3D physiological detection system and operating method thereof

• US 10,335,046 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2015
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Inventors: Huang, Sen-Huang, Gu, Ren-Hau
• Primary Examiner(s): Wehrheim, Lindsey G
• Application Number:
  US14/847,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20160174856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,393 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0238 Optical sensor arrangements for performing transmission measurements on body tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/04 Arrangements of multiple sensors of the same type
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2576/00 Medical imaging apparatus involving image processing or analysis A61B1/00009, A61B6/52 and A61B8/52 take precedence; image processing per se G06T; details of algorithms for analysing medical images G06T7/0012
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02427 Details of sensor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7257 using Fourier transforms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A physiological detection system including an image sensor, a converting unit, a retrieving unit and a processing unit is provided. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels respectively configured to output a PPG signal. The converting unit is configured to convert a plurality of PPG signals of a plurality of pixels regions to a plurality of frequency domain signals. The retrieving unit is configured to respectively retrieve a spectral energy of the frequency domain signals corresponding to each of the pixel regions. The processing unit is configured to construct a 3D energy distribution according to the spectral energies.

Claims

1. A physiological detection system comprising:

an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels each configured to output a PPG signal;

a converting unit configured to convert the PPG signal of each of a plurality of pixel regions of the image sensor to a frequency domain signal thereby generating a plurality of frequency domain signals each corresponding to one pixel region, wherein each pixel region comprises at least one pixel of the image sensor;

a retrieving unit configured to respectively retrieve a spectral energy value of the frequency domain signals corresponding to each of the pixel regions; and

a processing unit configured to construct a three dimensional energy distribution of the spectral energy values, each spectral energy value corresponding to one of the pixel regions, by distributing the spectral energy values in a two dimensional space of the pixel regions as the three dimensional energy distribution that has an energy value corresponding to each of the pixel regions.

2. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processing unit is further configured to construct a three dimensional energy variation of the three dimensional energy distribution with time.

3. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the pixel regions comprises a plurality of pixels, and the image sensor is further configured to add the PPG signals of the pixels in each of the pixel regions into a sum and output said sum as the PPG signal of the pixel region.

4. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the sum is a sum of analog PPG signals or a sum of digital PPG signals.

5. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a spatial down-conversion unit configured to add the PPG signals outputted by the pixel regions in a same frame to generate a spatial sum of PPG signals.

6. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 5, wherein

the converting unit is configured to determine a basis frequency according to the spatial sum of PPG signals and calculate single-point discrete Fourier transformation of the PPG signals of the pixel regions at the reference frequency so as to respectively generate a base frequency spectral energy value corresponding to each of the pixel regions.

7. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 6, further comprising

a temporal down-conversion unit configured to add the PPG signals of corresponding pixel regions of different frames to respectively generate a temporal sum of PPG signals, wherein the converting unit is configured to calculate single-point discrete Fourier transformation of the PPG signals of the pixel regions at the reference frequency.

8. The physiological detection system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the image sensor, the temporal down-conversion unit and the spatial down-conversion unit are disposed in an image sensor chip;

and the converting unit, the retrieving unit and the processing unit are disposed in a host.