A real-time system for portable homecare applications

Author

Kao, Wen-Chung ; Chen, Wei-Hsin ; Yu, Chun-Kuo ; Hong, Chin-Ming ; Lin, Sheng-Yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Educ., Nat. Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan

fYear

2005

fDate

14-16 June 2005

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

374

Abstract

An ideal homecare system needs to process multiple diagnostic signals using a portable battery-driven device, and provide a real-time audio/video interface for telemedicine application. In this paper, we present a low cost real-time homecare system based on a commercial digital camera platform. In addition to the typical media recording functions of a digital camera, such as MPEG recording, the proposed system can further compress phonocardiogram (PCG) signal concurrently.

Keywords

bioacoustics; cardiology; data compression; embedded systems; medical signal processing; patient care; telemedicine; digital camera; digital camera platform; media recording functions; multiple diagnostic signals; phonocardiogram signal compression; portable battery-driven device; portable homecare applications; real-time audio-video interface; real-time system; telemedicine application; Audio recording; Costs; Digital cameras; Digital recording; Real time systems; Signal processing; Telemedicine; Transform coding; Video compression; Video recording;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2005. (ISCE 2005). Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8920-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2005.1502405

Filename

1502405