Method and system for recording and transmitting images of a medical facility, especially images of an operating room

1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining an image of a room of a medical facility, especially an operating room, the image comprising a monitor;

detecting the monitor in the image,;

performing a perspective transformation of the detected monitor in the image for mitigating a perspective distortion of the detected monitor;

anonymizing the image to be transmitted by masking personally identifiable information of a patient;

transmitting an image comprising the detected monitor with mitigated perspective distortion; and

wherein anonymizing the image to be transmitted by masking personally identifiable information of a patient comprises:

determining coordinates of the personally identifiable information in the image to be transmitted; and

applying a mask on determined coordinates of the image to be transmitted

wherein determining coordinates of the personally identifiable information in the image to be transmitted comprises:

applying an optical character recognition method on the image for determining a plurality of characters;

identifying the characters corresponding to the personally identifiable information among the plurality of determined characters; and

determining the coordinates associated to the identified characters in the image to be transmitted.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining coordinates of the personally identifiable information in the image to be transmitted comprises:

identifying, in the image to be transmitted, a graphical user interface; and

retrieving coordinates associated to the personally identifiable information in the identified graphical user interface.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises improving a resolution quality of the image to be transmitted based on a super resolution imaging method.

4 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one controller, cause the at least one controller to carry out a method according to claim 1 .

5 . A non-transitory computer program product comprising instructions which, when the program is executed by a computer, cause the computer to carry out a method according to claim 1 .

6 . A system comprising a camera, a controller, a memory, and a communication unit, the system being configured to implement a method according to claim 1 .

7 . The system according to claim 6 , wherein the controller, the memory and the communication unit are incorporated into the camera.

8 . The system according to claim 6 , further comprising a backpack and a computer, wherein the controller, the memory and the communication unit are incorporated into the computer, and wherein the backpack comprises a first housing sized or shaped to comprise the computer, and a second housing, sized or shaped to comprise the camera.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein detecting a monitor in the image comprises:

determining a quadrilateral in the image; and

wherein the quadrilateral corresponds to the detected monitor.

10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein the quadrilateral is determined based on a quadrilateral detection method applied in the image.

11 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein determining a quadrilateral in the image comprises determining four corners associated to the quadrilateral,

and wherein determining the four corners associated to the quadrilateral comprises:

1) receiving four points of the image, acquired by a man-machine interface, identifying the four corners of the quadrilateral corresponding to the four corners of the detected monitor; or

2) identifying four predetermined markers in the image, each of the markers corresponding to a respective corner of the quadrilateral which corresponds to the four corners of the detected monitor.

12 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein performing a perspective transformation of the detected monitor comprises:

applying a perspective distortion correction method to the quadrilateral corresponding to the detected monitor such that the quadrilateral is transformed to a rectangle.