USOO6132218A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 6,132,218 Benja-Athon (45) Date of Patent: Oct. 17, 2000 54) IMAGES FOR COMMUNICATION OF 57 ABSTRACT MEDICAL INFORMATION IN COMPUTER A three-dimensional human figure depicts body parts and 76 Inventor: Anuthep Benja-Athon, 210 E. 36th St. Sites involve and affect by disease, disorder and pain Ground Floor, New York, N.Y. 10016 wherein each part and Site comprises a label, name and nomenclature express as distinct alphabetical, numerical, 21 Appl. No.: 09/191,795 alphanumeric nomenclature, name, Symbol of a panel of 22 Filed: Nov. 13, 1998 Symbols and color of panel of colors. The composition of all (51) Int. Cl." ..................................................... G07B 23/28 parts and Sites results in a three-dimensional coordinate 52 U.S. Cl. .......................... 434/267; 434/272; 600/300; System of labels, names, nomenclatures, Symbols and colors 600/301 on the human figurine adaptable to be Stored in the memories 58 Field of Search ..................................... 434/247, 256, and caches of a computer or a television henceforth devices 434/257, 262, 267, 269, 272; 600/300, and to be retrieved from the memories and caches to be 301 Viewed in and Spatially manipulated in any and all anatomi cal planes and to accentuate the relevant relationship of each 56) References Cited part and Site to adjacent and distant parts and Sites on the U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS Viewing Screen of the devices for accurately and effectively 4,907,973 3/1990 Hon ......................................... 434/262 communicating information between any perSons. The label, 5,259,764 11/1993 Goldsmith ... ... 434/267 name and nomenclature, Symbol and color are a product of 5,546,943 8/1996 Gould....... 128/653.1 composition of and cataloging of the inherent and unique 5,609,485 3/1997 Bergman . ... 434/262 5,740,802 4/1998 Nafis ........ ... 434/262 anatomical, physiological, neurological, neuroanatomical, 5,766,016 6/1998 Sinclair ... ... 434/262 neurophysiological characters of each part and Site, the 5,769,640 6/1998 Jacobus ... ... 434/262 inherent and unique anatomical, physiological, neurological, 5,791,907 8/1998 Ramshaw ................................ 434/262 neuroanatomical, neurophysiological relationship of adja 5,791,908 8/1998 Gillio ...................................... 434/262 5,800,177 9/1998 Gillio ... ... 434/262 cent parts and Sites to each part and Site, the inherent and 5,800,179 9/1998 Bailey ... ... 434/262 unique anatomical, physiological, neurological, 5,853.292 12/1998 Eggert. ... 434/262 neuroanatomical, neurophysiological relationship of distant 5,882,206 3/1999 Gillio ...................................... 434/262 parts and Sites to each part and Site. Primary Examiner Kien T. Nguyen ASSistant Examiner Kurt Fernstrom 15 Claims, 1 Drawing Sheet U.S. Patent Oct. 17, 2000 6,132,218 6,132.218 1 2 IMAGES FOR COMMUNICATION OF A three-dimensional human figurine depicts body parts MEDICAL INFORMATION IN COMPUTER and Sites involve and affect by disease, disorder and pain wherein each part and Site comprises a label, name and FIELD OF INVENTION nomenclature express as distinct alphabetical, numerical, alphanumeric nomenclature, name, Symbol of a panel of A three-dimensional coordinate System of nomenclatures, Symbols and color of panel of colors. The composition of names Symbols and colors for identifying human body parts Said parts and Sites result in a three-dimensional coordinate and Sites for effective communication of medical informa System of labels, names, nomenclatures, Symbols and colors tion between any perSons. on Said figurine adaptable to be Stored in the memories and BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION caches of a computer or a television henceforth devices and to be retrieved from Said memories and caches to be viewed, The first objective of the present invention to provide a Spatially manipulated and to accentuate the relevant rela tool for easy, fast, effective communication of medical tionship of Said parts and Sites to adjacent and distant parts information between any perSons including patients, and Sites on Said figurine on the viewing Screen of Said physicians, and health care providers involve in diseases, 15 devices for accurately pinpointing and effectively commu disorders, illnesses and pain. nicating information between any perSons. Said label, name The Second objective of the present invention to give a and nomenclature, Symbol and color are the product of Standardized means of communication of medical informa composition of and cataloging the inherent and unique tion between any perSons involve in diseases, disorders, anatomical, physiological, neurological, neuroanatomical, illnesses and pain. neurophysiological characters of Said parts and Sites, the The third objective of the present invention to easy, fast, inherent and unique anatomical, physiological, neurological, effective communication of medical information between neuroanatomical, neurophysiological relationship of adja any perSons including patients, physicians, and health care cent parts and Sites to Said parts and Sites, the inherent and providers involve in aforementioned disorders the means of unique anatomical, physiological, neurological, easy, effective, and fast communication by Verbal, Visual, 25 neuroanatomical, neurophysiological relationship of distant writing, computer, computer networking, electronic parts and Sites to Said parts and Site. communications, telecommunications, and any combination thereof. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING The fourth objective is to promote the understanding of, FIG. 1 is the schematic view of the present invention. better and faster diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and pain processes affecting Site and related adjacent and DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED distant Sites. EMBODIMENTS Problem of health care: One of the fundamental obstacles FIG. 1 shows an anterior view, a representation of the to the resolution of the health care crisis in America is the 35 preferred embodiments of the present invention, of the upper lack of a tool to permit effective communication between body 1 representing a human body comprises parts and Sites patients and physicians. Even among physicians, there is involve and affect by disease, disorder and pain processes on immense difficulty of communicating clinical information. the Viewing Screen 2 of a computer, a television or the like Furthermore, expeditious access to and transmission of henceforth devices 3. The images representing human body, medical information is lacking. As a result, there are waste, 40 parts and Sites can be created in devices 3 using Standard abuse, misuse of medical Services, poor delivery of health commercially available computer Softwares for creating care, inflation of the health care cost, impedance of the outlines and contours of Said human body, parts, Sites and development of effective delivery of health care by health images. Using computer Softwares, human body including care providers. Simple and effective means of delivery of upper body 1 and parts and Sites can be displayed and health care between providers and consumerS Virtually does 45 Spatially manipulated as Selective two- and three not exist. Moreover, progreSS in medicine is impeded by the dimensional images in any and all anatomical planes Such lack of ability to link various anatomical Sites which are as, but not limited to, lateral view 4 and posterior view 5 on related in the disease, disorder and pain processes. Screen 2. Corollary, other views can be displayed Such as, With technological breakthrough of this latter half of the but not limited to, Superior, inferior, left lateral and right 20th century, the method of communication between phy 50 lateral and any combination thereof, not shown in FIG. 1, Sicians and patients Still is primitive. This is due to the fact adaptable to be spatially manipulated and viewed on Said that the practice of medicine is still limited to the classical Screen. Further to Same, Selective images adaptable to be method and approach used and taught to medical Students, Spatially manipulated and viewed on Said Screens in any and residents and physicians in medical School and hospital. No all anatomical planes Such as, but not limited to, one has facilitated the communication between patients and 55 croSSSectional, parasagittal, midsagittal and coronal planes physicians at any level of communication and either within at an angle between 0–360 degrees and at different anatomi a room, by telephone, or thousands of miles away. Effective cal levels. Said means of viewing facilitate the accurately use of computer and medical technology to allow commu and effectively communicating information between any nication between patients, physicians and other health care perSons on one or more anatomical Sites involved in and providers does not exist. 60 affected by Site or sites Specific diseases, disorders and pain. In FIG. 1, part and site 6 is a representation of the SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION preferred embodiments of the present invention. Part and One of the fundamental obstacles to the resolution of the Site 6 is involved and affected by disease, disorder and pain health care crisis in America is the lack of a tool to permit processes and is identified on the viewing Screen 2. The effective communication between patients and physicians. 65 product of composition of and cataloging the inherent and Expeditious access to and transmission of medical informa unique anatomical, physiological,