Assessment and cure of brain concussion and medical conditions by determining mobility

• US 20140024971A1
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adair, Richard D., Bunn, Frank E.
• Original Assignee: Adair, Richard D., Bunn, Frank E.
• Inventors: Adair, Richard D., Bunn, Frank E.
• Application Number:
  US13/550,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20140024971A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/595
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/103 Detecting, measuring or recording devices for testing the shape, pattern, colour, size or movement of the body or parts thereof, for diagnostic purposes A61B5/08 takes precedence; measuring aids for tailors A41H1/00; measuring instruments specially adapted for dentistry A61C19/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/112 Gait analysis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1124 Determining motor skills
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1128 using image analysis A61B5/1127 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4076 Diagnosing or monitoring particular conditions of the nervous system A61B5/4821, A61B5/4824 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4082 Diagnosing or monitoring movement diseases, e.g. Parkinson, Huntington or Tourette
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4088 Diagnosing of monitoring cognitive diseases, e.g. Alzheimer, prion diseases or dementia
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4094 Diagnosing or monitoring seizure diseases, e.g. epilepsy

Abstract

A mobility assessment determines the abnormalities and impairments in a subject'"'"'s movements by administering mobility and mobility impairment active logic engine algorithms to the video data of the subject'"'"'s movement. The determined abnormalities and impairments are administered to known norms for a particular test to determine if the abnormalities and impairments are normal or not. The determined abnormalities and impairments can be administered to known norms for brain concussions or injuries and for Multiple Sclerosis or Alzheimer'"'"'s Dementia to classify whether or not the concussion, injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer'"'"'s Dementia condition exists and to determine the condition'"'"'s phase and recovery rehabilitation progress. The results may be administered to determine a treatment regime to restore the subject'"'"'s health thereby cure the condition.

Claims

1. A system for determining the mobility and mobility impairment of a subject, said systems comprising a motion sensor or sensors to observe movement of a subject and determine a data stream representative of such movement, an active logic engine administered to determine abnormalities and impairments in such motions and determine similarities of said abnormalities or impairments to at least one known norm and an allocator operable in said active logic engine to determine whether said abnormalities or impairments are within said known norm and a means for recording said determinations.

2. A system according to claim 1 including a pair of databases, each of which provides a respective known norm determined from the contents of the database, said active logic engine allocator administered to determine said abnormalities or impairments to said known norms provided by said database to determine relationships of the said abnormalities or impairments to said norms.

3. A system according to claim 2 wherein said active logic engine is operably administered to add said determined abnormalities or impairments to one of said databases.

4. A system according to claim 3 wherein said active logic engine administers mobility or mobility impairment algorithms to determine abnormalities or impairments.

5. A system according to claim 4 wherein said active logic engine incorporates an active logic decision engine to administer said mobility or mobility impairment algorithms.

6. A system according to claim 2 including a mobility and mobility impairment condition database containing records of abnormalities and impairments of prior assessment determinations to permit the said determined relationships to be administered to prior assessments for determining further relationship outputs.

7. A system according to claim 6 wherein records of said mobility and mobility impairment condition database include categories of condition to permit said outputs to be administered for determination of assessment differential to selected conditions and a determination of a classification of said condition determined.

8. A system according to claim 7 including a treatment database to permit administration of said classification to determine a treatment regime as a cure remedial action for said condition.

14. A method according to claim 1 where said active logic engine incorporates administration of active logic engine algorithms for the purpose of determination of video data of a subject'"'"'s movement, using said allocator administration of mathematical algorithms permitting determinations of relationships and assessment of deviations from calibrated “

standard”

determinations of “

normal”

mobility of healthy subjects to determine the mobility impairment potential for existence of brain concussion of said subject.

15. A system according to claim 8 were said cure is for brain concussion.

16. A method according to claim 14 where said administration of said active logic engine can determine the mobility impairment potential for existence of brain injury of said subject.

17. A system according to claim 8 were said cure is for brain injury.

18. A method according to claim 14 where said administrations of active logic engine algorithms can determine, frame by frame, the video of the movement of said subject contained in the said video data by administering isolating determinations of the subject from the background and administering a set of control points on the image that describe the movement and administering a grid segmentation on the image with which the said administrations of said active logic engine algorithms can determine electronic or mathematical and matrix determined signatures in the time domain that describe the mobility impairment as a determination of brain concussion of said subject being viewed and can record said determined signatures in databases.

19. A method according to claim 14 where said administration of said active logic engine can determine the mobility impairment including the deterioration of the walking gait of a subject to determine the potential existence of brain related illness including but not limited to Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer'"'"'s dementia.

20. A method according to claim 14 where said administrations of active logic engine algorithms can be administered to said prior records of said conditions to determine standard calibrated information defining impaired mobility of subjects due to concussion influences on the body for administering determination of assessment differential to real time or recorded information determined from subsequent said observed video data of a subject.

21. A system according to claim 2 wherein said active logic engine is administered to add said determined abnormalities or impairments to one of said databases where said abnormalities or impairments are determined as calibrated “

standard”

determinations of “

stages of impairment”

for subjects at a given stage of a given brain related concussion or injury and stores said stages in said databases.

22. A system according to claim 2 wherein said abnormalities or impairments are said determined for said calibrated “

standard”

determinations of said “

stages of impairment”

for subjects wherein said abnormalities or impairments are disabilities of said subjects due to, such as but not limited to, diseases, injuries, accidents, such as but not limited to, work related activities, recreational activities, domestic activities, including but not limited to activities that activate or reactivate the subject'"'"'s present or prior physical or mental conditions, abnormalities or impairments.

9. A method of determining mobility and mobility impairment of a subject comprising the steps of recording motion of said subject, determining condition of said subject for abnormalities and impairments of such movement, determining relationships of said abnormalities and impairments to known norms and determining whether said abnormalities and impairments are within a known norm.

10. A method according to claim 9 wherein said abnormalities and impairments relationships are determined administering a mobility and mobility impairment assessment algorithm.

11. A method according to claim 10 including administering the step of generating said known norms from a database of prior algorithm determined relationships.

12. A method according to claim 11 including the step of administering algorithm determined relationships of said abnormalities and impairments to prior records of said subject.

13. A method according to claim 11 wherein said abnormalities are administered for determination of relationships to prior assessments of different conditions.