US 12,348,905 B2
Apparatus and method to support monitoring of a patient
Stephan Nufer, Erlangen (DE); and Felix Horn, Nuremberg (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/942,509.
Claims priority of application No. 21196309 (EP), filed on Sep. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0083173 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 7/18 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 7/181 (2013.01) [A61B 5/742 (2013.01); G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0141 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring system for monitoring a patient in an examination space of an imaging apparatus, comprising:
an interface configured to receive process data in respect of an imaging examination, the process data including optical image data of a plurality of cameras;
a computing device configured to:
process the process data received from the interface, the processing of the process data including determining a position of the patient relative to the imaging apparatus and determining, based on the position of the patient relative to the imaging apparatus, a primary camera of the plurality of cameras, and
control an output device to provide information corresponding to the imaging examination based on the process data; and
the output device that is configured to generate a visual representation of the information based on the process data to enable visual monitoring of the patient and of the information corresponding to the imaging examination, the generation of the visual representation of the information including outputting images of the primary camera.