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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Medhi Venon, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
Medhi Venon, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for documenting a procedure in a touchless environment. Example methods disclosed herein include identifying a position of one or more of a user's fingertips using a camera of a mobile device and an entropy-based segmentation of an image input, determining a correspondence between user fingertip position and a control interface of the mobile device, including a plurality of functions to be executed based on user input, triggering the mobile device to execute one or more of the plurality of functions based on the user fingertip position during a procedure, and documenting one or more events of the procedure based on the user input for generating a report to be stored in a storage device of the mobile device.