve Denis Burion - - -
Henry Hong Liu - - -

IPCs

Section Class Sub Class Group Sub Group
H 05 G 1 10
A 61 B 19 00
A 61 B 6 00
G 01 N 23 04

Assignee

Organization First Name Last Name City State Country
Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. - - - - -