METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENTING A PROCEDURE

Patent №

US 8,907,914

Granted

2014-12-09

Filed 2012

Owner

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Lab

AI components

5

nlp · vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13601790

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for documenting a procedure in a touchless environment. Example methods disclosed herein include identifying a position of one or more of a user's fingertips using a camera of a mobile device and an entropy-based segmentation of an image input, determining a correspondence between user fingertip position and a control interface of the mobile device, including a plurality of functions to be executed based on user input, triggering the mobile device to execute one or more of the plurality of functions based on the user fingertip position during a procedure, and documenting one or more events of the procedure based on the user input for generating a report to be stored in a storage device of the mobile device.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Vision1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
AI hardware0.89
Natural language0.50
Speech0.03
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

assignment · 292020919

Assignors

VENON, MEDHI

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