Abstract: A wearable sensor device includes a temperature and humidity sensor that measures ambient environmental information around a living body. The temperature and humidity sensor is provided on an outer wall surface of a housing or provided to be separated from the outer wall surface. The outer wall surface of the housing faces a left or right side or diagonally downward when the wearable sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture.

Abstract: A wearable sensor device includes a temperature and humidity sensor that measures ambient environmental information around a living body, a snap button connected to a bioelectrode, a biological information measurement unit that measures biological information, an inertial sensor that measures inertial information, a calculation unit that calculates a biological feature amount based on the biological information and calculates an inertial feature amount based on the inertial information, and a wireless communication unit that transmits the biological information, the inertial information, the biological feature amount, the inertial feature amount, and the environmental information to the outside.

Abstract: A wearable environmental sensor device includes a temperature/humidity sensor disposed on a wall surface of a housing that is exposed to an environment and configured to measure ambient environmental information around a living body, and a protective structure formed around the temperature/humidity sensor. The temperature/humidity sensor is disposed, directly or via a support structure, on or over the wall surface of the housing, wherein the wall surface faces substantially downward from the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture. The protective structure has respective ventilation holes provided in two or more pairs of opposed surfaces thereof each facing in a direction other than a vertical direction of the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in the standing posture.

Abstract: A wearable sensor includes: a base member that has a through hole serving as a flow path of liquid and a recess connecting with an end portion of the through hole on an outlet side; an electrode disposed on a surface of the base member on which an end portion of the through hole on an inlet side opens; a water absorbing structure disposed on a surface of the base member on the outlet side to come into contact with the liquid flowing into the recess from an opening of the through hole on the outlet side; and an electrode which is water absorbable and disposed on a surface of the water absorbing structure facing the base member to face the opening of the through hole on the outlet side.

Abstract: A wearable sensor includes: a base member that has a through hole serving as a flow path of liquid and a recess connecting with an end portion of the through hole on an outlet side; a water absorbing structure disposed on a surface of the base member on the outlet side to come into contact with the liquid flowing into the recess from an opening of the through hole on the outlet side; a laser diode that radiates light toward the liquid flowing into the recess from the opening of the through hole on the outlet side; and a photodiode that receives light from the laser diode transmitted through the liquid or light reflected by the liquid. An amount of perspiration of a wearer of the wearable sensor is calculated based on light receiving characteristics of the photodiode.

Abstract: A wearable device includes a sensor device and a clothes to which the sensor device is attached. The clothes includes a clothes body and an insertion and extraction portion that has an opening formed in the clothes body and enables the sensor device to be inserted into or extracted from the clothes body. The sensor device includes a humidity sensor configured to measure humidity in the clothes body and a housing having a first region exposed to an inside of the clothes body and a second region exposed to an outside of the clothes body, while the sensor device is inserted from the insertion and extraction portion into the clothes body. The humidity sensor is accommodated in the first region of the housing.

Abstract: A first calculation unit calculates the heart rate of a subject from a plurality of instantaneous heart rates by averaging processing with an IIR filter using a first coefficient. Note that the first coefficient is a numerical value less than 1, and is a fixed value. A second calculation unit calculates the heart rate of the subject from the plurality of instantaneous heart rates by averaging processing with an IIR filter using a second coefficient. The second coefficient is a numerical value less than 1, and is a variable value. A switching unit switches between the first calculation unit and the second calculation unit based on a difference between the precedingly calculated heart rate and a latest instantaneous heart rate.

Abstract: A wearable device includes: a biological information acquisition device that acquires biological information of a subject; a biological information storage device that stores biological information; an abnormality determination device that determines whether or not there is an abnormality and an abnormality level in the biological information of the subject; a notification destination determination device that, if an abnormality has occurred in the biological information of the subject, acquires notification destination information that corresponds to the abnormality level that was determined by the abnormality determination device; a notification destination database in which notification destination information for use when an abnormality has occurred in the biological information of the subject is stored for each abnormality level in advance; and a notification device that transmits information that includes the abnormality level and the determination result of the abnormality determination device to a not

Abstract: A wearable sensor (1) includes a base member (10) including a flow channel (11), a sensor element (12) provided in the flow channel (11) and configured to detect a signal related to an electrical characteristic of a liquid in the flow channel (11), and a porous body (15) having hydrophilicity and disposed on an inner wall of the flow channel (11) in a portion farther from a position of the sensor element (12) when viewed from a first opening of the flow channel (11), and on a surface of the base member on a side where a second end portion on a side opposite to the first opening opens.

Abstract: A measurement control apparatus includes a sensor data acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of a user measured by a sensor, an extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity with periodicity from the biological information acquired by the sensor data acquisition unit, an interval acquisition unit configured to acquire a period of the extracted feature quantity, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the feature quantity will have appeared by a set end time on the basis of the acquired period of the feature quantity, and a termination processing unit configured to terminate an operation of the sensor data acquisition unit when the determination unit determines that the feature quantity will not have appeared by the set end time.

Abstract: A heartbeat detection device including a time difference value calculation unit to calculate a time difference value from a sampling data string of an electrocardiographic waveform of a living body, an index value calculation unit to calculate an index value for heartbeat detection based on the time difference value, a threshold setting unit to determine whether a peak of the index value exceeding a threshold can be detected, to calculate, a threshold candidate based on an average value of the predetermined number of the most recent peaks among these peaks. A threshold candidate is set as a new threshold when the threshold candidate has a value equal to or less than a threshold limit value. A heartbeat time determination unit sets the sampling time of the peak as the heartbeat time when the peak of the index value exceeding the threshold is detected.

Abstract: A wearable sensor includes: a base member which is worn on a body of a wearer; a hole-like flow passage which penetrates through the base member; a sensor part which detects a signal as to electrical characteristics of a solution inside the flow passage; and a heater which is located in the base member in such a way as to enclose the flow passage.

Abstract: There is provided a respiration estimation method. The respiration estimation method includes a first step (S107) of estimating a breathing rate of a subject based on each of a time-series signal of first data relating to a cardiac function of the subject and a time-series signal of second data relating to an acceleration by a respiratory motion of the subject, a second step (S108) of estimating a breathing rate obtained by filtering noise using a Kalman filter for each of the breathing rate estimated based on the first data and the breathing rate estimated based on the second data, and a third step (S109) of executing weighted averaging processing for the plurality of estimated values of the breathing rates obtained in the second step.

Abstract: A heartbeat detection device includes a heartbeat time calculation unit configured to calculate a heartbeat time from a sampling data string of an electrocardiographic waveform, a heart rate calculation unit configured to calculate, for each heartbeat time, a heart rate from the heartbeat time calculated by the heartbeat time calculation unit, and a skip period calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the heart rate calculated by the heart rate calculation unit, a length of a skip period every time the heartbeat time is calculated. If a time difference between a latest time calculated from the sampling data string and an immediately preceding heartbeat time is not longer than the length of the skip period calculated from the immediately preceding heartbeat time, the heartbeat time calculation unit does not adopt, as a heartbeat time, the latest time calculated from the sampling data string.

Abstract: There is provided a respiration estimation apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a heartbeat detection device. The heartbeat detection device includes a time difference value calculation unit (3) configured to calculate a time difference value of sampling data of an electrocardiographic waveform, FIFO buffers (4-1, 4-2) configured to receive the time difference value, a FIFO buffer (4-3) configured to receive an output from the FIFO buffer (4-2), a FIFO buffer (4-4) configured to receive an output from the FIFO buffer (4-3), a minimum value detection unit (5) configured to detect, for each sampling time, a minimum value M out of the time difference value stored in the FIFO buffer (4-2) and the time difference value stored in the FIFO buffer (4-4), and a heartbeat time determination unit (6) configured to set, when a difference value M?a between the minimum value M and an output value a of the FIFO buffer (4-1) is equal to or greater than a threshold, sampling time of the output value a as heartbeat time.

Abstract: There is provided a biological signal processing apparatus. The biological signal processing apparatus includes a biological signal extraction unit (2) configured to extract a biological signal from an electrocardiographic waveform measured by an electrocardiograph (1), an averaging processing unit (3) configured to calculate averaged data using time-series data of the biological signals extracted by the biological signal extraction unit (2), an abnormal value determination unit (4) configured to determine, for each data, whether the data of the biological signal extracted by the biological signal extraction unit (2) is appropriate, based on the averaged data calculated using the data of the biological signals that have occurred before the data, and an abnormal value processing unit (5) configured to perform one of deletion and interpolation of the data of the biological signal determined to be inappropriate by the abnormal value determination unit (4).

Abstract: A first calculation unit calculates the heart rate of a subject from a plurality of instantaneous heart rates by averaging processing with an IIR filter using a first coefficient. Note that the first coefficient is a numerical value less than 1, and is a fixed value. A second calculation unit calculates the heart rate of the subject from the plurality of instantaneous heart rates by averaging processing with an IIR filter using a second coefficient. The second coefficient is a numerical value less than 1, and is a variable value. A switching unit switches between the first calculation unit and the second calculation unit based on a difference between the precedingly calculated heart rate and a latest instantaneous heart rate.

Abstract: In a biological signal measurement system of this invention, biological digital data is generated from a biological signal measured by a biological signal measurement apparatus, and first feature amount data extracted from the biological digital data and downsized biological digital data are transmitted to a portable terminal. In a biological information measurement apparatus of this invention, biological feature amount data is extracted from measured biological waveform data, and at least one of the biological waveform data and the biological feature amount data is transmitted to an external device. It is possible to provide a biological signal measurement system capable of continuously measuring a biological signal for a long time without disturbing daily life and provide a biological information measurement apparatus capable of implementing downsizing and long life of a battery.

Abstract: A heartbeat detection device includes a peak search unit (4) for searching for one of a peak at which a value M obtained from a sampling data sequence of an electrocardiographic waveform of a living body changes from an increase to a decrease and a peak at which the value M changes from a decrease to an increase, and a heartbeat time determination unit (5) for checking the value M in a predetermined time domain before a time of the peak and the value M in a predetermined time domain after the time of the peak, and setting the time of the peak as a heartbeat time if differences between the value M at the time of the peak and the values M in the predetermined time domains are not smaller than a predetermined amount.