Abstract: Method for determining a blood pressure value including the steps of: providing a pulsatility signal, determining a time-related feature and a normalized amplitude-related feature on the basis of the pulsatility signal; and calculating a blood pressure value on the basis of a blood pressure function depending on the time-related feature, the normalized amplitude-related feature and function parameters.

Abstract: Method for determining a blood pressure value including the steps of: providing a pulsatility signal, determining a time-related feature and a normalized amplitude-related feature on the basis of the pulsatility signal; and calculating a blood pressure value on the basis of a blood pressure function depending on the time-related feature, the normalized amplitude-related feature and function parameters.

Abstract: To determine as precisely as possible the flow rate of a liquid flow inside a tube by means of minimal technical and especially minimal apparatus complexity the invention provides with a procedure and an apparatus to determine it. In this process the liquid is heated by means of an optical heating beam while the point of heating is shown through by an optical detection ray. The axis of the heating- and the detection beam coincide at least in the point of heating. The detection beam is absorbed via an array of detectors. In the apparatus the heating device which heats the interior area of a limited internal area of the liquid and the optical control unit of the laser beam are arranged that way that a measuring beam shines through the absolute heating point.

Abstract: To determine as precisely as possible the flow rate of a liquid flow inside a tube by means of minimal technical and especially minimal apparatus complexity the invention provides with a procedure and an apparatus to determine it. In this process the liquid is heated by means of an optical heating beam while the point of heating is shown through by an optical detection ray. The axis of the heating- and the detection beam coincide at least in the point of heating. The detection beam is absorbed via an array of detectors. In the apparatus the heating device which heats the interior area of a limited internal area of the liquid and the optical control unit of the laser beam are arranged that way that a measuring beam shines through the absolute heating point.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an optical based pulse oximetry device comprising: first, second and third light emitting means, for placement on the skin surface of a body part to inject light in a tissue of said part, the wavelengths of the light emitted by said second and third means being different from each other light detecting means located at a relatively short distance from said first light emitting means and at relatively long distance from said second light emitting means and said third light emitting means, for collecting at the skin surface light of said emitting means having travelled through said tissue, first computing means for denoising the output signals of said long distance light detecting means from the output signals of said short distance light detecting means, and second computing means for deriving oximetry measurements from the denoised output signals of said long distance light detecting means.

Abstract: The invention proposes a pulsometer (10) comprising a case (14) which contains an electronic optical pulse measuring device (18) and an electronic circuit, a tightening wristband (16) which holds the back cover of the case (14) pressed against the wrist (12), characterized in that the electronic optical measuring device (18) includes at least two light sources (E1, E2, E3) and at least two receivers (R1, R2, R3), in that the light sources (E1, E2, E3) and the receivers (R1, R2, R3) are arranged in the form of a matrix comprising two lines (L1, L2) each oriented along an orthogonal direction to the direction (D1) of the wrist (12), and at least two columns (C1, C2, C3), oriented parallel to the direction (D1) of the wrist (12), in that each line (L1, L2) of the matrix alternately contains a light source (E1, E2, E3) and a receiver (R1, R2, R3), and each column (C1, C2, C3) of the matrix contains a light source (E1, E2, E3) and a receiver (R1, R2, R3).

Abstract: The invention proposes a pulsometer (10) comprising a case (14) which contains an electronic optical pulse measuring device (18) and an electronic circuit, a tightening wristband (16) which holds the back cover of the case (14) pressed against the wrist (12), characterized in that the electronic optical measuring device (18) includes at least two light sources (E1, E2, E3) and at least two receivers (R1, R2, R3), in that the light sources (E1, E2, E3) and the receivers (R1, R2, R3) are arranged in the form of a matrix comprising two lines (L1, L2) each oriented along an orthogonal direction to the direction (D1) of the wrist (12), and at least two columns (C1, C2, C3), oriented parallel to the direction (D1) of the wrist (12), in that each line (L1, L2) of the matrix alternately contains a light source (E1, E2, E3) and a receiver (R1, R2, R3), and each column (C1, C2, C3) of the matrix contains a light source (E1, E2, E3) and a receiver (R1, R2, R3).

Abstract: Portable equipment including in combination a heart rate measuring device and a sound reproduction unit including means for supplying a signal representative of the sound reproduction and for supplying sound information to a sound transducer, wherein said measuring device and said sound transducer are mounted at least in part in an assembly adapted to be fixed to an ear of a wearer of the equipment and, wherein said sound reproduction unit includes means for optionally substituting for and/or superimposing on said signal representative of said sound reproduction a signal generated from signals from said measuring device and representative of said heart rate. The equipment can take the form of a walkman, for example, or a hearing aid for the hard of hearing.

Abstract: Portable equipment including in combination a heart rate measuring device and a sound reproduction unit including means for supplying a signal representative of the sound reproduction and for supplying sound information to a sound transducer, wherein said measuring device and said sound transducer are mounted at least in part in an assembly adapted to be fixed to an ear of a wearer of the equipment and, wherein said sound reproduction unit includes means for optionally substituting for and/or superimposing on said signal representative of said sound reproduction a signal generated from signals from said measuring device and representative of said heart rate. The equipment can take the form of a walkman, for example, or a hearing aid for the hard of hearing.