Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Jozef H M Raijmakers

Michiel A Cornelissen

Alex Wee Kar Tan

Laszlo Csaba Herczegh

Tom P J J Delaey

Elements (), which are used in a medical activity, are stored in a storage space () including a plurality of partitions () which are each dedicated to receiving a certain type of element () assigned to a predetermined medical activity. A user interface () selects a preferred medical activity from a plurality of medical activities. In response to the input activity, the partition () which holds the corresponding element () signals to indicate the correct element () to be used for the selected activity. In this manner the medical staff is offered 'intelligent' management of medical accessories and space, which helps the staff in organizing elements in an efficient and time- saving manner. In addition, a more flexible working environment contributes to the clinical staff feeling freer at work.

Storage space for elements which are used in a medical activity

An option is selected from a plurality of options by selecting a soft key from a plurality of displayed soft keys, each corresponding with a respective one of the options. The soft keys are displayed as a number of distinguishable groups of soft keys. A user first selects a particular group of soft keys. Then the soft keys are related to the hard keys of an input device on the basis of the relation of the soft key to its group and of the hard key to the input device respectively. Pressing a particular hard key results in the selection of the thus related soft key. The number of hard keys is equal to the number of soft keys in a group, rather than equal to the total number of soft keys.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Jozef H M Raijmakers