Circuit and method for compensating for an electrode motion artifact

• US 8,682,419 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2010
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Shin, Kun Soo, Kim, Jong Pal, Hwang, Jin Sang, Hwang, Hyun Tai
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno, Carl H
• Assistant Examiner(s): GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR
• Application Number:
  US12/659,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20100179443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,469 Days
• Field of Search: 600/300, 600/509, 607/27
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/053 Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/276 Protection against electrode failure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/30 Input circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7207 of noise induced by motion artifacts

Abstract

A circuit and method for compensating for an electrode motion artifact in which the electrode motion artifact is generated because impedance between a subject and a measuring electrode changes during measurement of the subject'"'"'s biosignal, and the electrode motion artifact can be differentially measured and an electrocardiogram signal can be compensated by introducing a predetermined voltage or an electric current to the subject. A circuit and method for compensating electrode motion artifact, which can differentially measure the difference information between impedance components by introducing a predetermined voltage or electric current to a subject, in association with the electrode motion artifact. In this instance, the impedance component is a component of electrode motion artifact and the electrode motion artifact is generated when measuring a biosignal.

Claims

1. A method of compensating for an electrode motion artifact, the method comprising:

measuring an electrocardiogram signal including an electrode motion artifact signal;

forming a first impedance between a subject and a first electrode attached to the subject and forming a second impedance between the subject and a second electrode attached to the subject;

measuring a difference between the first impedance and the second impedance using a carrier signal; and

adjusting the electrocardiogram signal using a signal of the measured difference between the first impedance and the second impedance.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the adjusting, signals from the first electrode and the second electrode are differentially amplified to compensate the electrocardiogram signal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the carrier signal is introduced to the subject from a predetermined carrier signal source, and

wherein, in the measuring, the difference between the first impedance and the second impedance is measured via demodulation or modulation using the carrier signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the adjusting, the electrocardiogram signal is adjusted by using a dynamic difference component, excluding a static difference component between the first impedance and the second impedance, among signals of the measured difference between the first impedance and the second impedance.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting comprises adjusting the measured electrocardiogram signal including the electrode motion artifact signal so as to produce an electrocardiogram signal with minimized electrode motion artifacts.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising computer readable code to control a processing device to implement a method of compensating for an electrode motion artifact, the method including:

measuring an electrocardiogram signal including an electrode motion artifact signal;

forming a first impedance between a subject and a first electrode attached to the subject and forming a second impedance between the subject and a second electrode attached to the subject;

measuring a difference between the first impedance and the second impedance using a carrier signal; and

adjusting the electrocardiogram signal using a signal of the measured difference between the first impedance and the second impedance.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 5, wherein the adjusting comprises adjusting the measured electrocardiogram signal including the electrode motion artifact signal so as to produce an electrocardiogram signal with minimized electrode motion artifacts.