Personal medical product design method based on audio port

• US 20160015325A1
• Filed: 01/20/2014
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Zhufa Lin
• Original Assignee: Zhufa Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Zhufa
• Application Number:
  US14/775,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20160015325A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0475 Special features of memory means, e.g. removable memory cards
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/227 Sensors with electrical connectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14552 Details of sensors specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• 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 5/725 using specific filters therefor, e.g. Kalman or adaptive filters A61B5/316 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7257 using Fourier transforms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/726 using Wavelet transforms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads

Abstract

A personal medical product design method based on an audio port includes steps of: using a universal mobile terminal and a vital sign collecting apparatus, using the mobile terminal for supplying a power for a collecting apparatus and driving the collecting apparatus to collect a vital sign signal, and then receiving the vital sign signal and performing subsequent processing; additionally mounting a physical hardware with a standard audio port on the collecting apparatus, and respectively connecting a data signal output terminal, a control signal input terminal and a power input terminal of the collecting apparatus to wire connecting terminals of the standard audio port; achieving a power supply from the mobile terminal to the collecting apparatus because a power of an audio signal outputted by the mobile terminal meets operating power requirements of the collecting apparatus; and physically connecting the collecting apparatus to the mobile terminal by the standard audio port, wherein a left sound channel signal transmission line, a right sound channel signal transmission line and a microphone signal transmission line of the audio port are respectively adapted for undertaking a power supply transmission and a signal transmission.

Claims

1. A personal medical product design method based on an audio port, comprising step of:

using a universal mobile terminal and a vital sign collecting apparatus, using the mobile terminal for supplying a power for a collecting apparatus and driving the collecting apparatus to collect a vital sign signal, and then receiving the vital sign signal and performing subsequent processing;

additionally mounting a physical hardware with a standard audio port on the collecting apparatus, and respectively connecting a data signal output terminal, a control signal input terminal and a power input terminal of the collecting apparatus to wire connecting terminals of the standard audio port;

achieving a power supply from the mobile terminal to the collecting apparatus because a power of an audio signal outputted by the mobile terminal meets operating power requirements of the collecting apparatus; and

physically connecting the collecting apparatus to the mobile terminal by the standard audio port, wherein a left sound channel signal transmission line, a right sound channel signal transmission line and a microphone signal transmission line of the audio port are respectively adapted for undertaking a power supply transmission and a signal transmission.

2. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 1, wherein after the mobile terminal receiving the vital sign signal, the post-processing comprises calculating, displaying, data storing, analyzing and remote transmitting of the vital sign signal.

3. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 2, wherein the collecting apparatus comprises a power module, a sensor control module, a sensor, and a sensor signal processing module;

wherein the mobile terminal has an audio hardware and an application software, wherein the application software comprises a power driving module, a sensing drive module, a sampling filter module, a calculating module, a data storing module, a data analyzing module, a display module and a remote transmission module;

wherein the method comprises steps of;

step

     1) providing a power supply;

wherein the power driving module of the mobile terminal outputs a signal wave with a certain frequency by a left or right sound channel of a sound card of the mobile terminal to a collecting apparatus, the signal wave has an audio file with a corresponding frequency, the power module of the collecting apparatus processes the signal wave and then provides a stable power output;

step

     2) controlling a collecting work of the collecting apparatus;

wherein mode 1;

the sensing drive module of the mobile terminal generates a control signal, wherein the control signal is a square wave, the square wave has an audio file corresponding to the square wave;

the square wave is transmitted to a control signal input terminal of the collecting apparatus by a sound channel different from a sound channel adopted by an output of the power driving module;

or

mode 2;

the sensing drive module of the mobile terminal adopts a serial communication mode to transmit a control command;

Step

     3) collecting the vital sign signal;

wherein corresponding to the mode 1 of the step 2, the sensor is controlled by the sensor control module of the collecting apparatus via a rising edge or a falling edge of the square wave,

corresponding to the mode 2 of the step 2, the control command is received by the serial communication mode, and the sensor is controlled by a microprocessor;

step

     4) processing the vital sign signal;

wherein the vital sign signal collected by the sensor is processed by the sensor signal processing module of the collecting apparatus, and then sent to a microphone signal input terminal of the mobile terminal by the microphone signal transmission line;

step

     5) sampling and filtering the vital sign signal;

wherein the data signal from the microphone signal transmission line is processed by the sampling filter module of the mobile terminal for obtaining a desired signal;

step

     6) calculating;

wherein the data signal is calculated by the calculating module of the mobile terminal for obtaining a value which is capable of reflecting the vital sign;

step

     7) storing data;

wherein the value obtained by calculating is stored by the data storing module of the mobile terminal;

step

     8) analyzing data;

wherein historical data in the data storing module are firstly made statistics and then analyzed by the data analyzing module of the mobile terminal, and then an analyzing result is sent to a storing space of the mobile terminal by the storing module;

step

     9) displaying data;

wherein the data are taken out of the spacing space of the mobile terminal by the display module of the mobile terminal, and then currently collected real-time data are displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal, and then a result after data analyzing is displayed on the screen by a report form or graphics mode;

step

     10) remote data transmission;

wherein the remote communication module of the mobile terminal is connected to Internet via GPRS module, 3G module or WIFI module of the mobile terminal for transmitting the collected data to a remote server in real time or bulk.

4. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 3, wherein in the step 1), the signal wave is a sine wave or a square wave.

5. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 3, wherein in the step 5), the signal from the microphone signal transmission line is sampled by the sampling filter module of the mobile terminal, which specifically comprises steps of:

firstly sampling the vital sign signal from a microphone channel at a certain sampling rate, and then making a signal processing, wherein the signal processing adopts an IIR filter and/or FIR filter to digitally filter;

extracting a DC (direct current) component and an AC (alternating current) component of a sampled result, wherein the DC component is tracked by the IIR filter, and then the DC component is removed from an analog signal of the inputted vital sign signal for obtaining the AC component; and

making a band-pass filtering by a band-pass FIR filter,

wherein the mode 2 of the step 2 is processed by Fourier transform or wavelet transform complex algorithm.

6. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 5, wherein in the step 4), corresponding to two modes in step 2 and step 3, there are three signal processing modes:

a) corresponding to the mode 1;

after analog signal processing, an analog signal is directly transmitted to the mobile terminal;

b) corresponding to the mode 2;

a digital signal is obtained by the microprocessor, and then is transmitted to the mobile terminal;

c) corresponding to the mode 2;

a digital signal is obtained by the microprocessor, and then a calculating result is transmitted to the mobile terminal after calculating the digital signal;

at this time, filtering and data calculating in the microprocessor of the mobile terminal are moved to the collecting apparatus.

7. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 3, wherein in the step 1), an operating process of the power module of the collecting apparatus is as follows:

firstly the sine wave or the square wave is step-up by a step-up transformer, and then FET rectified, and finally voltage stabilized by a blocking diode and a filter capacitor for achieving the stable power output, so as to provide the power for the collecting apparatus.

8. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 3, wherein in the step 7), data are stored by the data storing module by a data compression algorithm that if measurement values in a certain period are same, then they are stored by a record with attributes comprising beginning time, ending time, number of measurement and measurement value.

9. The personal medical product design method based on the audio port, as recited in claim 6, wherein a power module of the collecting apparatus comprises an Farah capacitor, wherein the Farah capacitor, the blocking diode and the filter capacitor form a Π

-shaped parallel circuit.