Abstract: A device for encouraging and guiding a spirometer user includes a housing, a main valve, a visual assembly, and a sound making assembly. The housing has a guiding channel, a first outlet channel, a second outlet channel, and an inlet channel. The main valve is disposed in a housing communicating with the guiding channel, the first outlet channel, the second outlet channel or the inlet channel and configured to regulate or control fluid flowing paths. The visual assembly includes a check valve in the second outlet channel, and at least one movable member. The sound making assembly includes a check valve and a sound maker. So, it can generate the visual and sound encouraging effects for learning how to use a spirometer correctly.

Abstract: A method of generating binary positioning tags includes the following steps: generating a pseudo random sequence; circularly shifting the pseudo random sequence and sequentially filling in one of a plurality of odd rows and a plurality of even rows of a binary matrix, wherein a size of the binary matrix is M×N; filling a complement sequence of the pseudo random sequence in the other one of the plurality of odd rows and the plurality of even rows; and retrieving a binary submatrix having a size of I×J from the binary matrix according to a relative position of a positioning point to be used as a positioning tag corresponding to the positioning point, wherein I is smaller than M, and J is smaller than N. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a positioning tag that is highly secure, arrangement-unique, and easy to obtain and analyze.