BIOLOGICAL SENSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD

• US 20160157788A1
• Filed: 02/16/2016
• Published: 06/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yokoo, Kaoru, Nishidoi, Takeshi, Sugiyama, Jun, Takagi, Junichi, Ikenouchi, Takayuki, Urabe, Hiroo
• Application Number:
  US15/044,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20160157788A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/40 Animals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6819 Nose
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6844 Monitoring or controlling distance between sensor and tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/721 using a separate sensor to detect motion or using motion information derived from signals other than the physiological signal to be measured
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7271 Specific aspects of physiological measurement analysis A61B5/316, A61B5/349 and A61B5/374 take precedence

Abstract

A biological sensing system includes a biological information detector that is placed in a first specified portion of a living thing, and detects biological information of the living thing; a position displacement detector that detects an amount of a displacement of a position of the biological information detector from the first portion when the biological information is detected; and a processor that executes a process including estimating optimum biological information from the biological information detected by the biological information detector in accordance with the amount of the displacement.

Claims

1. A biological sensing system, comprising:

a biological information detector that is placed in a first specified portion of a living thing, and detects biological information of the living thing;

a position displacement detector that detects an amount of a displacement of a position of the biological information detector from the first portion when the biological information is detected; and

a processor that executes a process including;

estimating optimum biological information from the biological information detected by the biological information detector in accordance with the amount of the displacement.

2. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, wherein

the estimating includes selecting or abandoning the biological information in accordance with the amount of the displacement, and estimating the selected biological information as the optimum biological information.

3. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, wherein

the position displacement detector detects a change in the acceleration of gravity, and detects the amount of the displacement on the basis of the change in the acceleration of gravity, and

the estimating includes estimating the biological information as the optimum biological information when the amount of the displacement is equal to or smaller than a specified threshold value.

4. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, wherein

the estimating includes correcting the biological information in accordance with the amount of the displacement, and estimating the corrected biological information as the optimum biological information.

5. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, further comprising

a plurality of the biological information detectors, wherein

the estimating includes selecting one piece of biological information in accordance with the amount of the displacement from among the plurality of pieces of biological information detected by the plurality of biological information detectors, and estimating the selected biological information as the optimum biological information.

6. The biological sensing system according to claim 5, wherein

the estimating includes correcting the selected one piece of biological information in accordance with the amount of the displacement, and estimating the corrected biological information as the optimum biological information.

7. The biological sensing system according to 1, further comprising

a plurality of biological information detectors, wherein

the estimating includes estimating the optimum biological information on the basis of the plurality of pieces of biological information detected by the plurality of biological information detectors, and the amount of the displacement.

8. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, further comprising

an external information detector that detects external information about a periphery of the living thing when the biological information is detected, wherein

the estimating includes correcting the biological information detected by the biological information detector in accordance with the external information detected by the external information detector, and the amount of the displacement, and estimating the corrected biological information as the optimum biological information.

9. The biological sensing system according to claim 7, further comprising

an external information detector that detects external information about a periphery of the living thing when the biological information is detected, wherein

the estimating includes estimating the biological information of the living thing in accordance with the external information detected by the external information detector, the amount of the displacement, and the plurality of pieces of biological information detected by the plurality of biological information detectors.

10. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, further comprising

an inclination detector that is placed in a second portion of the living thing, and detects an inclination of the second portion in a gravitational direction, wherein

the estimating includes correcting the amount of the displacement on the basis of the inclination of the second portion in the gravitational direction.

11. The biological sensing system according to claim 1, wherein

the estimating includes correcting the biological information detected by the biological information detector in accordance with a type, a sex, an age, a nose size, and a nasal septum thickness of the living thing.

12. A biological sensing method, comprising:

obtaining, by using a computer, biological information detected by a biological information detector that is placed in a specified portion of a living thing, and detects the biological information of the living thing;

obtaining, by using the computer, an amount of a displacement detected by a position displacement detector that detects the amount of the displacement of a position of the biological information detector from the specified portion when the biological information is detected; and

estimating, by using the computer, optimum biological information from the obtained biological information in accordance with the amount of the displacement.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a biological sensing program for causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

obtaining biological information detected by a biological information detector that is placed in a specified portion of a living thing, and detects the biological information of the living thing;

obtaining an amount of a displacement detected by a position displacement detector that detects the amount of the displacement of a position of the biological information detector from the specified portion when the biological information is detected; and

estimating optimum biological information from the obtained biological information in accordance with the amount of the displacement.