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A system for determining a biologic constituent including hematocrit transcutaneously, noninvasively and continuously. A finger clip assembly includes including at least a pair of emitters and a photodiode in appropriate alignment to enable operation in either a transmissive mode or a reflectance mode. At least one predetermined wavelength of light is passed onto or through body tissues such as a finger, earlobe, or scalp, etc. and attenuation of light at that wavelength is detected. Likewise, the change in blood flow is determined by various techniques including optical, pressure, piezo and strain gage methods. Mathematical manipulation of the detected values compensates for the effects of body tissue and fluid and determines the hematocrit value. If an additional wavelength of light is used which attenuates light substantially differently by oxyhemoglobin and reduced hemoglobin, then the blood oxygen saturation value, independent of hematocrit may be determined. Further, if an additional wavelength of light is used which greatly attenuates light due to bilirubin (440 nm) or glucose (1060 nm), then the bilirubin or glucose value may also be determined. Also how to determine the hematocrit with a two step DC analysis technique is provided. Then a pulse wave is not required, so this method may be utilized in states of low blood pressure or low blood flow.

When pulse waveform MH is detected by pulse wave detection sensor unit 130, wavelet transformer 10 performs wavelet transformation on pulse waveform MH and generates analyzed pulse wave data MKD. This analyzed pulse wave data MKD consists of a time region in which one heartbeat is divided into eighths, and the frequency region of 0-4 Hz which has been divided into eighths. Frequency corrector 11 generates corrected pulse wave data MKD' by performing frequency correction on analyzed pulse wave data MKD. Pulse type data generator 12 compares corrected pulse wave data MKD' over each frequency-time region, and generates pulse type data ZD indicating the type of pulse. Display 13 displays the pulse type for pulse waveform MH based on pulse type data ZD.

The present invention provides for systems and methods for dimming a LED matrix functioning as a backlight to an avionics display. A system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a processor for receiving inputs of ambient lighting and temperature, as well as light generated by the LED matrix. The processor provides modulated pulse wave signals (square waves) to two control circuits for controlling the LED matrix in two modes. At low dimming levels, the processor modulates the duty cycle of a first square wave for affecting the light level and maintains a minimal duty cycle of a second square wave. Once the highest light level is obtained by increasing the duty cycle of the first square wave, the processor then modulates a second square wave by increasing its duty cycle. The duty cycle of the second square wave is modified by a circuit to produce a voltage level which is provided as an input to control light level of the LED matrix. As the duty cycle of the second signal is increased, so is the voltage level provided to the LED matrix and the light generated by the LED matrix.

PCT No. PCT / JP96 / 01254 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 2, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 2, 1997 PCT Filed May 13, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96 / 35368 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 14, 1996The present invention relates to a device for diagnosing physiological state based on blood pulse waves detected in the body. It is the objective of the present invention to provide a device which correctly diagnoses the current physiological state based on changes in physiological state measured over a specified period of time in the past while taking into consideration the cyclical variation exhibited in physiological state. In order to realize this objective, the device according to the present invention has as its main components: blood pulse wave detector 381 and stroke-volume-per-beat measurer 382 which respectively detect blood pulse wave and stroke volume in the body; blood pulse wave extraction memory 386 which extracts characteristic information from the detected blood pulse wave; memory 383 in which the physiological state calculated from the stroke volume and this characteristic information is stored; output portion 385 which outputs an alarm; and microcomputer 387 which controls each part inside the device. The microcomputer calculates the circulatory parameters based on characteristic information obtained from the waveform extraction memory, and stores the parameters in memory at specified time intervals. At these times, microcomputer 387 calculates the circulatory parameters from the stroke volume per beat and the characteristic information of the blood pulse wave at specified time intervals, and stores the parameters in memory 383. Further, microcomputer 387 reads out from memory 383 the circulatory parameters from a specified time interval in the past, and calculates the average value and standard deviation. Microcomputer 387 then determines whether or not the current circulatory parameters are within a specified range determined by their average value and standard deviation. When the circulatory parameters are determined to be outside this range, microcomputer 387 controls output portion 385 to sound an alarm.

The present invention is directed to a method and system for monitoring function and / or diagnosing dysfunction of the cardiovascular system of a human subject. The method comprise measuring pulse wave signals of the subject during rapid excitation of the cardiovascular system, analyzing the measured signals and computing indicators reflecting a response to said excitation. The cardiovascular excitation preferably comprise a controlled breathing protocol characterized by a predefined frequency of breaths (e.g., about 0.1 Hz).

Disclosed is a method for measuring an arterial blood pressure of a subject comprising detecting a pulse-wave-related signal of the subject; extracting a feature from the signals; determining a factor that can affect the arterial blood pressure of the subject; and determining the arterial blood pressure based on the feature with an automatic compensation for the factors. The disclosed method reduces the error in measuring the blood pressure based on characteristics of the pulse-wave-related signals.

A system for determining a biologic constituent including hematocrit transcutaneously, noninvasively and continuously. A finger clip assembly includes including at least a pair of emitters and a photodiode in appropriate alignment to enable operation in either a transmissive mode or a reflectance mode. At least one predetermined wavelength of light is passed onto or through body tissues such as a finger, earlobe, or scalp, etc. and attenuation of light at that wavelength is detected. Likewise, the change in blood flow is determined by various techniques including optical, pressure, piezo and strain gage methods. Mathematical manipulation of the detected values compensates for the effects of body tissue and fluid and determines the hematocrit value. If an additional wavelength of light is used which attenuates light substantially differently by oxyhemoglobin and reduced hemoglobin, then the blood oxygen saturation value, independent of hematocrit may be determined. Further, if an additional wavelength of light is used which greatly attenuates light due to bilirubin (440 nm) or glucose (1060 nm), then the bilirubin or glucose value may also be determined. Also how to determine the hematocrit with a two step DC analysis technique is provided. Then a pulse wave is not required, so this method may be utilized in states of low blood pressure or low blood flow.

A digital transmit beamformer system with multiple beam transmit capability has a plurality of multi-channel transmitters, each channel with a source of sampled, complex-valued initial waveform information representative of the ultimate desired waveform to be applied to one or more corresponding transducer elements for each beam. Each multi-channel transmitter applies beamformation delays and apodization to each channel's respective initial waveform information digitally, digitally modulates the information by a carrier frequency, and interpolates the information to the DAC sample rate for conversion to an analog signal and application to the associated transducer element(s). The beamformer transmitters can be programmed per channel and per beam with carrier frequency, delay, apodization and calibration values, For pulsed wave operation, pulse waveform parameters can be specified to the beamformer transmitters on a per firing basis, without degrading the scan frame rate to non-useful diagnostic levels. Waveform parameters can be specified to the transmitters by an external central control system which is responsible for higher level flexibility, such as scan formats, focusing depths and fields of view. The transmit pulse delay specified per-channel to each transmitter is applied in at least two components: a focusing time delay component and a focusing phase component. The carrier frequency can be specified for each transmit beam, to any desired frequency within a substantially continuous predefined range of frequencies, and a beam-interleaved signal processing path permits operation in any of several predefined processing modes, which define different parameter sets in a trade-off among (1) the number of beams produced; (2) per-beam initial waveform sample interval; and (3) transmit frequency.

Pulse wave signal data expressing the pulse wave of a subject and body movement signal data expressing body movements of the subject are obtained so that a correlation coefficient expressing the degree of correlation between the pulse wave signal data and the body movement signal data is calculated. One or more pieces of the pulse wave signal data in which the correlation coefficient is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value are eliminated.

In a portable biological information monitor apparatus, a pulse wave detection signal obtained by light emission from a green LED and a body motion detection signal obtained by light emission from an infrared LED are detected as biological information. This biological information is analyzed to compute various barometers. In a wake normal mode of a set generation mode, body motion and pulse are calculated as wake evaluation barometers for evaluation of a test subject's status in wake. In a wake steady state motion mode, body motion, pulse, and pitch are calculated as motion evaluation barometers for evaluation of the test subject's status in steady state motion. In a sleep mode, body motion, pulse, and autonomic nervous function are calculated as sleep evaluation barometers for evaluation of the test subject's status in sleep. Necessary barometers are thereby generated regardless of the test subject's action using the portable monitor apparatus alone.

In a portable biological information monitor apparatus, a pulse wave detection signal obtained by light emission from a green LED and a body motion detection signal obtained by light emission from an infrared LED are detected as biological information. This biological information is analyzed to compute various barometers. In a wake normal mode of a set generation mode, body motion and pulse are calculated as wake evaluation barometers for evaluation of a test subject's status in wake. In a wake steady state motion mode, body motion, pulse, and pitch are calculated as motion evaluation barometers for evaluation of the test subject's status in steady state motion. In a sleep mode, body motion, pulse, and autonomic nervous function are calculated as sleep evaluation barometers for evaluation of the test subject's status in sleep. Necessary barometers are thereby generated regardless of the test subject's action using the portable monitor apparatus alone.

A biological data observation apparatus includes a measuring unit including at least a photoelectric sensor including a light emitting element for emitting light with a predetermined wavelength onto a blood vessel of a subject and a light detecting element for detecting, as a photoelectric volume pulse wave, a change in an amount of transmitted or reflected light resulting from the light emitted from the light emitting section, a storage area in which pressure conversion data correlating a pulse wave area and a blood pressure value in order that the pulse wave area may be converted to the blood pressure value as an absolute value, the pulse wave area being obtained by integrating a wave form of the photoelectric capacity pulse wave per heartbeat, an operational unit calculating the pulse wave area on the basis of the photoelectric volume pulse wave obtained from the subject and further calculating the blood pressure value of the subject on the basis of the calculated pulse wave area and the blood pressure conversion data, and a display unit displaying a result of calculation performed by the operational unit.

A living body is irradiated with a first light beam having a first wavelength and a second light beam having a second wavelength which is different from the first wavelength. The first light beam and the second light beam, which have been reflected or transmitted from the living body, are converted into a first electric signal corresponding to the first wavelength and a second electric signal corresponding to the second wavelength, as the observed pulse data. A light absorbance ratio obtained from the first electric signal and the second electric signal is computed, for each one of frequency ranges dividing an observed frequency band. It is determined that noise is not mixed into the observed pulse wave data in a case where a substantial match exists among light absorbance ratios computed for the respective frequency ranges.

An living body information collecting apparatus having a shape suitable for being worn in the external auditory meatus of the human body, and having a sensing part for collecting living body information from the external auditory meatus is provided. In addition, a blood-pressure meter is provided, wherein the blood-pressure meter includes: a frame part including a first arm and a second arm that are opposed to each other; a pressure applying part provided on at least one of a side of the first arm opposed to the second arm and a side of the second arm opposed to the first arm; and a detection part for detecting a pulse wave.

The invention relates to a device and method for measuring arterial blood pressures based on pulse wave signals and electrocardiosignals, wherein the device comprises a microprocessor, a pulse wave signal measuring unit, an electrocardiosignal measuring unit, a communication module, a data storage module and an LCD (liquid crystal display) module, and the microprocessor is respectively connected with the pulse wave signal measuring unit, the electrocardiosignal measuring unit, the communication module, the data storage module and the LCD module by control lines. The device provided by the invention is small in size, therefore, the device is suitable to be worn for non-intrusively and continuously detecting and recording the blood pressure values for a long time. Compared with the existingblood pressure measurement techniques, the device and method provided by the invention have the advantages that in the process of blood pressure measurement, the dependence on an inflated cuff is ridded; and meanwhile, the blood pressure calculation method applied to the device is small in computation load, and can be implemented by the microprocessor with a limited computational capability, therefore, the device is low in cost and easy to use.

A digital transmit beamformer system with multiple beam transmit capability has a plurality of multi-channel transmitters, each channel with a source of sampled, complex-valued initial waveform information representative of the ultimate desired waveform to be applied to one or more corresponding transducer elements for each beam. Each multi-channel transmitter applies beamformation delays and apodization to each channel's respective initial waveform information digitally, digitally modulates the information by a carrier frequency, and interpolates the information to the DAC sample rate for conversion to an analog signal and application to the associated transducer element(s). The beamformer transmitters can be programmed per channel and per beam with carrier frequency, delay, apodization and calibration values. For pulsed wave operation, pulse waveform parameters can be specified to the beamformer transmitters on a per firing basis, without degrading the scan frame rate to non-useful diagnostic levels. Waveform parameters can be specified to the transmitters by an external central control system which is responsible for higher level flexibility, such as scan formats, focusing depths and fields of view. The transmit pulse delay specified per-channel to each transmitter is applied in at least two components: a focusing time delay component and a focusing phase component. The carrier frequency can be specified for each transmit beam, to any desired frequency within a substantially continuous predefined range of frequencies, and a beam-interleaved signal processing path permits operation in any of several predefined processing modes, which define different parameter sets in a trade-off among (1) the number of beams produced; (2) per-beam initial waveform sample interval; and (3) transmit frequency.

A pulse wave measurement electrode unit includes an electrode group and a supporting member. The electrode group includes a first electrode portion including a first current application electrode and a first voltage measurement electrode, and a second electrode portion, positioned spaced apart from the first electrode portion, including a second current application electrode and a second voltage measurement electrode. The supporting member supports the electrode group such that contacting surfaces of the electrodes with respect to a living body are arranged substantially on an identical plane. The electrodes are arranged lined in a direction an artery extends when the pulse wave measurement electrode unit is applied to the living body. According to such a configuration, a pulse wave measurement electrode unit having a simple configuration and enabling high precision volume pulse wave measurement can be provided.

A blood pressure measurement device includes a finger cuff for measuring a blood oxygen saturation level of a subject as physiological information excluding a blood pressure, a pulse wave detecting portion, and an oxygen saturation level calculating portion, where a start of blood pressure measurement in a sphygmomanometer is determined by a comparing and determining portion when a value becomes greater than or equal to a reference value. After the end of the measurement, a time limit for limiting the start of the blood pressure measurement is set. The comparing and determining portion determines not to start the blood pressure measurement within the time limit even if the blood oxygen saturation level becomes greater than or equal to the reference value.

A method of cufflessly and non-invasively measuring blood pressure in a wrist region of a patient in association with a communication device that relays the information being measured includes: detecting a magnitude difference between a plurality of pulse wave signals detected from a wrist of a user; detecting feature points from an electrocardiogram (ECG) and pulse wave signals detected from the user; extracting variables needed to calculate the highest blood pressure and the lowest blood pressure using the detected feature points; and calculating the highest blood pressure and the lowest blood pressure of the user by deducing a scatter diagram using the extracted variables.

A method and apparatus for generating an impulsive wave in an OFDM communication system where L subcarriers are allocated to reserved tone locations among N subcarriers and data is carried on (N-L) subcarriers (L is less than N). In the method, a predetermined number of random sets each having L tone locations are created. Subcarriers are allocated to the L tone locations of each of the random sets without overlapping and IFFT-processed. A secondary peak value of the IFFT signal is stored. Tone location information having a lower secondary peak value than the stored secondary peak value is detected by fixing (L-1) tone locations and substituting subcarriers other than the subcarriers at the (L-1) tone locations one by one for the remaining one tone location. The tone location information is stored.

A biological information processing apparatus obtains a pulse wave signal indicating a pulse wave of a subject, and acceleration measured according to body motion of the subject and calculates an amount of body motion of the subject using the acceleration. By using at least one of the body motion amount and the acceleration, the apparatus approximates a heart rate of the subject and sets a parameter to be used for detection of a pulse interval using the heart rate. Then, the apparatus detects each pulse interval using a pulse waveform indicated by the pulse wave signal and the parameter.

Provided is a radial arterial pulse sensing apparatus for noninvasive and continuous measurement of blood pressure and arterial elasticity. The apparatus includes two pressure sensor for detecting radial arterial pulses, two cuffs that are disposed under the respective pressure sensors and expandable by application of external pressure, a motor unit for providing proper pressure to expandable pouches under the respective pressure sensors in a state where a wrist band having the pressure sensors is put on a wrist, a pulse wave velocity calculating unit that calculates a pulse wave transfer velocity to attain a blood pressure value using an output from the pressure sensors, and an augmentation index calculating unit that estimates the blood pressure value by finding a time point of a reflective wave of the pulses using the outputs from the pressure sensors.

The invention discloses a psychological stress assessment method based on multi-physiological-parameter integration. The method includes: designing a reasonable stimulation program, acquiring four types of electrophysiological signals, namely electrocardiogram signals, electromyographic signals, pulse wave signals and electroencephalogram signals from people suffering psychological stress; extracting affective features of the four types of electrophysiological signals; subjecting the extracted features to feature selection by means of Relief algorithm, genetic algorithm optimization and the like; acquiring related integration functions on the basis of basic probability assignment mass. According to the method, multi-parameter signals are subjected to acquisition, preprocessed, feature selection and psychological stress affective recognition and are integrated; compared to single-parameter classified recognition or multi-parameter data-level or feature-level integration, the method allows data information to be more fully utilized and psychological stress emotions to be more accurately recognized.

The present invention discloses a physical parameter measuring device. The present invention comprises a first judging module, the first judging module is used to judge whether the changes of the pulse wave characteristic value are in line with the set conditions, if yes, a prediction module is triggered to calculate the blood pressure prediction value, and if no, a blood pressure value measuring module is triggered to regain the reference blood pressure value; a second judging module, the second judging module is used to judge whether the regained reference blood pressure value is within the prediction range, if yes, the prediction module is triggered to calculate the blood pressure prediction value, and if no, a generating module is triggered to regenerate the blood pressure prediction rules. The present invention can make continuous synchronous measurement of the physical parameters which reflect the function of the cardiovascular system and adopts a continuous synchronous calibrating mechanism particularly for blood pressure measurement, thus not only reducing the impact of the changes of other physical parameters on the relationship between the pulse wave characteristic value and the blood pressure, but also automatically starting the measurement of the reference blood pressure value in the continuous measuring process so as to ensure more accurate continuous measurement.

A portable-type health management terminal 100 provided with a communication function and a management device 200 installed in a health management center are connected via a communication network N, wherein the health management terminal 100 is provided with a sensing unit that can sense medical information or an input device into which information about a state of health can be input, wherein the state of health is identified based on the information obtained from the sensing unit or the input device, and wherein these pieces of information are stored in a storage device, and are transmitted to the management device 200 through a communication module. The management device 200 stores the information that is received in a storage device 210, and manages the change in an individual's state of health based on the information that is stored. The sensing unit is provided with a pulse wave detection unit, constructed of a light emitting and receiving device or a pressure sensitive element, for sensing pulse waves, and an impedance detection unit constructed of a current application electrode and a voltage detection electrode.

The invention discloses a noninvasive continuous human body arterial blood pressure measuring method and equipment. The noninvasive continuous human body central arterial blood pressure measuring method comprises the steps as follows: calculating individualization parameters of a to-be-measured person artery blood vessel network model according to acquired pulse wave forms of radial arteries and brachial arteries; calculating radial artery blood pressure systolic pressure, diastolic pressure and blood pressure wave forms according to radial artery pulse wave speeds and artery blood vessel network parameters; calculating ascending aorta-radial artery transfer functions; further calculating central arterial blood pressure. The noninvasive continuous human body central arterial blood pressure measuring equipment consists of a signal processing and analyzing unit, a pulse wave and motion signal acquisition unit worn on the wrist as well as an electro-cardio and motion signal acquisition unit worn in front of the chest. According to the method and the equipment, electrocardiograms, the radial artery blood pressure, the central arterial blood pressure as well as motions and postures are monitored simultaneously, heart rate and electro-cardio morphological parameters are analyzed in various motion states, artery network model parameters and blood pressure parameters, particularly central arterial pressure wave form parameters, are analyzed, and the method and the equipment have great significance for prevention and control on cardiovascular diseases, particularly for prevention and control on high-risk diseases such as the hypertension, the coronary heart disease and the like.

A biotic sleep state determining apparatus that determines a sleep state of a subject based on a series of pulse interval data that indicate a time interval of one cycle of a pulse wave of the subject, and on body movement data that indicates a body movement of the subject, the apparatus includes a body movement determining unit that determines that the body movement occurs if a fluctuation amount of the body movement data is greater than a first predetermined threshold, a pulse interval data processor that processes the series of pulse interval data after removing pulse interval data measured in parallel with the body movement data from the series of pulse interval data, if the body movement determining unit determines that the body movement occurs, and a sleep state determining unit that determines the sleep state based on autonomic nerve indexes acquired from the series of pulse interval data processed by the pulse interval data processor.

A health management apparatus includes a first pulse wave measuring unit that measures a first pulse wave of a subject during sleep; and a second pulse wave measuring unit that measures a second pulse wave of the subject during sleep. The second pulse wave is different from the first pulse wave in propagation time from the heart of the subject. The apparatus also includes a pulse transmission time calculating unit that calculates a pulse transmission time indicating a time difference between the first and second pulse waves; a pulse interval calculating unit that calculates a pulse interval based on at least one of the first and second pulse waves; an autonomic nerve index calculating unit that calculates an autonomic nerve index based on the pulse transmission time and the pulse interval; and a health determining unit that determines the condition of health of the subject based on the autonomic nerve index.