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Wearable device for automatic detection of emergency situations

  • US 9,881,486 B2
  • Filed: 06/26/2015
  • Issued: 01/30/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for identifying a situation and sending an alert, the method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving, by one or more processors, data from at least one sensor of a plurality of sensors included within a wearable computing device, wherein the plurality of sensors includes at least one of a microphone and a video camera;

    calculating, by one or more processors, one or more emergency levels based, at least in part, on the data received from the at least one sensor and a comparison to data in a user profile, wherein;

    the user profile includes of information related to the average volume and sound of the voice of the user and information related to the average volume and sound of the voice of a person known by the user; and

    each emergency level of the one or more emergency levels corresponds to at least one metric of a plurality of metrics;

    calculating, by one or more processors, a total emergency level based, at least in part, on the one or more emergency levels;

    determining, by one or more processors, that the total emergency level is above a preselected critical threshold; and

    responsive to determining that the total emergency level is above a preselected critical threshold, causing, by one or more processors, an alert to be sent to a party, wherein the alert includes at least one of audio information captured by the microphone and video information captured by the video camera.

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