Medical device with language localization
View Patent ↗An external medical device can include a housing, an energy storage module within the housing for storing an electrical charge, and a defibrillation port for guiding via electrodes the stored electrical charge to a person. The device can also include a user interface to deliver prompts to a user during a defibrillation session and a language detector in the housing to determine a vicinity language. The prompts can be in a language that is selected based on the determined vicinity language.
1. An external medical device, comprising:
a housing;
an energy storage module within the housing for storing an electrical charge;
a defibrillation port for guiding via electrodes the stored electrical charge to a person;
a user interface structured to deliver prompts to a user during a defibrillation session; and
a language detector in the housing structured to determine a vicinity language,
in which the prompts delivered by the user interface to the user during the defibrillation session are in a language that is selected based on the determined vicinity language, and further in which the language detector includes an optical character recognition (OCR) module, or both a voice recognition module and an OCR module.
2. The device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a processor, and
in which the processor includes the language detector.
3. The device of claim 1 , in which
the prompts include one or more audible prompts, one or more visible prompts, or a combination of one or more audible prompts and one or more visible prompts.
4. The device of claim 1 , in which
the vicinity language is a language spoken by the user when using the device.
5. The device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a language selector in the housing structured to select the language in which the prompts are delivered by the user interface to the user during the defibrillation session.
6. The device of claim 5 , in which
the language selector selects the vicinity language as the language in which the prompts are delivered by the user interface to the user during the defibrillation session.
7. The device of claim 5 , in which
the language selector selects a language other than the vicinity language as the language in which the prompts are delivered by the user interface to the user during the defibrillation session.
8. The device of claim 1 , in which
the user interface is further structured to prompt the user to provide an indication of the vicinity language, and
in which the language detector is structured to determine the vicinity language based on the indication provided by the user.
9. The device of claim 8 , in which
the indication provided by the user comprises verbal feedback, visual cues, or verbal feedback and visual cues.
10. The device of claim 1 , in which
the user interface is further structured to prompt the user to provide a confirmation of the vicinity language.
11. The device of claim 1 , in which
a record is created from one of diagnosing and treating the person, and
a code is entered in the record that denotes the detected vicinity language.
12. The device of claim 11 , in which
a time is further determined, and
a code is entered in the record that denotes the determined time.
13. The device of claim 1 , in which
the user interface delivers the prompts to the user in the vicinity language.
14. The device of claim 13 , in which
the user interface is further structured to stop delivering the prompts in the vicinity language responsive to an indication to change languages.
15. The device of claim 14 , in which
the indication to change languages is based on a determination that the vicinity language is incorrect.
16. The device of claim 14 , in which
the indication to change languages is based on a determination that the user is speaking a language that is different from the vicinity language.
17. The device of claim 1 , in which
the user interface is structured to not stop delivering the prompts to the user in the selected language after a specified period of time has passed during the defibrillation session.
18. The device of claim 5 , in which
the language selector is further structured to determine whether the selected language is supported by the device.
19. The device of claim 18 , in which
responsive to a determination that the selected language is not supported by the device, the user interface is structured to use an initial language when delivering the prompts to the user.
20. The device of claim 19 , in which
the initial language is a default language.
21. The device of claim 18 , further comprising:
a database structured to store the prompts in each of a plurality of supported languages, and
in which the language selector is structured to determine whether the selected language is one of the plurality of supported languages.
22. The device of claim 21 , in which
the database is within the housing.
23. The device of claim 21 , further comprising:
a communication module within the housing to establish a wireless connection to provide access to the database, and
in which the database is at a location that is remote from the device.
24. The device of claim 1 , in which
the user interface is structured to present two or more language options to the user, and
in which the two or more language options are similar to each other.
25. The device of claim 1 , in which
the language detector is structured to monitor ambient sounds.
26. The device of claim 25 , in which
the ambient sounds include a radio station broadcast.
27. The device of claim 25 , in which
the ambient sounds include a public announcement (PA) from a PA system.
28. The device of claim 1 , in which
the language detector is structured to select the language in which the prompts are delivered by the user interface to the user during the defibrillation session.