Animal Instrumentation
First Claim
1. A method for monitoring a characteristic of motion of an animal comprising:
- attaching multiple sensors to the animal, said sensors including sensors for measuring motion-related parameters associated with limbs or other parts of the animal;
receiving sensor data from the sensors;
processing the data received from the sensors, including identifying the characteristics of the motion of the animal based on said data; and
presenting a graphical representation of the characteristics to a user in a form associated with a view of the animal.
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Abstract
An approach to instrumentation and telemetry of physiological and physical parameters of an animal and its environment has particular application to horses. This approach improves the effectiveness of one or more of evaluation, diagnosis, care conditioning or monitoring of animals because it does not require use of restrictive equipment such as force plates or treadmills, and it can provide objective and quantitative data that is complete, accurate, precise and reproducible, and this data can be obtained under real-world conditions, for either or both of more or less real-time or continuous processing of data to perform the monitoring or diagnosis. That is, in such an approach objective and quantitative data can be collected under real-world conditions and this data can be processed and the information can be displayed in a form that is familiar to experts in real-time locally, or can be stored for subsequent retrieval or transmitted for remote review.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for monitoring a characteristic of motion of an animal comprising:
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attaching multiple sensors to the animal, said sensors including sensors for measuring motion-related parameters associated with limbs or other parts of the animal; receiving sensor data from the sensors; processing the data received from the sensors, including identifying the characteristics of the motion of the animal based on said data; and presenting a graphical representation of the characteristics to a user in a form associated with a view of the animal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system for monitoring an animal comprising:
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a sensor subsystem fixed to the animal, including at least one sensor for measuring a physical parameter associated with at least one limb or the animal; a computing subsystem for processing and display of data provided by the sensor subsystem; a communication subsystem coupling the sensor subsystem and the computing subsystem for passing sensor data from the sensor subsystem to the computing subsystem; and a presentation subsystem coupled to the computing subsystem for presenting a graphical representation of the characteristics to a user in a form associated with a view of the animal.
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25. A system for monitoring an animal comprising:
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a communication hub for attaching to an animal, said communication hub including a receiver for accepting sensor data from sensors attached to the animal and a transmitter for providing data based on the accepted sensor data; and a plurality of sensors, each including a transmitter for providing sensor data to the hub; and a calibration subsystem for automatically configuring the system according to at least one of;
available sensors, locations of sensors, and a monitoring application.
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