WEARABLE DEVICE ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLABLE BASED ON BIOINFORMATION, SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160206239A1
• Filed: 01/13/2016
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YOON, Seungkeun, KWON, Ui Kun, CHOI, Changmok
• Granted Patent: US 10,314,534 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1114 Tracking parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/389 Electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6843 Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A electronic device, a system including the wearable electronic device, and an operating method of the wearable electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device includes a biosensor configured to sense bioinformation on a body of a user wearing the electronic device. The electronic device also includes a controller configured to determine a state of the user based on the bioinformation and surrounding environment information of a surrounding environment of the user, and control a change in a function of the electronic device based on the state of the user.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a biosensor configured to sense bioinformation on a body of a user wearing the electronic device; and

a controller configured to determine a state of the user based on the bioinformation and surrounding environment information of a surrounding environment of the user, and control a change in a function of the electronic device based on the state of the user.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine the state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and at least one of biosignal information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the biosignal measurement information comprises an input request from the user to measure a biosignal of the user.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine an exercising state of the user based on the bioinformation and motion information comprised in the surrounding environment information and control the change in the function of the electronic device based on the determined exercising state of the user.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine a stable state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and bio-reaction information comprised in the bioinformation and control the change in the function of the electronic device based on the determined stable state of the user.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine a biosignal measurement state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation and control the change in the function of the electronic device based on the determined biosignal measurement state of the user.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

an environmental sensor configured to sense the surrounding environment information.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the surrounding environment information is received from another electronic device communicating with the electronic device.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the biosensor is configured to generate a sensing signal in response to an input from the user, and

the controller is configured to determine the state of the user in response to the sensing signal, and control the change in the function of the electronic device based on the determined state of the user.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the state of the user is a biosignal measurement state of the user.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control a deformation of a region of the electronic device worn on a portion of a body of the user.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control a deformation using an electrode comprised in the biosensor.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to control the deformation using the electrode through an electroactive polymer (EAP).

14. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller comprises:

a determiner configured to determine the state of the user through a classifier using the surrounding environment information and the bioinformation.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the controller further comprises:

a trainer configured to collect feedback information on the changed function of the electronic device, and train the classifier based on the feedback information, the surrounding environment information, and the bioinformation.

16. A method of an electronic device, comprising:

sensing bioinformation from a user wearing the electronic device;

determining a state of the user based on the bioinformation and surrounding environment information of a surrounding environment of the user; and

controlling a change in a function of the electronic device based on the state of the user.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining comprises:

determining the state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and at least one of biosignal information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the biosignal measurement information comprises an input request from the user to measure a biosignal of the user.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

sensing the surrounding environment information.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the surrounding environment information is received from another electronic device communicating with the electronic device.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining comprises:

determining an exercising state of the user based on the bioinformation and motion information comprised in the surrounding environment information.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining comprises:

determining a stable state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and bio-reaction information comprised in the bioinformation.

23. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining comprises:

determining a biosignal measurement state of the user based on the surrounding environment information and biosignal measurement information comprised in the bioinformation.

24. The method of claim 16, wherein the controlling comprises:

controlling a deformation of a region of the electronic device to be worn on a portion of a body of the user.

25. The method of claim 16, wherein the controlling comprises:

controlling a deformation using an electrode comprised in a sensor configured to sense the bioinformation.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the electrode is deformed through an electroactive polymer (EAP).

27. The method of claim 16, wherein the determining comprises:

determining the state of the user through a classifier using the surrounding environment information and the bioinformation.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

collecting feedback information on the changed function of the electronic device; and

training the classifier based on the feedback information, the surrounding environment information, and the bioinformation.

29. An apparatus, comprising:

a sensor configured to sense bioinformation and information of a surrounding environment of a user wearing an electronic device; and

a controller configured to determine a state of the user based on the bioinformation and the surrounding environment information and control a deformation function of a wearable region of the electronic device based on the state of the user.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the surrounding environment information comprises at least one of light information, temperature information, noise information, force information, and motion information.

31. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the bioinformation comprises at least one of a pulse wave, a skin temperature, a brainwave, a facial muscle movement, and a face temperature.

32. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the controller comprises

a determiner configured to determine the state as an exercising state or a stable state of the user through a classifier based on the bioinformation and motion information included in the surrounding environment information, and

a trainer configured to collect feedback information on the deformation function of the electronic device, and train the classifier based on the feedback information, the surrounding environment information, and the bioinformation.

33. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein the determiner produces data included in the surrounding environment information and the bioinformation as a vector comprising a numerical value of the each data, and uses personal information of the user to adjust the state of the user wearing the electronic device, wherein the data comprises acceleration data, coordinate data, and heart rate data, and the personal information comprises an age, a height, and a weight of the user.

34. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein, in response to the determiner determining that the state of the user is a stable state comprising a sleeping state or a resting state, the controller controls the deformation function of the wearable region worn on a portion of a body of the user by loosening the wearable region.

35. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the controller executes a function to monitor and record at least one of a resting time and a sleeping time, saturation of partial pressure oxygen (SpO₂), save power of the electronic device, music, and a ringtone or vibration mode.

36. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein, in response to the determiner determining that the state of the user is an exercise state, the controller controls the deformation function of the wearable region worn on a portion of a body of the user by tightening the wearable region.

37. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein the control processor executes a function to monitor and record at least one of an exercise time, a heart rate, an electromyogram (EMG), music, coaching an exercise, and a ringtone or vibration mode.

38. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein, in response to the determiner determining that the user is measuring a biosignal, the controller controls the deformation function to enable an electrode included in the sensor to be in close contact with skin of the user.