Title :
Portable real-time homecare system design with digital camera platform
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
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 applications. In this paper, we present a low cost real-time homecare system based on a commercial digital camera platform. In addition to the typical multimedia recording functions of a digital camera, such as JPEG and MPEG-1/MPEG-4 recording, the proposed system can further process and compress phonocardiogram (PCG) signal concurrently.
Keywords :
home computing; medical signal processing; multimedia communication; telemedicine; video cameras; MPEG-1 recording; MPEG-4 recording; digital camera platform; multimedia recording functions; phonocardiogram signal; portable real-time homecare system design; Audio recording; Costs; Digital cameras; Digital recording; Real time systems; Signal processing; Telemedicine; Transform coding; Video compression; Video recording;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCE.2005.1561822
