STICK SHAPED ANALYTICAL APPARATUS OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY

• US 20100256509A1
• Filed: 07/16/2009
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Yang-Ming University
• Original Assignee: National Yang-Ming University
• Inventors: YANG, Ching-Hsiu, KUO, Bo-Jau
• Application Number:
  US12/504,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20100256509A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02405 Determining heart rate variability
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/25 Bioelectric electrodes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/28 for electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/332 Portable devices specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6887 mounted on external non-worn devices, e.g. non-medical devices

Abstract

The present invention provides a stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability having a view to simplifying the analytical process and carrying out automation. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability mainly includes a plurality of electrodes; an electrocardiogram collector; a heart rate variability chip and a transmission interface. It is noted that the heart rate variability chip further comprises: a feature extraction unit and a decision making unit. In practice, the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability put forth in the present invention is quite time-saving and easy to use, as it prints out a person heart rate variability analytical result and autonomic function data in just five minutes after a plurality of electrodes are pressed simultaneously.

Claims

1. A stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability comprises:

a plurality of electrodes, attached on the surface of the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability, used for capturing a heartbeat and an electrocardiogram signal of a person;

an electrocardiogram collector, fabricated in the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability, used for collecting and converting the heartbeat and the electrocardiogram signal of a person to proceed heart rate variability;

a heart rate variability chip, fabricated in the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability, used for processing the heart rate variability of the electrocardiogram collector to decide a feature of the heart rate variability from the electrocardiogram collector;

a transmission interface, used for transmitting a deciding result of the heart rate variability chip to an extra display unit, being one of universal serial bus(USB), RS232, universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter (UART), wireless electro-wave, and digital interface of optical wave transmission.

2. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of electrodes are one of reactive electrodes and the input electrodes of traditional electrocardiogram and not restricted by stick shaped input.

3. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, wherein the extra display unit is one of computer, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) system, cell phone, and global positioning system (GPS).

4. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heart rate variability chip comprises:

a feature extraction unit, used for capturing a feature of the heart rate variability of the electrocardiogram collector and sending the feature of the heart rate variability back to the heart rate variability chip; and

a decision making unit, used for deciding the feature of the heart rate variability from the heart rate variability chip.

5. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 4, wherein the feature extraction unit comprises of a time domain analysis of the heart rate variability and a frequency domain analysis of the heart rate variability.

6. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 5, wherein the time domain analysis of the heart rate variability can obtain heart rate and standard deviation of heart rate variability.

7. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 5, wherein the frequency domain analysis of the heart rate variability can obtain the low frequency power, the high frequency power, and the ratio of the low frequency power divided by the high frequency power.

8. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 4, wherein the decision making unit sets up a first threshold value and a second threshold value, based on every feature of the heart rate variability from the feature extraction unit.

9. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 8, wherein the decision making unit decides ‘

OK’

, when the feature of the heart rate variability of the decision making unit is between the first threshold value and the second threshold value.

10. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 8, wherein the decision making unit decides ‘

Help’

, when the feature of the heart rate variability of the decision making unit is higher than the first threshold value or lower than the second threshold value.

11. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrocardiogram collector comprises:

an electrocardiogram signal detector, used for capturing the electrocardiogram signal of a person;

a signal amplifier, used for amplifying the electrocardiogram signal;

a filter, used for filtering the electrocardiogram signal;

an analog-to-digital converter, connected to the signal amplifier for digitizing the electrocardiogram signal; and

a digital input/output device, connected to the analog-to-digital converter as a communication interface of the electrocardiogram signal.

12. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 11, wherein the signal amplifier and the filter are one of differential amplifier and single-ended digital amplifier.

13. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dimension of the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability is around 13 mm×

130 mm.

14. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, wherein the process flow chart appeared in the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability can be used in the one of cell phone system, personal digital assistant (PDA)system, 3C product, watch and thermometer.

15. The stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability as claimed in claim 1, comprising else:

a battery, used for providing the power supply of the stick shaped analytical apparatus of heart rate variability, being one of rechargeable type lithium battery, nickel-metal hydride battery, nickel-cadmium battery cadmium, and one circle battery.