127 results about "Autistic child" patented technology

The invention discloses a human-machine interaction multi-mode early intervention system for improving the social interaction capacity of autistic children. The system comprises a multi-point touch screen, a computer and three cameras respectively mounted at the left and right sides of the touch screen and above the middle part of the touch screen, wherein each camera is provided with a microphone and connected with the computer through a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface; and the system is provided with six basic modules, namely a visual signal processing module, a voice signal processing module, a physical interactive interface module, a multi-mode fusion module, an intelligent control console module and a real scene simulation module, wherein the modules are combined with computer vision, voice recognition, behavior identification, intelligent agent and virtual reality technologies so as to support and improve the social interaction capacity of the autistic children. Development and change of several children in the learning environment are tracked for half year, wherein the social interaction capacity of most children is improved obviously, and other children also make some progress in the aspect of interaction capacity.

The present disclosure provides for characterization of normal flora and identifying biomarkers in the gut of healthy, neruotypical subjects. Aspect of the disclosure provide for the characterization of the gut microbiome in ADS subjects, characterized by reduced richness and significant loss of the ‘Prevotella-like enterotype’ compared to neurotypical subjects. The relative abundance of genera Prevotella, Coprococcus, Prevotellaceae and Veillonellaceae are significantly lower in autistic children than in neurotypical children. Further, Prevotella, is one of the three main classifiers for the human enterotypes, along with Bacteroides and Ruminococcus. These three core genera are among main contributors in the principle component analysis. ‘Prevotella-like enterotype’ was absent in the autistic group, while neurotypical samples showed an even distribution among the three enterotypes. The present disclosure provides for an understanding the association between gut microbiota, health, and disease states, and provides for potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets.

The invention belongs to the field of robots, and relates to a multi-sensor information collection analyzing system, a robot device which performs real-time monitor and adjuvant treatment for autism children by using the system and a control technology of the robot device. In the multi-sensor information collection analyzing system, a plurality of sensors, collectors and information output equipment transmit communication information by adopting a controller area network (CAN) fieldbus, and the distribution type information fusion technology ensures that mounting and clipping of the equipmentto be more convenient and efficient. By adopting the multi-information fusion technology, the ways for the robot to collect interactive object emotions are increased, and the affinity and interactivesuccessful rate of human-machine interaction are improved.

Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for treating or preventing an autism spectrum disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder, or a disorder of psychological development. The methods comprise transmitting impulses of energy non-invasively to selected nerve fibers, particularly those in a vagus nerve. The nerve stimulation may be used as a behavior conditioning tool, by producing euphoria in an autistic individual. Vagus nerve stimulation is also used to modulate circulating serotonin levels in a pregnant woman so as to reduce the risk of having an autistic child; modulate the levels of growth factors within a child; promote balance of neuronal excitation / inhibition; modulate the activity of abnormal resting state neuronal networks; increase respiratory sinus arrhythmia; and avert episodes of motor stereotypies with the aid of forecasting methods.

Mentally challenged persons such as autistic children and Alzheimer's patients can become lost and they are hard to find because they have difficulty communicating or they are confused and disoriented. The present invention provides an apparatus, system and methods for locating lost persons (or animals or packages) whether they are indoors or outdoors. The apparatus comprises a cellular telephone unit which can be activated by a RF signal and which a child or patient can wear. The wearable unit can be activated by a caregiver's smart phone having a locating application installed therein. The locating application enables the caregiver to locate the lost person using radio direction finder triangulation when the lost person is within a few hundred feet of the caregiver. When the lost person is further away, the locating application employs cell phone tower triangulation or the wearable unit GPS / Assisted GPS application to determine an approximate location of the lost person. As the caregiver moves close enough to the approximate location, the radio direction finder triangulation is used to calculate a more exact location to find the lost person.

The invention relates to a Kinect-based interactive imaging device for autistic children and method thereof, the Kinect somatosensory camera is arranged on a bracket and is connected with a computer through a data line, the Kinect somatosensory camera is controlled by a computer to collect depth data and transmit speech signals, and the received depth data is calculated through skeleton capture functions of the Kinect somatosensory camera to obtain skeleton coordinate data of sick children, which is sent to a game engine, so that an action formed by the skeleton coordinate data is converted into an event defined by the game engine, and auxiliary game software can be incorporated into the interactive training of children; the computer is connected with a display, a training system and the auxiliary game software are displayed on the display, so that the children can stand in front of the display and independently complete the whole interactive training through gestures and body movements; the computer is connected with two speakers which are arranged on the left and right, a carpet which is suitable for children activities is arranged in front of the display, and isolation pillars are arranged around the carpet.

The invention discloses a robot for assisting autistic child therapy. The robot comprises an image collection device, a sound collection device, a sound display device and a control device, wherein the image collection device is used for collecting external image information of the robot and sending the collected information to the control device; the sound collection device is used for collecting the external sound information of the robot and sending the collected information to the control device; the sound display device can play audios; the control device identifies a human face according to the image collected by the image collection device, detects the expression information of the human face when identifying the human face, and identifies voice according to the acoustic information; in addition, the control device generates control information for controlling the sound display device according to the expression information and / or the acoustic information; the sound display device displays the corresponding audio according to the control information. The robot for assisting the autistic child therapy can be movably close to an autistic child and communicate with the autistic child so as to assist the autistic child therapy.

The invention discloses a robot remote control and management system and method based on a cloud platform. The system comprises an execution module which comprises a sensor carried by a robot and an information collection equipment cluster, a control module which is based on the cloud platform and is used for receiving and storing all data uploaded by the execution module, carrying out real-time processing on the data, converting a processing result into an instruction for a specific unit, and transmitting the instruction to the unit in real time through a network, and a web client which is used for reading information in the cloud platform and carrying out remote human intervention, wherein each equipment and robot in the information collection equipment cluster are independent units, and each unit is equipped with a wireless terminal, a positioning terminal and an execution terminal. According to the system and the method, calculation and storage tasks of the robot are creatively transferred to the cloud platform, the real-time communication can be maintained, the requirements of robot calculation and storage ability are greatly reduced, and the system and the method have a good application prospect in the field of the experimental research and interventional treatment of children with autism.

The invention provides a comprehensive rehabilitation training device for children with autism. The device comprises lifting balls, a hot air device, a balance disk, a suspension bridge, a rotating drum, hurdles and a bubble blowing device. The hot air device includes a fan, a microcontroller, an infrared sensor and a heating wire. The balance disk comprises a disk body, a protruding head and a groove; the bottom of the disk body is provided with the arc-shaped protruding head. The suspension bridge comprises suspension chains and a suspension plate connected to the bottoms of the suspension chains. The rotating drum includes a bearing, a rotating disk, a protective layer and a supporting rod; the rotating disk is fixedly welded to the outer side wall of the bearing; the supporting rod isfixedly connected with an inner ring of the bearing; the outer surface of the supporting rod is covered with the protective layer. The bubble blowing device includes a foam box, blowing rings, a pulling ring, a pulling wire and pulleys. The device is provided with a series of consecutive training and entertainment facilities and can simultaneously perform good exercise from the patient's sense ofsight and muscle coordination ability. A bubble blowing game can train children's various abilities.

A medical garment system for comfortably restraining at least one limb of a gown wearer while permitting the wearer to receive medical treatment. The medical garment system is particularly useful for special needs patients, such as autistic children, who may become frightened when medical personnel are attempting to administer medication. Such patients may react by violently moving their arms, causing themselves or the medical personnel harm. When the arms of such a patient are comfortably subdued during such procedures, the patient is better protected from injury.

The invention discloses an instrument system for digitalized intervention treatment of autistic children and relates to a digitalized intervention instrument system for treatment of child autism. The instrument system consists of a health cloud platform, a smart home device, a home nursing customer service system and a remote consultation system, wherein the smart home device comprises a home computer and a mobile terminal and is provided with a login module, a training module and a communication module, and the training module comprises a continuous attention training template, a visual perception training template, a logic and thought template and a numerical concept and memory skill template. The instrument system is an instrument system which is applied to integral visual and hearing sense training for treatment of child autism and can provide a more professional and effective treatment and rehabilitation means for people who suffer from development behavior disorder.

The invention belongs to the field of automatic control and robots and relates to a three-wheeled omnidirectional mobile control device. The device adopts double front wheels for drive to improve the driving capacity and bearing capacity of robots. With V_Rotation rotation factor introduced and incremental PID controlling the whole adjusting process, the device realizes the accurate linear and arc movement of robots in any direction, as well as automatic avoidance of barrier and path planning. The robot device and the control technology aim at real-time custody and auxiliary treatment of autistic children. The invention provides a technology of emotion capture and emotion interaction of interactive objects by robots during man-machine interaction process, so as to improve the affinity and interactive success rate of robots in man-machine interaction.

The invention discloses a children autism risk assessing system based on electroencephalogram, belonging to the field of children autism risk assessment. The children autism risk assessing system based on electroencephalogram comprises a multi-island electroencephalogram signal collecting system, an electroencephalogram signal anti-jamming processing system, an electroencephalogram signal sorting system, an autism risk assessing system and a display system. For the children autism risk assessing system, the multi-island electroencephalogram signal collecting system collects electroencephalogram signals, the jamming signals are primarily processed by a digital filter and an anti-jamming algorithm computer, the errors caused by the jamming signals are effectively avoided by adopting an ARMA model and a self-adaptive predictor based on the ARMA model, then the interference factors are eliminated, meanwhile, the system collects the healthy children data signals and the autism children signals which are labeled, the collected abundant feature information is stored in a first database, the children data signals collected and measured recently are compared with the information, and then the reasonable autism risk result is given.

The invention discloses an autism self-adaptive intervention system based on a key reaction training mode. The system comprises an evaluation data clustering module, a sensing module, a behavior stateanalysis module, an intelligent auxiliary intervention module, an intervention path generation module and an intervention resource module. The invention provides a key reaction training interventionmode supported by a human-computer interaction technology for autistic children. Before intervention is started, an initialized intervention path is provided for the autistic child through evaluationdata analysis, the behavior state of the autistic child is sensed in the intervention process, and therefore parents / teachers are guided to initiate an intensifying instruction to the autistic child and naturally intensify the autistic child or trigger intensifying in intervention resources in real time. Besides, the system can also adaptively adjust the intervention path according to the performance of the child in intervention, and dynamically provide gamified intervention items for the autistic child according to the intervention path so as to improve the key skills of the autistic child.

The invention discloses an autism child social dysfunction symptom analysis method based on machine learning. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring a social behavior characteristic setof the autism child in each type; acquiring the previous case analysis report of the autism child; learning the recorded information by a system; updating a fitting function; and performing new caseanalysis by means of the updated fitting function. The invention further discloses an autism child case analysis system based on machine learning. According to the analysis method based on machine learning, a related characteristic analysis rule is automatically learned according to existing case analysis information of the child; and furthermore in the later analysis activity, a diagnosis resultis automatically recommended to rehabilitation personnel according to the newly input characteristic parameter and the learned analysis method, thereby greatly improving rehabilitation efficiency andaccuracy, and realizing wide application prospect.

The invention discloses a method and device for screening the early language and cognitive ability of autistic children. The method comprises the following steps of collecting eye movement trajectorydata generated when the autistic children deal with target tasks according to an eye movement behavior index, wherein the eye movement behavior index is a fixation point ratio of the eyes of the autistic children in a target area within a preset time; conducting analysis according to the eye movement trajectory data to obtain current situation information of the language and cognitive ability of the autistic children; obtaining a screening result about the language and cognitive ability of the autistic children. By means of the method, the complete eye movement behavior index is established, the influence of subjective factors of an evaluator can be gotten rid of with eye movement trajectories of the autistic children as diagnosis and evaluation bases, and the task requirements for the autistic children can be reduced to the greatest degree.

The invention discloses a space perception ability training device for autistic children. The device organically combines auditory sense, visual sense and tactile sense, and related plastic nerves inthe brain and a repair path of brain self-healing ability are perceived through stimulation of multiple sense organs. Moreover, the device performs hierarchical mode training on the ability of the autistic children from distinguishing spatial positioning, understanding spatial orientation concepts to analyzing spatial relations, and achieves coordinated movement of hands, feet, eyes and brains, thereby improving the integration function and the spatial perception ability of the autistic children. The scientific, normalized, professional, systematic and standardized spatial perception ability training device and method are provided for the autistic children and rehabilitation guidance personnel, the accuracy of training results is effectively guaranteed, and the workload of teachers or guardians is greatly reduced.

The invention provides an autism spectrum disorder mixed reality rehabilitation training system and method, the clinical rehabilitation training course content of an autism child is combined with theadvantages of the mixed reality technology, and a set of training course is designed under the guidance of a rehabilitator. The curriculums aim at three aspects of cognitive training, understanding training and imitation training, traditional training contents are fused into the system, and an interesting, immersive and game type interactive training system is constructed. According to the system,expensive mixed reality equipment is not needed, and more interests, higher concentration and better training performance of autistic children can be caused.

Wearing apparel which helps to manage autistic children by preventing them from removing the wearing apparel once they are placed in the wearing apparel. The wearing apparel is made from a soft cotton material and has an opening through which the wearing apparel is placed onto or removed from the child. The opening is the only way the wearing apparel can be donned or removed. A closure mechanism allows the opening to be open for passage of the child into or out of the wearing apparel when in the open configuration and to close the opening to prevent the passage of the child into or out of the wearing apparel when in the closed configuration. The closure is located where the child cannot reach it once the wearing apparel is donned whereby once the child is dressed, the child cannot disrobe.

The invention provides a virtual reality (VR) stimulation and auditory integration method for treatment and evaluation of children autism. The method achieves audio and video integration treatment forthe autistic children and evaluates the degree of the autistic children immersed in a VR and auditory integration environment. The invention relates to the fields of computer graphics, man-machine interaction, artificial intelligence and the like. According to the virtual reality (VR) stimulation and auditory integration method for the treatment and evaluation of the children autism, interactiveVR games suitable for the autistic children are developed to achieve visual sensory stimulation and interactive behavior drive for the autistic children, sensitive frequencies are filtered, so that the auditory cortex of the brain is reorganized, the awareness of all the frequencies is promoted to achieve the therapeutic effect. A low-power-consumption smart bracelet is worn to collect the real-time heart rate and arm exercise amount of the children, and analyze and evaluate the interactive VR games and the degree of concentration on the VR and auditory integration environment. The virtual reality (VR) stimulation and auditory integration method for the treatment and evaluation of the children autism has the advantages that the evaluation objectivity and systematicness are strong, the perception of the autistic children for audiovisual content can be quantitatively analyzed and judged, and the integration treatment effect on the children autism is improved.

The invention discloses a cognitive competence assessment intervention system for autistic children based on layer-by-layer generalization push logic. The system comprises a data acquisition module, a camera video permission request module, a cognitive competence assessment module, a cognitive competence intervention plan generation module, a cognitive competence intervention training module and a cognitive competence digital rehabilitation report module. According to the invention, no special equipment requirement is required, a family only needs to have an intelligent terminal device capable of surfing the Internet, the equipment cost is low, the intervention requirement on parents is very low, the autism children can carry out digital rehabilitation intervention training in a familiar environment, the intervention effect is greatly improved, and therefore, the system is a beneficial supplement for the autistic children with cognitive function defects to receive intervention training of professional rehabilitation therapists, and is particularly suitable for autistic children with cognitive function defects or families with limited energy of parents in areas with backward medical conditions and lack of professional rehabilitation therapists.

The invention relates to the field of infantile autism stereotyped behavior intervention, in particular to a monitoring method for a tiptoe gait and a monitoring instrument for the tiptoe gait arranged in a shoe. The monitoring method for the tiptoe gait is provided so as to conduct automatic monitoring on the tiptoe gait when a child with infantile autism walks. The method comprises the following steps executed by a computer program, including a determination step and a prompt step. The determination step comprises the step of determining whether a gait is a tiptoe gait or not, wherein the conditions of determining the gait is the tiptoe gait is that in a complete one step process, it is detected that the tiptoe touches the ground while the heel does not touch the ground; The prompt step comprises the step of sending a prompt signal if it is determined that the gait is the tiptoe gait. Through automatic monitoring and timely prompt on the tiptoe gait, effective intervention can be conducted on the tiptoe gait when the child with infantile autism is unconscious, the child can be helped to establish an ability to determine self behavior by obtaining information through perception about the external, to improve stereotyped behavior of the child, and to mitigate sensory disturbance.

The invention discloses an autistic serum polypeptide marker PF4-A and application thereof.The amino acid sequence of the autistic serum polypeptide marker PF4-A is shown as SEQ.ID.NO.1.The molecule is named as PF4-A and is a segment of a platelet factor 4 (PF4), and the precise molecular weight of the PF4-A is 7775 daltons.The PF4-A shows significant high expression in detection of the serum of autistic children, and the method that the PF4-A is detected through a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MALDI-TOF-MS) or the PF4 expression level is detected through an ELISA method can be taken as a detection method for the autistic serum.

The invention discloses an infantile autism rehabilitation training guiding game type man-machine interactive system and method. The system comprises an input module, a processing module and a displaymodule; the input module is used for obtaining an input request of a trained child; the processing module is used for calling a game picture of a guiding game according to the input request; the display module is used for displaying the game picture; the input module is further used for operating the displayed game picture to generate interactive data; the processing module is further used for verifying the interactive data; if verification passes, feedback data is generated; the display module is further used for displaying the feedback data; the system has the advantages that during rehabilitation training, the trained child performs operation and selection so that interaction is performed in a child easily-acceptable game mode, interactive flexibility and interestingness are improved,the learning and trained desire and subjective initiative are cultivated, the man-machine interactivity is good, the infantile autism child cognitive and receptivity are improved, and the training effect is improved.

The invention discloses an augmented reality technology-based autistic child interest point information collection system. The system comprises a reality scene building module, a database module for storing personal information of autistic children, a virtual reality combination module, a display module, an interactive module and an information statistics module. Firstly an autistic child scans chartlets in a built reality scene by using a mobile device; an augmented reality technology is used for superposing augmented information (three-dimensional models or videos) corresponding to the chartlets on a picture; the autistic child operates the augmented information; and finally, a background system performs statistics on time of operating the augmented information by the autistic child and judges interest preferences of the autistic child according to the lengths of the time of operating various augmented information by the autistic child, thereby realizing later treatment intervention. According to the system, the autism treatment intervention is effectively carried out, so that a therapist of the autistic child can obtain patient information more conveniently, and the autistic child can better integrate into society to learn new knowledge.

The invention discloses a system and a method for assisting pairing training of an autistic child by applying a fine gesture recognition apparatus. The system comprises a computer an the fine gesture recognition apparatus; a pairing training system is operated in the computer; the pairing training system comprises an input module, a data processing and visual module, an action capturing module, an output module and a model base; and when the action capturing model performs fine gesture recognition on the captured actions by the recognition apparatus, positions and actions of hands are captured and mapped to a virtual three-dimensional model of hands in real time to represent in corresponding positions in a virtual scene. The system and the method are used for assisting a trainer to arrange training process and record training data in a training process so as to reduce burden of the trainer; through gesture recognition, the actual and natural actions of the trainer are reserved, so as to improve the training effect; and the system is applied to the pairing training of the autistic child, and the equipment is low in cost and the system can be popularized easily.