Human Body Movement State Monitoring Method And Device

• US 20160000359A1
• Filed: 12/25/2014
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Goertek Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Goertek Incorporated
• Inventors: Li, Bo, Wang, Fupo, Li, Na
• Application Number:
  US14/770,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20160000359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1123 Discriminating type of movement, e.g. walking or running A61B5/1116, A61B5/112 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• 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 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention provides a human body movement state monitoring method and device. The method comprises the following steps performed repeatedly: obtaining acceleration signals having a set sampling time period from output of a triaxial acceleration sensor worn on a human body, and calculating the energy and average power of the acceleration signals; determining a human body movement state according to the average power of the acceleration signals, and if the average power of the acceleration signals is more than a predetermined fierce movement threshold, determining that the human body is in a fierce movement state, if the average power of the acceleration signals is less than a predetermined sleeping threshold, determining that the human body is in a sleeping state, if the average power of the acceleration signals is less than the fierce movement threshold and is more than the sleeping threshold, determining that the human body is in a light movement state; if the human body is in the fierce movement state, further determining whether the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, if the acceleration signals do not have quasi-periodicity, determining that the human body is in an irregular fierce movement state, if the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, determining that the human body is in a regular fierce movement state. The method can automatically, comprehensively, round-the-clock, accurately monitor various movement states of a person.

Claims

1. A human body movement state monitoring method, characterized in that, the method comprises the following steps performed repeatedly:

a) obtaining acceleration signals having a set sampling time period from output of a triaxial acceleration sensor worn on a human body, and calculating the energy and average power of the acceleration signals;

b) determining a human body movement state according to the average power of the acceleration signals, and if the average power of the acceleration signals is more than a predetermined fierce movement threshold, determining that the human body is in a fierce movement state, if the average power of the acceleration signals is less than a predetermined sleeping threshold, determining that the human body is in a sleeping state, if the average power of the acceleration signals is less than the fierce movement threshold and is more than the sleeping threshold, determining that the human body is in a light movement state;

c1) if the human body is in the sleeping state, accumulating time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the sleeping state, accumulating the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the sleeping state, counting up the time periods of acceleration signals which have intensity more than a predetermined intensity threshold, and accumulating the counted time periods into a total time period of sleeping abnormal movements, and setting a sampling time period of acceleration signals as a sampling time period of the sleeping state, then returning to step a);

c2) if the human body is in the light movement state, accumulating the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the light movement state, accumulating the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the light movement state, and setting the sampling time period of acceleration signals as a sampling time period of the light movement state, then returning to step a);

c3) if the human body is in the fierce movement state, further determining whether the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, if the acceleration signals do not have quasi-periodicity, determining that the human body is in an irregular fierce movement state, if the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, determining that the human body is in a regular fierce movement state;

d1) if the human body is in the irregular fierce movement state, accumulating the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the irregular fierce movement state, accumulating the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the irregular fierce movement state, and setting the sampling time period of acceleration signals as a sampling time period of the fierce movement state, then returning to step a);

d2) if the human body is in the regular fierce movement state, accumulating the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the regular fierce movement state, accumulating the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the regular fierce movement state, calculating movement step number according to the acceleration signals, and accumulating the movement step number into a total movement step number, and setting the sampling time period of acceleration signals as the sampling time period of the fierce movement state, then returning to step a).

2. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 1, wherein the average power P of the acceleration signals is calculated from the following formula:

3. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 1, wherein the determining step of the quasi-periodicity of the acceleration signals comprises:

performing high-pass filtering on the acceleration signals;

performing pitch detection on the high-pass filtered acceleration signals;

setting a low-pass or band-pass filter by using the pitch obtained by the pitch detection as cut-off frequency, and using the low-pass or band-pass filter to perform low-pass or band-pass filtering on corresponding high-pass filtered acceleration signals;

obtaining extreme value points of the acceleration signals in the low-pass or band-pass filtered acceleration signals and removing interfering extreme value points in the extreme value points of the acceleration signals, so as to obtain effective extreme value points in the low-pass or band-pass filtered acceleration signals;

calculating time gaps between adjacent effective extreme value points, obtaining a time gap sequence, and calculating differences between adjacent time gaps in the time gap sequence, obtaining a time gap difference sequence, and if each of a continuous predetermined number of time gap differences in the time gap difference sequence is less than a predetermined period threshold, determining that the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, otherwise, determining that the acceleration signals do not have quasi-periodicity.

4. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 3, wherein the step of calculating movement step number according to the acceleration signals comprises:

counting the effective extreme value points in the low-pass or band-pass filtered acceleration signals having quasi-periodicity, the number of the effective extreme value points being movement step number.

5. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 4, further comprises obtaining a displacement signal by double integral of the acceleration signals on time.

6. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 3, wherein performing pitch detection on the high-pass filtered acceleration signals comprises:

attenuating the signals with a filter that attenuates signal energy with an incrementing degree from low frequency to high frequency;

obtaining the autocorrelation function ρ

(τ

) of the attenuated signals from the following formula;

7. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 3, wherein, removing the interfering extreme value points from the extreme value points of the acceleration signals comprises:

filtering out the interfering extreme value points from the extreme value points of the acceleration signals through a time gap;

alternatively, filtering out the interfering extreme value points from the extreme value points of the acceleration signals through a time gap and a magnitude value.

8. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 7, wherein the interfering extreme value points comprise such an extreme value point of the acceleration signals that the time gap between the extreme value point of the acceleration signals and the previous extreme value point of the acceleration signals is less than a predetermined threshold;

or the interfering extreme value points comprise extreme value points of the acceleration signals, whose magnitude values are not maximal, among each group of extreme value points of the acceleration signals with time gaps continuously less than a predetermined threshold.

9. The human body movement state monitoring method according to claim 1, also comprises optionally displaying the total time period of the sleeping state, the total energy of the sleeping state, the total time period of the sleeping abnormal movements, the total time period of the light movement state, the total energy of the light movement state, the total time period of the irregular fierce movement state, the total energy of the irregular fierce movement state, the total time period of the regular fierce movement state, the total energy of the regular fierce movement state and the total step number of movement.

10. A human body movement state monitoring device, characterized in that, the device comprises:

a triaxial acceleration sensor (100), an acceleration signal obtaining unit (200), a calculating unit (300), a human body movement state determining unit (400), a sleeping abnormal movement statistical unit (500), a sampling time period setting unit (600), a storage unit (700), a quasi-periodicity determining unit (800) and a step counting unit (900), wherein the acceleration signal obtaining unit (200) obtains acceleration signals having a set sampling time period from output of the triaxial acceleration sensor (100) worn on a human body, and the calculating unit (300) calculates the energy and average power of the acceleration signals;

the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines a human body movement state according to the average power of the acceleration signals, and if the average power of the acceleration signals is more than a predetermined fierce movement threshold, determines that the human body is in a fierce movement state, if the average power of the acceleration signals is less than a predetermined sleeping threshold, determines that the human body is in a sleeping state, if the average power of the acceleration signals is less than the fierce movement threshold and is more than the sleeping threshold, determines that the human body is in a light movement state;

if the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in the sleeping state, accumulates the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the sleeping state, accumulates the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the sleeping state;

the sleeping abnormal movement statistical unit (500) counts up the time periods of acceleration signals which have intensity more than a predetermined intensity threshold, and accumulates the counted time periods into a total time period of sleeping abnormal movements;

the sampling time period setting unit (600) sets the sampling time period of acceleration signal as the sampling time period of the sleeping state;

the storage unit (700) stores the total time period of the sleeping state, the total energy of the sleeping state and the total time period of the sleeping abnormal movements;

if the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in the light movement state, accumulates the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the light movement state, accumulates the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the light movement state, and the sampling time period setting unit (600) sets the sampling time period of acceleration signals as the sampling time period of the light movement state;

the storage unit (700) stores the total time period of the light movement state and the total energy of light movement state;

if the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in the fierce movement state, then the quasi-period determining unit (800) determines whether the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, and if determining that the acceleration signals do not have quasi-periodicity, then the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in an irregular fierce movement state, and if the quasi-period determining unit (800) determines that the acceleration signals have quasi-periodicity, then the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in a regular fierce movement state;

if the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in the irregular fierce movement state, then accumulates the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the irregular fierce movement state, accumulates the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the irregular fierce movement state, and the sampling time period setting unit (600) sets the sampling time period of acceleration signals as the sampling time period of the fierce movement state;

the storage unit (700) stores the total time period of the irregular fierce movement state and the total energy of the irregular fierce movement state;

if the human body movement state determining unit (400) determines that the human body is in the regular fierce movement state, then accumulates the time periods of the acceleration signals into a total time period of the regular fierce movement state, accumulates the energy of the acceleration signals into a total energy of the regular fierce movement state, and the step counting unit (900) calculates movement step number according to the acceleration signals, and accumulates the movement step number into a total movement step number;

the sampling time period setting unit (600) sets the sampling time period of acceleration signals as the sampling time period of fierce movement state;

the storage unit (700) stores the total time period of the regular fierce movement state, the total energy of the regular fierce movement state and the movement step number.

11. The human body movement state monitoring device according to claim 10, further comprising a display unit for optionally displaying the total time period of the sleeping state, the total energy of the sleeping state, the total time period of the sleeping abnormal movements, the total time period of the light movement state, the total energy of the light movement state, the total time period of the irregular fierce movement state, the total energy of the irregular fierce movement state, the total time period of the regular fierce movement state, the total energy of the regular fierce movement state and the total step number of movement.

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