SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM PROVIDING MARKING OF LIVING CREATURE PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL AT A SPECIFIC TIME

• US 20150272508A1
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UE Technology
• Original Assignee: UE Technology
• Inventors: CHIOUCHANG, MIN-HUI, HUNG, HAO-YI, LIANG, SHENG-CHUAN, LIN, YUNG-JIUN
• Application Number:
  US14/227,133
• Publication Number:
  US 20150272508A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1101 Detecting tremor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1128 using image analysis A61B5/1127 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14542 for measuring blood gases A61B5/14551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/389 Electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7289 Retrospective gating, i.e. associating measured signals or images with a physiological event after the actual measurement or image acquisition, e.g. by simultaneously recording an additional physiological signal during the measurement or image acquisition

Abstract

A signal processing system aims to mark living creature physiological signal at a specific time by monitoring living creature'"'"'s explicit characteristic behavior or ambient environment variation. It includes a trigger device to trigger a time marking device to generate a time signal, a signal processing device to receive the time signal through a transmission interface, and a detection device to measure and send a physiological signal of the living creature to the signal processing device. The signal processing device compensates delay time of the transmission interface, trigger device and time marking device to get a corrected time signal. Thus, the signal processing device can add the corrected time signal in the physiological signal or capture the physiological signal corresponding to a specific time of the corrected time signal to correctly interpret correlation between the living creature'"'"'s explicit characteristic behavior or ambient environment variation and the physiological signal.

Claims

1. A signal processing system providing marking of living creature physiological signal at a specific time to measure a physiological signal of a living creature, comprising:

a trigger device for generating an operation signal;

a time marking device connected to the trigger device to receive the operation signal and generate a time signal;

a detection device for measuring the physiological signal of the living creature;

a signal processing device connected to the detection device to receive the physiological signal; and

a transmission interface connected to the signal processing device and the time marking device;

wherein the signal processing device receives the time signal and compensates delay time of the transmission interface, the trigger device and the time marking device through signal processing to get a corrected time signal and obtain a correct time at which the physiological signal occurs according to the corrected time signal to allow the signal processing device to process the captured physiological signal.

2. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the signal processing device adds the corrected time signal in the captured physiological signal.

3. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the physiological signal captured by the signal processing device corresponds to a specific time of the corrected time signal.

4. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the trigger device is a visual image judgment device to monitor motion images of the living creature and generate the operation signal upon judging that an explicit characteristic behavior of the living creature has occurred.

5. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the trigger device is a visual image judgment device to monitor ambient environment images of the living creature and generate the operation signal upon judging that variation of the ambient environment images has occurred.

6. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the trigger device is a vibration sensor wearable by the living creature to generate the operation signal upon judging that an explicit characteristic behavior of the living creature has occurred.

7. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the trigger device is an actuator controllable by a holder and triggered by the holder to generate the operation signal when an explicit characteristic behavior of the living creature has been observed by the holder.

8. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the trigger device is an actuator controllable by a holder and triggered by the holder to generate the operation signal when variation of an ambient environment of the living creature has been observed by the holder.

9. The signal processing system of claim 1, wherein the trigger device is an ambience sensor to generate the operation signal upon detecting that variation of an ambient environment conform to a preset condition.

10. A signal processing system providing marking of living creature physiological signal at a specific time to measure physiological signals from different regions of a living creature, comprising:

a trigger device for generating an operation signal;

a time marking device connected to the trigger device to receive the operation signal and generate a time signal;

a plurality of detection devices each measuring one physiological signal from one region of the living creature;

a plurality of signal processing devices each being connected to one detection device to receive the physiological signal; and

a transmission interface connected to the plurality of signal processing devices and the time marking device;

wherein each signal processing device receives the time signal and compensates delay time of the transmission interface, the trigger device and the time marking device through signal processing to get a corrected time signal and obtain a correct time at which the physiological signal occurs according to the corrected time signal to allow the signal processing device to process the captured physiological signal.

11. A signal processing system providing marking of living creature physiological signal at a specific time to measure physiological signals of living creatures, comprising:

a trigger device for generating an operation signal;

a time marking device connected to the trigger device to receive the operation signal and generate a time signal;

a plurality of detection devices each measuring one physiological signal of one living creature;

a plurality of signal processing devices each being connected to one detection device to receive the physiological signal; and

a transmission interface connected to the plurality of signal processing devices and the time marking device;

wherein each signal processing device receives the time signal and compensates delay time of the transmission interface, the trigger device and the time marking device through signal processing to get a corrected time signal and obtain a correct time at which the physiological signal occurs according to the corrected time signal to allow the signal processing device to process the captured physiological signal.

12. A signal processing system providing marking of living creature physiological signal at a specific time to measure physiological signals from different regions of living creatures, comprising:

a trigger device for generating an operation signal;

a time marking device connected to the trigger device to receive the operation signal and generate a time signal;

a plurality of detection devices each measuring one physiological signal from one region of one living creature;

a plurality of signal processing devices each being connected to one detection device to receive the physiological signal; and

a transmission interface connected to the plurality of signal processing devices and the time marking device;

wherein each signal processing device receives the time signal and compensates delay time of the transmission interface, the trigger device and the time marking device through signal processing to get a corrected time signal and obtain a correct time at which the physiological signal occurs according to the corrected time signal to allow the signal processing device to process the captured physiological signal.