Patent ID: 9232922
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for displaying (EEG) data, the method comprising: generating an original EEG report from a plurality of original EEG signals, the original EEG report generated from an EEG machine comprising a plurality of electrodes' at least one amplifier connected to each of the plurality of electrodes by a plurality of wires to amplify each of the plurality of EEG signals, a processor connected to the amplifier to generate the original EEG report from the plurality of EEG signals, the original EEG report comprising a first plurality of channels each channel of the first plurality of channels displaying brain activity corresponding to two electrodes of the plurality of electrodes, and a display connected to the processor; performing artifact reduction on the original EEG signals to generate a processed EEG report, the processed EEG report comprising a second plurality of channels, wherein the channels of the processed EEG report are without discontinuities, wherein performing artifact reduction comprises partitioning each original EEG signal from a set of channels into a plurality of epochs, each of the plurality of epochs having an epoch duration length and an overlap increment, performing artifact reduction on the plurality of epochs to generate a plurality of artifact reduced epochs, and combining the plurality of artifact reduced epochs to generate a processed EEG recording, wherein each of the plurality of artifact reduced epochs overlaps an adjacent artifact reduced epoch to produce a continuous processed EEG recording without discontinuities in the processed EEG recording, wherein the plurality of artifact reduced epochs are combined using a weighted average wherein each of the plurality of artifact reduced epochs and the adjacent artifact reduced epoch are combined using a weighted average wherein the weight is proportional to a ratio of distances to epoch centers wherein a value from each of the plurality of artifact reduced epochs is weighted higher for an overlapping portion nearer a center of each of the plurality of artifact reduced epochs and a value from the adjacent artifact reduced epoch is weighted higher for an overlapping portion nearer a center of the adjacent artifact reduced epoch; overlaying the processed continuous EEG report on the original EEG report to generate a combined EEG report, wherein an x-axis of the processed continuous EEG report is aligned with an x-axis of the original EEG report, wherein the second plurality of channels of a y-axis of the processed continuous EEG report is aligned with the first plurality of channels of a y-axis of the original EEG report, wherein the number of the first plurality of channels of the original EEG report is equal to the number of the second plurality of channels of the processed continuous EEG report, wherein each of the x-axis of the processed continuous EEG report and the original EEG report is time, and wherein the processed continuous EEG report and the original EEG report match the time on the x-axis; and displaying the combined EEG report on a display screen of a monitor, the monitor in communication with the processor, wherein the processed continuous EEG report is visually distinctive from the original EEG report, wherein an activity at a specific time on one channel of the first plurality of channels of the original EEG report is identifiable on a corresponding channel of the second plurality of channels of the processed continuous EEG report at the specific time, wherein the amplitudes of the signals for the original EEG report are contained within each of the plurality of first channels in order to prevent overlapping of the signals' and the amplitudes of the signals for the processed continuous EEG report are contained within each of the plurality of second channels in order to prevent overlapping of the signals.