856 results about "Body sensors" patented technology

The present invention relates to a personal multimedia electronic device, and more particularly to a head-worn device such as an eyeglass frame having a plurality of interactive electrical/optical components. In one embodiment, a personal multimedia electronic device includes an eyeglass frame having a side arm and an optic frame; an output device for delivering an output to the wearer; an input device for obtaining an input; and a processor comprising a set of programming instructions for controlling the input device and the output device. The output device is supported by the eyeglass frame and is selected from the group consisting of a speaker, a bone conduction transmitter, an image projector, and a tactile actuator. The input device is supported by the eyeglass frame and is selected from the group consisting of an audio sensor, a tactile sensor, a bone conduction sensor, an image sensor, a body sensor, an environmental sensor, a global positioning system receiver, and an eye tracker. In one embodiment, the processor applies a user interface logic that determines a state of the eyeglass device and determines the output in response to the input and the state.

An wearable communications garment that includes one or more user-selectable inputs integrated into the garment. A sartorial communications apparatus may include a flexible material that is worn (e.g., as an undergarment) by the user and includes one or more interactive sensors that may be manually activated by a user, even through one or more intervening layers of clothing. The apparatus may also include one or more additional body sensors configured to sense a user's position, movement, and/or physiological status. The sensor(s) may be connected via a conductive trace on the garment to a sensor module for analysis and/or transmission. Methods of manufacturing the garments as well as methods of using the garments are also described.

Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to wireless medical monitoring. In particular, some preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a wearable compact body sensor capable of wireless data transmission to a mobile internet platform. The body sensor includes a plurality of sensors including, for example, a temperature sensor, a heart rate sensor, a respiratory rate sensor, an impedance sensor, an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor, and a ballistocardiogram (BCG) sensor. The physiological data collected by the body sensor can be sent to or accessed by a physician or health care provider.

The present invention includes methods and materials for manipulating the sense of satiety developed from the gastrointestinal transit of a substance in a mammal, whether the substance be a food or drug compound. The method involves administering a therapeutically effective amount, by a direct delivery route, of a pharmaceutically acceptable formulation comprising nutrients and pharmacological agents to the mammal's gastrointestinal tract. The present system is designed to maximize satiety feedback from normal intestinal sensors by small amounts of nutrients or nutrient derivatives, in essence, to “fool” body sensors that are not usually in contact with nutrients unless very large amounts are ingested.

A system may include a user interface, a transmitter, a processor, and a memory having a program communicatively connected to the processor. The processor may be configured to receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle, receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle, compare the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold, prompt for a confirmation associated with at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs, determine an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs, and send a notification including the issue type.

In exemplary embodiments, a robot cleaner with improved safety features comprises a driving part for movably supporting a cleaner body and supplying a driving force for operating the cleaner body; a suction part mounted on the cleaner body to draw in dust from a surface being cleaned; a body sensor mounted on the cleaner body to perceive any approach or contact of at least a part of human body or pet; and a control part for turning on and off the driving part according to a signal detected by the body sensor.

A physical activity measuring system analyzes analyzing body motions of a user to accurately determine the exercise intensity. The system includes a portable device which is adapted to be carried by the user and is equipped with a body sensor and an indicator for indication of the exercise intensity. The body sensor senses the user's body motions to give corresponding motion strength. The portable device has a processor which constitutes an exercise calculator which has a predetermined relationship between a default standard deviation of the motion strength and an exercise intensity scale. The exercise intensity calculator collects a time series data of the motion strengths within a predetermined first time frame, obtains a standard deviation of thus collected motion strengths, and converting the standard deviation into an instant exercise intensity within the intensity scale in accordance with the predetermined relationship. The standard deviation with regard to the motion strengths can be well concordant with the exercise intensity, and therefore gives the accurate exercise intensity on a real-time basis.

A patient monitoring system (1) is provided with at least one body sensor (2a) for measuring a physiological parameter, as well as with a body signal processing unit (3) connected downstream from the former and/or a therapy device (2) designed to act on the patient (P), and a mobile radiotelephone end unit (7) operable in a cellular mobile radiotelephone network (1B) for transmitting data from the body signal processing unit or the therapy device to a central monitoring station (1C) and/or from the central monitoring station to the therapy device. A base station coordinate memory unit (13; 13') and a locator unit (12; 12.1' through 12.3') connected to the former serves for the rough determination of the location of the patient based on location information obtained from the current base station connection of the mobile radiotelephone end unit in the mobile radiotelephone network. For the fine position determination, a direction-finding transmitter (300) that sends out a direction-finding signal is provided in the mobile radiotelephone end unit (7). A separate direction-finding device (310) serves for the fine tracking of the direction-finding signal.

A developers' tool kit including devices and components configured to be inserted or imbedded in an oral cavity or integrated body sensor of an animal or human. The device includes a receptacle for one or more sensors which is further configured to interface a plurality of one or more customizable functions and applications. The functions including, but not limited to, auxiliary body biosensors, data collections, alerting, tracking, reporting, communication network, preset biometric range, preventive-diagnostics to enhance health, and optimize athletic performance. The system includes technology-mining, data-mining, kinematics, integration, multi-media, reporting, and other platforms, analytics and diagnostics to accurately determine health and performance referred to as Oral Sensor Alert and Communication (OSAC). The invention provides innovative information systems, methods and diagnostic tool kits and platforms involving the aforedescribed devices from information available from oral biomarkers and other sources accessed using sensors in the oral cavity and auxiliary devices.

The invention discloses an automobile intelligent speed limiting system and an automobile speed limiting method, and relates to the technical field of automobile safety driving assistance. The automobile intelligent speed limiting system and the automobile speed limiting method can improve accuracy of speed limiting identification recognition and improve driving safety of a driver. The automobile intelligent speed limiting system comprises a camera, an intelligent navigation device, an automobile body sensor and a controller, wherein the camera can recognize road traffic identification boards and extract road traffic identification information through the image processing technology, the intelligent navigation device can provide current road information, navigation route information and national or regional traffic road speed limiting law related information in real time, the automobile body sensor can provide automobile body information in real time, a traffic speed limiting identification database is set up in the controller, the input end of the controller is connected with the camera, the intelligent navigation device and the automobile body sensor, and the output end of the controller is connected with an automobile instrument and an engine ECU. The automobile intelligent speed limiting system is used for assisting in limiting the speed of the automobile.

A safety system for a truck loading dock with an elevated platform provides an alarm that warns of a hazard at the loading dock such as a forklift operating inside the truck or a falling hazard that may exist due to the dock door being open while a truck is not present at the dock. In cases where a dock's open doorway is protected by a barrier that can be opened or closed, the alarm can be de-activated by closing the barrier. In some embodiments, the safety system includes a remote body sensor that detects when someone or something is near the doorway. In response to the body sensor, a second, more pronounced alarm can warn of more imminent danger where someone on the platform may be too close to an open doorway when a truck is not present.

The present invention provides systems, methods, and articles for stress reduction and sleep promotion. A stress reduction and sleep promotion system includes at least one remote device and an article for temperature conditioning a surface. The stress reduction and sleep promotion system includes at least one body sensor, at least one remote server, and/or a pulsed electromagnetic frequency device in other embodiments.

A living body monitoring activity system detects major activities, or feeble living body activities. In a method for monitoring existence of human movements or living body activities in living environments (e.g., sleeping activities involving a bed, a Futon-mat, a pad, or a Tatami-mat), an optical fiber type flat shaped body sensor including an optical fiber affixed or fitted to a flat shaped body is used, and light is emitted into the optical fiber from a light source, and changes of polarized wave conditions of light propagating in the optical fiber are brought about by changes in form of the optical fiber type flat shaped body sensor caused by human movements or living body activities and are detected by a measuring apparatus for polarized wave fluctuations so human activities or movements are discriminated based on the detected value of the polarized wave fluctuations.

The invention discloses an electronic bracelet device and an electronic bracelet information transmission method. The electronic bracelet information transmission method includes the steps that the electronic bracelet device and an intelligent mobile phone build NFC induction to generate a trigger signal, the electronic bracelet device controls and starts a body sensor and a wireless connection controller according to the trigger signal, the electronic bracelet device and the intelligent mobile phone build a wireless connection channel, and environment parameters, sensed by the sensor, of the electronic bracelet device are reported to the intelligent mobile phone. According to the technical scheme, the electronic bracelet device can be triggered and activated by means of an NFC tag when used, wireless connection without signal flow is needless to be maintained for a long time, electricity can be saved, the electronic bracelet device is very convenient to use, and user experience is good.

This invention discloses a sort of measuring benchmark conversion method of the astronomical sensing device. The lamp-house simulator, the three-axes rotating floor and the photoelectric autocollimator shelves are fixed in the optical table, the astronomical sensing device is fixed in the inner frame of the three-axes rotating floor. A. Adjust the photoelectric autocollimator shelf and make the light axis to parallel with the inner frame of the rotating shaft. B. The middle frame and the outer frame of the rotational rotating floor obtain the data of the fixed point in different angle, and demarcate the inner parameter and outer parameter of the astronomical sensing device. Ensure the conversion matrix which is from the coordinate of the rotating floor to the coordinate of the astronomical sensing device. C. Measure the vector relation between the vertical vector of the two reflecting surface of the mirror cube and the light axes of the photoelectric autocollimator. Compute the conversion matrix which is from the coordinate of the rotating floor to the coordinate of the mirror cube. D. Compute the conversion matrix which is from the coordinate of the astronomical sensing device to the coordinate of the mirror cube. The product between the ray vectors of the astronomical sensing device and the conversion matrix is the vector direction after conversion. This invention discloses a sort of set which can realize the above method at the same time. The realization of this invention is simple and its precision is high.

The invention discloses a wireless data-image dual acquirement anti-electricity-theft monitoring system and method which uses a microwave body sensor to conduct the real time detection to activities of people around an electricity meter box. Based on the method of the image shooting of a camera, the monitoring system provided by the invention uses a camera to continuously shoot and store the images of the activities of people around the electricity meter box and can real time transmit alarming information, electricity meter data and image information to a motoring server through GPRS network; and then, the motoring server can send the received alarming information to the mobile phones or computers of users in time, and users can read the alarming information from the mobile phones or computers of users in distance. Besides the functions of remote electricity meter data acquiring, the anti-electricity-theft monitoring and real-time alarming, the monitoring system also can transmit field images in time and obtain images stored by field equipment later for providing convincible proofs during handling the electricity theft of illegal users.

The invention discloses a screen capable of changing a display area, a movable terminal and a screen display method of the movable terminal. The screen is arranged on the movable terminal and comprises a main screen body, rolling screen bodies capable of being bent to form cylinders, rolling screen body rotary shafts used for controlling the rolling screen bodies to be rolled or spread and rolling screen body sensors used for detecting the area of each spread rolling screen body. The main screen body is arranged on the front face of the movable terminal. The rolling screen bodies are two in number and are arranged on the two sides of the main screen body respectively, and one side edge of each rolling screen body is connected with the main screen body. The rolling screen body rotary shafts are two in number and are fixedly connected with the other side edges of the rolling screen bodies respectively. The rolling screen body sensors are arranged on the rolling screen bodies. By rotation of the rolling screen body rotary shafts, the rolling screen bodies can be spread or rolled, the size of the whole screen can be changed at will according to requirements of a user, namely the screen can be changed into screens of different sizes, and compatibility of screens of different movable terminals is improved.

The invention discloses an automatic vending machine inventory management system and method based on image recognition. The system comprises multiple vending machines distributed at different vendingpositions, and the front side of each automatic vending machine is provided with a camera capable of shooting goods on the outmost end positions of all the goods channels. The vending machine and thecamera of each selling position are provided with a local control system, and the local control systems are connected with a cloud service system through the Internet. An infrared human body sensor isarranged on each vending machine and connected with the local control system. When the infrared human body sensor detects that a replenishment person or a consumer is not in the designated area, thecamera grabs an effective image of the goods at the front outer end of the vending machine. The effective image is identified as the newest inventory of the vending machine. According to the invention, the types of commercially available commodities can be greatly increased, and the full-automatic inventory intelligent recognition and sensing for consumers can be realized.

The invention relates to a wearable system capable of continuously measuring multiple physiological parameters based on body sensor network. The system comprises at least one physiological signal acquisition module, a signal processing and parameter calculation module, and a signal control and display module, wherein the physiological signal acquisition module is used for acquiring physiological signals; the signal processing and parameter calculation module is used for calculating the physiological parameters according to the physiological signal; the signal control and display module is used for receiving the physiological parameter, displaying the physiological parameter and sending a control signal to control the work of each module; and the sensor adopted by the physiological signal acquisition module is an electronic textile sensor. The physiological parameter measuring system has the advantages of high using comfort and good accuracy.

An apparatus for training a subject to perform a specified physical activity is based on the presence of two or more kinesthetic body sensors, whether mounted on the body or separately from the body, that deliver signals to a processing system that, in turn, delivers a single output signal. This signal drives a display that delivers feedback to the subject. Multiple body sensor output signals may be combined in accordance with a predetermined algorithm to produce a single composite signal. This combining may be as simple as direct addition, or may include the combination of weighted values of the individual comparison signals. An operator may adjust the weighting values to be applied to the respective comparison signals, and may do so while the apparatus is in use. Alternately while the apparatus is in use, a proportional signal from one body sensor may drive the display, subject to suppression of such signal if the output from any number of other body sensors does not achieve preselected threshold values.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a sleep environment. The method comprises the steps: acquiring body type and person location information parameters through an infrared body sensor; detecting air humidity in a room through an air-conditioning humidity sensor module; bringing metabolic rates of different bodies and different humidity values into an PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) equation to calculate comfortable sleep temperature of males, females, children and old people; starting an air-conditioner to run at a low-wind state, enabling a wind direction to keep away from human bodies and regulating the present sleep setting temperature according to a setting temperature reading table calculated according to the PMV equation. The invention further discloses an air-conditioner for controlling the sleep environment. An input module, an output module and a power supply are respectively connected with an MCU (Micro Controller Unit); the infrared body sensor and the air-conditioning humidity sensor module are respectively connected with the input module. The beneficial effect is as follows: the air-conditioner is applicable to controlling different people to enter comfortable sleep state.