Wearable electronic device to provide injury response

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016379461-A1
Application number	US-201514752764-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 26, 2015
Priority date	Jun 26, 2015
Publication date	Dec 29, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments are generally directed to a wearable electronic device providing injury response. A wearable electronic device may include an injury detection unit that includes one or more sensors, and a central computing unit to receive sensor data from the one or more sensors to detect one or more injuries or potential injuries based at least in part on the received sensor data. The wearable electronic device further includes an injury response unit to provide a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries.

First claim

1 . A wearable electronic device comprising:
an injury detection unit including one or more sensors; a computing unit to receive sensor data from the one or more sensors to detect one or more injuries or potential injuries based at least in part on the received sensor data; and an injury response unit to provide a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries.

2 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the injury response unit includes one or more of an injury prevention module and a post injury module.

3 . The wearable electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the injury prevention module includes one or more units to prevent injury or further injury by a user.

4 . The wearable electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the one or more units to prevent injury or further injury include one or more inflatable compartments and one or more inflation engines to provide for inflation of the inflatable compartments.

5 . The wearable electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the post injury module includes one or more place of injury indicators.

6 . The wearable electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the one or more place of injury indicators include an impact indicator to indicate a location where an impact has been detected by the computing unit.

7 . The wearable electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the one or more place of injury indicators include a blood indicator to indicate a location where bleeding has been detected by the computing unit.

8 . The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more sensors include one or more of:
a motion sensor; an acceleration sensor; a chemical sensor to detect the presence of blood a pressure sensor to detect impact forces; or a visual sensor to detect an impending impact.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon data representing sequences of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
monitoring data received from one or more sensors of a wearable electronic device during an activity; detecting by a computing unit one or more injuries or potential injuries for a user of the wearable electronic based on the sensor data from the one or more sensors; and generating by the computing unit a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries.

10 . The medium of claim 9 , wherein the detection of one or more injuries or potential include includes identifying a type of injury and a location of injury.

11 . The medium of claim 9 , wherein the response to the one or more injuries or potential include includes one or more of a response to prevent or lessen injury and a post injury response.

12 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein providing a response to prevent or lessen injury includes inflating one or more inflatable compartments to provide injury protection.

13 . The medium of claim 11 , wherein providing a post injury response includes enabling one or more place of injury indicators.

14 . The medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more place of injury indicators include an impact indicator to indicate a location where an impact has been detected by the computing unit.

15 . The medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more place of injury indicators include a blood indicator to indicate a location where bleeding has been detected by the computing unit.

16 . A wearable garment comprising:
an injury detection subsystem including a plurality of sensors; a computing unit to receive sensor data from the plurality of sensors to detect one or more injuries or potential injuries based at least in part on the received sensor data; and an injury response subsystem to provide a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries.

17 . The wearable garment of claim 16 , wherein the injury response subsystem includes one or more of:
an injury prevention subsystem to provide one or more actions to prevent or lessen injury; and a post injury subsystem to provide one or more actions to assist in emergency response and medical care.

18 . The wearable garment of claim 17 , wherein the injury prevention subsystem includes one or more inflatable compartments in the wearable garment.

19 . The wearable garment of claim 17 , wherein the post injury subsystem includes one or more place of injury indicators.

20 . The wearable garment of claim 16 , further comprising an interface for connection with a mobile computing device.

21 . The wearable garment of claim 20 , wherein the wearable garment is to provide data to the mobile computing device upon detection of an injury.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Gaidar Tamara
• Anderson Glen J
• Talgam Yoav
• Brown Stephen
• Lapidot Ido
• Agam Oded

Classifications

• A41D1/002

  adapted to accommodate electronic equipment (patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085) · CPC title

• G08B21/0453 Primary

  worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing (detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00) · CPC title

• A43B3/0005

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A41D13/1281 Primary

  with incorporated means for medical monitoring · CPC title

• A43B3/34

  with electrical or electronic arrangements · CPC title