Indentifying One or More Activities of an Animate or Inanimate Object

• US 20110066383A1
• Filed: 09/16/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Newyu, Inc. (Abbott Laboratories)
• Original Assignee: Wellcore Corporation
• Inventors: Nadkarni, Vijay, Jangle, Jeetendra
• Granted Patent: US 8,560,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/726 using Wavelet transforms
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/00 Aspects of pattern recognition specially adapted for signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying an activity of an animate or inanimate object are disclosed. One method includes identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of a device attached to the animate or inanimate object. The activity of the animate or inanimate object can be identified by matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity.

Claims

22-1. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein identifying each elemental motion comprises:

an accelerometer operative to generate an acceleration signature based on sensed acceleration of the device;

the controller operative to match the acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with a type of motion;

the controller operative to identify the type of motion of the object based on the matching of the acceleration signature with the stored acceleration signature.

30. A system for identifying an activity of a animate or inanimate object, comprising:

means for identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of an device attached to the animate or inanimate object; and

means for identifying the activity of the animate or inanimate object, comprising matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity;

wherein identifying each elemental motion comprises;

means for generating an acceleration signature based on sensed acceleration of the device;

means for matching the acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with a type of motion;

means for identifying the type of motion of the device based on the matching of the acceleration signature with the stored acceleration signature.