Abstract: A teleconferencing system uses video conferencing between a nurse station and a patient station to deliver medical care. The patient station is programmed to contain customized instructions concerning medications, procedures, or visitations that were placed there by the nurse. The customized audio, video and text information transforms the patient station into a highly personalized information source which can be reviewed by the patient when the unit is off line. Medical procedures and medications are also programmed into the patient station by the nurse to remind the patient of all scheduled events, including visitations. A record of medical compliance is stored in the patient station, which record is uploaded to the nurse station and compared to the original event schedule. In such manner, the patient station is an intelligent personal medical assistant, programmed by the nurse to provide customized reminders and information necessary for the efficient management of the patient's illness.

Abstract: A system for remotely controlled focusing of a reconnaisance camera instad on an aircraft. The camera can be focused to any of a plurality of pre-selected focused position, each position having a unique corresponding binary coded decimal designator generated from a position correlated switch. When a change in focus is selected by depression of a push button switch, the resulting binary coded decimal designator for the desired focus position is added to the binary coded decimal designator from the optical switch. Differences between the two designators will cause a scanner to rotate and scan all optical switches, while simultaneously a gear mechanism adjusts the camera lens focus position to the position corresponding to that for the switch scan at that increment of time. When the scanner locates the activated switch whose binary coded decimal designator is the same as the designator of the selected pushbutton, scanning and focusing adjustments are halted.