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Monitoring a person for indications of a brain injury

  • US 9,763,571 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2015
  • Issued: 09/19/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring a user of a helmet for a traumatic brain injury, the method comprising:

  • monitoring an acceleration of a head of a user with an accelerometer embedded in the helmet;

    selectively activating a camera embedded in the helmet based on the acceleration exceeding a threshold level;

    monitoring one or more eyes of the user with the camera embedded in the helmet for a time period;

    analyzing, by a processor, one or more characteristics of the one or more eyes of the user during the time period;

    determining a cognitive state of the user and a risk category for traumatic brain injury of the user based on the acceleration and one or more environmental influences;

    determining whether the user may have suffered the traumatic brain injury based on the one or more characteristics of the eyes, the cognitive state of the user and the risk category of the user;

    creating an alert that the user of the helmet may have suffered the traumatic brain injury; and

    transmitting the alert and one or more images captured by the camera to a separate computer system for processing and further analysis.

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