34 results about "Activity human" patented technology

A system and method for monitoring the activity level of one or more individuals and modifying the behavior of those individuals based on feedback from the activity level monitoring is disclosed. When applying the system and method to hyperactive children in a classroom environment, an activity monitor is attached to each hyperactive child. The activity monitor determines the intensity of the subject's activity at the end of each epoch (approximately every 5 seconds), stores the determined intensity, and compares the determined intensity to an epoch threshold. If the determined intensity exceeds the epoch threshold, the hyperactive child is given vibrotactile feedback by the attached activity monitor. The length of time that the vibrotactile feedback is applied is proportional to the amount the determined epoch intensity exceeds the epoch threshold. When the hyperactive child presses a button on the activity monitor to thereby request session feedback, the session intensity is compared to two different session thresholds, and one of three LEDs on the activity monitor is lit up, depending on where the session intensity is in comparison to the two session thresholds. A base station, either a simple hand-held device or a more complicated desk-top device, is under the control of the teacher and has a wireless communication link with the activity monitors so that information may be downloaded and the activity monitors may be controlled.

A system, method, and computer program product for providing a user with a virtual environment in which the user can perform guided activities and receive feedback are described. The user is provided with guidance to perform certain movements. The user's movements are captured in an image stream. The image stream is analyzed to estimate the user's movements, which is tracked by a user-specific human model. Biomechanical quantities such as center of pressure and muscle forces are calculated based on the tracked movements. Feedback such as the biomechanical quantities and differences between the guided movements and the captured actual movements are provided to the user.

A method and apparatus for monitoring a human activity pattern irrespective of the wearing position of the sensor unit by a user and a direction of the sensor unit are provided. The method for monitoring an inertia movement signal according to a movement of a user using a sensor unit attached to the user; detecting a direction of the sensor unit from the inertia movement signal; detecting a wearing location of the sensor unit by using acceleration and direction; determining the activity pattern of the user from inertia sensors; and delivering physical activity data corresponding to at least one caloric consumption, number of steps, and movement distance.

A living body monitoring activity system detects major activities, or feeble living body activities. In a method for monitoring existence of human movements or living body activities in living environments (e.g., sleeping activities involving a bed, a Futon-mat, a pad, or a Tatami-mat), an optical fiber type flat shaped body sensor including an optical fiber affixed or fitted to a flat shaped body is used, and light is emitted into the optical fiber from a light source, and changes of polarized wave conditions of light propagating in the optical fiber are brought about by changes in form of the optical fiber type flat shaped body sensor caused by human movements or living body activities and are detected by a measuring apparatus for polarized wave fluctuations so human activities or movements are discriminated based on the detected value of the polarized wave fluctuations.

A system and method for monitoring the activity level of one or more individuals and modifying the behavior of those individuals based on feedback from the activity level monitoring is disclosed. When applying the system and method to hyperactive children in a classroom environment, an activity monitor is attached to each hyperactive child. The activity monitor determines the intensity of the subject's activity at the end of each epoch (approximately every 5 seconds), stores the determined intensity, and compares the determined intensity to an epoch threshold. If the determined intensity exceeds the epoch threshold, the hyperactive child is given vibrotactile feedback by the attached activity monitor. The length of time that the vibrotactile feedback is applied is proportional to the amount the determined epoch intensity exceeds the epoch threshold. When the hyperactive child presses a button on the activity monitor to thereby request session feedback, the session intensity is compared to two different session thresholds, and one of three LEDs on the activity monitor is lit up, depending on where the session intensity is in comparison to the two session thresholds. A base station, either a simple hand-held device or a more complicated desk-top device, is under the control of the teacher and has a wireless communication link with the activity monitors so that information may be downloaded and the activity monitors may be controlled.

An example method for allowing a robot to assist with a task, the task being carried out in an environment including one or more non-human objects each having associated object locations, comprises detecting one or more changes in object locations within the environment, predicting a task requirement (such as a future object location change, or task goal) by comparing the change in the object location with stored data, the stored data including object location changes associated with previously observed tasks; and providing robotic assistance to achieve the task requirement. Example apparatus are also disclosed.

Systems and methods to perform privacy-aware computer-vision-based human activity monitoring with real-time haptic feedback. The system and method described in this disclosure employing a registration process for consenting human subjects before their activities are monitored. The registration process involves the corroboration of human motion captured in different modalities, i.e., computer-vision-based via the programmable computer-vision-based motion sensor and accelerometer-based via the wearable device. The tracked human activities are assessed in real-time and upon detection of activities that violated predefined rules, haptic feedback is delivered in real-time to the tracked human subject via the wearable device worn by the caregiver.

Systems and methods to perform privacy-aware computer-vision-based human activity monitoring with real-time haptic feedback. The system and method described in this disclosure employing a registration process for consenting human subjects before their activities are monitored. The registration process involves the corroboration of human motion captured in different modalities, i.e., computer-vision-based via the programmable computer-vision-based motion sensor and accelerometer-based via the wearable device. The tracked human activities are assessed in real-time and upon detection of activities that violated predefined rules, haptic feedback is delivered in real-time to the tracked human subject via the wearable device worn by the caregiver.

The invention provides a method for quantifying influence on basin water resources by climate change and human activities. The method comprises the following steps: S1, dividing a long sequence reference period; S2, carrying out restore calculation on hydrologic features of rainfall and temperature; S3, establishing a foundation database; S4, carrying out large-scale basin distributed hydrologic simulation; S5, quantitatively representing influence sub-items of the climate change and the human activities. According to the method provided by the invention, a basin distributed hydrologic model, a hydrologic feature restore technology and a sub-item quantifying method are effectively coupled, the method for quantifying the influence on the basin water resources by the climate change and the human activities is established, and the method has important significance to decisions such as basin water resource evolution analysis and identification, water source project planning layout and water resource space allocation in a varying environment.

Health is a complex state that represents the continuously changing outcome of nearly all human activities and interactions. The invention provides efficient methods and arrays for health monitoring, diagnosis, treatment, and preventive care. The invention monitors a broad range of identifying molecules from a subject, such as circulating antibodies, and the invention evaluates a pattern of binding of those molecules to a peptide array. The characterization of the pattern of binding of such molecules to a peptide array with the methods of the invention provide a robust measure of a state of health of a subject.

The invention relates to an electronic virtual cemetery platform system on a network as shown in figure 1. A user can log in the electronic virtual cemetery social platform system through a personal computer or a mobile terminal APP, and can log in the platform system in a log-in manner of unified identity authentication and use various functions of the platform after log in the platform including: building a grave, uploading data, establishing social relations, holding a funeral, building a memorial hall, participating in religious rite activities, delivering information, making electronic journals, participating in authentication relation services, focusing on authorization and other services provided by other application function modules. According to the electronic virtual cemetery platform system on the network with various functions, simulation of activities in which people participate is completed in a virtual environment, so that human activities which cannot be realized in a real cemetery can be realized in the virtual environment. A virtual space for people to hold a memorial ceremony for the departed is provided. The electronic virtual cemetery platform system is not limited by time, space, and geographical condition, so that the system is a social platform system by which people can cherish the memory of the departed anytime and anywhere.

The present invention discloses a switch control method based on human face identification specificity waves in brain waves. The method comprises the following steps: a picture exciting module presents human face and object pictures synchronously at a certain interval, and if a user wants to open a device, the user should observe the human face picture, or else observe the object picture; a brain wave signal acquiring module records brain wave signals of the user scalp and performs amplification and digital-to-analog conversion; a signal detection module detects that whether specificity waves generated by the exiting of the human face picture exist in the brain wave signals or not; a switch control module transforms the detection result into binary control signals to control the switch, and if obvious specificity wave component exist in the brain waves, the device is opened, or else the device is closed. In the present invention, a direct control channel between a human brain and an external switch device is established through acquiring and analyzing human face identification specificity wave components in the brain waves without depending on normal information transmitting channels such as peripheral nerves, muscles and the like for providing a novel method of controlling external environment for persons having normal thinking abilities but suffering from dyskinesia.

A real-time human activity recognition (rtHAR) engine embedded in a wearable device monitors a user's activities through the wearable device's sensors. The rtHAR uses the signals from the sensors to determine where the wearable device is relative to the user's body, and then determines the type of activity the user engages in depending upon the location of the wearable device relative to the user's body. The rtHAR is preferably installed on the wearable device as an embedded system, such as an operating system library or a module within software installed on the wearable device, so as to improve the quality of direct feedback from the wearable device to the user, and to minimize the amount of data sent from the wearable device to external archival and processing systems.

The invention discloses a slope reinforcement and ecological protection system which comprises a support structure arranged on the slope top plane and a slope protecting structure arranged at a slope on the lower portion of the support structure. The support structure comprises miniature piles which are arranged in an arc-shaped mode and anti-slide piles arranged in two-side arc-shaped arch feet; the pile tops of the anti-slide piles and the pile tops of the miniature piles are all connected with a connecting beam; the slope protecting structure comprises a non-woven geotextile and a metal mesh which are paved on the slope in a stacked mode from bottom to top; plant-growing bags are bound on the metal mesh; anchor rods penetrate through the metal mesh and the non-woven geotextile to insert into the slope. According to the slope reinforcement and ecological protection system, the support structure maintains the stability of a landslide mass, the construction cost is low, construction is quick, the influence on the environment is little, and the slope protecting structure reduces the water and soil loss in engineering construction. The vegetation slope protecting technology and engineering protective measures are combined, the advantages of the vegetation slope protecting technology and the engineering protective measures are exerted, the contradiction between slope engineering protection and ecological environment damage can be effectively solved, and harmonious coexistence between human activities and natural environments is achieved.

A decision-making support device configured to store a predetermined criterion defining a damage degree according to a content of each of disasters, and predetermined information symbolizing various human activities in disasters, and configured to determine a damage degree for each of areas at a disaster-stricken area by comparing disaster information acquired from a predetermined interface with a predetermined criterion, determine an activity degree of human activities for each of the areas based on appearance frequency of predetermined information in various types of information acquired from a predetermined interface or disaster information, identify, as a support-needed area, an area with a higher damage degree and a lower activity degree than those of other areas, or an area with the damage degree and the activity degree higher by a predetermined level or more than those of other areas, and output information of the support-needed area to a predetermined device.

A system for coordinating the activity of a plurality of humans in teams with a central automated controller having reasoning capability based on a predetermined set of criteria by sending messages to and from each of the humans. The controller processes input from each of the humans in accordance with programmed decision making capability to accomplish predetermined objectives and provide output to at least some of the humans to assess a situation, direct steps in response thereto and coordinate decisions based on a predetermined model and task assessment reasoning to determine the best way to accomplish the predetermined objectives. The coordinator assesses changes to the situation, and makes decisions about the various tasks to be performed and when they are to be begun. Outputs to the humans may be instructions, questions, information and combinations thereof.

A method for predicting and managing an occurrence of a power outage resulting from human activity, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining at least one short-term notification of a planned human activity event; generating a corrected human activity notification as a function of the short-term notification and data corresponding to power grid information, geographical information relating to the power grid and customers utilizing the power grid, power grid customer information, and / or historical information corresponding to prior power outages resulting from human activity events; generating an outage probability as a function of the corrected human activity notification and trained predictive modeling data; generating an optimization model as a function of the outage probability; and initiating at least one action for mitigating the occurrence of the power outage resulting from human activity as a function of the optimization model.

The invention relates to an oral rehydration device for the treatment of xerostomia. The device delivers fluid, from an external reservoir, passively, directly to a patient. No human activity is required to provide hydration. The device is capable of operating in a number of clinical and hospital settings, but also in the home environment, where extended treatment of xerostomia is required.

The invention provides a method for cultivating nostoc commune with an abandoned travertine earth surface. The method includes the steps of 1, breeder seed preparation, 2, treatment on the abandoned travertine earth surface, 3, planting and 4, regular interval management. Compared with the prior art, the effective resources of the abandoned travertine earth surface can be utilized, and the requirements for resource utilization, energy saving and environmental protection are met; the operation steps are relatively simple, operation feasibility is high, preparation costs are low, and the effectof harvesting at the later period is remarkable; influences of environment pollution and human activities on the yield of wild nostoc commune can be reduced; the method belongs to an environmentally-friendly technology, no other harmful pollution exists during planting, toxic and harmful substances are not generated, and the method has broad development space.

Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for automatically performing Human Factors Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for a process are provided. At least one task involved in a process is identified, where the task includes at least one human activity. The human activity is described using at least one verb. A human error potentially resulting from the human activity is automatically identified, the human error is related to the verb used in describing the task. A likelihood of occurrence, detection, and correction of the human error is identified. The severity of the effect of the human error is identified. The likelihood of occurrence, and the severity of the risk of potential harm is identified. The risk of potential harm is compared with a risk threshold to identify the appropriateness of corrective measures.

A living body monitoring activity system detects major activities, or feeble living body activities. In a method for monitoring existence of human movements or living body activities in living environments (e.g., sleeping activities involving a bed, a Futon-mat, a pad, or a Tatami-mat), an optical fiber type flat shaped body sensor including an optical fiber affixed or fitted to a flat shaped body is used, and light is emitted into the optical fiber from a light source, and changes of polarized wave conditions of light propagating in the optical fiber are brought about by changes in form of the optical fiber type flat shaped body sensor caused by human movements or living body activities and are detected by a measuring apparatus for polarized wave fluctuations so human activities or movements are discriminated based on the detected value of the polarized wave fluctuations.

The invention provides a flexible side-slope ecological protection system and a construction method thereof. The flexible side-slope ecological protection system comprises a honeycomb cell and a fiberwater suction net; the fiber water suction net is laid on the surface of a slope; the honeycomb cell is placed at the upper part of the fiber water suction net; the honeycomb cell is fixed on the slope; the honeycomb cell is filled with planting soil; and a turf protective blanket is laid on the surface of the honeycomb cell. The flexible side-slope ecological protection system, provided by the invention, has the advantages that the exposed side slope surface is graded according to different soil layer situations by using the stability of vegetation multi-grade slope protection combined witha plant measure and an engineering measure for slope surface graded reinforcing; recycled aggregate planting irrigation groove is formed in each grade of platform; and upwardly climbing or drooping vines are planted in the recycled aggregate planting irrigation groove. The honeycomb cell is anchored in the slope surface; the honeycomb cell is filled with parent soil and aggregate, and the turf protective blanket is laid on the surface of the honeycomb cell to retain moisture to be beneficial for plants to root and grow. The stability of the side slope is guaranteed, the rapid recovery of slopesurface vegetation can also be realized, and harmonious coexistence of human activities and natural environment is realized.

The invention discloses a method for quantizing vegetation consumption of human activities. The method comprises the following steps of collecting station meteorological data in a study region in a study year; obtaining grid meteorological data in the study region in the study year; obtaining a vegetation coverage diagram in the study region in the study year; computing vegetation potential productivity in the study region in the study year; obtaining MOD17A3 data in the study region in the study year; extracting vegetation actual productivity in the study region in the study year; computing the vegetation consumption of the human activity in the study region in the study year; and computing the vegetation consumption degree of the human activity in the study region in the study year. According to the method, the vegetation consumption time, the vegetation consumption place and the vegetation consumption degree of the human activity in the region can be given quantitatively, and the quick and accurate quantization of the vegetation consumption of the human activities can be realized.

The present inventions relates to the field of human activities involving staying in water, in particular, in immobile or immobilized states. The claimed technical result reduces to ensuring highly stable staying at the surface of deep water, in particular, under conditions of considerable water surface roughness. According to the proposed invention, the face is turned up, the head is straightened, the legs are flexed, the arms are drawn aside and turned outside, and the forearms are flexed. Alternatively, the arms are straightened and the thighs are flexed or the arms are flexed and the thighs are straightened. Some distinctive features are related to additional technical means, which facilitate realization of the present invention.

The invention discloses a two-dimensional runoff restoration method for separating the influences of human activities. The two-dimensional runoff restoration method comprises the following steps: firstly, constructing a boundary-pansystems binary automaton model; secondly, determining input, output and internal state elements of a human activity-basin underlayer system; thirdly, calculating the influence quantity of the human activities on basin underlayer conditions; fourthly, obtaining indirect influence quantity of the human activities on the runoff; fifthly, determining input, output and internal state elements of a human activity-runoff system meeting the consistency of the underlayer conditions; sixthly, solving direct influence quantity of the human activities on the runoff on the basis of the constructed system analytic method for separating direct influences of the human activities on the runoff; seventhly, calculating natural runoff volume meeting the consistency of the basin underlayer conditions according to the calculated indirect influence quantity of the human activities on the runoff and the direct influence quantity of the human activities on the runoff. The two-dimensional runoff restoration method has the advantages of simpleness, easiness for operation, high calculation speed, high precision, and comprehensive and scientific calculation result.

The invention provides a method for evaluating the degree of contribution of human activities to the mountain environment change. According to the method, feature lines or strips such as, snow lines, frozen earth lines, forest lines and tree lines, which are sensitive to the action of external force in the mountain environment are selected, a GIS technology and an RS technology are applied, the distribution patterns of the feature lines or strips in different periods are analyzed in a quantitative mode, a spatial distribution graph of the feature lines or strips is made through accurate registration with DEM, displacement differences of the feature lines or strips in a settlement area and a position close to a non-settlement area are compared, and thus the cultural process and the natural process of displacement of the feature lines or strips are described and distinguished in a quantitative mode. The method is small in workload, easy to implement, low in cost, high in speed of the evaluation process and wide in sample range, a basis is provided for exploring adapting the plateau mountainous environment change to the human, and a scientific basis is further provided for scientifically evaluating the effects of ecological construction, such as converting cultivated lands into forests.

The invention discloses a spacewalking machine with movable handles, which comprises a bracket and two step bar assemblies arranged in parallel, and the bracket includes two "Λ" shaped support bars arranged parallel to each other and vertically and Horizontally arranged beams, the two ends of the beams are vertically connected to the corners of the "Λ"-shaped support rods; the pedal assembly includes a pedal body, a pedal and a connecting rod. The advantage of the spacewalking machine with movable handle of the present invention is: the pedal, the pedal body and the joint of the pedal body and the crossbeam are all in the same vertical plane, so when people stand on the pedal and move, the pedal will not An extra torque is applied to the joint between the pedal body and the crossbeam, and the service life is longer. In addition, there are movable handles. When people move on this space walking machine, the movement law is closer to walking on the real road, and the experience is better. .

The invention discloses a quantitative analysis method for river runoff change caused by climate change and human activities. The method comprises the steps of collecting hydrological and meteorological information, water resource evaluation data and human activity information in a basin, judging a mutation point of an annual runoff process, wherein the part before the mutation point is a natural stage of the basin and the part after the mutation point is an influence stage of the basin, the entire natural runoff sequence is reconstructed by using the hydrological and meteorological information of the natural stage, using hydrological model rating model parameters and then using meteorological information of the whole period, and analyzing the contribution of climate change and human activities to the river runoff change by using the difference between the reconstructed natural runoff and the actually measured runoff. By adopting the quantitative analysis method for river runoff change caused by climate change and human activities, in combination with situations such as hydrological and meteorological factor changes, land use changes and water use in the basin, the binary attribution analysis of the river runoff change caused by climate change and human activities is extended to quaternary attribution analysis of the river runoff change caused by rainfall change, climate change, land use change and water use.

The invention discloses an activity monitoring method and system. Human activity monitoring systems are mainly used for tracking and monitoring of activities of people. Constant monitoring is required in order to ensure that proper care is provided for each person when faced with events such as sudden health issues and the like emergencies. Existing systems require constant monitoring and are non-adaptive to constant habitual changes or peculiarities of an individual. Described herein is an activity monitoring method that generates activity data from the activities of a person within a defined area before analyzing the activity data to identify presence of anomaly therein based on recognizing deviation of the activity data from activity profile. The activity profile is indicative of the expected activity and behavior of the person.