1743 results about "Daily living" patented technology

Systems and methods for aiding individuals to complete tasks of daily living are provided. The situationally aware system comprises a controller, sensors, and effectors. The controller may include a program that describes a sequence of steps the user should perform to accomplish the task. In response to the information from the sensors and the user's compliance with the steps of the sequence, the controller instructs the effector(s) to relay at least one instructional cue to the user to aid in the performance of the task. The instructional cue may range from a simple blinking light, to detailed audio and/or visual instructions, to relaying a reward for the completion of the task. The instructional cue may also instruct the user to refrain from performing a task. The system is programmable, configurable, and may interface to the Internet.

A system and method of operating a monitoring and response system for an actor in a daily living environment that relies upon learned models of behavior for adapting system operation. The learned model of behavior preferably includes sequential patterns organized pursuant to assigned partition values that in turn are generated based upon an evaluation of accumulated data. Based upon reference to the learned model of behavior, the system can generate more appropriate response plans based upon expected or unexpected activities, more readily recognize intended activities, recognize abandoned tasks, formulate probabilities of method choice, build probabilities of action success, anticipate and respond to actor movement within the environment, optimize response plan effectiveness, and share learned models across two or more separate system installations.

Methods and apparatus to determine the presence of and track functional chronotropic incompetence (hereinafter “CI”) in an in-home setting under conditions of daily living. The functional CI of the patient may be determined with one or more of a profile of measured patient heart rates, a measured maximum patient heart rate, or a peak of the heart rate profile, such as the peak of a heart rate distribution profile. The functional CI of the patient may be determined with the measured heart rate profile, in which the measured heart rate profile may correspond to heart rates substantially less than the maximum heart rate of the patient, such that the heart rate can be safely measured when the patient is remote from a health care provider. The functional CI of the patient may be determined based a peak of the remotely measured heart rate profile, for example a peak corresponding to the mode of the heart rate distribution profile. For example, the relative amounts of the profile of heart rates above the peak and heart rates below the peak can be compared to determine the CI. The peak of the heart rate profile of the remote heart rate data may be used to determine the heart rate reserve and functional CI of the patient. The changes in HR can be measured and correlated to one or more sensor parameters such as activity to determine CI of the patient.

A safety monitoring system based on omnidirectional vision for old people living alone comprises an omnidirectional vision camera device and a microprocessor for analyzing, processing and determining activity quantity, postures, falling and daily behavior habits of the old people living alone according to full view images filmed by the omnidirectional vision camera device and relevant input information. The omnidirectional camera device is arranged above the middle of a living room of the old people living alone and can capture more than 80% daily activity video images of the old people. By means of computer vision, locating, tracking and identification of human bodies are conducted, and activity quantity, postures, movement behavior and daily life of the older people living alone are analyzed and determined. The safety monitoring system can not only automatically detect important matters of the older people within an indoor visual range such as falling and the like, but also can intelligently determine abnormal behaviors of the old people outside the visual range and when the old people go out, thereby providing a means of remote monitoring for the old people living alone.

A powered balancing mobility device that can provide the user the ability to safely navigate expected environments of daily living including the ability to maneuver in confined spaces and to climb curbs, stairs, and other obstacles, and to travel safely and comfortably in vehicles. The mobility device can provide elevated, balanced travel.

The invention relates to garments and undergarments. More particularly, to a garment that may induce caloric burn while the wearer goes about his or her day. An objective for the garment is to increase exercise of body muscles used in daily living. In one embodiment, a garment and/or shaper is described with carefully positioned resistance bands that are relatively more resistant (i.e., less stretchy or elastic) than the fabric used to construct the remainder of the garment. At least two of these bands are positioned to extend from the thighs upwards towards the waist and cross at the ischium. These bands have a direct effect on muscles that would normally be activated during regular activity and cause them to be further exercised, but in a gentle manner. The effect, which may be slightly perceptible, is felt while the wearer goes about his or her day.

The invention relates to a device in the technical field of electrical lighting, in particular to a wireless energy-saving control device of lamplight, which is mainly applied to daily living environment, office building and all other environments with lamplight lighting. The device comprises a wireless lamp controller, a wireless illumination sensor, a lamp control system remote controller, a network system structure, and the like, wherein the wireless illumination sensor and the lamp control system remote controller are additionally arranged on the wall at one side of a building window with lamplight lighting, and the wireless lamp controller, an indoor lamp and a switch are arranged on the wall at the other side of the window. The device mainly solves the relevant technical problems on how to additionally arrange the wireless illumination sensor and the lamp control system remote controller, and the like. The invention has the advantages that the device is automatically closed when light is brighter, and when the light is darker, the control of a lamp is automatically started; meanwhile, control information is transmitted by adopting a wireless channel so as to prevent the switching of a toggle switch and be convenient for the engineering installation and the installation attraction; and the device has the advantages of energy saving, environment optimization, and the like.

This invention provides a method for assessing arterial stiffness noninvasively using photoplethysmography. The method of the invention for assessing arterial stiffness using photoplethysmography comprises: a user information input step, characteristic point extraction step, and arterial stiffness assessment step. In particular, the characteristic point extraction step includes the correction of the characteristic points, and the arterial stiffness assessment step includes the result of performing multiple linear regression analysis using the baPWV (brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity) value. In addition, according to this invention, arterial stiffness assessment, which was previously an expensive procedure which the user could only obtain at a specialized institution, can be carried out at low cost in the course of daily life, e.g. at home or at work, and can thus be applied in the u-healthcare and home health management service environments.

The invention discloses a fall monitoring method for the elderly based on a smart phone and a wearable device. The heart rate data of the user is monitored continuously around the clock through the wearable device, and is automatically transmitted to the smart phone through the Bluetooth short-distance communication technology. Analysis and processing: collect signal data and position data that reflect the main movement posture changes of the human body through the built-in acceleration sensor and gyroscope of the smartphone, and use the human body motion acceleration signal vector modulo threshold method to identify and distinguish low-intensity daily life activities. For high-intensity activities of daily living, it is judged by the new feature quantity obtained by further processing the vector modulo data of the human motion angular acceleration signal; thus realizing the monitoring of the daily behavior of the elderly and monitoring and alarming of falls.

The present invention demonstrates that continuous hemodynamic monitoring can be used to identify the optimal AV-delay in a pacemaker-treated patient with end stage heart failure. The AV-delay determines the timing of late diastolic filling in relation to the onset of ventricular contraction and the duration of diastolic filling. An optimal tuning of the AV-delay improves left ventricular filling pressures in patients with a DDD-programmed pacemaker and is particularly important in the presence of a compromised left ventricular function. It has been discovered that using the lowest ePAD pressure, an indirect parameter of the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, as an indicator for the optimal AV interval. Importantly, measurements of the ePAD revealed the same optimal AV-delay as echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular diastolic filling by standard echocardiographic methods. Importantly, the HR determined as optimal during the acute hemodynamic test did not turn out to be optimal during daily living activities.

The invention provides a multi-functional seat belonging to the field of daily living goods, which solves the problem that the existing seat is difficult to be fit for different fat and thin users because the lateral wings on the backrest of the existing seat are fixed with the backrest to cause the space between two lateral wings to be relatively fixed. The multi-functional seat comprises a base, a seat board and the backrest, wherein the seat board can lift up and down; the backrest can rotate forwards or backwards and comprises a backrest framework and a back pad; two sides of the backrest are respectively provided with one lateral wing; each side wing comprises a strutting piece connecting with the backrest framework and a soft interlayer coated outside the strutting piece; the two strutting pieces are both vertically hinged on the backrest, the hinged part of the two strutting pieces is provided with an adjusting device capable of enabling the two strutting pieces to rotate simultaneously around respective hinged part along opposite directions and positioning the two strutting pieces. In the invention, the two lateral wings can rotate right and left simultaneously at opposite directions, so that the space at the opening of the two lateral wings can be enlarged or decreased, and the seat can be suitable for different fat and thin users to take, thus achieving the purpose of safe taking and having comfortable sensation.

The invention provides a double-person interactive behavior recognizing and active role determining method. Interpersonal communication is essential in daily life, but undoubtedly some abnormal interactive behaviors cause many troubles, and an existing submitted interactive behavior recognizing scheme is overlong in the recognizing time and tedious in method and can not accurately judge dangerous cases. To solve the problems, the double-person interactive behavior recognizing and active role determining method includes the following steps that (1), by adopting an improved pedestrian detection algorithm based on characteristics of a gradient direction histogram (HOG), pedestrians are detected to obtain position information of the pedestrians on an image; (2), tracks of the pedestrians are extracted according to a multi-target tracking method;(3), the interactive behaviors such as meeting each other halfway, walking together, following, pursuing, joining, getting away from each other, encountering and walking together, encountering and pursuing, encountering and getting away, catching up and walking together, catching up and getting away and catching up and surpassing of double persons are recognized; (4) active roles in all the interactive behaviors of the double persons are determined.

The invention relates to a natural cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric for medical health and a production method thereof. The method is performed according to the following steps: preprocessing fibers; preliminarily combing cotton fibers; performing fine mixing; performing fine combing; forming a fiber net and performing drafting; performing hydraulic entanglement on the fiber net to form a cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric, and squeezing a bleaching solution into the fabric; performing cold pad-batch; removing cotton wax and pectin substances through a one-step method; performing cloth cover modification or jacquard treatment on a jacquard spunlaced device; drying the cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric on a tentering and setting machine; cutting the natural cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric, packaging the cut cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric, and warehousing the packaged cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric. According to the natural cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric for medical health, the gram weight deviation of the unit area does not exceed the range of minus 7% to plus 7%, the whiteness is greater than and equal to 85, the water absorption time is smaller than or equal to 5 s, the pH value is 6-8, the water-soluble matters are less than or equal to 0.5%, the soluble matters in ether are less than or equal to 0.5%, and the surface active substances are smaller than or equal to 2 mm. The natural cotton fiber spunlaced nonwoven fabric for medical health, provided by the invention, has the advantages of good hand feeling, good moisture absorption, good air permeability and no irritation to skins, the nonwoven fabric can be naturally degraded after being used, and the nonwoven fabric completely meets the requirement of environmental protection. The nonwoven fabric can be widely applied to the fields of medical care, hygiene, cosmetology, daily life, industrial cleaning, clean rooms and the like.

The invention relates to an anti-back-tilting electric wheelchair and belongs to the technical field of daily living equipment. The wheelchair comprises a wheelchair body, a battery case fixing shaft, a first battery case and a second battery case. The wheelchair body comprises a pair of front universal wheels and a pair of back driving wheels, the middle portion of the battery case fixing shaft is fixed with the lower portion of one side of the wheelchair body facing the back driving wheels, the first battery case is arranged on one side of the wheelchair body, one end of the first battery case is fixed with the wheelchair body, the other end of the first battery case is fixed with one end of the battery case fixing shaft, the second battery case is arranged on the other side of the wheelchair body, one end of the second battery case is fixed with the wheelchair body, the other end of the second battery case is fixed with the other end of the battery case fixing shaft, one back driving wheel is arranged at the other end of the first battery case, and the other back driving wheel is arranged at the other end of the second battery case. The anti-back-tilting electric wheelchair is characterized in that the anti-back-tilting electric wheelchair further comprises a wheelchair body anti-tilting mechanism, the wheelchair body anti-tilting mechanism is connected on the middle portion of the battery case fixing shaft, and is corresponding to a position between a pair of back driving wheels; and the back tilting of the wheelchair body can be avoided, safety can be guaranteed and accidents can be avoided.

The invention discloses a refrigerator having an unfreezing function. The refrigerator is characterized by comprising a display board, an MCU, a power supply, a power regulation unit, an air door, a power amplifier and a radio frequency unfreezing antenna. The refrigerator and unfreezing equipment are combined smartly, and the refrigerator can unfreeze an object efficiently, conveniently and quickly, so that convenience is brought to everyday life of a consumer, and a new direction is created for development of an intelligent refrigerator in future.

The invention relates to a subject changing method of the mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining the expression information of a mobile terminal; according to the expression information and the preset correspondence of the expression information and subject information, extracting the corresponding subject information; and displaying the subject information. The invention correspondingly provides a subject changing device of the mobile terminal and a mobile terminal. The device of the invention uses the correspondence of the expression information and the subject information to ensure that the standby subject of the mobile terminal can change with the expression, thus satisfying the user experience and enriching the daily life of the user.

The invention relates to a pepper seasoning making technology, in particular to a pepper seasoning shredding device. The technical aims that a spicy seasoning shredding and stirring device can fully utilize a machine, is high in automaton degree, free of hurt to the hands and eyes of people, short in spent time and high in work efficiency and can greatly facilitate daily life of people are achieved. To achieve the technical aims, the pepper seasoning shredding device comprises a bottom plate, supporting rods, top plates, bearing pedestals, rotary rods, rotary motors, shafts, cams, supports, cutters, springs, a net-shaped cutting plate, a shredding chamber, connecting rods, electric crushing wheels, electric push plates, a discharging pipe and an electric control valve. The problems that in the existing spicy seasoning making process, pepper needs to be cut manually, the eyes of people are likely to be irritated and hurt, the skin of people is likely to be corroded when in contact with shred pepper for a long time, and the hands feel scalding are solved.

The invention discloses a humanoid intelligent robot and a working method thereof. A working process of the humanoid intelligent robot is similar to a process that people completes a concrete task, and the humanoid intelligent robot can reliably and conveniently assist daily life of the people. The humanoid intelligent robot comprises eyes, ears, a mouth, hands, front arms, upper arms, feet and legs, corresponding to a structure of a human body, wherein a camera vision module is installed at each eye part; a microphone auditory module is installed at each ear part; and a horn module is installed at the mouth part. The working method comprises the following steps of (1) receiving a command; (2) the step of searching and recognizing; (3) the step of finishing a functional task command; and (4) the step of finishing the task.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a receiving address error correction method and system. The receiving address error correction method comprises the following steps: receiving a receiving address message input by a user; obtaining a current position message of the user; and matching the receiving address message input by the user with the current position message of the user to verify a receiving address. According to an Web application of an electronic commerce website accessed by the user, the current position message of a city where the user lives is obtained, the current position message of the user is matched with the receiving address input by the user to confirm and verify whether the receiving address selected or written by the user is correct or not, and a friendly prompt is given if the receiving address is incorrect. A problem that the receiving address is always wrongly input in a traditional electronic commerce transaction is solved, a phenomenon that the user selects or writes the wrong receiving address is effectively avoided, a situation that receiving is delayed or a chosen commodity can not be normally received is avoided, and requirements for the daily living consumption of people are satisfied.