Patent ID: 11908087
Assignee: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A computer implemented method for determining operational status of a plurality of laboratory instrument(s), the method comprising:
communicatively connecting a control unit to one or more laboratory instrument(s) of a first group;
capturing one or more external surveillance stream(s) of one or more of a second group of laboratory instrument(s) by one or more surveillance device(s);
receiving an internal data stream from one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the first group by the control unit, the internal data stream(s) comprising data indicative of an operational status of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the first group, wherein the one or more external surveillance stream(s) are independent of the internal data stream(s);
receiving the external surveillance stream(s) of the laboratory instrument(s) of the second group by the control unit;
processing the internal data stream(s) from the laboratory instrument(s) of the first group by the control unit to extract an operational status of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the first group;
processing the external surveillance stream(s) of the laboratory instrument(s) of the second group by the control unit to detect an operational status of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the second group;
outputting the operational status of any one of the laboratory instrument(s) of the first group via a lab monitoring interface; and
outputting the operational status of any one of the laboratory instrument(s) of the second group via a lab monitoring interface;
wherein the one or more surveillance device(s) comprises a video camera and the external surveillance stream(s) comprise a video signal from the video camera capturing video of one or more of the second group of laboratory instrument(s); and
detecting an operational status by analyzing the video signal of the one or more of a second group of laboratory instrument(s), wherein the detecting of an operational status comprises detecting changes of a user interface of the one or more of the second group of laboratory instrument(s), wherein the detecting changes of the user interface of the laboratory instrument(s) comprises detecting changes of colors and/or the appearance of one or more icons.