PAUSE ADVISER SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF

• US 20120133515A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASP Technology ApS
• Original Assignee: ASP Technology ApS
• Inventors: Palshof, Troels Mikael
• Application Number:
  US13/380,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20120133515A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/575
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/22 Psychological state; Stress level or workload
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/221 Physiology, e.g. weight, heartbeat, health or special needs
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/06 indicating a condition of sleep, e.g. anti-dozing alarms

Abstract

The invention relates to a pause advice device comprising: a pause algorithm being adapted to receive input from the input arrangement, said input arrangement being adapted to provide information to said pause algorithm to start-up the pause advice device, said pause algorithm being adapted to receive a personal user profile from the input arrangement, said pause algorithm being adapted to provide user stimuli via said display means and/or via said audio source, said pause algorithm being adapted to receive response input from a user based on a users response to said user stimuli provided via said display means and/or via said audio source, said pause algorithm being adapted to provide an alarm signal via said display means and/or via said audio source, said alarm signal signaling preferred time for said user for resting according to said pause algorithm.

Claims

1-36. -36. (canceled)

37. A pause advice device, said pause advice device comprising:

a housing,

an input arrangement for receiving input from a user,

an audio source for providing an audio signal,

a display arrangement for providing a visual signal,

an internal clock for keeping track of time,

a data processing unit,

a data storage circuitry for storing data,

a pause algorithm embedded in said data storage circuitry, and

power arrangement for supplying power,

said pause algorithm being adapted to receive input from the input arrangement,

said input arrangement being adapted to receive input in the form of a personal user profile,

said input arrangement being adapted to provide information to said pause algorithm to start-up calculation of a fatigue level of said user,

said pause algorithm being adapted to receive said personal user profile from the input arrangement,

said pause algorithm being adapted to provide user stimuli via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source,

said pause algorithm being adapted to receive response input from a user based on a user'"'"'s response to said user stimuli provided via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source,

said pause algorithm being adapted to provide an alarm signal via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source, said alarm signal signaling preferred time for said user for resting according to said pause algorithm,

said alarm signal being provided at least on the basis of said response input and on said personal user profile.

38. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said input arrangement (IA) being adapted to receive current fatigue level from said user.

39. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said pause algorithm being adapted to determine a fatigue level of a user based on said personal user profile.

40. The pause advice device according to claim 39, wherein said pause algorithm being adapted to determine a fatigue level of a user additionally based on said current fatigue level and characteristics of said response input.

41. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said pause algorithm is configured for provide user stimuli and receive response input repeatedly at intervals wherein said intervals being determined on the basis of said fatigue level of the user.

42. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said pause advice device comprises a data storage circuitry comprising reference data used by the pause algorithm to interpret the personal user profile.

43. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said personal user profile can be established by means of additional resources external to said pause advice device.

44. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said alarm signal is an advice to said user of the preferred time for resting and wherein said preferred time for resting occurs when said fatigue level (FL) reaches a fatigue level threshold (FLT).

45. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said pause advice device being adapted to communicate to said user when said rest is over via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source.

46. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said input arrangement comprises a motion sensor for measuring movement of said pause advice device initiating said pause algorithm.

47. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said housing encapsulates said pause advice device and at least one further application.

48. The pause advice device according to claim 47, wherein said further application is a dashboard of a car.

49. The pause advice device according to claim 47, wherein said further application is an application of a car.

50. The pause advice device according to claim 47, wherein said further application is a smartphone.

51. The pause advice device according to claim 47, wherein said further application is a handheld GPS.

52. The pause advice device according to claim 47, wherein said data processor unit, said motion sensor, said display arrangement, said audio source, said input arrangement, said internal clock and said power supply may be shared between said pause advice device and said further application.

53. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein an output/input arrangement facilitates download and/or upload of data between said pause advice device and an external device, such as a PC, a smart phone or the like.

54. The pause advice device according to claim 37, wherein said pause advice device facilitates that said motion sensor provides acceleration information relating to situations of being accelerated or decelerated in a direction parallel to a forward direction of movement, and/or in a direction perpendicular to said forward direction of movement in the horizontal plane of movement and/or in a direction perpendicular to said forward direction of movement in the vertical plane of movement, or in any combination of such movements, thereby providing information relating to the degree of monotony of said movement of said pause advice device, wherein said pause algorithm being adapted to receive said input in the form of said acceleration information, and wherein said pause algorithm is adapted to calculate said fatigue level on the basis of inter alia said acceleration information.

55. The pause advice device according to claim 54, wherein said pause algorithm (PA) being adapted to delay, in a predetermined amount of time, the provision of a user stimuli and/or an alarm signal occasioned on the basis of information not relating to acceleration information in a situation in which the acceleration information, that is being provided to the pause algorithm (PA), indicates that a predefined acceleration is encountered in direction parallel to a forward direction of movement, and/or in a direction perpendicular to said forward direction of movement in the horizontal plane of movement and/or in a direction perpendicular to said forward direction of movement in the vertical plane of movement, or in any combination of such movements, thereby indicating that a non-monotony movement of the pause advice device (PAD) taking place, and thereby avoiding interaction with the user in a difficult driving situation, to minimize any distracting elements from the pause advise device.

57. Means of transportation such as a vehicle, vessel or a plane comprising a pause advice device according to claim 37.

56. A multifunctional device comprising a pause advice device and one or more further applications, which pause advice device comprising:

a housing,

an input arrangement for receiving input from a user,

an audio source for providing an audio signal,

a display arrangement for providing a visual signal,

an internal clock for keeping track of time,

a data processing unit,

a data storage circuitry for storing data,

a pause algorithm embedded in said data storage circuitry, and

power arrangement for supplying power,

said pause algorithm being adapted to receive input from the input arrangement,

said input arrangement being adapted to receive input in the form of a personal user profile,

said input arrangement being adapted to provide information to said pause algorithm to start-up calculation of a fatigue level of said user,

said pause algorithm being adapted to receive said personal user profile from the input arrangement,

said pause algorithm being adapted to provide user stimuli via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source,

said pause algorithm being adapted to receive response input from a user based on a user'"'"'s response to said user stimuli provided via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source,

said pause algorithm being adapted to provide an alarm signal via said display arrangement and/or via said audio source, said alarm signal signaling preferred time for said user for resting according to said pause algorithm,

said alarm signal being provided at least on the basis of said response input and on said personal user profile.

58. Means of transportation such as a vehicle, vessel or a plane comprising a multifunctional device according to claim 56.