Surgery Theatre

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Surgery Theatre
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The Journey

• High end mid-size presentation conference area
  for HUPs academic mission
• Convenient Historic Location where OLD meets NEW
• Multiple Outstanding Individuals
• Chaos Manor
• Out of Chaos, the team produced the
• SURGERY THEATRE

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SwitchLite Glass

• The secret of the transformation between clear
  glass and translucent glass is found in the
  Liquid Crystal sheet.
• Non-energized state gt Liquid Crystal molecules
  disperse light.
• When voltage is applied, same molecules arrange
  themselves in a specific direction in a way that
  permits parallel light to pass through the glass.
• Power on glass is clear
• Power off glass is only translucent
• Privacy at the speed of light
• No messy blinds, curtains, shades
• DEMO

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Lutron Lighting System

• Switch from one lighting combination to another,
  just by pressing a button
• Create different lighting scenes within any space
  by controlling lighting zones
• Change lighting for one activity to next by
  fading from scene to scene at variable rates
  from instantly to one hour
• Infrared wireless remote control puts lighting
  control in the hands of the user from any point
  in a room
• Video-Conferencing lights
• DEMO

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Historic Roots/Journey

• White Surgical Pavilion 1922
• Main HUP Entrance Lobby
• Surgical Seminar Room 1962
• HUP entrance shifts to Ravdin Institute
• Demolition / Construction
• SURGERY THEATRE 2003
• PHOTO REVIEW

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TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEWVisual Sound

• Audio and video presentation capabilities
• Audio only teleconferencing
• Audio and videoconferencing
• Collaborative computing capabilities
• Room geometry requires special attention in
  system design
• Front wall Primary System display
• 2 Supplemental System displays
• Program audio and voice reinforcement subsystem.
  
• Centralized control system with graphical user
  interface.
• Video and audio teleconferencing subsystems
• Central signal routing and distribution sub
  system.
• Video camera subsystems

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61 Plasma Screens

• HDTV capable
• reproduction of local video program sources as
  well as motion-receive video from the far end
• Direct view device utilizing a native 169 aspect
  ratio
• Pixel density in 169 is 1365 x 768 pixels
• Viewing angle is 160 degrees vert horiz

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Surround Program Audio

• Full range 5.1 theater surround capability
• Subwoofer and satellite configuration
• Acoustical ceiling tiles
• Immerses the participants in a high impact audio
  environment

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Ancillary Program Sources

• Pre-recorded program reproduction
• NTSC VHS VCR recorder player
• NTSC DVD video player
• NTSC DVD video recorder player
• DEMO

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Program Audio And Voice Reinforcement Subsystem

• Ceiling distributed loudspeaker subsystem for
• Voice reinforcement of local participants.
• Reproduction of audio conference and audio for
  videoconference receive audio.
• Reproduction of program audio.
• Full range flush ceiling mounted loudspeakers
  zoned for good speech intelligibility
• Microphones for presentation
• Podium has 2 detachable gooseneck microphones
• Four wireless hand-held directional microphone
  systems for coverage of the audience when
  participating
• Body pack and lapel microphone wireless system

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Centralized Control System with Graphical User
Interface

• Automated system configuration functions which
  enable user selected graphic interface operation
• GUI is the users window to the systems
  operation - custom programmed to meet the users
  functional requirements
• GUI is a touch sensitive color graphics display
  panel using graphic icons, intuitive page flips,
  and a menu structure
• Simplifies the otherwise complex process of
  system configuration needed to achieve user
  requested operations.
• GUI also contains full screen or windowed video
  reproduction capability allowing user to preview
  all video sources

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Video Camera Subsystem

• PRESENTER CAMERA
• video coverage of the presentation area
• Manually controlled by the user from the control
  system
• User defined presets
• PEOPLE CAMERA
• video coverage of the audience area
• manually controlled by the user from the control
  system
• User defined presets
• DOCUMENT CAMERA
• show opaque and transparent printed information
  and small 3D objects
• DEMOS

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Video and Audio Teleconferencing

• Audio only teleconferencing
• Video/Audio teleconferencing
• video codec enables video and audio conferencing
  to remote locations
• ISDN dialup service
• video over IP
• codec is interfaced to the control system
  enabling dialing and other user operations from
  the central control system GUI
• DEMO

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Computer Applications

• Two theatre computers supplying content
• Main presentations
• Corridor Display Screen
• End seats have HUP LAN jacks and power outlets
• 3 ACCESS POINTS in ceiling for HUP Wireless LAN

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Irwin Seating

• Largest manufacture of public seating
• Sole business
• First Union Center, Kimmel Center
• Eagles NovaCare Facility
• Tested by the Eagles Offensive Line

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Inter-Active Polling

• Anonymous RF remote communication
• If indecisive, the LAST click counts
• Immediate view of results
• Database capture
• DEMO