40 results about "Tongue movement" patented technology

The invention discloses a swallowing function evaluation method and system based on tongue motion nuclear magnetic image registration, and belongs to the technical field of medical image processing. The system comprises a time sequence nuclear magnetic image reading module, a tongue body dynamic mask generation module, a tongue body dynamic image extraction module, a dynamic tongue body sequence registration module and a patient swallowing recovery evaluation module. Through an automatic segmentation and image registration technology, the system can accurately extract tongue motion displacement and calculate a local displacement vector, and evaluate the swallowing function recovery condition of a tongue cancer postoperative patient. The method comprises the steps of image reading, image screening, data set making, model training and tongue swallowing recovery evaluation, and the system can identify a tongue motion abnormal mode and provide an objective and quantitative evaluation result. According to the method, the accuracy and efficiency of tongue motion feature analysis are remarkably improved, and the method has a wide clinical application prospect.

The invention discloses a Doppler ultrasonic diagnosis system for dysphagia detection, and belongs to the technical field of Doppler ultrasonic diagnosis. The method comprises the following steps: respectively measuring the geniolingual muscle movement, swallowing time, tongue movement and the distance between the tongue bone and the thyroid cartilage of a stroke patient in a B-type ultrasonic mode and an M-type ultrasonic mode, recording test data after multiple swallowing tests, calculating to obtain an average value of the geniolingual muscle movement, the swallowing time, the tongue movement and the distance between the tongue bone and the thyroid cartilage, and calculating the average value of the geniolingual muscle movement, the swallowing time, the tongue movement and the distance between the tongue bone and the thyroid cartilage. Then the measurement results of the swallowing time and the distance between the tongue bone and the thyroid cartilage are used as evaluation and diagnosis bases for diagnosis, so that objective and accurate diagnosis bases are provided for the treatment and rehabilitation process of the swallowing dysfunction of a stroke patient, and nursing personnel can evaluate and diagnose the swallowing dysfunction after the stroke by using a simple B-ultrasonic instrument at the bedside; and the diagnosis accuracy of medical personnel is improved.

The utility model relates to the field of rehabilitation training devices, in particular to a visual simple tongue pressure measuring and rehabilitation training device which comprises a tongue pressure measuring tube, a baffle is detachably installed on one side of the tongue pressure measuring tube in a sealed mode, and an airtight piston plate is connected into the tongue pressure measuring tube in a sealed and sliding mode. An elastic piece is arranged between the airtight piston plate and the baffle, and a gas pressure value metering mark is arranged on the tongue pressure measuring tube and matched with the airtight piston plate to be used for displaying a pressure value; one side of the tongue pressure measuring tube is communicated with a first connecting tube, and the first connecting tube is communicated with a tongue pressure positive pressure air bag; the baffle is provided with an air outlet communicated with the interior of the tongue pressure measuring pipe, and the air outlet is communicated with a fourth connecting pipe. The device is low in price and convenient to operate, tongue pressure can be accurately and visually measured and trained, and more convenient and practical rehabilitation training is provided for patients with dysphagia and tongue movement disorder.

A system and method for recognizing (reading) the tongue movements, vocalizations, and throat vibrations of a person and converting (translating) them into meaningful synthesized words, which could be pronounced by an electronic speaker and / or displayed on a display. Often a patient / person who has lost the ability to speak may still be able to move their tongues, or make unfathomable sounds, which cannot be recognized as intelligible words. The system and method can continuously record the movement of the patient's tongue, vocalizations, and throat sounds and extract small video segments corresponding to different words attempted by the patient. Each of these video segments can then be analyzed by AI software or other configured software to match the specific tongue movement with a pre-learned reference word, and once identified, the computer / system can speak or verbalize the word, and / or display it on a screen. The set of pre-learned reference words can be recorded and saved during the training session(s) for each individual patient. During the training session(s), the embedded AI software or other configured software can ask the patient to say a specific word multiple times and for each time, the system / software can record the associated tongue movements, and any verbalizations, and throat vibrations. Multiple recordings for a single word can be preferably performed so that the AI software or other configured software can capture all possible movement variations of the same word and can aggregate some common features as unique identification for that word, which can be saved in the system as a reference to that specific word.

Comprises: an acquisition step for acquiring myopotential data by measuring myopotentials from muscles at a plurality of measurement sites on the face of a subject person when the subject person chews; a calculation step for calculating a plurality of feature quantities on the basis of unit data obtained by dividing the myopotential data by unit time; and a determination step for determining, on the basis of the feature amount, which of a tongue action, a cheek action, and an occlusal action is being performed by the subject person at the time when the unit data is acquired.

To provide a hand-worn tongue movement measuring device having excellent measurement stability.SOLUTION: A hand-worn tongue movement measuring device for measuring tongue movement of a subject using a pressure sensor, the hand-worn tongue movement measuring device comprises a back-of-hand-worn part to be worn on the back of a hand of a measurer, and a finger-worn part to be worn on a hand finger of the measurer. The finger-worn part includes a cylindrical part made of insulating silicone rubber, a plurality of pressure sensors provided on at least one installation surface of an outer surface or an inner surface of the cylindrical part, and a pressure transmission part provided on an opposite side of the installation surface so as to cover at least some of the surfaces of the plurality of pressure sensors.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The tongue ultrasonic image synthesis speech method of the self-supervised model belongs to the electronic information technology field. The tongue ultrasonic image synthesis speech method of the self-supervised model aims to find out the characteristics of tongue movement when a person speaks directly through an ultrasonic imaging method through deep learning technology, establish a mapping relationship between ultrasonic tongue images and speech, and thus realize end-to-end speech synthesis. The method is not easily affected by the environment and has strong confidentiality. In view of the problem that a large amount of supervised data is required during training and the model is difficult to converge, a self-supervised learning framework is adopted. The self-supervised learning framework can mask part of the video or audio input during the training stage and predict the automatically discovered and iteratively refined multi-modal hidden unit, enhance the generalization ability of the model, appropriately reduce the training data used, and make the model more easily converge.

A system includes memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry configured to: determine at least one of: a cross-electrical signal measurement at a first electrode on a first lead implanted within a tongue of the patient based on a stimulation signal between a second electrode on the first lead or a second lead implanted within the tongue of the patient and a third electrode, or a strain measurement of at least one of the first lead or the second lead. The processing circuitry is configured to determine movement of the tongue based on at least one of the cross-electrical signal measurement or the strain measurement, and generate information indicative of the movement of the tongue.

The invention relates to the technical field of biomedical engineering, and provides a tongue body motion form reconstruction and neuromuscular lesion recognition method, which comprises the following steps: S1, acquiring a multi-modal original signal by using a flexible electrode array attached to a lingual surface, and recording a system timestamp; s2, performing targeted filtering, artifact removal and feature extraction processing on the multi-mode original signal; s3, reconstructing a local dynamic curved surface of the lingual surface by adopting a preset model, and inferring an overall position and posture sequence of the tongue body in combination with an IMU signal; s4, a joint optimization objective function is constructed, and a tongue body three-dimensional dynamic form sequence is obtained through iterative solution; s5, performing motion unit action potential MUAP decomposition and feature extraction on the surface electromyogram signal sEMG; and S6, constructing lesion feature vectors based on the multi-dimensional abnormal features, and analyzing and generating a tongue lesion risk map TDM through a machine learning model. The defects that real motion reconstruction, form inference and neuromuscular lesion positioning of the tongue cannot be achieved through an existing tongue detection technology are overcome.

A system for tracking feeding activity of a baby includes a housing configured to be positioned over an object for feeding the baby. A plurality of sensors are disposed on or within the housing, the sensors being configured to detect pressure exerted by one or more oral structures of the baby during feeding. A data collection device is operatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, and configured to receive sensor signals and process the signals to determine one or more feeding metrics. The data collection device outputs the one or more feeding metrics for display to a user, wherein the feeding metrics include one or more of: latch quality, tongue movement, lip seal integrity, or suck-swallow-breathe coordination.

To provide a tongue movement function evaluation device capable of quantitatively evaluating a tongue movement function using surface myoelectric signals from the suprahyoid muscle group.SOLUTION: Information processing means 20 performs muscle synergy analysis using biological signals from a suprahyoid muscle group myoelectric sensor 10 when the tongue is moved in one direction and in the other direction, extracts one muscle synergy activated when the tongue is moved in one direction and the other muscle synergy activated when the tongue is moved in the other direction, the one muscle synergy and the other muscle synergy being represented by a spatial pattern and a time pattern, and evaluates the tongue movement function using at least one of a coordination evaluation evaluated from an overlap ratio between the time pattern of the one muscle synergy and the time pattern of the other muscle synergy, a regularity evaluation evaluated from a similarity of activation per motion cycle for each time pattern of the one muscle synergy and the other muscle synergy, and a symmetry evaluation evaluated from a similarity between the time or spatial patterns of the one muscle synergy and the other muscle synergy.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A system and method using a therapeutic electromechanical device to externally control movement for recognizing the tongue movements, vocalizations, and throat vibrations of a patient and converting them into words. The device can be activated by electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG), or through mechanical and / or optical methods. The force, speed of movement, limit of movement, duration of movement, and frequency of movement can be adjustable / programable / configurable. The device can be coupled with stimulatory and / or detection sensors and / or electrodes. The device can be used for performing mechanical movements with adjustable force and speed / duration of movement to remediate physical impairments. The system can continuously record the movement of the patient's tongue, vocalizations, and throat vibrations and extract small video segments. Each video segment can be analyzed by AI software or other configured software to match the specific tongue movements, vocalizations, and throat vibrations with a pre-learned reference word. Multiple recordings can be performed. The software / configured system can then translate the signals into speech.

A masticatory movement analysis method includes, an acquisition step of measuring myoelectric potential from muscles at a plurality of measurement spots on a face when a target person chews and acquiring myoelectric potential data, a calculation step of calculating a plurality of feature amounts from unit data obtained by dividing the myoelectric potential data on a basis of a unit time, and a determination step of determining from the feature amounts which one of tongue movement, cheek movement, and occlusal movement is being performed by the target person during acquisition of the unit data.

An ornamental design for a facial exercise device, as shown in the figures and description. The facial exercise device is used to strengthen, tighten, and tone the midface, lower face, orofacial region, and oropharynx (including the tongue and floor of the mouth muscles) for both aesthetic and rehabilitative therapeutic purposes. The facial exercise device comprises a trapezoidal tubular body having a primary isosceles trapezoidal shape. The trapezoidal tubular body defines a plurality of openings with equally spaced compressible and bendable body members centered around a central opening, positioned at predetermined locations for isometric and isotonic muscle resistance training for various facial and tongue movements. The facial exercise device can be positioned anywhere, including under the lower lip, under the upper lip, under both lips, on one or both cheeks, around the outer periphery of the mouth, and within the oral cavity (contacting the hard palate, tongue surface, and floor of the mouth). 1.1) Perspective view; 1.2) Front view; 1.3) Plan view; 1.4) Bottom view; 1.5) Right side view; 1.6) Left side view; 1.7) Rear view; 1.8) Cross section; 1.9) Reference view showing the state of use; 1.10) Reference view showing the state of use

1. The name of the design product: English pronunciation visible instrument. 2. The use of the design product: wear on the head, real-time monitoring of standard lip and tongue movements, correcting spontaneous pronunciation, training pronunciation of difficult points and phonetic symbols, and assisting teaching and speech rehabilitation. 3. The design points of the design product: in shape. 4. The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: perspective view.

Disclosed is a method for treating dysphagia comprising: fitting a patient afflicted with dysphagia with a TRP oral retainer-based device having an arch for limiting movement of the patient's tongue, the device to be worn by the patient at night starting at about bedtime and during sleep, preferably for at least 8 hours; providing instructions to the patient to wear the device nightly for a period of time from about 2 to about 18 months (the wearing period) as indicated; monitoring the patient's tongue pressure at one or more time points during the wearing period, wherein an increase in tongue strength, as measured for example by tongue pressure (TP) compared to baseline or compared to a prior monitoring time point during the wearing period, indicates that the patient receives a benefit from wearing the device. An increase in tongue strength has been shown to correlate closely with reducing oropharyngeal dysphagia and its attendant symptoms and pathologies.

The utility model relates to the field of tongue training, in particular to a tongue movement and resistance training device for children, which can adjust resistance and swing stroke and effectively solve the problems in the background technology. Comprising a moldable fixing frame, the fixing frame is of a U-shaped structure with an upper opening, a cross rod is detachably arranged between the upper openings of the fixing frame, the cross rod is slidably sleeved with a ball, the cross rod on the two sides of the ball is sleeved with a pair of springs, and the outer ends of the springs are detachably connected with the inner side face of the fixing frame respectively; a vertical handle is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the fixing frame. Blind holes matched with the two end parts of the cross rod are respectively embedded in the inner side surfaces of the two end parts of the fixing frame; and fixing lugs matched with the springs are respectively and fixedly arranged on the fixing frame below the blind holes. And the device is simple to operate, convenient to use and suitable for children of multiple age groups.

The invention relates to the technical field of hydrogel preparation, in particular to polymer-polyacid-ferric chloride hydrogel as well as preparation and application thereof. In the hydrogel provided by the invention, the polymer is used as a framework material of the hydrogel, the polybasic acid is used as a cross-linking agent, and the ferric chloride is uniformly dispersed in the polymer; the prepared hydrogel has the property of generating different resistances according to different actions, has the property of responding to astringent substances such as polyphenol and the like, can detect the content of the astringent substances in movement and diet of the tongue, and provides a solution capable of solving the problem of tongue movement and astringent detection for corresponding patients; the data obtained by the hydrogel provided by the invention further allows data support to be provided for health monitoring and medical quality.

Provided in the present description are a method and system for evaluating a genioglossus muscle. The method comprises: displaying a target movement of the tongue of a human body by means of a display device; acquiring, from a collection device, an electromyographic signal of a user executing a tongue movement with reference to the target movement, wherein the collection device comprises two electrodes, and the two electrodes are spaced apart at least in a muscle fiber direction of a genioglossus muscle of the user and are configured to collect the electromyographic signal of the genioglossus muscle; and on the basis of the electromyographic signal, generating feedback information related to the state of the genioglossus muscle.

An intermaxillary occlusal molar appliance designed to control tongue and jaw movement for proper occlusion. The appliance includes a U-shaped molar impression tray to restrict backward tongue movement, and a bilateral rectangular molar bases to maintain vertical separation between molars and guide condylar heads. The appliance further includes a molar stops prevent upward and backward movement of the mandibular second molars, a molar-slip and a molar-slide wedges to allow controlled downward and forward movement of the molars and condyles. The appliance further includes structures to limit posterior mandibular displacement, promote muscle relaxation, and integrate all components for optimal alignment and function.

Mechanisms are provided for implementing intraoral control mechanisms that allow a user to control the operation of a computer system or electronic device. The intraoral control mechanism detects a strain based on a user's tongue movement controlling the mechanism away from a fixed position; converts the detected strain into a control signal; amplifies the amplitude of the control signal, thereby producing an amplified control signal; translates the amplified control signal into a digital input signal; modulates the digital input signal onto a transmitted frequency wave; and transmits the digital input signal to the computer system. The computer system can then execute the digital control signal on the computer system itself to perform an operation, or transmit the digital control signal to an electronic device to operate as indicated by the digital control signal. The digital input signal is saved for characterization of the user.

The invention discloses a tongue exercise and respiration collaborative conditioning method for improving refractory insomnia, and relates to the field of human health conditioning and sleep medicines.The method comprises the steps that tongue exercise exercise of a preset duration is executed in the period before sleep every day, abdominal or inverse abdominal respiration regulation is conducted in a synchronous and matched mode, and therefore tongue muscle groups are activated. In the morning or before afternoon every day, a skin needle therapy (oblique puncturing for 0.5 mm) and a bloodletting therapy are performed on specific acupuncture points (such as Yingwei points) in the oral cavity so as to activate and disperse blood stasis and increase qi and blood flow. Through the synergistic effect of lingual exercise, breathing conditioning and skin needle / bloodletting therapy, the blood supply state of the brain and the heart is improved, so that the intractable insomnia symptom caused by neurasthenia, physical weakness, cardio-cerebral ischemia and the like is relieved from the source. The method emphasizes multi-dimensional collaborative conditioning, can adapt to different crowds, can be dynamically adjusted through effect evaluation, and aims to realize a physical insomnia intervention mode without drug dependence.

This invention discloses an oral ablation detection method and system, belonging to the field of oral detection technology, including: S1, oral tissue sampling; S2, motion compensation; S3, image reconstruction; S4, lesion analysis; S5, ablation planning; S6, ablation execution. This invention utilizes phase-amplitude joint displacement estimation, extracting depth-direction micro-displacement using phase difference and lateral displacement using amplitude centroid shift. This effectively compensates for non-rigid tissue peristalsis caused by swallowing and tongue movements without relying on external markers or high-frequency frame rates, ensuring that the subsequently reconstructed three-dimensional image and ablation target area localization are not distorted due to motion, thus improving the targeting consistency between detection and treatment. Texture analysis at different scales is applied along the oral mucosal epithelium, basement membrane zone, and lamina propria, and depth-adaptive weights are assigned based on the pathological sensitivity differences of each layer, highlighting the probabilistic response of early cancerous areas.

To provide a tongue movement state evaluation device capable of evaluating a tongue movement state during mastication, and a food evaluation method and a food evaluation device capable of evaluating the ease of mastication of food.SOLUTION: A tongue movement state evaluation device includes at least a suprahyoid muscle group myoelectric sensor 11 and either a masseter myoelectric sensor 12 or a temporalis myoelectric sensor 13. Information processing means 20 performs muscle synergy analysis using time-series biological signals obtained from the suprahyoid muscle group myoelectric sensor 11 and the masseter myoelectric sensor 12 or temporalis myoelectric sensor 13 during mastication, extracts three or more muscle synergies during mastication, excludes a mouth-opening muscle synergy associated with jaw-opening motion during mastication and a mouth-closing muscle synergy associated with jaw-closing motion during mastication, identifies a tongue movement muscle synergy associated with tongue movement during mastication from among the multiple muscle synergies, and evaluates the tongue movement state on the basis of the activity level (time pattern) of the identified tongue movement muscle synergy.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The invention provides an audio and video test method and system for an intelligent terminal. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring video data; wherein the video data comprises video data and audio data; identifying a tooth image, a face image, a tongue image and a throat image from the video data; extracting audio data and subtitle data corresponding to the tooth image, the face image, the tongue image and the throat image; converting the tooth image, the face image, the tongue image and the throat image into a tooth motion sequence, a face motion sequence, a tongue motion sequence and a throat motion sequence; creating test class objects of the audio data and the subtitle data, determining code positions of the test class objects of the audio data and the subtitle data, and generating a test API interface according to the code positions; and inputting the tooth motion sequence, the face motion sequence, the tongue motion sequence, the throat motion sequence, the audio data and the subtitle data into the test API interface for testing to obtain the specific occupancy rate and the power consumption change data of the intelligent terminal, and establishing a new audio and video linkage test class. Two APIs need to be packaged separately for different audios or videos, code resources are saved, the testing efficiency and the automation degree are improved, the labor cost is effectively reduced, the deviation degree of video images and audios or subtitles is calibrated through data predicted by an intelligent model, and a more accurate testing result is provided.

The utility model discloses a pair of children shoes, which comprises soles, vamps arranged on the soles, tongues arranged on the vamps, a plurality of eyelets arranged on the vamps and shoelaces inserted into the eyelets, and limiting components detachably and fixedly matched with the eyelets are arranged on the outer surfaces of the tongues. The limiting assembly has a limiting matching state in which the shoe tongue is matched with the eyelet and a separating state in which the shoe tongue is separated from the eyelet, and when the limiting assembly is in the limiting matching state, the shoe tongue is limited to move in the width direction of the shoe tongue, and a penetrating gap for a shoelace to penetrate through is formed between the limiting assembly and the eyelet. The utility model has the following advantages and effects: the shoe tongue can be prevented from deviating, so that the wearing comfort and fitness can be ensured.

A system and method for recognizing (reading) the tongue movements, vocalizations, and throat vibrations of a person and converting (translating) them into meaningful synthesized words, which could be pronounced by an electronic speaker and / or displayed on a display. Often a patient / person who has lost the ability to speak may still be able to move their tongues, or make unfathomable sounds, which cannot be recognized as intelligible words. The system and method can continuously record the movement of the patient's tongue, vocalizations, and throat sounds and extract small video segments corresponding to different words attempted by the patient. Each of these video segments can then be analyzed by AI software or other configured software to match the specific tongue movement with a pre-learned reference word, and once identified, the computer / system can speak or verbalize the word, and / or display it on a screen. The set of pre-learned reference words can be recorded and saved during the training session(s) for each individual patient. During the training session(s), the embedded AI software or other configured software can ask the patient to say a specific word multiple times and for each time, the system / software can record the associated tongue movements, and any verbalizations, and throat vibrations. Multiple recordings for a single word can be preferably performed so that the AI software or other configured software can capture all possible movement variations of the same word and can aggregate some common features as unique identification for that word, which can be saved in the system as a reference to that specific word.

A system for tracking feeding activity of a baby includes a housing configured to be positioned over an object for feeding the baby. A plurality of sensors are disposed on or within the housing, the sensors being configured to detect pressure exerted by one or more oral structures of the baby during feeding. A data collection device is operatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, and configured to receive sensor signals and process the signals to determine one or more feeding metrics. The data collection device outputs the one or more feeding metrics for display to a user, wherein the feeding metrics include one or more of: latch quality, tongue movement, lip seal integrity, or suck-swallow-breathe coordination.

The invention discloses a wireless tongue myoelectricity biofeedback instrument for dysphagia assessment and training. The wireless tongue myoelectricity biofeedback instrument comprises an intraoral module and a handheld terminal. The handheld terminal injects micro-current into the electrode in the intraoral module to stimulate tongue muscles according to an instruction of the handheld terminal, and electromyographic voltage signals, tongue body movement signals and optional pressure signals generated by tongue muscle movement are synchronously collected. The collected multi-mode signals are subjected to real-time preprocessing and dynamic impedance compensation in the intraoral module, and then are packaged and sent to the handheld terminal. And the handheld terminal performs deep analysis on the data, extracts multi-dimensional features including cross-modal fusion features, decodes a motion intention through a lightweight deep learning model, and generates a quantitative evaluation report containing five dimensions of muscle strength, endurance, speed, coordination and efficiency based on the motion intention. According to the evaluation report, a personalized gamification training scheme is automatically formulated, seamless closed loop of evaluation and training is realized, and accurate, quantitative and personalized rehabilitation of tongue muscle functions is realized.

The invention relates to the technical field of rehabilitation medicine, and particularly discloses tongue edge pricking integrated diagnosis and treatment equipment for dysphagia and a use method of the tongue edge pricking integrated diagnosis and treatment equipment. The tongue edge pricking integrated diagnosis and treatment equipment for dysphagia comprises the following modules: a positioning module, a transcranial electrical stimulation module and a motion monitoring module, the use method comprises the following steps: S1, body position preparation; s2, disinfection treatment; s3, selecting instruments; s4, carrying out positioning operation; s5, applying transcranial direct current stimulation to Fengchi acupoints on the two sides before pricking; s6, circularly pricking each target spot according to the front, left and right sequence; s7, carrying out reaction monitoring; and S8, strengthening the curative effect. The treatment equipment can be used for clinical rehabilitation treatment of tongue movement dysfunction, dysphagia and dysarthria caused by cerebral apoplexy, traumatic brain injury and other nervous system diseases, and has the advantage of improving tongue muscle nerve remodeling accuracy and reliability.