Patent ID: 9544533
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: A61B,G16H,H04N

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a communication interface that includes at least one input terminal adapted to communicatively couple the apparatus to video source equipment and at least one output terminal adapted to communicatively couple the apparatus to a video processing server, the input terminal adapted to receive video data from the video source equipment; a converter circuit communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the converter circuit adapted to convert the received video data from a first format to a second format and transmit the converted video data in the second format from the output terminal to the video processing server; a non-volatile memory circuit storing at least one flag value indicative of whether the video source equipment provides video signals to the apparatus having at least one of an equipment identifier or patient information superimposed on one or more video images of the video signals; a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the converter circuit, and the non-volatile memory circuit, the processing circuit adapted to a housing that contains, at least partially, the processing circuit, the communication interface, the converter circuit, and the non-volatile memory circuit, the housing separate and independent to the video source equipment and the video processing server.