Wearable device adaptively controllable based on bioinformation, system including the same, and operating method thereof

• US 10,314,534 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2016
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoon, Seungkeun, Kwon, Ui Kun, Choi, Changmok
• Primary Examiner(s): Kahelin, Michael W
• Application Number:
  US14/994,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20160206239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1114 Tracking parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/389 Electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6843 Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A electronic device, a system including the wearable electronic device, and an operating method of the wearable electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device includes a biosensor configured to sense bioinformation on a body of a user wearing the electronic device. The electronic device also includes a controller configured to determine a state of the user based on the bioinformation and surrounding environment information of a surrounding environment of the user, and control a change in a function of the electronic device based on the state of the user.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a biosensor configured to sense bioinformation on a body of a user wearing the electronic device; and

a controller configured to determine a state of the user by implementing a classifier which considers the bioinformation and sensed surrounding environment information of a surrounding environment of the user, and configured to control a change in a deformation function of the electronic device based on the determined state of the user,

wherein the controller is configured to perform the determining of the state of the user based on a vector result of the implementation of the classifier, the vector result being dependent on feedback information on a previous change in the deformation function of the electronic device, and

wherein the classifier indicates a position corresponding to the vector result comprising the numerical value included in the bioinformation and the sensed surrounding environment information.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine the state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and at least one of biosignal information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the biosignal measurement information comprises an input request from the user to measure a biosignal of the user.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine an exercising state of the user based on the bioinformation and motion information comprised in the surrounding environment information and control the change in the deformation function of the electronic device based on the determined exercising state of the user.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine a stable state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and bio-reaction information comprised in the bioinformation and control the change in the deformation function of the electronic device based on the determined stable state of the user.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine a biosignal measurement state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation and control the change in the deformation function of the electronic device based on the determined biosignal measurement state of the user.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

an environmental sensor configured to sense the surrounding environment information.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the surrounding environment information is received from another electronic device communicating with the electronic device.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the biosensor is configured to generate a sensing signal in response to an input from the user, and

the controller is configured to determine the state of the user in response to the sensing signal, and control the change in the deformation function of the electronic device based on the determined state of the user.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the state of the user is a biosignal measurement state of the user.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

control a deformation function of a region of the electronic device worn on a portion of a body of the user;

control an executing of a function or an application corresponding to monitoring and recording at least one of an exercise time, a heart rate, and an electromyogram (EMG), selecting a music, and selecting a ringtone or a vibration mode, based on the determined state of the user; and

control an executing of a function or an application corresponding to coaching an exercise for the user, based on the determined state of the user.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the deformation function using an electrode comprised in the biosensor.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to control the deformation function using the electrode through an electroactive polymer (EAP).

14. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller further comprises:

a trainer configured to collect feedback information on the change in the deformation function of the electronic device, and train the classifier based on the feedback information, the surrounding environment information, and the bioinformation.

15. A method of an electronic device, comprising:

sensing bioinformation from a user wearing the electronic device;

determining a state of the user by implementing a classifier which considers the bioinformation and sensed surrounding environment information of a surrounding environment of the user;

controlling a deformation function of the electronic device based on the determined state of the user; and

performing the determining of the state of the user based on a vector result of the implementation of the classifier, the vector result being dependent on feedback information on the deformation function of the electronic device,

wherein the classifier indicates a position corresponding to the vector result comprising the numerical value included in the bioinformation and the sensed surrounding environment information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining comprises:

determining the state of the user based on the output of the classifier using the surrounding environment information and at least one of biosignal information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the biosignal measurement information comprises an input request from the user to measure a biosignal of the user.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

sensing the surrounding environment information.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the surrounding environment information is received from another electronic device communicating with the electronic device.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining comprises:

determining an exercising state of the user based on the bioinformation and motion information comprised in the surrounding environment information.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining comprises:

determining a stable state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and bio-reaction information comprised in the bioinformation.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining comprises:

determining a biosignal measurement state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the controlling comprises:

controlling a deformation of a region of the electronic device to be worn on a portion of a body of the user;

controlling an executing of a function or an application corresponding to monitoring and recording at least one of an exercise time, a heart rate, and an electromyogram (EMG), selecting a music, and selecting a ringtone or a vibration mode, based on the state of the user; and

controlling an executing of a function or an application corresponding to coaching an exercise for the user, based on the state of the user.

24. The method of claim 15, wherein the controlling comprises:

controlling the deformation function using an electrode comprised in a sensor configured to sense the bioinformation.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the electrode is deformed through an electroactive polymer (EAP).

26. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

collecting the feedback information on the controlled deformation function of the electronic device; and

training the classifier based on the collected feedback information, the surrounding environment information, and the bioinformation.

27. An apparatus, comprising:

a sensor configured to sense bioinformation and information of a surrounding environment of a user wearing an electronic device; and

a controller configured to determine a state of the user by implementing a classifier which considers the bioinformation and the surrounding environment information, and configured to control a deformation function of a wearable region of the electronic device based on the determined state of the user,

wherein the controller is configured to perform the determining of the state of the user based on a vector result of the implementation of the classifier, the vector result being dependent on feedback information on the deformation function of the electronic device, and

wherein the classifier indicates a position corresponding to the vector result comprising the numerical value included in the bioinformation and the sensed surrounding environment information.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the surrounding environment information comprises at least one of light information, temperature information, noise information, force information, and motion information.

29. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the bioinformation comprises at least one of a pulse wave, a skin temperature, a brainwave, a facial muscle movement, and a face temperature.

30. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the determiner is further configured to determine the state as an exercising state or a stable state of the user through the classifier based on the bioinformation and motion information included in the surrounding environment information, and

wherein the controller comprises a trainer configured to collect the feedback information on the deformation function of the electronic device, and train the classifier based on the collected feedback information, the surrounding environment information, and the bioinformation.

31. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein the determiner is configured to produce data included in the surrounding environment information and the bioinformation as an input vector comprising a numerical value of the each data, and use personal information of the user to adjust the state of the user wearing the electronic device,

wherein the determiner is further configured to provide the input vector to the classifier, and

wherein the data comprises acceleration data, coordinate data, and heart rate data, and the personal information comprises an age, a height, and a weight of the user.

32. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein, in response to the determiner determining that the state of the user is a stable state comprising a sleeping state or a resting state, the controller controls the deformation function of the wearable region worn on a portion of a body of the user by loosening the wearable region.

33. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein the controller executes a function or an application to monitor and record at least one of a resting time and a sleeping time, a saturation level of partial pressure oxygen (SpO₂), an amount of power saving of the electronic device, select a music, and select a ringtone or a vibration mode.

34. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein, in response to the determiner determining that the state of the user is an exercise state, the controller controls the deformation function of the wearable region worn on a portion of a body of the user by tightening the wearable region.

35. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the controller executes a function or an application corresponding to monitoring and recording at least one of an exercise time, a heart rate, and an electromyogram (EMG), selecting a music, and selecting a ringtone or a vibration mode, and

wherein the controller executes a function or an application corresponding to coaching an exercise for the user.

36. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein, in response to the determiner determining that the user is measuring a biosignal, the controller controls the deformation function to enable an electrode included in the sensor to be in close contact with skin of the user.