A METHOD OF DERIVING A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DISPLAY OBJECTS ON AN EXTERNAL DISPLAY WITHIN A PATIENT-MONITORING SYSTEM

摘要

In order to provide a technique for deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on an external display (13) within a patient-monitoring system (1), in which only a small amount of data has to be transmitted to the external display device (3) and at the same time the user of the external display (13) gets the same "look and feel" as he is used to from the built-in display (12) of a patient monitor (2), a new method is suggested, said method comprising the steps of processing monitoring data and generating communication data (10) from the monitoring data by means of a first display management device (8), which is comprised in a patient monitor (2), the communication data (10) exclusively comprising logical data necessary for deriving a graphical representation of domain- specific display objects on the external display (13), transmitting the generated communication data (10) to the external display device (3), which is connectable to the patient monitor (2), via a communication link (4), processing the transmitted communication data (10) and generating imaging information from the communication data (10) by means of a second display management device (15), which is comprised in the external display device (3), and deriving a graphical representation of domain-specific display objects on the external display (13) from the generated imaging information.