Wearable electronic device to provide injury response

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9600995-B2
Application number	US-201514752764-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2015
Priority date	Jun 26, 2015
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

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

What is claimed is:

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 to a user of the wearable electronic device based at least in part on the received sensor data, wherein the detection of one or more injuries or potential injuries includes identifying a type of injury and a location of injury; and
an injury response unit to provide a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries to the user of wearable electronic device that are detected by the computing unit, the injury response unit including a post injury module;
wherein the post injury module includes one or more place of injury indicators, each of the one or more place of injury indicators to change an appearance of the wearable electronic device to indicate a location of an injury to the user of the wearable electronic device.

2. The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the injury response unit further includes an injury prevention 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 the user.

4. The wearable electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the one or more units to prevent injury or further injury to the user 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 1 , wherein the one or more place of injury indicators include an impact indicator to change the appearance of the wearable electronic device to indicate a location where an impact has been detected by the computing unit.

6. The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more place of injury indicators include a blood indicator to change the appearance of the wearable electronic device to indicate a location where bleeding has been detected by the computing unit.

7. The wearable electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more sensors include one or more of the following:
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.

8. 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 to a user of the wearable electronic device based on the sensor data from the one or more sensors, wherein the detection of one or more injuries or potential injuries includes identifying a type of injury and a location of injury; and
generating by the computing unit a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries, the response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries including a post injury response;
wherein providing a post injury response includes enabling one or more place of injury indicators to change an appearance of the wearable electronic device to indicate a location of an injury.

9. The medium of claim 8 , wherein the response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries to the user further includes a response to prevent or lessen injury.

10. The medium of claim 9 , wherein providing a response to prevent or lessen injury to the user includes inflating one or more inflatable compartments to provide injury protection.

11. The medium of claim 8 , 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.

12. The medium of claim 8 , 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.

13. 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 to a user of the wearable garment based at least in part on the received sensor data, wherein the detection of one or more injuries or potential injuries includes identifying a type of injury and a location of injury; and
an injury response subsystem to provide a response to the one or more injuries or potential injuries that are detected by the computing unit, the injury response subsystem including a post injury subsystem to provide one or more actions to assist in emergency response and medical care;
wherein the post injury subsystem includes one or more place of injury indicators, each of the one or more place of injury indicators to change an appearance of the wearable garment to indicate a location of an injury to the user of the wearable garment.

14. The wearable garment of claim 13 , wherein the injury response subsystem further includes the following:
an injury prevention subsystem to provide one or more actions to prevent or lessen injury to the user of the wearable garment.

15. The wearable garment of claim 14 , wherein the injury prevention subsystem includes one or more inflatable compartments in the wearable garment.

16. The wearable garment of claim 13 , further comprising an interface for connection with a mobile computing device.

17. The wearable garment of claim 16 , wherein the wearable garment is to provide data to the mobile computing device upon detection of an injury to the user of the wearable garment.

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

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

20. The wearable garment of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of sensors includes one or more of the following:
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.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

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

Classifications

• 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

• A41D1/002

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