Method for measuring biological signal and wearable electronic device for the same

• US 9,510,790 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Jeong-Gwan, Lee, Byung-Jun, Shin, Seung-Hyuck, Hong, Hyun-Su, Park, Sun-Young
• Primary Examiner(s): NWUGO, OJIAKO K
• Application Number:
  US14/974,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20160249864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• 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 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6803 Head-worn items, e.g. helmets, masks, headphones or goggles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7285 for synchronising or triggering a physiological measurement or image acquisition with a physiological event or waveform, e.g. an ECG signal A61B6/5205, A61B6/541, A61B8/5207, A61B8/543 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is a wearable electronic device, comprising: a first sensor configured to sense a movement of the electronic device; a second sensor configured to sense a biological signal for a user wearing the electronic device; and a processor configured to compute a movement value of the electronic device using the first sensor, to detect a resting state when the movement value lasts within a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period, and to configure biological information of the user based on a biological signal measured after detection of the resting state.

Claims

1. A wearable electronic device, comprising:

a first sensor configured to sense a movement of the electronic device;

a second sensor configured to sense a biological signal for a user wearing the electronic device; and

a processor configured to compute a movement value of the electronic device using the first sensor, to detect a resting state when the movement value lasts within a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period, and to configure biological information of the user based on the biological signal measured by the second sensor after detection of the resting state,

wherein the processor is configured to adjust the first time period according to a movement value within a second time period before the first time period.

2. The wearable electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a third sensor configured to detect whether the user wears the electronic device.

3. The wearable electronic device of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to compute the movement value of the electronic device using the first sensor when the third sensor detects that the user wears the electronic device.

4. The wearable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to write additional information related to the biological information in association with the biological information and to display together at least one of the biological information and the additional information.

5. The wearable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to activate the second sensor to sense the biological signal when detecting the resting state.

6. The wearable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to transfer the configured biological information to another electronic device communicably connected with the electronic device when the biological information is measured.

7. The wearable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether a movement value within a second time period before the first time period is within a second threshold range larger than the first threshold range when the movement value is within the predetermined first threshold range during the first time period, and the processor detects the resting state when the movement value within the second time period is within the second threshold range.

8. The wearable electronic device of claim 7, wherein the processor increases the first time period when the movement value within the second time period exceeds the second threshold range.

9. The wearable electronic device of claim 4, wherein the additional information includes at least one of a date, time, or place of the measurement of the biological signal.

10. A method for measuring biological information using a wearable electronic device, the method comprising:

sensing a movement of the electronic device;

computing a movement value of the electronic device using the sensed movement and detecting a resting state when the movement value is within a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period; and

configuring biological information of a user wearing the electronic device based on a biological signal for the user measured after detection of the resting state, and

wherein the first time period is adjusted according to a movement value within a second time period before the first time period.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising detecting whether the user wears the electronic device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising computing the movement value of the electronic device when detecting that the user wears the electronic device.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein configuring the biological information comprises storing one or more additional information related to the biological information in association with the biological information and to display together at least one of the biological information and the additional information.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein when the resting state is detected, activating sensing the biological signal for the user.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein configuring the biological information transfers the configured biological information to another electronic device communicably connected with the electronic device when the biological information is configured.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein whether a movement value within a second time period before the first time period is within a second threshold range larger than the first threshold range is determined when the movement value lasts within the predetermined first threshold range during the first time period, and detecting the resting state when the movement value within the second time period is within the second threshold range.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first time period is increased when the movement value within the second time period exceeds the second threshold range.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein control is performed to store the biological information in association with at least one of a date, time, or place of the measurement of the biological signal.

19. A wearable electronic device to be worn on a wrist of a user, comprising:

a first sensor configured to sense a movement of the electronic device;

a second sensor configured to sense a biological signal of the user wearing the electronic device; and

a processor configured to receive, via the first sensor, information relating to the movement of the electronic device, and configure the second sensor to determine a pulse rate of the user based on the biological signal when a movement of the electronic device is less than a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period based on the information received from the first sensor,

wherein, when a movement of the electronic device is greater than the first threshold range during the first time period, the processor is configured to determine a pulse rate of the user at a later time.

20. The wearable electronic device of claim 19, wherein the electronic device comprises a wrist watch, and the processor is configured to determine whether the wrist watch is currently being worn by a user.

21. The wearable electronic device of claim 19, wherein the processor is configured to activate the second sensor to sense the biological signal if a movement of the electronic device is less than a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period.

22. A method for measuring biological information using a wearable electronic device to be worn on a wrist of a user, the method comprising:

receiving information relating to a movement of the electronic device;

determining whether a movement of the electronic device is less than a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period based on the information relating to a movement of the electronic device;

receiving a biological signal of the user;

determining a pulse rate of the user based on the biological signal when a movement of the electronic device is less than a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period based on the information relating to a movement of the electronic device; and

when a movement of the electronic device is greater than the first threshold range during the first time period, determining a pulse rate of the user at a later time.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the electronic device comprises a wrist watch, and the method further comprising determining whether the wrist watch is currently being worn by a user.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein receiving the biological signal of the user is initiated if a movement of the electronic device is less than a predetermined first threshold range during a first time period.