Patent ID: 6967652

Claim:
A method of displaying physiological patient data from a cyclic physiological waveform, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring physiological patient data from a cyclic physiological waveform; storing the physiological patient data in a memory array; displaying the physiological patient data in a three-dimensional representation by parsing the physiological patient data into a series of waveforms such that each successive waveform is plotted in a temporal alignment to allow detection of long term trends in the physiological patient data; colorizing the three-dimensional representation by automatically selecting a first data point along a current waveform in the series of waveforms, the selected first data point having a representative X coordinate, Y coordinate and Z coordinate, automatically identifying a first area between the current waveform and a second waveform in the series of waveforms based upon the coordinates of the selected first data point, automatically applying a first predetermined color to the identified first area if the amplitude of the selected first data point is in a first range, automatically applying a second predetermined color to the identified first area if the amplitude of the selected first data point is in a second range, and automatically applying a third predetermined color to the identified first area if the amplitude of the selected first data point is in a third range.