Device for measuring and analyzing movements of the human body or of parts thereof
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1. A device for measuring and analyzing movements of a part of a human head of a subject, which comprises:
- a set of three light emitting diodes fixed in a removable manner on said part of said head whose movement is to be analyzed, the three light emitting diodes being arranged at the three points of a triangle on a common rigid element;
two sensors designed to follow the movements of the diodes and mounted on a fixed support in such a way that the diodes are located in fields of view of said sensors;
means for mounting said support on the head of the subject; and
means for controlling the lighting of the diodes, the functioning of the sensors and the processing of the data supplied by the latter.
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Abstract
A device for determining mandibular motion wherein three light emitting diodes at the vertices of a triangle are temporarily fixed to teeth of the subject, the light emitting diodes are sequentially energized, and two sensors responsive to the light emitting diodes are mounted on a headpiece applied to the head of the subject and are trained on the light emitting diodes.
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1. A device for measuring and analyzing movements of a part of a human head of a subject, which comprises:
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a set of three light emitting diodes fixed in a removable manner on said part of said head whose movement is to be analyzed, the three light emitting diodes being arranged at the three points of a triangle on a common rigid element; two sensors designed to follow the movements of the diodes and mounted on a fixed support in such a way that the diodes are located in fields of view of said sensors; means for mounting said support on the head of the subject; and means for controlling the lighting of the diodes, the functioning of the sensors and the processing of the data supplied by the latter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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