3998 results about "Elderly people" patented technology

Enables recognition of events within motion data including but not limited to motion capture data obtained from portable wireless motion capture elements such as visual markers and sensors, radio frequency identification tags and motion sensors within mobile device computer systems, or calculated based on analyzed movement associated with the same user, other user, historical user or group of users. Provides low power transmission of events. Greatly reduces storage for events such as a shot, move or swing of a player, a concussion of a player, boxer, rider or driver, or a heat stroke, hypothermia, seizure, asthma attack, epileptic attack. Events may be correlated with image(s) as captured from internal / external camera(s) or nanny cam, for example to enable saving video of the event, such as the first steps of a child, violent shaking events, sporting, military or other motion events including concussions, or falling events associated with an elderly person.

When closing the sternum in cardiothoracic surgery, elderly people with a fragile sternum can experience bleeding from the suture sites because of loose knots. The knots are loose because of the danger of cutting into the sternum from the tension caused by the suture wire. In extreme cases, the sternum can be fractured. If the closure is attempted intercostally, there are internal thoracic arteries that run longitudinally underneath the sternum and they may be hurt if a sharp needle is used. Intercostal fixation on its own is inadequate, and additional wires that directly insert into the manubrium are required. Of the sternal closure wires currently available, there is discordance in the numbers provided and actually used, resulting in leftovers that need unnecessary sterilization and reuse. To solve the above problems, an intercostal specific blunt needle has been devised, and packaged together with a sharp needle that will directly insert into the sternum. The set may contain one of each needle or a required combination of both, and come in a pre-sterilized pack. The needle is blunt at the cutting edge, and has a hook, or a side hole. The opposite end has a handle attached. The needle is configured so the wire can be hooked on, or threaded through the hook and hole respectively, and the operative procedure involves lifting up the wires.

The present invention is directed to novel food products, e.g., nutritional food products and infant formula, which contain one ore more enzymes selected from lipase, protease, and amylase that have been formulated / stabilized to have sustained stability in an aqueous medium. Such formulations are intended to provide a greater degree of compliance based on their ability to be incorporated into aqueous media while avoiding unstable breakdown of the enzyme and large overdosing due to expected breakdown when exposed to an aqueous environment, including saliva. Further described in the invention are additives packaged with instructions for combination with an aqueous medium, and instructions for the administration of the resulting mixture to a subject. In certain embodiments, enzyme insufficient patients, e.g., infants and elderly persons, would find particular benefit from the food products described herein.

The invention relates to a robot man-machine interaction method based on user mood and intension recognition. User mood recognition is carried out by combining human body biological information such as breath, the heart rate and the dermal electricity with facial expression recognition. The user intension is recognized through different kinds of physical sensor information such as pressure, photoelectricity and temperature. Intelligent control and decision making are carried out according to the user mood and intention recognition results. A corresponding execution mechanism of a robot is controlled to complete limb movements and voice interaction. By means of the robot man-machine interaction method based on user mood and intension recognition, the robot can understand the user intension more thoroughly, know the metal changes of a user, meet the functional requirement for emotion care for the user, and better participate in the life of users such as the old people and children.

The invention relates to a method for realizing intelligent nursing for the living of old men, which is characterized in that the method comprises an intelligent nursing host as well as a plurality of sensors, a vital sign monitoring device and a push-to-talk device that are in communication with the intelligent nursing host, wherein the intelligent nursing host receives the data of the sensors and the vital sign monitoring device, calculates base lines of all alarm situation parameters through a multi-parameter base line algorithm, compares the base lines and a threshold set in a system, alarms and classifies the comparison result and informs the comparison result to a designated subscriber. According to the method, the activities such as the daily routine, the physical conditions and the emergency as well as the anomalous events of the home-care old men can be monitored, recorded and alarmed, so that relatives and friends or communities or social public resources can give the rescue or intervention for the old men timely, thereby improving the independence of the old men and the living quality of the old men and family members of the old men.

Method and device for fall prevention and detection, specially for the elderly care based on digital image analysis using an intelligent optical sensor. The fall detection is divided into two main steps; finding the person on the floor, and examining the way in which the person ended up on the floor. The first step is further divided into algorithms investigating the percentage share of the body on the floor, the inclination of the body and the apparent length of the person. The second step includes algorithms examining the velocity and acceleration of the person. When the first step indicates that the person is on the floor, data for a time period of a few seconds before and after the indication is analysed in the second step. If this indicates fall, a countdown state is initiated in order to reduce the risk of false alarms, before sending an alarm. The fall prevention is also divided into two main steps; identifying a person entering a bed, and identifying the person leaving the bed to end up standing beside it. The second step is again further divided into algorithms investigating the surface area of on or more objects in an image, the inclination and the apparent length of these objects. When the second step indicates that a person is in an upright condition, a countdown state is initiated in order to allow for the person to return to the bed.

The invention provides an intelligent nursing system for old people. The intelligent nursing system comprises a control host, a nursing platform subsystem, a life assistance subsystem and a safety monitoring subsystem. The life assistance subsystem and the safety monitoring subsystem are respectively connected to the nursing platform subsystem through the control host. The life assistance subsystem is used for achieving control over appliance switch-on / off, emergency warning and safety guard of a life assistance device. The safety monitoring subsystem is used for achieving safety monitoring of daily life of old people, wherein safety monitoring includes falling over prevention, warning and environment detection. The nursing platform subsystem performs statistics and analysis on collected data through the control host. According to the intelligent nursing system for old people, assistance and nursing of daily life of housebound old people are achieved; especially, with regard to the assistance and nursing of health conditions and home safety of old people, sons, daughters and other relatives can check in a remote mode; besides, the functions of action monitoring, action assistance, emergency warning and the like for housebound old people are achieved.

The invention discloses an intelligent home based old person caring device and belongs to the technical field of Internet of things. The device comprises a sign detection terminal, a fall detection terminal, a remote server and a personal mobile terminal, wherein the sign detection terminal is used for monitoring pulse, body temperature and heart rate data of a human body in real time and sending the data to the remote server; the fall detection terminal is used for monitoring acceleration, posture change and geographical position of the human body in real time, and sending alarm information and position information to the remote server and the personal mobile terminal when detecting the occurrence of fall, and a user receives falling condition information of old persons in real time through the personal mobile terminal and logging in of the remote server. The device can realize remote access, monitoring and positioning to the device user by medical staff and family members via dependence on the Internet of things about intelligent home while monitoring physical conditions and falling conditions of the old persons, and performs real-time attention on the health status of the old persons, so as to provide rescue and help in the shortest time conveniently.

The invention relates to a fall detection method based on a video. The method comprises steps that S1, video images are processed, and human body areas of the images are identified and positioned; S2, articulation point extraction based on the cascade regression network is carried out for the human body areas to acquire a set of human body articulation points, the first stage network is cascaded back with multiple regression networks having identical structures so as to precisely adjusting coordinate positions of the human body articulation points; and S3, a motion vector of each human body articulation point is taken as a human body motion characteristic, through analyzing articulation point change, whether a human body falls is dynamically analyzed. The method is advantaged in that whether the elderly people living alone falls can be accurately and conveniently determined through video image analysis.

The invention discloses a cloud good health service platform of elderly people and big data processing method. The platform comprises an access module, a big data module, an expert system module and an information pushing module. The big data module is used to store and check personal information, general information and safety and health record data of a wearer to process big data analyzing to obtain a standard data reference supported by samples measured data, and store health measurement results, health care plans and / or treatment regimes. The expert module is used to obtain the health measurement results, health care plans and / or treatment schemes according to the personal information, general information and safety and health record data of the wearer. The information pushing module sends the health measurement results, health care plans and / or treatment generator Transmitter optical subassembly to an intelligent terminal. The health service platform for cloud good rehabilitation allows the accuracy, scientificity and universality of health assessment, diagnostic report, health care plans and treatment schemes to be more applicable by big data analysis.

The present invention is a novel child-resistant senior-friendly blister card packaging that is cheap and easy to manufacture. The packaging requires a push-peel-push method for opening, which is cognitively and physically challenging for children and mentally impaired adults. Yet, competent adults can easily open the package, especially after reading instructions. More specifically, opening the package requires the user to: 1) Push through an aperture to create a pull tab; 2) Pull on the pull tab to remove a panel; and 3) Push the blister to force the contents through the blister's seal. Furthermore, the packaging is designed to be tear resistant and to halt any propagation of a tear. Advantageously, the present invention is designed such that information such as instructions and product information can be easily printed directly on the packaging. Moreover, users may also record information directly on the packaging. Thus, the present invention not only provides child-resistant and senior-friendly features, but also provides convenience for viewing and recording information.

Enables recognition of events within motion data including but not limited to motion capture data obtained from portable wireless motion capture elements such as visual markers and sensors, radio frequency identification tags and motion sensors within mobile device computer systems, or calculated based on analyzed movement associated with the same user, other user, historical user or group of users. Provides low power transmission of events. Greatly reduces storage for events such as a shot, move or swing of a player, a concussion of a player, boxer, rider or driver, or a heat stroke, hypothermia, seizure, asthma attack, epileptic attack. Events may be correlated with image(s) as captured from internal / external camera(s) or nanny cam, for example to enable saving video of the event, such as the first steps of a child, violent shaking events, sporting, military or other motion events including concussions, or falling events associated with an elderly person.

The invention provides an intelligent health management system based on an elder-caring robot; the system comprises an elder-caring robot, a remote terminal and a cloud server; the elder-caring robot comprises a reminder and a detector mutually connected; the reminder starts path planning and mobile functions according to a preset medical solution, searches the elder according to a face recognition technology and a sound source positioning technology, communicates with the elder through a voice interaction technology, and broadcasts prompt contents; the detector monitors an intelligent medicine box opening state on the elder-caring robot, detects the elder complete conditions on the prompt contents through the image identification technology and the voice interaction technology, and synchronizes the detection result onto the cloud server; the cloud server sends the information to the remote terminal, thus returning feedbacks to children or medical personnel. The intelligent health management system can provide complete, professional, intelligent and safe one-stop intelligent health management services, so children can remotely monitor, track and detect elder living conditions in a long term, thus realizing disease types and risk predictions.

The invention discloses a Zigbee-based multifunctional sleep nursing and monitoring device, which relates to a detection technology. The Zigbee-based multifunctional sleep nursing and monitoring device comprises a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a mobile phone and a sleep monitoring node which support the Zigbee protocol. The PDA or the mobile phone comprises an image sensor and a sound sensor; the sleep monitoring node comprises a data processing unit and a plurality of sensors, such as an electrocardio sensor, a blood oxygen and pulse sensor, a blood-pressure sensor, a body temperature sensor and the like, which are used for monitoring the breathing condition, electrocardio, blood oxygen, pulse, snore, sleeping posture, body temperature and other characteristics of a monitored sleeper, and transmitting data to a remote monitoring center through a telecommunication network. If an abnormal phenomenon occurs, equipment can alarm and prompt through various approaches. The Zigbee-based multifunctional sleep nursing and monitoring device disclosed by the invention can monitor various physiological parameters of people at different ages in the sleeping state, the contents of monitoring can be flexibly added and deleted according to the need, and the Zigbee-based multifunctional sleep nursing and monitoring device is especially suitable for the use by elderly people, children and various patients.

The invention discloses a middle aged and elderly people good health service intelligent wearing device and a deep learning method. The intelligent wearing device comprises a moving posture module, a gesture recognition module, a physiological sign module, an environmental detection module, a video processing module, a wireless communication module, a charging module, a central processing unit, a storer, a display module, a mobile communication module, an alarm module, a wireless transceiver module and a deep learning module, the device is used for analyzing, learning and storing daily route habits, temperature environment hobbies and entertainment media program hobbies of a wearer, recommended parameters that are provided by a cloud good health service platform and good for health of the wearer are combined, thereby, the device can intelligently automatically take or can be authorized by the wearer to take daily manual intelligent appliance operating actions of the wearer and warn the wearer against bad living habits and hobbies, the wearer can have reasonable healthy living habits, and healthy life that are highly intelligent, automatic, comfortable, scientific and extremely friendly to human can be provided for the wearer.

The invention relates to a human body attitude tracking analysis-based indoor dangerous condition warning method. According to the method, an artificial intelligence network-based human body recognition technology is applied to household appliances such as air conditioners, and therefore, the original monotonous functions of the household appliances can be improved, functions for judging and identifying dangerous behaviors of children which may cause harm, such as moving the household appliances, climbing to high positions and touching sockets, can be increased, and warning can be triggered timely when the dangerous behaviors are detected; functions for judging and identifying the accidental tumble or specific help-seek gestures of old people at home can be increased, and warning can be triggered timely; and whether dangerous conditions such as a fire, occur in a house can be judged, when the dangerous conditions are detected, warning can be triggered timely.

The invention belongs to the field of communication technology and relates to a smart old-people caring system. The main structure of the system comprises an information collection subsystem, an information processing subsystem, a cloud platform and a command center, wherein the cloud platform is a data storage system and is used for storing information collected by the information collection subsystem and transmitting the information to the information processing subsystem for analytical processing; the information processing subsystem serves as an information processing pivot, is provided with an intelligent AI analytical algorithm module, performs intelligent analytical sort-out on collected big data and sends the processed information to the command center; and the command center can store all the information and provide information query and transmission services. Through the smart old-people caring system, 24-hour old people behavior analysis in videos is provided, a reasonable and effective judgment is made on suspicious abnormal behaviors of old people through bidirectional linkage in combination with sign data of old people, and abnormal behavior categories, confidence ofabnormal behaviors, risk levels, abnormal staff identities and first-aid projects are provided.

The invention relates to an elderly health monitoring and management system based on the mobile Internet. The elderly health monitoring and management system comprises an intelligent mobile terminal, medical diagnosis equipment, a biological characteristic reader, a wrist watch and an elderly health condition monitoring cloud platform, wherein the medical diagnosis equipment, the biological characteristic reader and the wrist watch are respectively connected with the intelligent mobile terminal through Bluetooth, and the elderly health condition monitoring cloud platform is connected with the intelligent mobile terminal through a wireless network; the medical diagnosis equipment comprises an electronic blood pressure meter, an electronic blood glucose meter, an electronic oximeter and an electronic electrocardiogram instrument, the wrist watch is provided with a gravity sensor, a pulse sensor and a pedometer, the intelligent mobile terminal is provided with a two-dimensional code verification system and a mobile electronic health archive system, and the elderly health condition monitoring cloud platform is used for querying and processing the health information of the elderly and assessing the health status and comprises a data processing server and a database server. According to the elderly health monitoring and management system based on the mobile Internet, through realizing the seamless connection of intelligent elderly care, health information and services are provided for the elderly all the time, the quality of life of the elderly is improved by technological means, and comprehensive and accurate elderly care health information service is provided for the elderly and children thereof.

Apparatus for detection of human falls, comprises: an acceleration detector, for detecting vibration events, typically placed on a floor, a microphone, located in association with the acceleration detector for detection of corresponding sound events, and a classification unit to classify concurrent events from the microphone and the acceleration detector, thereby to determine whether a human fall is indicated. If the event appears to be a human fall, then an alarm is raised.

Animal and human locating devices and methods are provided that allow tracking and monitoring of lost or kidnapped children, lost elderly people, prisoners, military personnel at risk during war, and animals. The devices and techniques for their use can greatly prolong battery life and, in some cases eliminate the need of battery power altogether, allowing long term implantation. Piezoelectric power generation is described that provides long term maintenance free power through automated recharging, for both locational devices and other electronic implants in a wide range of medical technologies. The implantable devices and systems of their use can locate lost individuals or animals and also monitor their physiological status for prolonged time periods.

The invention relates to a cable-driven mechanical arm for assisting disabled / elderly people. The mechanical arm comprises a convolution joint, an up-and-down rotation joint, a horizontal rotation joint, a first joint connecting plate, a sliding block, a guide track, a base driving box, driving motors and a cable driving system. The driving motor of each rotation joint is mounted in the base driving box, the cable driving system is utilized for transferring the power of the driving motors to all the rotation joints, and then the driving of the rotation joints is realized. The cable-driven mechanical arm disclosed by the invention solves the problem that a cable can only be stretched but not be compressed during the cable driving process, and the cable driving system is utilized for transferring the power to all the joints, so that the mechanical structures at the joints are simplified, the dead weight of the mechanical arm is greatly reduced, and the load-dead weight ratio and dynamic performance of the mechanical arm are improved. The mechanical arm has the advantages of simple structure, high safety performance and large stroke range, and is particularly suitable for being mounted on wheelchairs, care beds and other equipment for assisting disabled / elderly people.

A handheld remote controller device that may be manually programmed while the keypad is conveniently supported in an easy to actuate and readily viewable position in front of a user. Individual keybutton entries are temporarily stored until the entry sequence is complete. Each keybutton entry may be visually displayed for review by the user. When the entry sequence is completed the remote controller device is then aimed at a remotely controlled television set, video tape or video disk player, cable or satellite signal converter. The user initiates a SEND command and the stored entries are retrieved and transmitted from the remote controller device to the receptor of the remotely controlled device as a packet of data which acts to change channel selection or accomplish other tasks in the remotely controlled device. A keybutton entry filter reduces a likelihood for accidental multiple entries which may be caused by tremors and other physical or mental maladies. In this way, physically challenged persons, or elderly persons in particular, may be enabled to utilize a remote control function with less chance for error. When only a single number channel, such as channel 5 is selected, a necessitous leading zero is automatically added to the SEND dispatched command.

The invention provides a novel movement imagery electroencephalogram control-based intelligent wheelchair system, and aims to provide a service auxiliary motion tool for paralyzed patients or elderly people and help them to take free activities outdoors. The system consists of a portable electroencephalogram acquisition system, a signal processing device, an interface circuit and an electric wheelchair, which are connected in turn. The portable electroencephalogram acquisition system is a set of simple and practicable electroencephalogram acquisition system and is used for recording electroencephalogram signals under user imaginary left and right hand motion tasks; the signal processing device is a signal processing module which operates on a laptop, extracts imagery motion-related electroencephalogram characteristics and identifies the subjective intention of the user; the interface circuit converts the identified subjective intention of the user into four paths of voltage signals; and the electric wheelchair receives the four paths of control voltage signals and controls the operating conditions of left and right rear wheel motors. The intelligent wheelchair system implementing mode can be applied to other application fields of direction control.

The invention discloses an intelligent accompanying robot for old people. The intelligent accompanying robot comprises a robot body used for being in man-machine interaction with old people. The robot can be easily controlled and operated by old people, also has the functions of first aid service, entertainment and other functions, physiological signals such as the blood pressure and the heart rate of old people can be measured and monitored through an intelligent bracelet, an alarm can be given or family members can be informed in time when an accident occurs, and the robot can be used as an auxiliary tool for accompanying old people. The intelligent accompanying robot is applied in cooperation with an intelligent terminal and the intelligent bracelet so as to effectively ensure the health of old people, old people can use and control the robot conveniently, and relatives of old people can obtain the information of old people in time and control the robot to treat the accident immediately under the conditions that the accident occurs. The robot can walk in a house through a moving device so as to tail after the conditions of old people.

The invention relates to a novel empty nester smart home interaction system and method. The novel empty nester smart home interaction system comprises an IP camera, a monitoring box, a wearable watch, a smart mobile terminal, a USB camera and a television. The novel empty nester smart home interaction system and method, with the computer vision technology and sensor internet-of-thing information being combined, realize stranger family invasion verification detection and family elderly people body emergency state real-time detection, can enable the real-time image and rescue information under emergency condition to be pushed to the smart mobile terminal, realize real-time video speech communication of domestic television and smart mobile terminal, can remotely guide lives of family elderly people through the smart mobile terminal, and realize remote intelligent nursing of the elderly people and establish a channel for emotion communication between the elderly people and children.

The invention relates to daily life supplies, in particular to a multifunctional wheelchair armrest. A GPS satellite positioning navigation system and an alarm are integrated; the multifunctional wheelchair armrest is simple in structure, complete in functions, and easy to operate; when an elder gets lost, buttons can be pressed to default a terminal point, cumbersome operations of the elder are reduced, and convenience is brought to the elder; when an accident of the elder occurs, the alarm can be pressed to send help signals to passers and get external assistance.

The invention relates to an old people tumbling detecting method based on multi-feature analyzing and scene studying. The method is corrected by adding three judgment conditions including the human body posture changes, the human body center position and the effective area ratio. The scene is studied in real time, the rest area is distinguished, and therefore tumbling events under different monitoring scenes can be detected. According to the algorithm, corresponding solutions are provided for some misjudgment situations in the existing tumbling detecting algorithm. The method is low in complexity, small in calculated amount and high in detecting ratio.

A method is provided for improving the condition and / or increasing the longevity of elderly pets. The elderly pet is administered an effective amount of a nutritional composition which contains a calcium source and an antioxidant source, such as of vitamins or vitamin precursors which have antioxidant properties. Examples of such vitamins and precursors include β-carotene and vitamin E.