Gregory J Green

US Patent:

6453111, Sep 17, 2002

Filed:

Sep 7, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/391639

Inventors:

Joseph H. Sklar - Longmeadow MA
Gregory A. Green - Marlboro MA
Donald L. Graham - Longmeadow MA
Geoff F. Elia - Somers CT
Terry D. Ditmar - Longmeadow MA
James F. Biron - Longmeadow MA

Assignee:

OmniMedia Systems Inc. - Great Barrington MA

International Classification:

H04N 576

US Classification:

386 46, 386 55, 386 96

Abstract:

An interactive touchscreen workstation is disclosed for generating patient-specific physical therapy videotapes. The workstation generally includes an appropriately programmed, digital central processing unit; first storage unit for storing digital video exercise data; second storage unit for storing digital audio exercise data; third storage unit for storing digital patient data; fourth storage unit for storing digital audio music data; user interface controls for directing the operation of the central processing unit so as to (i) generate a sequence of digital video frames from the data contained in the first storage unit, with that sequence corresponding to a particular physical therapy regimen prescribed for that patient, and (ii) generate a digital audio track from the digital audio exercise data contained in the second storage unit, and/or the digital audio music data contained in the fourth storage unit, with the digital audio track generated by the central processing unit corresponding to the sequence of digital video frames generated by the central processing unit; and output unit for recording the-sequence of digital video frames generated by the central processing unit and digital audio track generated by the central processing unit on a standard videotape, which videotape can thereafter be used by a patient to conduct âwatch-and-doâ physical therapy by playing back the videotape while simultaneously carrying out the regimen of physical therapy exercises specified in, and illustrated by, that same videotape.

US Patent:

59499516, Sep 7, 1999

Filed:

Nov 8, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/746371

Inventors:

Joseph H. Sklar - Longmeadow MA
Gregory A. Green - Marlboro MA
Donald L. Graham - Longmeadow MA
Geoff F. Elia - Somers CT
Terry D. Ditmar - Longmeadow MA
James F. Biron - Longmeadow MA

Assignee:

OmniMedia Systems, Inc. - Great Barrington MA

International Classification:

H04N 593
H04N 591

US Classification:

386 46

Abstract:

An interactive touchscreen workstation is disclosed for generating patient-specific physical therapy videotapes. The workstation generally includes an appropriately programmed, digital central processing unit; first storage means for storing digital video exercise data; second storage means for storing digital audio exercise data; third storage means for storing digital patient data; fourth storage means for storing digital audio music data; user interface controls for directing the operation of the central processing unit so as to (i) generate a sequence of digital video frames from the data contained in the first storage means, with that sequence corresponding to a particular physical therapy regimen prescribed for that patient, and (ii) generate a digital audio track from the digital audio exercise data contained in the second storage mean, and/or the digital audio music data contained in the fourth storage means, with the digital audio track generated by the central processing unit corresponding to the sequence of digital video frames generated by the central processing unit; and output means for recording the sequence of digital video frames generated by the central processing unit and digital audio track generated by the central processing unit on a standard videotape, which videotape can thereafter be used by a patient to conduct "watch-and-do" physical therapy by playing back the videotape while simultaneously carrying out the regimen of physical therapy exercises specified in, and illustrated by, that same videotape.