MULTI-PARAMETER 3D MEDICAL COMPUTER INTERFACE

THIS PROJECT WILL ADAPT BIOSTEREOMETRICS IMAGING TECHNOLGOY TO CREATE A UNIVESAL, HIGH-RESOLUTION, MULTI-PURPOSE, THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER INTERFACE. THE COMPARISION OF DATA OVER TIME ALLOWS FOR MOVEMENT (ABSOLUTE CHANGE IN POSITION PLUS ACCELERATION/DECELERATION DATA) TO BE MONITORED. BIOSTEREOMETRICS IS THE SPATIAL OR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL FORM OR FUNCTION BASED ON PRINCIPLES OF ANALYTIC GEOMETRY. THIS TECHNIQUE DEFINES THE SURFACE OF AN OBJECT BY A FINITE SET OF THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATES GENERATED FROM THE ANALYSIS OF PAIRS OF TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES. AN EXISTING LOW RESOLUTION ENGINEERING/R&D SYSTEM (330 X 192 PIXELS) CAPABLE OF REAL-TIME IMAGING (30 FRAMES/SECOND) WILL BE EVALUATED PRIOR TO THE DESIGN OF A HIGH RESOLUTION SYSTEM (754 X 488 PIXELS) AND CONSTRUCTION IN PHASE II. THE ACTIVE IMAGE AREA WILL COMPRISE A CUBE 150 CM WIDE X 90 CM HIGH X 90 CM DEEP (5' X 3' X 3'). PROTOTYPE SOFTWARE CAPABLE OF FOLLOWING THE ABSOLUTE AND SERIAL POSITION(S) FOR TWO FINGERS (THUMB AND INDEX FINGER) ON EACH HAND WILL ALSO BE DEVELOPED.