Apparatus for identifying falls and activities of daily living

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8974403-B2
Application number	US-201414338418-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 23, 2014
Priority date	Apr 21, 2010
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

The present invention provides and apparatus for distinguishing falls from activities of daily living (ADLs). First, the human movements and muscle activities would be obtained by an electromyography measuring unit and/or an inertia measuring unit to record ADLs, and falls would be distinguished from ADLs to trigger the protecting devices in time to prevent or decrease injury. In addition, the apparatus would be preset for different operational conditions to adapt different users by a setting unit to increase accuracy. Finally, the moving distance and the direction of the user would be obtained by the electromyography measuring unit and/or the inertia measuring unit to obtain the location thereof in an interior space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fall positioning device, comprising:
a sensor unit obtaining a sensor signal;
a recognition unit processing the sensor signal to determine whether a fall is going to happen;
a positioning unit obtaining a location of a controlled user in a space via processing an arrangement of the space and a distance having been moved and a moving direction of the controlled user in the space;
a computing unit computing the sensor signal to obtain the distance havi…

Assignees

• Univ Nat Chiao Tung

Inventors

• Yang Bing-Shiang
• Wang Chih-Chung
• Liao Sain-Ting

Classifications

• A61B5/1113

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/7275 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/0488

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/746

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/0002

  Human Necessities · mapped topic