NON-TOUCH OPTICAL DETECTION OF VITAL SIGNS
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1. An apparatus of motion amplification to communicate biological vital signs, the apparatus comprising:
- a cropper that is operable to receive at least two images and that is operable to crop each of the images to exclude a border area of the images, generating at least two cropped images;
a skin-pixel-identifier that is operably coupled to the cropper and that identifies pixel values that are representative of the skin in at least two cropped images;
a spatial bandpass filter that is operably coupled to the skin-pixel-identifier and that processes output of the skin-pixel-identifier;
a regional facial clusterial module that is operably coupled to the spatial bandpass filter and that applies spatial clustering to the output of the spatial bandpass filter;
a temporal bandpass filter that is operably coupled to the regional facial clusterial module and that is applied to output of the regional facial clusterial module;
a temporal-variation identifier that is operably coupled to the temporal bandpass filter and that identifies temporal variation of the output of the temporal bandpass filter;
a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the temporal-variation identifier that generates at least one vital sign from the temporal variation; and
a display device that is operably coupled to the vital-sign generator that is operable to display the at least one vital sign.
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Abstract
A non-touch thermometer senses temperature from a digital infrared sensor is described. A microprocessor is operably coupled to a camera from which patient vital signs are determined. A digital signal representing a temperature without conversion from analog is transmitted from the digital infrared sensor. A temporal variation of images is generated from which a heart rate and the respiratory rate can be determined and displayed or stored.
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1. An apparatus of motion amplification to communicate biological vital signs, the apparatus comprising:
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a cropper that is operable to receive at least two images and that is operable to crop each of the images to exclude a border area of the images, generating at least two cropped images; a skin-pixel-identifier that is operably coupled to the cropper and that identifies pixel values that are representative of the skin in at least two cropped images; a spatial bandpass filter that is operably coupled to the skin-pixel-identifier and that processes output of the skin-pixel-identifier; a regional facial clusterial module that is operably coupled to the spatial bandpass filter and that applies spatial clustering to the output of the spatial bandpass filter; a temporal bandpass filter that is operably coupled to the regional facial clusterial module and that is applied to output of the regional facial clusterial module; a temporal-variation identifier that is operably coupled to the temporal bandpass filter and that identifies temporal variation of the output of the temporal bandpass filter; a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the temporal-variation identifier that generates at least one vital sign from the temporal variation; and a display device that is operably coupled to the vital-sign generator that is operable to display the at least one vital sign. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A non-touch thermometer to measure temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:
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a microprocessor; a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor; a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor; a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and providing at least two images to the microprocessor; a display device operably coupled to the microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor including a pixel-examination-module configured to examine pixel values of the at least two images, a temporal-variation module to determine temporal variation of the pixel values between the at least two images being below a particular threshold, a signal processing module configured to amplify the temporal variation resulting in amplified temporal variation, and a visualizer to visualize a pattern of flow of blood in the amplified temporal variation in the at least two images. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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312. A device to measure temperature, the device comprising:
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a microprocessor; a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor; a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor; a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and providing at least two images to the microprocessor; a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports; and a display device operably coupled to the microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine the temperature from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal and the microprocessor including a cropper that is operable to receive at least two images and operable to crop the images to exclude a border area of the images, generating at least two cropped images, the microprocessor also including a temporal-variation-amplifier of at least two cropped images that is operable to generate a temporal variation, the microprocessor also including a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the temporal-variation-amplifier that is operable to generate at least one vital sign from the temporal variation and the microprocessor also is operably coupled to the vital-sign generator that is operable to display the at least one vital sign. - View Dependent Claims (318, 319, 320, 322, 323)
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