Sleeping quality monitor system and a method for monitoring a physiological signal

• US 20090069644A1
• Filed: 11/06/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chang-Huei Wu, Chih-Ming Cheng, Hong-Xiang Ma, Yeh-Liang Hsu, Zhi-Wei Ruan
• Original Assignee: Chang-Huei Wu, Chih-Ming Cheng, Hong-Xiang Ma, Yeh-Liang Hsu, Zhi-Wei Ruan
• Inventors: Cheng, Chih-Ming, Ruan, Zhi-Wei, Hsu, Yeh-Liang, Wu, Chang-Huei, Ma, Hong-Xiang
• Application Number:
  US12/289,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20090069644A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• 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 5/4815 Sleep quality
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A sleeping quality monitor system and a method for monitoring a physiological signal monitors the sleeping quality of a person under test with long hours in daily life at home. The system comprises a distributed data server, at least one physiological signal sensor, and at least one client computer. The sensor is wired or wirelessly connected to the server. The server connects on Internet to the client computer. The sensor transmits the sensed physiological signals to the server to process, calculate, analyze, and store. By means of psychological signal data processing, the client computer further calculates and analyzes the psychological signal data stored in the server and allows an authorized reader to read the result. With the household sensor working with the server connecting to Internet, the system may be available in daily life at home to monitor the sleeping quality of the person under test with long hours.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a physiological signal that is executed in the distributed data server and the client computer to monitor the psychological parameters of the person under test for determination of his or her sleeping quality, comprising:

sensing a psychological signal of a person under test;

initially processing the sensed psychological signal of the person under test;

calculating and analyzing the initially processed psychological signal by the distributed data server;

determining a psychological condition, in which it is determined that a result given from whether the calculation of and analysis on the psychological signal is abnormal;

sending an event alarm message, in which the message is sent when the psychological condition is abnormal;

storing psychological signal data in the distributed data server, in which the data given from calculation and analysis and the result given from determination of the psychological condition are stored;

reading the data stored in the distributed data server, in which the psychological signal data stored in the distributed data server is read from the client computer;

calculating and analyzing the data stored in the distributed data server, in which the data stored in the distributed data server and read from the client computer is further calculated and analyzed; and

showing the psychological signal data, in which the resulted psychological signal data calculated and analyzed by the client computer is shown.

2. The method for monitoring a physiological signal according to claim 1, wherein the psychological signal sensed at the step of sensing the psychological signal is stertor, breathe cycles per second, and body movement or temperature.

3. The method for monitoring a physiological signal according to claim 1, wherein the abnormal condition of psychology determined is that set up in advance or staying in the same status for a long time.

4. The method for monitoring a physiological signal according to claim 1, wherein two steps of storing data in an application server and reading the data stored in an application server are included, wherein the step of storing the data in the application server is storing the result given from calculation of and analysis on the data stored in the distributed data server in the application server, the step of reading the data stored in the application server is reading the psychological signal data stored in the application server.