Abstract: A telepresence system that includes a portable telepresence apparatus coupled to a remote control station. The telepresence apparatus comprises a monitor, a camera, a speaker, a microphone and a viewfinder screen coupled to a housing. The view finder screen allows the user to view the image being captured by the camera. The portable telepresence apparatus is a hand held device that can be moved by a holder of the device in response to audio commands from the remote station. The telepresence apparatus can be used by medical personnel to remotely view a patient in a fast and efficient manner.

Abstract: A telepresence system that includes a portable telepresence apparatus coupled to a remote control station. The telepresence apparatus comprises a monitor, a camera, a speaker, a microphone and a viewfinder screen coupled to a housing. The view finder screen allows the user to view the image being captured by the camera. The portable telepresence apparatus is a hand held device that can be moved by a holder of the device in response to audio commands from the remote station. The telepresence apparatus can be used by medical personnel to remotely view a patient in a fast and efficient manner.

Abstract: A robotics-control processor for performing real-time inverse kinematics and inverse dynamics calculations involving three-dimensional vectors. The processor employs a three-wide register and execution unit architecture, pipelined instructions, and register-to-register data processing to achieve rapid vector calculations. Broadcast buffers for exchanging operands between register files, and operand multiplexing at several levels within the processor allow program operation flexibility. In a preferred embodiment, the processor includes a CORDIC algorithm unit for rapid vector rotation and trigonometric function calculations.