METHOD FOR THE BROADCASTING, BY A WATCH, OF AN INFORMATIVE MESSAGE RELATING TO AN EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF A WEARER OF SAID WATCH

• US 20200134991A1
• Filed: 10/09/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tissot SA (The Swatch Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Tissot SA (The Swatch Group AG)
• Inventors: FRANZI, Edoardo, Dunbar, Andrea, Turetken, Engin, Moser, Virginie, Stadelmann, Patrick, Zhou, Lingchuan
• Granted Patent: US 10,970,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/02 Detectors of external physical values, e.g. temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/025 for measuring physiological data
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/06 using electric transmission , e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources

Abstract

A method for the broadcasting by a watch of an informative message relating to an evaluation of the quality of life of a wearer of the watch includes the following steps: recording, by the processing unit, of data describing at least one factual episode of at least one type of environmental event recorded during a given period; identifying at least one type of environmental event disturbing the quality of life of the wearer from processing of the descriptive data; estimating an evaluation index of the quality of life of the wearer according to an indicator of disturbance of the quality of life relating to each type of environmental event disturbing the quality of life identified, and design of the informative message including the estimated evaluation index in prediction of its broadcasting to the wearer.

Claims

1. A method for the broadcasting by a watch of an informative message relating to an evaluation of the quality of life of a wearer of said watch, the method comprising:

recording, by the processing unit, of data describing at least one factual episode of at least one type of environmental event recorded during a given period;

identifying at least one type of environmental event disturbing the quality of life of the wearer from processing of said descriptive data;

estimating an evaluation index of the quality of life of the wearer according to an indicator of disturbance of the quality of life relating to each type of environmental event disturbing the quality of life identified, and

designing the informative message comprising the estimated evaluation index in prediction of its broadcasting to the wearer.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying comprises selecting one or more factual episodes relating to each type of environmental event recorded during the given period using at least one selection criterion.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein a first selection criterion provides that at least one environmental measurement of the data describing each factual episode relating to each type of environmental event is compared with a reference threshold of disturbance of the quality of life.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein a second selection criterion consists of includes comparing a duration of each factual episode relating to each type of environmental event with a reference threshold of duration of disturbance of the quality of life.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying comprises generating an indicator of disturbance of the quality of life for each type of environmental event disturbing the quality of life identified.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the generating comprises a phase of calculating the indicator of disturbance of the quality of life for each type of environmental event disturbing the quality of life identified using the following descriptive characteristics:

a mean value of the environmental measurement or measurements included in the data describing the selected factual episodes relating to this type of environmental event;

a total duration of the occurrence of this type of environmental event;

the number of selected factual episodes of this type of environmental event; and

times of start and end of the selected factual episodes of this type of environmental event.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the given period is defined automatically by the processing unit while being initiated as soon as a first factual episode of a type of environmental event is identified, and completed when a duration of exposure of the wearer to at least one type of environmental event considered to be disturbing the quality of life is higher than a reference duration threshold.

8. A system of broadcasting, by a watch, of an informative message relating to an evaluation of the quality of life of a wearer of said watch using the method according to claim 1, the system comprising the following elements connected together:

a processing unit, at least one environmental sensor and an interface broadcasting visual and/or audible information.

9. A watch comprising the system according to claim 8.

10. The watch according to claim 9, wherein the watch is a connected mechanical watch.

11. A computer program comprising program code instructions for executing the method according to claim 1 when said program is executed by a processing unit.