BIOSIGNAL MEASURING DEVICE

• US 20150327815A1
• Filed: 05/07/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Roemsystem Corp.
• Original Assignee: Roemsystem Corp.
• Inventors: HWANG, JUNG JIN
• Application Number:
  US14/706,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327815A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/053 Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0537 Measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6824 Arm or wrist
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6825 Hand
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6828 Leg
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6829 Foot or ankle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7214 using signal cancellation, e.g. based on input of two identical physiological sensors spaced apart, or based on two signals derived from the same sensor, for different optical wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7225 Details of analog processing, e.g. isolation amplifier, gain or sensitivity adjustment, filtering, baseline or drift compensation A61B5/30, A61B5/316 take precedence; transformers for specific applications H01F38/00; amplifiers H03F
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7278 Artificial waveform generation or derivation, e.g. synthesising signals from measured signals A61B5/327 takes precedence

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a biosignal measuring device comprises two channels respectively detecting bio-potential signals from a human body through two electrodes, a biosignal extracting unit including two detecting means respectively amplifying the bio-potential signals through amplifiers, respectively, differentially operating the amplified bio-potential signals through a differential operator, and selectively adopting respective output signals of the two detecting means to obtain a biosignal, and an impedance correcting means adjusting the amplitude of the amplifiers of the two detecting means so that the power of a common mode noise signal caused by an impedance imbalance between the channels and included in the obtained biosignal is reduced to suppress the common mode noise signal.

Claims

1. A biosignal measuring device, comprising

two channels respectively detecting bio-potential signals from a human body through two electrodes;

a biosignal extracting unit including two detecting means respectively amplifying the bio-potential signals through amplifiers, respectively, differentially operating the amplified bio-potential signals through a differential operator, and selectively adopting respective output signals of the two detecting means to obtain a biosignal; and

to an impedance correcting means adjusting the amplitude of the amplifiers of the two detecting means so that the power of a common mode noise signal caused by an impedance imbalance between the channels and included in the obtained biosignal is reduced to suppress the common mode noise signal.

2. The biosignal measuring device of claim 1, wherein the impedance correcting means alternately selects the two detecting means, adjusts the amplitude of an amplifier of a selected detecting means until the amplitude of the amplifier of the selected detecting means is smaller than the amplitude of an amplifier of an unselected detecting means, and when the power of the common mode noise signal reaches a predetermined convergent condition, adopts, as the biosignal, a signal output from one of the two detecting means producing a relatively smaller common mode noise signal.

3. The biosignal measuring device of claim 1, wherein the impedance correcting means starts to adjust the amplitude of the amplifier of the selected detecting means after the amplitude of the amplifier of the selected detecting means reaches the amplitude of the amplifier of the unselected detecting means.

4. The biosignal measuring device of claim 2, further comprising a remaining noise suppressing means summing signals output from two amplifiers included in one of the two detecting means of the biosignal extracting unit to obtain a common mode noise signal, normalizing the obtained common mode noise signal to the power of the common mode noise signal included in the biosignal obtained by the biosignal extracting unit, and subtracting the normalized common mode noise signal from the biosignal obtained by the biosignal extracting unit to obtain a biosignal where a remaining common mode noise signal has been suppressed.

5. The biosignal measuring device of claim 4, wherein after the impedance correcting means is operated, the remaining noise suppressing means is operated to suppress the remaining common mode noise signal after suppressing the common mode noise signal that occurs due to the impedance imbalance between the channels.

6. The biosignal measuring device of claim 1, wherein one of the channels is connected to an amplifier connected to a negative input terminal of a differential operator of a first detecting means of the two detecting means and an amplifier connected to a positive input terminal of a differential operator of a second detecting means of the two detecting means, and the other of the channels is connected to an amplifier connected to a negative input terminal of the differential operator of the second detecting means of the two detecting means and an amplifier connected to a positive input terminal of the differential operator of the first detecting means of the two detecting means, wherein the biosignal extracting unit includes a differential operating unit differentially operating signals output from the two detecting means to obtain a biosignal, and wherein the impedance correcting means adjusts the respective amplifiers of the two detecting means, respectively connected to the channels, so that the power of a common mode noise signal included in the biosignal obtained by the differential operating unit is reduced.

7. The biosignal measuring device of claim 6, wherein the differential operating unit of the biosignal extracting unit normalizes the signals output from the two detecting means so that common mode noise signals included in the signals output from the two detecting means are substantially the same in power and then differentially operates the normalized output signals to obtain the biosignal.

8. The biosignal measuring device of claim 7, wherein the impedance correcting means previously designates a polarity of one of input terminals of the differential operator of one of the two detecting means and adjusts amplitude so that the amplitude of an amplifier connected to the input terminal of the designated polarity is larger than the amplitude of an amplifier connected to another input terminal of the differential operator.

9. The biosignal measuring device of claim 5, wherein the power of the common mode noise signal includes any one of power of a commercial electricity frequency component, power of a signal with a predetermined frequency applied to the human body, and power of a signal with a predetermined pattern.

10. The biosignal measuring device of claim 8, wherein the power of the common mode noise signal includes any one of power of a commercial electricity frequency component, power of a signal with a predetermined frequency applied to the human body, and power of a signal with a predetermined pattern.

11. A biosignal measuring device, comprising:

a first amplifier connected with a first channel;

a second amplifier connected with a second channel;

a third amplifier configured to differentially operate respective outputs of the first amplifier and the second amplifier to output a noise-suppressed signal; and

an impedance corrector configured to adjust the amplitude of the first amplifier and the second amplifier to reduce a common mode noise signal included in the noise-suppressed-signal.