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Device and method for automatically normalizing the physiological signals of a living being

  • US 9,759,558 B2
  • Filed: 08/28/2014
  • Issued: 09/12/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device comprising:

  • a data input module configured to receive information about a living being'"'"'s physiological signals, coordinates, and motion intensity;

    an activity recognition module configured to calculate, from information received about the living being'"'"'s motion intensity, activity of the living being;

    a location recognition module, configured to calculate, from information received about the living being'"'"'s coordinates, a location of the living being;

    a memory storage configured to store information about the living being'"'"'s physiological signals and the activity of the living being in association with the location of the living being;

    a normalization parameters estimator module configured to calculate, from a plurality of physiological signal values associated with calculated activities and calculated locations, statistics of a distribution of the physiological signal values for each activity or a subset of activities in each location, and use a mathematical model to calculate a plurality of normalization parameters for each location; and

    a model selector module configured to determine, based on the plurality of normalization parameters and the living being'"'"'s location, a set of location-specific normalization parameters used to further calculate normalized physiological signals for the living being, wherein the model selector module is further configured to calculate the normalized physiological signals for the living being by applying the location-specific normalization parameters to the physiological signals, depending on the living being'"'"'s location, and wherein the normalized physiological signals for the living being include information about one or more of heart rate, galvanic skin response, skin temperature, skin humidity, or respiration.

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