MOTION/ACTIVITY, HEART-RATE AND RESPIRATION FROM A SINGLE CHEST-WORN SENSOR, CIRCUITS, DEVICES, PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS
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1. A respiration monitoring device comprising:
- an accelerometer for application to the chest, whereby acceleration is possible due to both non-respiratory body motion and respiration; and
an electronic circuit responsive to an acceleration signal from said accelerometer and operable to separate from the acceleration signal a heart signal, a respiration signal, and a substantially non-respiration body motion signal.
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Abstract
A respiration monitoring device includes an accelerometer (210) for application to the chest, whereby acceleration is possible due to both non-respiratory body motion and respiration, and an electronic circuit (DSP) responsive to an acceleration signal from the accelerometer and operable to separate from the acceleration signal a heart signal, a respiration signal, and a substantially non-respiration body motion signal. Other devices, sensor articles, electronic circuit units, and processes are also disclosed.
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1. A respiration monitoring device comprising:
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an accelerometer for application to the chest, whereby acceleration is possible due to both non-respiratory body motion and respiration; and an electronic circuit responsive to an acceleration signal from said accelerometer and operable to separate from the acceleration signal a heart signal, a respiration signal, and a substantially non-respiration body motion signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A process for physiological monitoring comprising:
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receiving an acceleration signal; filtering the acceleration signal to separate a heart signal from a slow wander signal; deriving a respiration signal from the heart signal; and subtracting a signal based on the respiration signal from the slow wander signal to produce a substantially non-respiration body motion signal. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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24. A physiological sensor article comprising:
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an accelerometer for application to the chest, whereby acceleration is possible due to both non-respiratory body motion and respiration; an electronic circuit responsive to said accelerometer and operable to derive a first signal representing heart pulses having amplitude modulation and further to generate a second signal that varies responsive to the amplitude modulation; and a signal interface operable to transmit respiration information based on the second signal. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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27. An electronic process comprising removing motion-dependent wander from an accelerometer sensor to obtain a heart sound signal having successive peak amplitudes, deriving electronically beat-by-beat a signal representing heart sound peak amplitudes, and transmitting respiration information based on the heart sound peak amplitudes.
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28. An electronic circuit unit for use with a signal input, the electronic circuit unit comprising:
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a signal interface to receive and convert the signal input to an electronic form for further processing; an electronic processing circuit fed by said signal interface and including a filter operable to separate a heart signal from a slow wander signal, to derive a respiration signal from the heart signal, and to subtract the respiration signal from the slow wander signal to produce a substantially non-respiration body motion signal; and a modem coupled to transmit at least some information generated by said electronic processing circuit. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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