Safety monitoring with wearable devices

• US 10,390,771 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2017
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoi, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Zoi, Inc.
• Inventors: Lorden, Bryan Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): Voorhees, Catherine M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dinga, Roland
• Application Number:
  US15/413,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20180055456A1
• Time in Patent Office: 946 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0004 characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7246 using correlation, e.g. template matching or determination of similarity
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for detecting an irregularity in a user'"'"'s vital signs and alerting of a potential emergency using wearable devices. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a sensor component coupled to a wearable computing device, real-time heart rate information associated with a user wearing the wearable computing device. The system accesses heart rate calibration information associated with a user profile and detects an irregularity based on a comparison between the real-time heart rate information and the heart rate calibration information. Based on the detected irregularity, the system accesses a contact information associated with the user profile and transmits a message based on the contact information.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising, by at least one processor:

receiving a user input for the creation of a user heart-beat profile associated with a user wearing a wearable computing device, wherein the user input further specifies a particular activity or time of day associated with the heart-beat profile;

in response to the user input, monitoring real-time heart rate information over a period of time from a sensor component coupled to the wearable computing device;

generating heart rate calibration information based on the monitoring;

storing the heart rate calibration information in association with the particular activity or time of day;

receiving, from the sensor component coupled to the wearable computing device, real-time heart rate information associated with the user;

accessing the heart rate calibration information associated with the heart-beat profile;

detecting an irregularity based on a comparison between the real-time heart rate information and the heart rate calibration information;

based on the detected irregularity, accessing a contact information associated with a user profile; and

transmitting a message based on the contact information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user input further specifies a particular activity or time of day associated with the heart-beat profile, wherein the particular activity may be at least one of resting, exercising, working, or sleeping.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting an irregularity comprises detecting a heart rate that is above a threshold heart rate for a particular time of the day.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the user wearing the wearable computing device is performing a particular activity,

wherein the accessed heart rate calibration information depends on the particular activity.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the particular activity is determined based on a time of the day.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the particular activity is determined based on a user input.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the particular activity is one of sleeping, exercising, or sitting.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the particular activity is determined based on a time of the day.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon the detecting the irregularity, alerting the user of the wearable computing device through an interface functionality of the wearable computing device;

wherein the transmitting the message based on the contact information is performed a predetermined period of time after alerting the user.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, on an interface of the wearable computing device, medical information associated with the user profile.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the message is performed by a smartphone in communication with the wearable computing device.

12. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to;

receive a user input for the creation of a user heart-beat profile associated with a user wearing a wearable computing device, wherein the user input further specifies a particular activity or time of day associated with the heart-beat profile;

in response to the user input, monitor real-time heart rate information over a period of time from a sensor component coupled to the wearable computing device;

generate heart rate calibration information based on the monitoring;

store the heart rate calibration information in association with the particular activity or time of day;

receive, from the sensor component coupled to the wearable computing device, real-time heart rate information associated with the user;

access the heart rate calibration information associated with a user the heart-beat profile;

detect an irregularity based on a comparison between the real-time heart rate information and the heart rate calibration information;

based on the detected irregularity, access a contact information associated with a user profile; and

transmit a message based on the contact information.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the user input further specifies a particular activity or time of day associated with the heart-beat profile, wherein the particular activity may be at least one of resting, exercising, working, or sleeping.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein to detect an irregularity the at least one processor is configured to detect a heart rate that is above a threshold heart rate for a particular time of the day.

15. The system of claim 12, the at least one processor further configured to:

determine the user wearing the wearable computing device is performing a particular activity,

wherein the accessed heart rate calibration information depends on the particular activity.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the particular activity is determined based on a time of the day.

17. A tangible computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a user input for the creation of a user heart-beat profile associated with a user wearing a wearable computing device, wherein the user input further specifies a particular activity or time of day associated with the heart-beat profile;

in response to the user input, monitoring real-time heart rate information over a period of time from a sensor component coupled to the wearable computing device;

generating heart rate calibration information based on the monitoring;

storing the heart rate calibration information in association with the particular activity or time of day;

receiving, from the sensor component coupled to the wearable computing device, real-time heart rate information associated with the user;

accessing the heart rate calibration information associated with the heart-beat profile;

detecting an irregularity based on a comparison between the real-time heart rate information and the heart rate calibration information;

based on the detected irregularity, accessing a contact information associated with a user profile; and

transmitting a message based on the contact information.

18. The computer-readable device of claim 17, wherein:

the user input further specifies a particular activity or time of day associated with the heart-beat profile, wherein the particular activity may be at least one of resting, exercising, working, or sleeping.

19. The computer-readable device of claim 17, the detecting an irregularity further comprising detecting a heart rate that is above a threshold heart rate for a particular time of the day.

20. The computer-readable device of claim 17, the operations further comprising:

determining the user wearing the wearable computing device is performing a particular activity, wherein the accessed heart rate calibration information depends on the particular activity.