Infant monitoring system
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1. A monitoring system comprising:
- a processing block to process one or more images of an infant generated by a camera, and identify a condition with respect to said infant; and
an alert generator to cause generation of an alert signal if said identified condition warrants an external notification,said processing block and said alert generator are part of a unit placed in a vicinity of said infant,wherein said camera comprises;
a 3D (three dimensional) camera to generate said one or more images as one or more 3D (three-dimensional) images of said infant located in a field-of-view (FoV) of said 3D camera,wherein said infant is placed on a surface within said FoV,wherein said condition is a posture of said infant, said processing block further operable to;
extract skeletal information of said infant from said one or more 3D images;
determine body parts of interest from said skeletal information; and
determine said posture of said infant from said body parts of interest,wherein said processing block identifies said posture to be one of;
a belly-up posture, wherein a nose and both eyes of said infant are determined to be visible, and the nose of said infant is determined to point away from said surface;
a side posture, wherein only one ear of said infant is determined to be visible, wherein a level of a head bone of said infant is determined to be below a nearest shoulder and arm bones of said infant; and
a belly-down posture, wherein said nose and eyes of said infant are determined not be visible, or wherein said nose is determined to be pointing towards said surface, or wherein a head of said infant is determined to be at a same level as a torso of said infant, and wherein a hip of the infant is above the torso of said infant, and wherein knees of said infant are lower than or at a same level as a rest of a leg portion of said infant,wherein said alert generator generates said alert signal if said processing block identifies said posture of said infant to be said belly-down posture.
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Abstract
A monitoring system includes a sensor, a processing block and an alert generator. The sensor is used to generate images of an infant. The processing block processes one or more of the images and identifies a condition with respect to the infant. Then alert generator causes generation of an alert signal if the identified condition warrants external notification. In an embodiment, the sensor is a 3D camera, and the 3D camera, the processing block and the alert generator are part of a unit placed in the vicinity of the infant. The monitoring system further includes microphones and motion sensors to enable detection of sounds and movement.
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1. A monitoring system comprising:
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a processing block to process one or more images of an infant generated by a camera, and identify a condition with respect to said infant; and an alert generator to cause generation of an alert signal if said identified condition warrants an external notification, said processing block and said alert generator are part of a unit placed in a vicinity of said infant, wherein said camera comprises; a 3D (three dimensional) camera to generate said one or more images as one or more 3D (three-dimensional) images of said infant located in a field-of-view (FoV) of said 3D camera, wherein said infant is placed on a surface within said FoV, wherein said condition is a posture of said infant, said processing block further operable to; extract skeletal information of said infant from said one or more 3D images; determine body parts of interest from said skeletal information; and determine said posture of said infant from said body parts of interest, wherein said processing block identifies said posture to be one of; a belly-up posture, wherein a nose and both eyes of said infant are determined to be visible, and the nose of said infant is determined to point away from said surface; a side posture, wherein only one ear of said infant is determined to be visible, wherein a level of a head bone of said infant is determined to be below a nearest shoulder and arm bones of said infant; and a belly-down posture, wherein said nose and eyes of said infant are determined not be visible, or wherein said nose is determined to be pointing towards said surface, or wherein a head of said infant is determined to be at a same level as a torso of said infant, and wherein a hip of the infant is above the torso of said infant, and wherein knees of said infant are lower than or at a same level as a rest of a leg portion of said infant, wherein said alert generator generates said alert signal if said processing block identifies said posture of said infant to be said belly-down posture. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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