MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DERIVING HUMAN STATUS INFORMATION

• US 20080183052A1
• Filed: 10/27/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JB IP Acquisitions LLC
• Original Assignee: BodyMedia Incorporated (AliphCom Corp.)
• Inventors: Stivoric, John M., Kasabach, Christopher D., Teller, Eric, McCormack, Margaret A., Liden, Craig B., Pacione, Christopher D., Moss, John L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,033,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0209 adapted for power saving
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0295 adapted for recording user messages or annotations
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0456 Apparatus provided with a docking unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/411 Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/441 Skin evaluation, e.g. for skin disorder diagnosis
• 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: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

The invention is a wireless communications device, such as a cellular telephone, having sensors to generate data indicative of a physiological or contextual parameters of a user. A processor on the wireless communications device is adapted derive physiological state information of the user from the contextual or physiological parameters. The apparatus may include a central monitoring unit remote from the sensors for storing data and transmitting data to a recipient.

Claims

1. A system for detecting, monitoring and reporting human physiological information, comprising:

a. a sensor device adapted to be placed in proximity to an individual'"'"'s body, said sensor device including at least two of an accelerometer, a GSR sensor, a heart-related sensor, and a heat flux sensor, said sensor device being adapted to generate;

(i) data indicative of at least two of motion of said individual, the resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, heart-related data of said individual, and heat flow of said individual,

(ii) derived data from at least a portion of said data indicative of at least two of said motion of said individual, said resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, said heart-related data of said individual, and said heat flow of said individual, said derived data comprising a physiological parameter of said individual that cannot be wholly measured directly by any one of said accelerometer, said GSR sensor, said heat flux sensor and said heart-related sensor;

b. a central monitoring unit remote from said sensor device adapted to generate analytical status data from at least a portion of at least one of;

(i) at least two of said data indicative of at motion of said individual, said resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, said heart-related data of said individual, and said heat flow of said individual,

(ii) said derived data, and

(iii) said analytical status data,

said central monitoring unit including a data storage device for retrievably storing at least one of;

(i) said at least two of said data indicative of at motion of said individual, said resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, said heart-related data of said individual, and said heat flow of said individual,

(ii) said derived data, and

(iii) said analytical status data;

c. a data transfer means for establishing at least temporary electronic communication between said sensor device and said central monitoring unit; and

d. a means for transmitting at least one of;

(i) said at least two of said data indicative of at motion of said individual, said resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, said heart-related data of said individual, and said heat flow of said individual,

(ii) said derived data, and

(iii) said analytical status data to a recipient.

2. A sensor device adapted to be placed in proximity to an individual'"'"'s body, comprising:

a. at least two of an accelerometer adapted to generate data indicative of motion of said individual, a GSR sensor adapted to generate data indicative of the resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, a heart-related sensor adapted to generated data indicative of said individual'"'"'s heart, and a heat flux sensor adapted to generate data indicative of the heat flow of said individual;

b. a processor coupled to at least two of said accelerometer, said GSR sensor, said heart-related sensor, and said heat flow sensor, said processor being adapted to generate derived data from at least a portion of at least two of said data indicative of motion of said individual, data indicative of the resistance of said individual'"'"'s skin to electric current, data indicative of said individual'"'"'s heart, and data indicative of the heat flow of said individual, said derived data comprising a physiological parameter of said individual that cannot be wholly measured directly by any one of said accelerometer, said GSR sensor, said heart-related sensor, and said heat flux sensor;

c. means for inputting and outputting data from said sensor device; and

d. a computer housing for containing said processor.