Patent ID: 7494464

Claim:
Monitoring system for monitoring the progress of neurological diseases, comprising at least one observation station ( 3 ) for a plurality of individually selectable patients, the observation station having an electronic camera ( 9 ) automatically controlled for recording video motion pictures, devices ( 10 ) for marking an object field to be covered by the camera ( 9 ), and devices for automatically identifying the patients, whereby the identifying devices are operative to automatically activate the camera to record the patient concerned, after identification, while the patient carries out predefined movements in the object field, an automatic storage device for the digital storage of video motion pictures of the patient selected pursuant to identification data, which are to be recorded at preselected time intervals by the camera ( 9 ) in the observation station ( 3 ), a video display device ( 7 ), an image processing system automatically processing the video motion pictures of each individual patient, upon request by an attending physician, recorded at the time intervals to be in uninterrupted sequence and displayed on the video display device, wherein the uninterrupted sequence of video motion pictures of the patient is of shorter duration than the time intervals, a mechanical moving device operative to move the camera to follow the patient in response to patient motion.