Monitoring physiological conditions
First Claim
1. A method for unobtrusive screening of the well-being of a person using a plurality of sensing devices in a physiological monitoring system, comprising:
- operating a physiological monitoring system in a fixed capture area, using the sensing devices, including at least one camera to capture images without control of ambient light exposure conditions;
automatically detecting the presence of a person during an image capture event;
identifying the person as a subject being monitored by the system and tracking the position and pose of the subject person;
associating known semantic data with the subject person;
using the sensing devices to automatically and unobtrusively sense one or more body parameters of the subject person from the image capture data obtained during the image capture events, while automatically determining the capture conditions, including the ambient light exposure and subject pose, as present during the capture events;
automatically analyzing the captured images and the capture condition data for a capture event to determine the acceptability of the captured images relative to defined capture criteria;
continuing image capture in an attempt to acquire acceptable images, until either such images are acquired or the subject person leaves the capture area;
calculating and storing wellness parameters, which are derived from the sensed body parameter data, including the image capture data, which have been determined acceptable relative to capture conditions; and
compiling a wellness record for the subject person and automatically evaluating the well-being of the subject person based on current and prior semantic data including comparing the wellness parameters to previously determined wellness parameters for that person.
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Abstract
A method for unobtrusive screening the well-being of a person using a plurality of sensing devices, including detecting the presence of a person; identifying and tracking the person; using sensing devices, which includes at least one camera, to unobtrusively sense one or more body parameters of the person; calculating and storing wellness parameters, which are derived from the sensed body parameter data; and automatically evaluating the well-being of the person based on current and prior semantic data including comparing the wellness parameters to previously determined wellness parameters for that person.
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1. A method for unobtrusive screening of the well-being of a person using a plurality of sensing devices in a physiological monitoring system, comprising:
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operating a physiological monitoring system in a fixed capture area, using the sensing devices, including at least one camera to capture images without control of ambient light exposure conditions; automatically detecting the presence of a person during an image capture event; identifying the person as a subject being monitored by the system and tracking the position and pose of the subject person; associating known semantic data with the subject person; using the sensing devices to automatically and unobtrusively sense one or more body parameters of the subject person from the image capture data obtained during the image capture events, while automatically determining the capture conditions, including the ambient light exposure and subject pose, as present during the capture events; automatically analyzing the captured images and the capture condition data for a capture event to determine the acceptability of the captured images relative to defined capture criteria; continuing image capture in an attempt to acquire acceptable images, until either such images are acquired or the subject person leaves the capture area; calculating and storing wellness parameters, which are derived from the sensed body parameter data, including the image capture data, which have been determined acceptable relative to capture conditions; and compiling a wellness record for the subject person and automatically evaluating the well-being of the subject person based on current and prior semantic data including comparing the wellness parameters to previously determined wellness parameters for that person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An image-based system for monitoring physiological conditions of an individual on an ongoing basis, comprising;
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an image capture device, provided in a fixed location, which can automatically capture image data of at least one individual during a capture event; a user identification means which uses captured image data to recognize an individual as a subject being monitored for the capture event, thereby distinguishing a given subject person from non-subject persons or other subject persons; providing known semantic data associated with the subject person; a well-being image capture structure which quantifies the capture conditions present during the capture event, including the ambient light exposure conditions and the subject pose, and which screens the captured image data relative to predetermined image capture condition criteria to identify acceptable images; an image normalization structure which corrects the captured image data for acceptable images to compensate for variations in the image capture conditions, to provide normalized image data; record keeping means for compiling wellness records for all the known subjects; a well-being assessment structure which analyzes the normalized image data relative to physiological conditions of the subject individual, or changes thereof, based upon the capture conditions and the semantic data of the subject individual, using data from the record keeping structure; and output means for providing image data or well-being assessments of the individual. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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