HEART MONITORS AND PROCESSES WITH ACCELEROMETER MOTION ARTIFACT CANCELLATION, AND OTHER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
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1. A heart monitor comprising:
- a single chest accelerometer;
an analog signal conditioning and sampling section responsive to said accelerometer to produce a digital signal substantially representing acceleration; and
a digital processor operable to filter the acceleration signal into a signal affected by body motion and to cancel the body motion signal from the acceleration signal, thereby to produce an acceleration-based cardiac-related signal.
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Abstract
A heart monitor includes a single chest accelerometer (210), an analog signal conditioning and sampling section (215) responsive to said accelerometer to produce a digital signal substantially representing acceleration, and a digital processor (220) operable to filter the acceleration signal into a signal affected by body motion and to cancel the body motion signal from the acceleration signal, thereby to produce an acceleration-based cardiac-related signal. Other processes and electronic systems are also disclosed.
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1. A heart monitor comprising:
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a single chest accelerometer; an analog signal conditioning and sampling section responsive to said accelerometer to produce a digital signal substantially representing acceleration; and a digital processor operable to filter the acceleration signal into a signal affected by body motion and to cancel the body motion signal from the acceleration signal, thereby to produce an acceleration-based cardiac-related signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A data communication system comprising:
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a short range wireless circuit; a modem; and a digital processor operable to digitally low-pass filter in response to said short range wireless circuit with a first rolloff frequency less than about one hundred Hertz to produce a first signal, and said digital processor further operable to apply a smoothing filter procedure to produce a slow wander signal, and to cancel the slow wander signal from the first signal to produce a second signal, and to generate data based on counting peaks based on said second signal and feed a third signal representing the data to said modem. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An electronic process comprising:
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sensing an original signal with an accelerometer; digitally low-pass filtering in response to the original signal and with a rolloff frequency less than about one hundred Hertz to produce a first filtered signal including components among which is a slow wander; digitally smoothing-filtering in response to the first filtered signal according to a procedure that substantially follows the slow wander in the first filtered signal thereby to produce a slow wander signal; and canceling the slow wander signal from said first filtered signal. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An electronic signal processing system comprising:
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a streaming data interface; a nonvolatile memory holding instructions representing a filtering process and coefficients; and an electronic processor coupled to said nonvolatile memory to operate in accordance with the instructions, said processor having an input coupled to said streaming data interface for a streaming data signal including noise and operable to digitally electronically execute a smoothing-filter-based procedure on the streaming data signal by a multiply-accumulation with at least some of the coefficients stored in said nonvolatile memory, the coefficients and procedure of a type adapted to reduce the noise and to largely remove slow variations thereby to produce a residue stream, said streaming data interface having an output for a signal based on the residue stream. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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