Multifunctional body/motion signal receiving and display device

• US 20040224718A1
• Filed: 05/09/2003
• Published: 11/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yu Y.U. Chen
• Original Assignee: Yu Y.U. Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Yu Yu
• Application Number:
  US10/434,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20040224718A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/553.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6823 Trunk, e.g., chest, back, abdomen, hip
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets

Abstract

A multifunctional body/motion signal receiving and display device includes a wireless receiving and display unit that includes at least two carrier frequency receiving channels. At least one first-type transmitting unit, each of which is adapted to emit a series of wireless signals in correspondence to the body signal on a first carrier frequency. At one second-type transmitting unit, each of which is adapted to emit a series of wireless signals in correspondence to the motion signal on a second carrier frequency that is different from the first carrier frequency. The wireless receiving and display unit is adapted to simultaneously receive the wireless signal emitted from the first-type transmitting unit on the first carrier frequency through the first carrier frequency receiving channel and receive the wireless signal emitted from the second-type transmitting unit on the second carrier frequency through the second carrier frequency receiving channel.

Claims

1. A device for receiving and displaying at least a body signal and a motion signal of a user, comprising:

a wireless receiving and display unit with at least a first carrier frequency receiving channel and a second carrier frequency receiving channels;

at least one first-type transmitting unit, each of which is adapted to emit a series of wireless signals in correspondence to the body signal on a first carrier frequency; and

at least one second-type transmitting unit, each of which is adapted to emit a series of wireless signals in correspondence to the motion signal on a second carrier frequency that is different from the first carrier frequency; and

the wireless receiving and display unit being adapted to simultaneously receive the wireless signal emitted from the first-type transmitting unit on the first carrier frequency through the first carrier frequency receiving channel and receive the wireless signal emitted from the second-type transmitting unit on the second carrier frequency through the second carrier frequency receiving channel.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first-type transmitting unit comprises a wireless heartbeat-sensing device for detecting and sensing a heartbeat pulse signal of the user.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the wireless heartbeat-sensing device comprises a heartbeat sensor, a signal amplifier, a signal processing circuit, a signal shaping circuit, a transmitting circuit and a transmitting antenna, the user'"'"'s heartbeat pulse signal being detected and sensed by the heartbeat sensor, amplified by the signal amplifier, processed by the signal processing circuit, shaped by the signal shaping circuit and then transmitted on the first carrier frequency by the transmitting circuit via the transmitting antenna.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second-type transmitting unit comprises a wireless speed-sensing device for detecting and sensing a moving speed of a bicycle or a person.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the wireless speed-sensing device comprises a speed signal sensor, a signal processing circuit, a signal shaping circuit, a microprocessor and a transmitting circuit, a moving speed of a bicycle being detected by the speed signal sensor, processed by the signal processing circuit, shaped by the signal shaping circuit, calculated at the microprocessor, and then emitted on the second carrier frequency by the transmitting circuit via a transmitting antenna.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second-type transmitting unit comprises a pedometer for detecting and sensing an accumulated number of paces of the user.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the pedometer comprises a pace signal sensor, a signal amplifier, a signal processing circuit, a signal shaping circuit, a microprocessor, and a transmitting circuit, an accumulated number of paces of a walker being detected and sensed by the pace signal sensor, amplified by the signal amplifier processed by the signal processing circuit, shaped by the signal shaping circuit, calculated at the microprocessor, and then emitted on the second carrier frequency by the transmitting circuit via a transmitting antenna.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless receiving and display unit comprises at least one receiving antenna, at least one receiving circuit, a signal amplifier, a signal processing circuit, a signal shaping circuit, a microprocessor, and a display, the signal on the first carrier frequency from the first-type transmitting unit and the signal on the second carrier frequency from the second-type transmitting unit being received by the receiving antenna, amplified by the signal amplifier, processed by the signal processing circuit, shaped by the signal shaping circuit, calculated at the microprocessor and then shown on the display.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises;

an audio device;

an audio signal receiving and processing circuit for receiving and processing an audio signal generated by the audio device; and

an audio signal output circuit for outputting the processed audio signal transmitted from the audio signal receiving and processing circuit.

10. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the audio device comprises a flash memory module and a MP3 decoding circuit, in which a sound data is stored in the flash memory module, decoded by the MP3 decoding circuit and then sent to the audio signal receiving and processing circuit.

11. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the audio source device comprises a FM signal receiving circuit.

12. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the audio source device comprises an AM signal receiving circuit.

13. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the audio signal from the audio signal output circuit is transmitted to a wired earphone via an audio output terminal and a wire plugged to the audio output terminal.

14. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the audio signal from the audio signal output circuit is sent to and emitted by a wireless audio signal transmitter to a wireless earphone.