Wearable device, electronic apparatus and method for recording user actions

• US 9,579,069 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2014
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Li-Hsuan, Chen, Po-Hsu
• Primary Examiner(s): DOUGLAS, STEVEN O
• Application Number:
  US14/312,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20150257711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1126 using a particular sensing technique
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/164 Feet or leg, e.g. pedal
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/165 Wearable interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/007 Kneading
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00

Abstract

A wearable device, an electronic apparatus and a method for recording user actions are provided. The wearable device includes a body, at least one sensor and a memory module. An outer part of the body includes a surface, and an internal part includes an accommodating space. The sensor senses touching actions of a user to the surface, and records the location, the force and the number of the touching actions with respective to the surface, so as to form touching information corresponded to the touching actions. Thus, when the user is dressed the wearable device, the sensor senses and stores instinctive physical touching actions of the user relative to the user body covered by the wearable device, and the touching actions can become the basis of the diagnosis by the doctor.

Claims

1. A wearable device, comprising:

a body, an outer part of the body comprising a surface, and an internal part of the body comprising an accommodating space;

at least one sensor, disposed on the surface for sensing a location, a force and a number of at least one touching action of a user on the surface to generate at least one touching information corresponded to the at least one touching action, wherein the at least one touching information is a digital signal;

a memory module, coupled to the at least one sensor for storing the at least one touching information;

a processor, analyzing the at least one touching information for executing an operation; and

at least one auxiliary module, coupled to the processor, and disposed inside the body,

wherein the processor analyzes the touching information to determine which one of a plurality of preset operations is to be executed as the operation, and controls the at least one auxiliary module corresponded to the operation, so as to perform an auxiliary function to the user body in the accommodating space according to the at least one touching information.

2. The wearable device as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

an information output module, coupled to the memory module and the processor,

wherein when an external storage device is connected to the information output module, the processor executes the operation via the information output module, so as to provide the at least one touching information to the external storage device.

3. The wearable device as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one auxiliary module is one of a temperature control module, a drug projection module and a knead massage module, or a combination thereof.

4. The wearable device as recited in claim 1, wherein the body is a clothing or a protective gear.

5. A method for recording user actions, adapted to be used on a wearable body comprising a surface and an accommodating space, the method comprising:

sensing a location, a force and a number of at least one touching action of a user on the surface;

generating at least one touching information corresponded to the at least one touching action, wherein the at least on touching information is a digital signal;

storing the at least one touching information;

analyzing the at least one touching information to determine which one of a plurality of preset operations is to be executed as an operation; and

controlling at least one auxiliary module to perform symptom relief to the user body in the accommodating space according to the location of the least one touching action, wherein the at least one auxiliary module is located at the side of the accommodating space of the wearable device.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the at least one auxiliary module is one of a temperature control module, a drug projection module and a knead massage module, or a combination thereof.