Development of an emergency medical video multiplexing transport system. Aiming at the nation wide prehospital care on ambulance.
The Emergency Medical Video Multiplexing Transport System (EMTS) is designed to support prehospital cares by delivering high quality live video streams of patients in an ambulance to emergency doctors in a remote hospital via satellite communications. The important feature is that EMTS divides a patient's live video scene into four pieces and transports the four video streams on four separate network channels. By multiplexing four video streams, EMTS is able to transport high quality videos through low data transmission rate networks such as satellite communications and cellular phone networks. In order to transport live video streams constantly, EMTS adopts Real-time Transport Protocol/Real-time Control Protocol as a network protocol and video stream data are compressed by Moving Picture Experts Group 4 format. As EMTS combines four video streams with checking video frame numbers, it uses a refresh packet that initializes server's frame numbers to synchronize the four video streams.
Nagatuma
Hideaki
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Internet Solution Platform Development Division, NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
D000552:Ambulances; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D016730:Program Development; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013685:Telecommunications; D014187:Transportation of Patients; D014741:Video Recording