3D Avatar Biosensor Activity Compensation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current sensor networks face challenges in accurately monitoring and analyzing health data due to the impact of physical activity on biosensor measurements, leading to misleading results and potential false-negative disease diagnoses.
Innovation Solution
The integration of accelerometers in sensor arrays to measure and transmit activity data, allowing for baseline activity establishment and deviation monitoring, which enables contextualization and normalization of biosensor measurements, and the use of dynamic sampling rates and precision adjustments based on user input and sensor data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If biosensors are used to monitor health data, then health monitoring capability is improved, but physical activity impacts measurement accuracy causing misleading results
Solution Approach 1:
An accelerometer is introduced as an intermediary device to detect physical activity and generate activity scores. This mediator allows the system to identify when physical activity is occurring and use that information to contextualize or adjust biosensor readings, thereby resolving the conflict between health monitoring capability and measurement accuracy under physical stress
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring activity levels via the accelerometer and using this information to adjust the interpretation of biosensor data in real-time. The activity scores feed back into the health monitoring algorithm, allowing dynamic compensation for physical activity effects on biosensor measurements
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sensors are integrated to monitor activity and health, then monitoring comprehensiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The accelerometer serves multiple functions: it detects physical activity levels, generates activity scores for contextualizing biosensor data, and potentially triggers alerts or adjustments in monitoring parameters. This multi-functionality allows comprehensive monitoring without proportionally increasing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the accelerometer with the biosensor array into an integrated sensor network that shares common processing and communication infrastructure. By merging these components into a unified system rather than separate systems, the patent achieves comprehensive monitoring while minimizing the complexity overhead of having multiple sensors
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AI summary
In particular embodiments, a method includes generating a 3D display of an avatar of a person, where the avatar can receive inputs identifying a type of a physiological event, a location of the physiological event in or on a person's body in three spatial dimensions, a time range of the physiological event, a quality of the physiological event, and rendering the physiological event on the avatar based on the inputs.