Patents by Inventor Juergen Te Vrugt
Juergen Te Vrugt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9743890Abstract: A device having a sensor detecting patient physiological data, a detection element detecting whether a medical professional is present in a patient's room and a display. If a medical professional is present in the patient's room, the display displays a first display mode, the first display mode including the patient physiological data. If a medical professional is not present in the patient's room, the display displays a second display mode, the second display mode being adapted for viewing by lay viewers.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: William Palmer Lord, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, Steffen Clarence Pauws, Juergen Te Vrugt
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Patent number: 9603769Abstract: An assistance system for visually handicapped persons with visual impairment in a part of their visual field includes body-worn sensors to inform them actively about objects or movements in the visually impaired sides.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Juergen Te Vrugt, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Patent number: 9418470Abstract: A method for determining a viewing configuration of a rendered figure of a rehab-patient or a sports trainee, aiming to deliver a suitable view on the rendered figure, the method comprising the steps of capturing motion data in the 3D space of one or more body parts of the rehab-patientor the sports trainee and providing them to a computer; and further the step of performing on the computer measurements of deviation of the captured motion data from a reference list of motion data and/or measurements of main motion direction; and based on the results of the above measurements, determining the viewing configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Stefan Winter, Privender Kaur Saini, Annick Timmermans
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Patent number: 9386923Abstract: An automatic sensor position recognition system including a position recognition unit located at pre-determined positions on a person's body and bearing a unique identification; a sensor bearing a unique identification; a communication unit assigned to the sensor and being in communication with the position recognition unit and the sensor; a data processing unit in communication with the communication unit; and a database being in communication with the data processing system and comprising the correlation of the unique identification of the position recognition unit and the pre-determined position of the position recognition unit. The system provides an automatic association between sensors and body segments as well as means to obtain these associations.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Stefan Winter, Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Patent number: 8743054Abstract: A controller for a display device includes a processor configured to receive an indication of the orientation of a user of the display device; receive an indication of the orientation of the display device; and generate a graphical representation of a user of the display device using the received indications, such that the orientation of the graphical representation of the user is adapted based on the orientation of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Victor Martinus Gerardus Van Acht, Nicolaas Lambert, Edwin Garardus Johannus Maria Bongers, Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Declan Patrick Kelly
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Publication number: 20140018650Abstract: A device having a sensor detecting patient physiological data, a detection element detecting whether a medical professional is present in a patient's room and a display. If a medical professional is present in the patient's room, the display displays a first display mode, the first display mode including the patient physiological data. If a medical professional is not present in the patient's room, the display displays a second display mode, the second display mode being adapted for viewing by lay viewers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJK PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: William Palmer Lord, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, Steffen Clarence Pauws, Juergen Te Vrugt
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Publication number: 20130342666Abstract: An assistance system for visually handicapped persons with visual impairment in a part of their visual field includes body-worn sensors to inform them actively about objects or movements in the visually impaired sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: RICHARD DANIEL WILLMANN, GERD LANFERMANN, JUERGEN TE VRUGT, EDWIN GERARDUS JOHANNUS MARIA BONGERS
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Publication number: 20130275161Abstract: An update message from a first group of one or more clinical devices (802) is received over a communications network (504). The update message includes patient data and identifies a computer interpretable guideline (CIG) instance corresponding to a patient of the patient data. The CIG instance is updated (804) using the patient data and one or more CIG recommendations are determined (806) based on the updated CIG instance. The CIG recommendations are communicated (808) to a second group of one or more clinical devices over the communications network (504). Also disclosed, a narrative guideline is received from a guideline publisher and/or business entity (102) over a communications network (104). The narrative guideline is transformed to a computer represented guideline (CRG) abstractly representing the narrative guideline on the basis of usage. The translation includes linking text fragments in the narrative guideline to instantiated language constructs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Pradyumna Dutta, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon, Steffen Clarence Pauws, William Palmer Lord, Juergen Te Vrugt, Alphonsus Anthonius Jozef De Lange
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Patent number: 8525874Abstract: An assistance system for visually handicapped persons with visual impair in a part of their visual field aims at providing a technical solution for these persons, informing them actively about objects or movements in the visually impaired side, by way of body-worn sensors.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2007Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Juergen Te Vrugt, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Patent number: 8491502Abstract: A sensor docking unit for attaching and removing sensor or marker onto/from a user's limb includes a guiding portion and a limb localization unit having a detector to determine if an insertion of the user's limb into a pre-specified position within the sensor docking unit has been completed correctly. A sensor or marker mounting device includes at least one sensor or marker entity to enable at least semi-automatic attachment and/or removal of the at least one sensor or marker to/from the user's limb in a reproducible manner. The sensor or marker mounting device is activatable to start with an attachment and/or removal of the at least one sensor or marker when a correct insertion of the user's limb has been determined by the limb localization unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Juergen Te Vrugt, Gerd Lanfermann, Richard Daniel Willmann, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Patent number: 8162857Abstract: A limb movement monitoring system, comprising a motion sensor, a garment comprising spatially addressable photonic textiles and spatially resolving pressure-sensitive textiles and furthermore a muscular activity sensor, a processing unit processing the data from the sensors and issuing illumination commands to the spatially addressable photonic textiles and a database. There is furthermore a process for monitoring limb movement by the system.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Gerd Lanfermann, Richard Daniel Willmann, Juergen Te Vrugt, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Publication number: 20110234489Abstract: There is provided a controller for a display device, the controller comprising a processor configured to receive an indication of the orientation of a user of the display device; receive an indication of the orientation of the display device; and generate a graphical representation of a user of the display device using the received indications, such that the orientation of the graphical representation of the user is adapted based on the orientation of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Victor Martinus Gerardus Van Acht, Nicolaas Lambert, Edwin Garardus Johannus Maria Bongers, Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Declan Patrick Kelly
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Publication number: 20100208945Abstract: A method for determining a viewing configuration of a rendered figure of a rehab-patient or a sports trainee, aiming to deliver a suitable view on the rendered figure, the method comprising the steps of capturing motion data in the 3D space of one or more body parts of the rehab-patientor the sports trainee and providing them to a computer; and further the step of performing on the computer measurements of deviation of the captured motion data from a reference list of motion data and/or measurements of main motion direction; and based on the results of the above measurements, determining the viewing configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Stefan Winter, Privender Kaur Saini, Annick Timmermans
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Publication number: 20100188231Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic sensor position recognition system comprising: a position recognition unit (1) located at pre-determined positions on a person's body and bearing a unique identification; a sensor (2) bearing a unique identification; a communication unit (3) assigned to the sensor and being in communication with the position recognition unit (1) and the sensor (2); a data processing unit (4) in communication with the communication unit; and a database (5) being in communication with the data processing system (4) and comprising the correlation of the unique identification of the position recognition unit (1) and the pre-determined position of the position recognition unit (1). The system according to the invention provides an automatic association between sensors and body segments as well as means to obtain these associations. As a result, no human interaction is required any more to assign a body segment to a sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Stefan Winter, Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Edwin Geradus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Publication number: 20100116277Abstract: The present invention concerns a switchable joint constraint system comprising at least one motion sensor, a joint constraint which is switchable between a mobile and an immobile state, a signal processing unit and a database. Motion sensor signals are compared to predefined situations. The joint constraint is switched according to whether predefined situations are met. The present invention furthermore concerns a process for handling sensor signals in such a system. The system may be used to support a constraint induced therapy (CIT) for the treatment of e. g. hemiplegy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Gerd Lanfermann, Richard Daniel Willmann, Juergen Te Vrugt, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Publication number: 20100105991Abstract: The invention discloses a sensor docking unit (1), a rehabilitation system and a method for attaching and removing at least one sensor or marker (2a) onto/from a users limb(s) the sensor docking unit (1) comprising a guiding portion (4), a limb localization unit (5) comprising at least one detecting means (6) to determine if an insertion of the users limb (3) into a pre-specified position within the sensor docking unit (1) has been completed correctly and a sensor or marker mounting means (7) including at least one sensor or marker entity (2) to enable an at least semi-automatic attachment and/or removal of the at least one sensor or marker (2a) to/from the users limb (3) in a reproducible manner. The sensor or marker mounting means (7) is activatable to start with an attachment and/or removal of the at least one sensor or marker (2a) when a correct insertion of the users limb (3) has been determined by the limb localization unit (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Juergen Te Vrugt, Gerd Lanfermann, Richard Daniel Willmann, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Publication number: 20100036288Abstract: A limb movement monitoring system, comprising a motion sensor, a garment comprising spatially addressable photonic textiles and spatially resolving pressure-sensitive textiles and furthermore a muscular activity sensor, a processing unit processing the data from the sensors and issuing illumination commands to the spatially addressable photonic textiles and a database. There is furthermore a process for monitoring limb movement by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2007Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Gerd Lanfermann, Richard Daniel Willmann, Juergen Te Vrugt, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers
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Publication number: 20100004565Abstract: A sensor arrangement for home rehabilitation in particular after a stroke comprising at least two sensors. The sensors are attached to the user's body. Each sensor includes—a receiver for receiving a first signal being generated from a source outside the sensor 10 arrangement—a sensor processing unit processing the first signal and initializing a second signal upon reception of the first signal, the second signal including information regarding the identity of the sensor—a transmitter for transmitting the second signal to a central processing unit 15 On receipt of the first and/or the second signal a time stamp is generated for each sensor for a determination of the location of each sensor relative to a source of the first signal trough comparison of the different time stamps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Gerd Lanfermann, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers, Juergen Te Vrugt, Richard Daniel Willmann
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Publication number: 20090259148Abstract: The invention relates to a health management system comprising a body or limb movement detecting means for detecting the movements and position of a users body or limb(s) in 3D space, a movement analyzing means for analyzing the data of the measurement carried out by the body or limb movement detecting means, wherein the body or limb movement detecting means comprises at least three sensors or markers for tracking a user's body or limb movement in 3D space by measuring an angle embedded by two body parts of the user which are connected to each other by a joint being the apex of the angle to be measured, at which one of the sensors or markers is provided. To detect the offset a change in distance between two neighboring sensors or markers indicates an offset of the sensor at the joint spaced apart from the apex.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Richard Daniel Willmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Edwin Gerardus Johannus Maria Bongers, Juergen Te Vrugt
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Publication number: 20080246472Abstract: System and method of inductively measuring the bio-impedance of a conductive tissue The present invention relates to a system (100) and method of inductively measuring the bio-impedance of a conductive tissue (106). Furthermore the invention relates to a computer program (115) for operating such a system (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Claudia Hannelore Igney, Eberhard Waffenschmidt, Andreas Brauers, Juergen Te Vrugt