Patent ID: 9710414
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G16H,G16Z,H04W

Claim:
1. An interchangeable sensing apparatus comprising a common base unit which comprises: a first processor, a wireless communication module and a first interface; a power supply; and a sensor head selected from two or more sensor heads; wherein the sensor head is connected to the common base unit using the first interface that is a data and power interface, and mechanically joined with the common base unit using a matching plug-in connector to produce a one-piece apparatus without wires from or to external connections; wherein each of the two or more sensor heads performs a distinctively different function and is configured to connect to the common base unit to produce a one-piece networking sensing apparatus suited for an application; and wherein the sensor head comprises a chip for signal collection or generation and a matching interface to the first interface and the signals from the chip is transmitted to or received from the first processor in the common base unit via the matching interface, and the wireless communication module under the control of the first processor, transmits the signals to or receives the signals from one or more devices wirelessly, wherein said one or more devices are users' viewing devices that display an image received from the wireless communication module, wherein the common base unit further comprises both a first WLAN access point function to connect one or more devices to it as WLAN clients and a WLAN client function to connect to a second WLAN access point or router so that a first set of one or more local devices receive signals directly from the interchangeable sensing apparatus as WLAN clients to the first WLAN access point and concurrently using time division, a second set of one or more devices receive signals from the interchangeable sensing apparatus via the second WLAN access point or router, whereas the second set of one more devices include one or more local devices, and if the second WLAN access point or router is connected to a wide area network, the second set of one more devices include one or more remote devices connected to the interchangeable sensing apparatus via the second WLAN access point or router over the Internet.