868 results about "Disabled people" patented technology

The invention provides a non-contact free space eye-gaze tracking method suitable for man-machine interaction. The method comprises the steps of positioning and tracking a face and eyes in real time, extracting eye movement biological characteristic information, building an eye movement model based on the eye movement biological characteristic information, building a mapping relational model of the eye movement model and an eye-gazed object and the like. The non-contact free space eye-gaze tracking method suitable for the man-machine interaction relates to multiple crossed fields of image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and the like and has wide application prospect in the fields of new-generation man-machine interaction, disabled people assisting, aerospace relating field, sports, automobile and airplane driving, virtual reality, games and the like. In addition, the method has great practical significance for improvement of the life and self-care level of disabled people, building of a harmonious society and improvement of independent innovative capability in the national high-and-new technical fields of the man-machine interaction, unmanned driving and the like.

The use of voice as a means of communication with a computer or programmable device (117), as well as, converting text to speech, allows visually or physically disabled people access to texts in any format such as, but not limited to, newspapers, books, Blogs, or web pages accessible through the Internet or other means of communication with their device (117) or computer. Likewise, users are enabled to access other cultural content such as movies, documentaries, music, etc. The invention also allows non-disabled people access to the same, in conditions that prevent them from using their hands, such as driving, or being outside their normal place to live or work.

Mobility device for physically disabled people 1, comprising a chassis 10 with at least one motor for maneuvering the entire mobility device 1; a pivot arm 20, which at its lower end 22 is pivotably connected to the chassis 10; and a pelvis support 40, which is connected to an upper end 23 of the pivot arm 20; wherein a physically disabled person 2 can sit with the pelvis support 40 attached to its body, can move around with the mobility device 1 in a standing position on the chassis 10, and can change on its own from sitting to standing position, wherein all elements of the mobility device 1 except the elements directly contacting the body of the person 2 extending above pelvis height h of the sitting person 2 can be lowered or moved to or below this height h. The present invention further comprises a method for erecting of a sitting physically disabled person 2 and for fixing of the person 2 in standing position onto a motor-driven mobility device 1.

A seat (10) for a wheeled carriage or chair for children or disabled people, the seat having a multipart seat surface (11) and a pivotable backrest (12) connected to at least one part of the seat surface (11), such that with the pivoting of backrest (12) the position of at least one part of the seat surface is changed.

The invention is suitable for the field of mobile communication and provides a mobile terminal, an automatic responding method and a system thereof; the method comprises the following steps: when a call is accessed, an automatic response text and an automatic response mode which are preset for a call incoming party are acquired; the response text is converted into a speech message; according to the response mode, the speech message is adopted to answer the call incoming party. Compared with the prior art, the method does not need a user of the mobile terminal to record response speech in proper motion, avoids a plurality of inconveniences caused by recording the response speech and simultaneously avoids the problems that the call incoming party can not understand prompting words possibly because of accent, dialect, language or other factors of the user of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is in particular suitable for disabled people in language and hearing and also can be used in a confidential-graded meeting or other occasions which are unsuitable for carrying a mobile phone.

A server implements a caregiving social network dedicated to coordinating care between caregivers and care recipients. Profile information is recorded to assist in coordinating care, as well as targeting advertising and information material that is highly relevant to an individual user and his or her community. Users of the caregiving social network include seniors, disabled people, children, parents, volunteers, medical professionals, neighbors, military families, and pets. Users can maintain both a caregiver account to assist others, and a care recipient account for receiving assistance.

The present invention includes relation-Bayesian-netowrk-based tracking methods. Various, distinct embodiments of the present invention include tracking methods for: real-time relational tracking of e-commerce segmentation and personalization, in-residence tracking of elderly and disabled people, real-time relational tracking for ground target tracking, and real-time relational tracking of satellites and satellite constellations.

The invention provides an intelligent loudspeaker box based on cloud management and a use method thereof. The intelligent loudspeaker box comprises a microprocessor, a voice control module used for receiving voice instructions of a user, a wireless communication module and a cloud server. The voice control module and the wireless communication module are bidirectionally connected with the microprocessor. The microprocessor carries out data and signal transmission with the cloud server through the wireless communication module. The voice control module receives the voice orders of the user, and inputs the voice signals to the microcomputer. The microcomputer analyzes the voice orders, carries out semantic recognition and executes related orders. According to the invention, a user is enabled to control the intelligent loudspeaker box in near and remote ranges through voice; the intelligent voice box is capable of searches songs from the cloud server and playing the songs, so it is convenient for the user to use the intelligent voice; and intelligent control on the loudspeaker box is greatly conveniently achieved for the disabled people.

The invention discloses an assistance system for disabled people based on a brain control mobile eye and a control method for the assistance system. The system comprises vision inducing equipment, signal acquisition equipment, a signal processing module and peripheral control equipment, wherein the vision inducing equipment is used for providing a user interaction interface of the whole system, and a user carries out control by using the interface; the signal acquisition equipment is used for acquiring the brain electrical activity of the scalp, converting an acquired analog signal into a digital signal and transmitting the signal to the signal processing module; the signal processing module is used for analyzing acquired data in real time and controlling an experimental process; the peripheral control equipment comprises the mobile eye and a wheelchair; the mobile eye comprises an intelligent trolley and a camera holder arranged on the intelligent trolley; the peripheral control equipment can do corresponding motion according to a control instruction sent by the signal processing module. According to the assistance system for the disabled people based on the brain control mobile eye and the control method for the assistance system, the safety of wheelchair control can be improved.

The invention relates to an underactuated humanoid dexterous robotic hand device, which is provided with five independently controlled modular fingers and has 16 freedom degrees. The whole hand is driven by 11 motors; the dimension and the shape are similar to those of the hand of an adult. Except for a thumb, the other four fingers have the completely identical structures; the thumb has one freedom degree of doing longitudinal rotation around the palm base; through the arrangement of a rotating shaft, when the whole hand grasps objects, the grasping force of the forefinger, the ring finger and the small finger on the objects can be in symmetrical distribution at the two sides of the middle finger; the grasping stability is improved. Modular fingers are used; the two motors are respectively used for driving a finger base part joint, a middle joint and a tail end joint; the middle joint and the tail end joint are coupled by a structure-variable connecting mechanism; through a connecting rod mechanism, the relative positions of the two coupled finger joints after the contact with the objects can be actively regulated, so that the fingers can wrap the objects according to the shape of the grasped objects; the self adaptability to the appearance of the objects is high; the grasping action better conforms to the human hand. The structure of the whole hand is simple; the grasping force is great; the grasping rigidity is high; the control is simple; the grasping self adaptability is high; the underactuated humanoid dexterous robotic hand device is applicable to the fields of disabled people artificial hands, explosive handling, nuclear equipment detection and humanoid robots.

The invention relates to an electro-oculogram control system and method based on correction/training. The system comprises an electro-oculogram signal acquiring and amplifying system, an electro-oculogram signal processing system and an intelligent control system. Sensors of the signal acquiring and amplifying system are arranged around eyes, and outputs of the sensors are connected to the signal processing system. The signal processing system is connected with the intelligent control system in a wireless transmission mode. The specific working process is that the acquiring and amplifying system acquires an electro-oculogram signal through the electro-oculogram sensors and performs gain amplification and filtering; the signal processing system acquires electro-oculogram signal characteristics, performs matching analysis to the electro-oculogram signal characteristics and eye gesture characteristic parameters stored in a correction/training mode, judges the eye gesture types and sends command codes to the intelligent control system in a wireless mode; and the intelligent control system outputs a control signal to achieve the control of a controlled device. The electro-oculogram control system and method based on correction/training is high in measuring accuracy, good in robustness, simple in operation and capable of helping disabled people to improve independent living ability, and can be further used in special dangerous working occasions or working occasions with severe conditions.

The present invention is for a duster with an extension handle for allowing the user to clean in hard to reach areas. This unique device provides an easier method of removing dust, dirt, cobwebs, and other debris from the tops of door and window frames, ceilings, ceiling fan blades, behind appliances and hard to move pieces of furniture, picture frames, and other hard to reach places. Many users, including short, pregnant, elderly, or disabled people, as well as any person having a limited range of mobility, would benefit from the use of this product. The duster with extension handle would consist of a long, plastic handle with a series of detachable cleaning heads and a handle extension that provides additional reaching capability. One such cleaning head would feature a flexible wire-coated piece that would be used in conjunction with various removable fabric covers for cleaning. The flexible piece could be bent at various angles for maximum cleaning benefit. The extension handle would allow the user to clean hard to reach areas of the home with ease and minimal effort.

The invention provides a bus intelligence operation method and a system. A pressure sensor at boarding and alighting door step can monitor a passenger load weight comprising a passenger weight and a carried article weight. Load detection in the bus is accurate so that an overload hazard caused by only number of people statistics is avoided and a bus operation safety factor is increased. Simultaneously, a passive infrared sensor is used to detect a human body height so that distinguishing of children and adults and a voice prompt of giving seat to children are realized. Through using giving seat calling button installed on a bus armrest, a voice prompt of giving seats to senior citizens, infirm people, patients, disabled people and pregnant women is realized. Consciousness of civilized giving seat of passengers is enhanced and civil bus ride in the bus is increased. An infrared range finding sensor is used to detect human body thickness. Through combining the human body thickness and the weight collected by the pressure sensor, accurate passenger flow volume monitoring and people counting are realized, which provides a basis for next bus operation optimization.

The invention relates to a manual type automotive rotary seat for disabled people, and belongs to the technical field of automobile accessories. Based on an electric rotary chair of the background technology, an electric rotating mechanism of the seat is changed into a manual type translation and rotating mechanism of the seat and then arranged on a seat under frame, and the seat is locked on the seat under frame by an unlocking mechanism; when the disabled people use the vehicle, the seat is released from locking, then a driver outside the vehicle pulls the seat outwards by hands, the seat translates forwards and rotates to the right at the same time until the seat faces to an open vehicle door and half of the seat extends out of the vehicle door, after the disabled people sit down, the driver outside the vehicle pushes the seat inwards by hands, the seats rotates to the left and translates at the same time until the seat returns to a normal position of an automotive passenger seat, and a locking and unlocking mechanism of the seat automatically locks the seat. The manual type automotive rotary seat has the advantages of simple and convenient manufacturing process, low manufacturing and maintenance cost, convenient use and the like, and is particularly suitable for the disabled people as an automobile accessory.

The invention discloses an automatic care bed, which comprises a bed body provided with a care hole on the bed surface, a defecation suction seat positioned under the bed surface, a driving mechanism driving the defecation suction seat to pass through the care hole and move to be above the bed surface or below the bed surface, and a defecation collecting and processing device. The automatic care bed is used together with an intelligent care machine consisting of the defecation suction seat and the defecation collecting and processing device, is suitable for bedridden old people and the wounded and the disabled, the mentally disabled people and unconscious patients to relieve the bowels on bed, and can be used for taking a bath after a shower head is changed; when defecation is needed, the defecation suction seat is turned and raised, a sensor circuit arranged in the defecation suction seat identifies excrement and urine of a patient automatically starts a corresponding working mode, and caretaker monitoring is omitted; and after the defection, the automatic care bed can clean the defecating part and dry the same with hot air, and simultaneously perform contact agent deodorization on the expellant gas to ensure that the indoor air is clean. The automatic care bed achieves humanized care services and is time-saving and labor-saving.

The invention discloses a mobile phone dialing method and system based on blinking electromyographic signal detection. The method comprises the following steps that 1, the electromyographic signals of a human body are collected through Bluetooth brain electromyographic headphones and are sent to a mobile phone in a Bluetooth mode; 2, data processing is carried out on the received electromyographic signals in the mobile phone to recognize whether a blinking action exists or not; 3, scanning dialing is carried out based on the recognized blinking action. The mobile phone dialing method and system based on the blinking electromyographic signal detection are easy to implement, high in real-time performance, high in accuracy, and capable of efficiently serving disabled people, injured people, the physically disabled and other special people.

The invention relates to a passenger and driver safety protection system. The system includes terminal online car-hailing application programs mounted in handsets of a passenger and a driver, a driverlocking device mounted in a vehicle carrying the passenger and a cloud software system mounted in an operation company providing online car-hailing services, wherein the driver locking device is usedfor locking and fixing the driver on a driving seat, the driver locking device includes a fixing part, a binding part and an intelligent lock, when the passenger sends a request to lock or unlock thedriver to the cloud software system of the operation company providing online car-hailing services, a locking or unlocking instruction is sent by the cloud software system of the operation company providing online car-hailing services to the intelligent lock on the driver locking device, and the driver locking device is remotely controlled through the mobile Internet for locking or unlocking. Ifpassengers are women individuals, pregnant women, the old, children, babies, disabled people or drunk people, orders are distributed by the operation company providing online car-hailing services onlyto women drivers or men drivers whose vehicles are equipped with the driver locking devices.

The invention discloses a four-wheel independent driving intelligent car system controlled by brain waves and a control method thereof. The system comprises an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal acquisition cap, an EEG signal processing program and a driving control system of a four-wheel independent driving electric car. A user makes corresponding motor imagery for different driving instructions. An electroencephalogram signal is extracted through the EEG acquisition cap and is transmitted to a computer. The computer carries out preprocessing, feature extraction and classification on the received EEG signal. A classification result is used as an instruction and is sent to the electric card driving control system through a wireless communication module. An intelligent electric car of four-wheel independent driving system fault tolerance stability control is realized according to a user brain wave processing result as an execution instruction. According to the system and the control method, the movement range of disabled people with severe dyskinesia can be greatly expanded, at the same time the system and the method can be used for training a motor imagery recognition system, a human-car interaction mode is provided for a user to access an automatic driving vehicle system, and the system and the method have good development and application prospects.

The invention discloses a full-automatic webpage browsing control method based on a brain-computer interface. A P300 brain-computer potential is used for controlling the position of news that a user wants to watch in a browser, the news to be played is confirmed through blink detection, after the position of the news is confirmed, a news content interface is entered, and when relevant detailed content is read, steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is used as an index of signal detecting and for conducting page-up, page-down and returning operation on the news, browsing interested news in detail, returning to a news list page and exiting the browser. The method has the advantages of being simple in operation and wide in application range, providing a chance for disabled people to browse internet information and being capable of being used under the condition that the body or a mouse can not be moved due to external or personal factors.