Smart band for autonumously recognizing crisis situation and automatically requesting rescue on the basis of sound and motion patterns

• US 10,096,234 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2017
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kue Sang Chun
• Original Assignee: Kue Sang Chun
• Inventors: Chun, Kue Sang
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mahase, Pameshanand
• Application Number:
  US15/716,875
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1672 using sonic detecting means, e.g. a microphone operating in the audio frequency range
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0277 Communication between units on a local network, e.g. Bluetooth, piconet, zigbee, Wireless Personal Area Networks [WPAN]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0283 via a telephone network, e.g. cellular GSM
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0446 worn on the body to detect changes of posture, e.g. a fall, inclination, acceleration, gait
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0492 Sensor dual technology, i.e. two or more technologies collaborate to extract unsafe condition, e.g. video tracking and RFID tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/10 responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/063 Training
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/08 Speech classification or search
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/51 for comparison or discrimination

Abstract

Disclosed is a wearable device for sensing a crisis situation and requesting rescue. The smart band has: a microphone for collecting sound patterns emitted in a crisis situation; a sound/speech signal pattern library for storing keyword sound patterns generated in each crisis situation; sensors installed to sense abrupt movement of a wearer; a motion analysis memory for storing a waveform determination algorithm for collecting signals inputted from the sensors, analyzing a motion signal pattern, and categorizing the motion signal pattern as impulse, pulsation or steady; a crisis situation recognition processor for deriving a crisis situation code; a microcontroller for automatically transmitting a request for rescue, together with the crisis situation code, GPS position and personal information of the wearer; a Bluetooth communication interface unit; a smart phone monitoring circuit; and a switch for recording sexual harassment speeches or manually initiating a crisis situation when the wearer is sexually harassed.

Claims

1. A smart band apparatus for autonomously recognizing a crisis situation and automatically requesting rescue based on sound and motion patterns, the smart band apparatus comprising:

a microphone that collects sound patterns of a scream or a sudden sound in a crisis situation;

an audio signal pattern library that stores keyword sound patterns, which are generated in memory in each crisis situation;

acceleration and inertia sensors installed that sense a movement of a wearer;

a motion analysis memory that stores a waveform determination algorithm for collecting signals inputted from the acceleration and inertia sensors for a predetermined time period, analyzes a motion signal pattern, and categorizes the motion signal pattern as impulse, pulsation or steady;

a crisis situation recognition processor that derives a crisis situation code of any one of terror, sexual violence, a falling accident, a natural disaster, and a sexual harassment by analyzing a motion waveform and a sound pattern;

a microcontroller that automatically transmits a request for rescue to a rescue team or a guardian programmed in advance, together with the derived emergency crisis situation code, a GPS position and personal information of the wearer, said microcontroller cooperative with said microphone, said audio recognition library, said acceleration and inertia sensors, said motion analysis memory and said crisis situation recognition processor;

a Bluetooth communication interface unit cooperative with microcontroller;

a smart phone monitoring circuit that monitors a pairing smart phone by said Bluetooth communication interface unit; and

a switch that records sexual harassment speeches or manually initiating a crisis situation when the wearer is sexually harassed.

2. The smart band apparatus of claim 1, wherein said microphone is a PiezoMEMS or a micro-ceramic microphone that collects screams of the wearer or surrounding sounds, wherein said microphone converts the scream or surrounding sound into a digital pulse pattern through sound processing and inputs the digital pulse pattern into said crisis situation recognition processor so that the digital pulse pattern may be compared with each reference voice sound pattern stored in memory, wherein a signal from some crisis situation recognition processor corresponding to the crisis situation is transmitted said the microcontroller, together with personal information of the wearer, wherein said microcontroller inputs the data into a Bluetooth communication modulator and the data is transmitted to a smart phone of the wearer through said Bluetooth interface unit.

3. The smart band apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a digital audio signal pattern library having reference voice and sound patterns, wherein said digital audio signal pattern library is cooperative with said microcontroller.

4. The smart band apparatus of claim 1, wherein said inertia and acceleration sensors collect motion patterns of the wearer, the acceleration and inertial sensor having a MEMS sensor, wherein signals of the acceleration and inertia sensors are abnormal and cross a threshold level, the signal triggers collection of the motion patterns to collect the motion patterns for twenty seconds thereafter.

5. The smart band apparatus of claim 1, wherein said smart phone monitoring circuit monitors whether the wearer possesses a pairing smart phone or whether the smart phone is within five meters through wireless communication.

6. The smart band apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a voice keyword training function trains and inputs the wearer'"'"'s keywords into the audio signal pattern library a voice of the wearer and searches for a keyword pattern inputted in the voice of the wearer when a crisis situation is encountered.