Postural information system and method

• US 20100225474A1
• Filed: 03/13/2009
• Published: 09/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Levien, Royce A., Leuthardt, Eric C.
• Application Number:
  US12/381,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20100225474A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6887 mounted on external non-worn devices, e.g. non-medical devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

For two or more devices, each device having one or more portions, a method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices, and outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more portions of the user advisory information. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices; and

outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information.

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99. A system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices; and

circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information.

100. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for wirelessly receiving one or more elements of the user advisory information.

101. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more elements of the user advisory information via a network.

104. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more elements of the user advisory information via electromagnetic communication.

106. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more elements of the user advisory information via acoustic communication.

108. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for retrieving one or more elements of the user advisory information from one or more storage portions.

111. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information regarding user advisory information expressed relative to one or more portions of Earth.

114. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for determining user advisory information including one or more suggested device locations to locate one or more of the devices.

117. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for determining user advisory information including one or more suggested user orientations to orient one or more of the users.

119. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for determining user advisory information including one or more suggested user positions to position one or more of the users.

122. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for determining user advisory information including one or more suggested schedules of operation for one or more of the devices.

125. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices comprises:

circuitry for determining user advisory information including one or more suggested durations of performance by one or more of the users.

129. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information in audio form.

131. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information in video form.

133. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information as audio information formatted in a human language.

134. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information as a vibration.

137. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information as a network transmission.

140. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information as an infrared transmission.

142. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information as a projection.

144. The system of claim 99, wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for outputting one or more elements of the output information as a general alarm.

148. The system of claim 99, wherein the one or more users includes one or more robotic systems and wherein the circuitry for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information comprises:

circuitry for transmitting one or more portions of the output information to the one or more robotic systems.

149. The system of claim 99 further comprising circuitry for providing physical status information regarding one or more of the devices.

150. The system of claim 149, wherein the circuitry for providing physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for wirelessly transmitting one or more elements of the physical status information from one or more of the devices.

152. The system of claim 149, wherein the circuitry for providing physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for transmitting one or more elements of the physical status information from one or more of the devices via a cellular system.

154. The system of claim 149, wherein the circuitry for providing physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for transmitting one or more elements of the physical status information from one or more of the devices via electromagnetic communication.

156. The system of claim 149, wherein the circuitry for providing physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for transmitting one or more elements of the physical status information from one or more of the devices via acoustic communication.

158. The system of claim 99 further comprising circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices.

159. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices.

161. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more acoustic aspects.

164. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more image capture aspects.

166. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more photographic aspects.

168. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) aspects.

169. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more contact sensing aspects.

171. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more inclinometry aspects.

173. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more force aspects.

174. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more pressure aspects.

176. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more geographical aspects.

179. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more edge detection aspects.

181. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more reference light aspects.

184. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more user input aspects.

186. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information regarding physical status of the one or more devices expressed relative to one or more objects other than the one or more devices.

188. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining information regarding physical status of the one or more devices expressed relative to one or more portions of Earth.

191. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more locational aspects.

195. The system of claim 158, wherein the circuitry for obtaining physical status information regarding one or more of the devices comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of one or more of the devices through at least in part one or more techniques involving one or more visual placement aspects.

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197. A system comprising:

means for obtaining user advisory information including information regarding one or more users each of two or more devices based at least in part upon physical status information including information regarding one or more spatial aspects of one or more portions of each of the two or more devices; and

means for outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the user advisory information.

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