Animal Instrumentation
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Abstract
An approach to monitoring, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment or conditioning of animals such as horses does not require use of restrictive equipment such as treadmills or force plates and that can provide either or both of more or less immediate or continuous processing of data to perform the monitoring or diagnosis. One or more wireless sensors are attached to the animal, for example, to measure motion-related parameter associated with one or more parts of the animal. Sensor data is received from the sensors and processed to identify a characteristic of the motion of the animal, such as a quality of gait. The sensor data can also be used to avoid injury to the animal and/or the rider, and to verify the identity of an animal.
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32 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method comprising:
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receiving first data from one or more sensors attached to an animal, the sensors including a sensor configured to measure a parameter associated with motion of a part of the animal; determining an attribute of motion of the animal based on the received first data; comparing the determined attribute of motion with a prior attribute of motion determined based on second data previously received from one or more sensors attached to the animal; and evaluating a change in a condition of the animal on the basis of the comparison of the attributes of motion. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method comprising:
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attaching one or more sensors to an animal; receiving first data from the one or more sensors animal representative of a parameter associated with motion of a part of the animal; receiving second data representative of an anatomical configuration of the animal; determining a position of each of the one or more sensors on the animal based on the received first data and the received second data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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