Patents Issued in August 20, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200260930
    Abstract: A microfiber vacuum mop including a mop suction tube configured to receive a mop suction tube vacuum suction. A suction pad has a plurality of vacuum openings formed on an underside of the suction pad. The plurality of vacuum openings are in fluid communication with the mop suction tube. A microfiber fabric is mounted on the underside of the suction pad. The plurality of vacuum openings suck on the microfiber fabric when the vacuum suction is engaged. The microfiber fabric is dewatered during use. A follower brush is preferably mounted adjacent to the suction pad. The plurality of vacuum openings are arranged in a vacuum opening array that can number over three hundred openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Kyu LEE
  • Publication number: 20200260931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a seal for a dishwasher adapted to be interposed between a peripheral edge of an opening of a tub for cookware and a door for closing said opening. The seal comprises a metal part adapted to be connected to the peripheral edge of the opening, a first part, made of polymeric material, integrally connected to the metal part and a second part, made of polymeric material, associated with the first part and adapted to be contacted by the door when the door is arranged in a position for closing the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Sandro MAZZARO, Paolo CITTADINI
  • Publication number: 20200260932
    Abstract: A position specifying section obtains an observation distance by specifying the position of an irradiated region from a picked-up image that is obtained from the image pickup of a subject on which the irradiated region is formed by auxiliary measurement light. An image processing section sets the amount of offset, which corresponds to a height of the irradiated region of a convex portion of the subject, for the observation distance, and generates an offset measurement marker on the basis of the offset distance that obtained by adding the amount of offset to the observation distance. A specific image in which the offset measurement marker is superimposed on the picked-up image is displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yu YOSHIMORI
  • Publication number: 20200260933
    Abstract: An image processing unit includes a shake amount calculation section and a static image-storage control section, and the shake amount calculation section includes a shake amount-calculation processing section and an algorithm switching section. The algorithm switching section applies an algorithm varying for each image, and selects images of which the shake amounts calculated by the shake amount-calculation processing section are small. A first image and a second image, which are selected as the images of which the shake amounts are small, are stored in a static image-storage unit. A display control unit displays static images for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200260934
    Abstract: A variable stiffness device includes a shape-memory unit formed of at least two hollow shape-memory members connected together. Each of the shape-memory members is transitionable in phase between a first phase in which the shape-memory member is in a low stiffness state and a second phase in which the shape-memory member is in a high stiffness state. The shape-memory member in the high stiffness state has a higher level of stiffness than in the low stiffness state. Hollow portions of the shape-memory members are connected together so that the shape-memory unit has a lumen-like inner space configured to allow fluid for cooling the shape-memory members to flow. The variable stiffness device also includes a heating member configured to heat the shape-memory members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko OKITA
  • Publication number: 20200260935
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention comprise endoscopes for viewing inside a cavity of a body such as a vessel like a vein or artery. These endoscopes may include at least one solid state emitter such as a light emitting diode (LED) that is inserted into the body cavity to provide illumination therein. Certain embodiments of the invention comprise disposable endoscopes that can be fabricated relatively inexpensively such that discarding these endoscopses after a single use is cost-effective. The endoscope may comprise a lens holder on a distal end of the endoscope for collection of light reflected from surfaces within the body in which the endoscope is inserted. This lens holder may have an inner cavity through which light passes along an optical path. Reflective surfaces on sidewalls of the inner cavity may direct light along this optical path. The endoscope may further comprise an elongated support structure for supporting a plurality of lenses disposed along the optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: George Wright, Kais Almarzouk, Lonnie Hoyle
  • Publication number: 20200260936
    Abstract: A light source apparatus for endoscope includes a light source configured to generate illumination light, a light source connector receiving member into or from which a light source connector provided in a connector of an endoscope is inserted or removed, a light blocking unit in which a light blocking plate configured to close an opening portion of the light source connector receiving section is disposed to be openable and closable, and an assist unit including a movable member configured to interlock with the insertion or removal of the light source connector into or from the light source connector receiving section by abutting on the light blocking plate and close the opening portion of the light source connector receiving section to press the light blocking plate in a closing direction in which the illumination light from the light source is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: So MATSUKA, Minoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20200260937
    Abstract: The present invention provides a protective sheath, a hysteroscope equipped therewith, and a nephroscope equipped with the same, used to prevent contaminants from contaminating electrical connecting lines connected to the endoscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Zhenhua ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20200260938
    Abstract: The subject matter discloses a multi-sensor endoscope having a dynamic field of view comprising an elongated shaft terminating with a tip section; a maneuvering section connected to the elongated shaft; at least two sensors, wherein at least one sensor is placed behind the tip section, on the maneuvering section; and one or more illuminators located on external surface of the shaft. In some cases, the sensors include a camera. The subject matter also discloses a multi-sensor endoscopy system comprising an endoscope comprising a handle and a controller, such that the maneuvering section is controlled by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Avraham LEVY
  • Publication number: 20200260939
    Abstract: A medical light source apparatus includes: a first light source configured to emit light in a first wavelength range; a second light source configured to emit light in a second wavelength range different from the first wavelength range; and a light source controller configured to control the first light source and the second light source to perform pulse light emission in a state in which the pulse light emission of the second light source is less frequent than the pulse light emission of the first light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Taihei Michihata, Kiminori Sugisaki, Yoichiro Sakanoue, Koji Kojima
  • Publication number: 20200260940
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a color image pickup device, a light source device configured to simultaneously illuminate the subject with light in a first wavelength band having a spectral characteristic of a narrow band having a peak in a range from a wavelength of 585 nm to a wavelength of 615 nm and light in a second wavelength band having a spectral characteristic for making, among a red signal, a green signal, and a blue signal, a pixel value of the red signal smallest, and a processor configured to assign either one of the red signal generated by return light from the subject illuminated with the light in the first wavelength band and the green signal or the blue signal generated by return light from the subject illuminated with the light in the second wavelength band to each of output channels corresponding to the respective colors in a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji KUTSUMA
  • Publication number: 20200260941
    Abstract: First illumination light having a first peak wavelength range and second illumination light having a second peak wavelength range different from the first peak wavelength range are automatically switched and emitted. Identification processing for allowing a first object to be observed and a second object to be observed to be identified in a composite display image is performed. The first object to be observed has a first absorption peak in the first peak wavelength range of the first illumination light and the second object to be observed has a second absorption peak in the second peak wavelength range of the second illumination light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200260942
    Abstract: A plurality of kinds of illumination light are emitted while being switched according to a specific light emission pattern. A plurality of observation images, which are obtained from image pickup of an object to be observed illuminated with each illumination light, are acquired. Control to display the plurality of observation images on a display unit while switching the plurality of observation images according to a specific display pattern is performed. The specific light emission pattern is fixed and the specific display pattern is changeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200260943
    Abstract: In an endoscope cleaning work support device, an operation reception unit received an input from a cleaner. A display control unit controls the display unit to display a procedure for manual cleaning of an endoscope on a display unit step by step. A measurement unit measures a first period of time from a start time of a procedure in a current step marked by reception of an input for displaying the procedure in the current step by the operation reception unit, to an end time of the procedure in the current step marked by reception of an input for displaying a procedure in a subsequent step by the operation reception unit. A comparison determination unit compares a reference period of time defined for each step for displaying the procedure with the first period of time. The display control unit displays information for alerting the cleaner when the first period of time is shorter than the reference period of time on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHI, Hikari SHIMIZU, Clarinda KUAN, Kaori KITANO, Yoshiko IKEDA, Takeshi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200260944
    Abstract: A method and a device for recognizing a macular region and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a fundus image of a target object; extracting blood vessel information and optic disc information from the fundus image; inputting the blood vessel information and the optic disc information into a regression model to obtain location information of a macular fovea; and determining location information of the macular region of an eye of the target object, based on the location information of the macula fovea. In the embodiments of the application, the problem that the macular region cannot be accurately recognized when the image quality of the macular region is impaired is solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qinpei SUN, Yehui YANG, Lei WANG, Yanwu XU, Yan HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200260945
    Abstract: A panum's area measurement method includes: projecting a first parallax image of a spatial object to the left eye of a user under test, and projecting a second parallax image of the spatial object to the right eye of the user under test, the first parallax image comprising a first homologous point and the second parallax image comprising a second homologous point; adjusting a horizontal parallax amount between the first homologous point and the second homologous point until the user under test observes the spatial object producing a ghost; acquiring a parallax amount parameter ?ne; calculating a horizontal physical spacing ?x between the first homologous point and the second homologous point based on the parallax amount parameter ?ne; and calculating a panum's area range (?in, ?out) of the user under test based on the horizontal physical spacing ?x.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Huakun CUI, Kai WANG, Shiguo LIAN
  • Publication number: 20200260946
    Abstract: A lacrimal tear flow measurement device, and methods of manufacture and use, are described that includes a polymer microcapillary tube or similar structure having at least one end coated on the outside with soft silicone rubber and one end treated on the inside to be hydrophobic. The hydrophobic end keeps liquid from escaping or entering that end while allowing air to pass. The rest of the tube's insides may be hydrophilic or a neutral hydrophobe. As a Schirmer's test strip replacement, the entrance end of the device can be touched to the lacrimal lake of a patient's eye to collect suck up, or merely collect, tear fluid within the collection tube for weighing, volume measurement, or other analysis. Long-term collection devices for wear between doctors' visits can have a bypass channel allowing liquid to flow back onto the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Nicholas E. Scianmarello, Mark S. Humayun
  • Publication number: 20200260947
    Abstract: A medical diagnostic device and method, the device including: (a) an alternating current source, adapted to produce an alternating current; (b) an electrode arrangement having at least first and second electrodes, separated by an electrically insulating region, the arrangement having an at least semi-rigid region that fixes the electrodes in a spaced-apart manner, the arrangement adapted to contact the soft tissue on the inner surface of the eyelid; and (c) a processor, associated with the electrode arrangement, said electrodes electrically connected to the alternating current source; wherein, when the electrode arrangement is provided with the alternating current, and is disposed against the soft tissue, the soft tissue electrically bridges between the electrodes to form an electrical circuit, wherein an electrical signal is produced by the alternating current electrically passing between the electrodes via the soft tissue; wherein the processor is adapted to receive in-vivo based electrical information orig
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Zvi NACHUM
  • Publication number: 20200260948
    Abstract: A composition for detecting biofilm on an eyelid margin includes a dye that binds to the biofilm and a solution that is biocompatible with the eye. A method for detecting biofilm on an eyelid margin of an eye includes applying a solution to the eye or the eyelid margin so that a dye in the solution binds to the biofilm. A handheld camera for detecting biofilm on an eyelid margin of an eye includes a housing, an image sensor, and a lens including a focal length determined by a distance between the lens and the eyelid margin. A method for detecting biofilm on an eyelid margin includes capturing an image of the eyelid margin using a handheld camera and determining if the biofilm is present on the eyelid margin. A system for detecting biofilm on an eyelid margin of an eye includes a composition and a handheld camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: James M. Rynerson
  • Publication number: 20200260949
    Abstract: Retinal imaging systems and related methods employ a user specific approach for controlling the reference arm length in an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging device. A method includes restraining a user's head relative to an OCT imaging device. A reference arm length adjustment module is controlled to vary a reference arm length to search a user specific range of reference arm lengths to identify a reference arm length for which the OCT image detector produces an OCT signal corresponding to the retina of the user. The user specific range of reference arm lengths covers a smaller range of reference arm lengths than a reference arm length adjustment range of the reference arm length adjustment module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Notal Vision Ltd.
    Inventors: Amit Pascal, Omer Rafaeli, Yair Alster, Gidon Goren-Gratzyani
  • Publication number: 20200260950
    Abstract: An eye testing system for diagnosing age-related macular degeneration of a patient is disclosed. The eye testing system includes a plurality of acuity charts arranged in a plurality of rows. The each acuity chart includes a plurality of rows of symbols. Further, the eye testing system includes a bulls eye configured to slide relative to the plurality of acuity charts. The bulls eye includes a telescopic arm and an eye portion attached to the telescopic arm to facilitate a viewing of the one or more symbols to facilitate in diagnosing a central vision and a peripheral vision of the eye of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Daniel Joseph Arnow
  • Publication number: 20200260951
    Abstract: A confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (cSLO) includes an illumination module, an acquisition module, a scanning element and an imaging lens group. With the scanning element at the nominal position and the illumination beam passing through the centers of the lenses, by controlling the deviation angle between the incident marginal rays and the reflected rays on each surface of the lenses in the illumination path to no less than 0.5 degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: SVISION IMAGING LIMITED
    Inventors: Heng WU, Xianzhao PENG
  • Publication number: 20200260952
    Abstract: Light from a laser light source is projected on the ocular fundus of a subject eye via a scanning optical system and an objective lens optical system, and reflected light from the ocular fundus follows the opposite path and is incident on a light shielding member at which harmful reflected light from an objective lens plane is shielded. The reflected light from the ocular fundus having passed through the light shielding member is received by a light receiving element via a light receiving pinhole disposed in the vicinity of the ocular fundus conjugate position. The objective lens optical system is composed of a first lens group and a second lens group, and within a normal diopter adjustment range, an ocular fundus conjugate plane is moved in a space between the first and second lens groups so as not overlap the objective lens plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Takayoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200260953
    Abstract: An ophthalmic device including a photographing optical system that illuminates and photographs an eye to be examined, a reference movement control unit that automatically moves the photographing optical system to a reference position for photographing a reference region in the eye to be examined; and a displacement movement control unit that automatically moves the photographing optical system to a displacement position different from the reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Tomey Corporation
    Inventors: Guangchun BIAN, Hideo TAKATA, Shaolang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200260954
    Abstract: A method for measuring the intraocular pressure (IOP) of an eye docked to an ophthalmic surgical laser system via a patient interface assembly. While the eye is docked to the laser system, and as the vertical force exerted on the eye by the patient interface fluctuates as the patient breaths and moves, the amount of corneal deformation is continuously measured by an optical coherence tomography device of the laser system and the force exerted on the eye is continuously measured by force sensors integrated in the patient interface assembly. Based on the real-time force signal and real-time corneal deformation signal, a controller calculates a linear relationship between force and corneal deformation, and determines the IOP of the docked eye by comparing a slope of the linear relationship against a pre-established slope vs. IOP calibration curve. The IOP of the docked eye can be used when setting laser treatment parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Javier G. Gonzalez, Michael Brett, Phillip Gooding
  • Publication number: 20200260955
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a patient's condition using a patient questionnaire and a virtual assistant comprising: inputting one or more questions into a questions database; setting a threshold for at least one monitored pulse oximetry parameter; measuring at least one of blood oxygen saturation, pulse rate, and respiration rate via a pulse oximeter; displaying via a virtual assistant a questionnaire retrieved from the questions database when the threshold for the at least one monitored pulse oximetry parameter is exceeded; inputting an at least one answer to the one or more questions in the questionnaire; transmitting to a cloud server the acquired pulse oximeter data and the at least one answer to the one or more questions in the questionnaire; and accessing and displaying via the virtual assistant the acquired pulse oximeter data and the at least one answer to the one or more questions in the questionnaire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: John CRONIN, Michael D'ANDREA
  • Publication number: 20200260956
    Abstract: A system for providing open application programming interface (API)-based medical information may not only allow examination subjects to easily measure their blood pressures and check their accurate analysis results, but also health-care services and manufacturers of electronic apparatuses or portable medical devices may easily call an open API without developing a special algorithm and special system for analyzing a measured bio signal and estimating medical information, thereby easily providing processed medical information to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kwang Jin LEE, Dongrae CHO, Jongin KIM
  • Publication number: 20200260957
    Abstract: The human body sensing device includes a contact sensing unit that includes a sensing electrode and a signal electrode, an activation module that senses a contact with a body through the sensing electrode when the sensing electrode and the signal electrode contact the body and outputs a wake-up signal in response to the sensing of the contact, and a human body communication unit that provides a ground voltage to the signal electrode and outputs a data signal to the signal electrode when the wake-up signal from the activation module is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Eun KIM, Kwang IL OH, Tae Wook KANG, Hyuk KIM, Mi Jeong PARK, Hyung-IL PARK, Kyung Jin BYUN, Jae-Jin LEE, In Gi LIM
  • Publication number: 20200260958
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes: a static magnetic field generating magnet configured to generate a static magnetic field in a space where a subject is arranged; a transmission unit configured to transmit a high frequency magnetic field to the subject; a reception unit configured to receive a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated in the subject due to transmission of the high-frequency magnetic field thereto; a gradient magnetic field application unit configured to apply a gradient magnetic field which adds positional information to the nuclear magnetic resonance signal; a computer configured to control the transmission unit, the reception unit, and the gradient magnetic field application unit, and configured to process the nuclear magnetic resonance signal; and a display unit configured to display an image processed by the computer; and the computer performs a predetermined calculation processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Toru SHIRAI, Ryota SATOH, Hisaaki OCHI, Takenori MURASE, Yoshitaka BITO
  • Publication number: 20200260959
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a spectroscope that can improve resolution and reduce loss of light intensity and/or distortion of a wave front while enabling detection of the optical spectrum for each of a plurality of polarization components in incident light. The spectroscope is a spectroscope that comprises a first diffraction grating 51 to which at least a transmitted light or a reflected light from an object to be measured enters, which diffracts a first polarization component of the incident light and which transmits a second polarization component that is different from the first polarization component of the incident light without diffraction, and a first light-receiving element 55 that receives a spectrum of the light diffracted by the first diffraction grating 51.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Seichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20200260960
    Abstract: A system and method for generating at least one optimized functional images of a lesion region of a subject is provided. The system includes a diffuse optical tomography (DOT) device, and a computing device. The DOT device is configured to acquire lesion functional data of an imaging volume including the lesion region of the breast and reference functional data from a corresponding imaging volume including healthy tissue within a contralateral breast. The computing device is programmed to generate at least one functional image of the breast by reconstructing the functional data at the plurality of regions including the lesion region and the surrounding adjacent background region. The functional images may be reconstructed by an optimization method regularized a preliminary estimate generated by applying a truncated pseudoinverse matrix of a weight matrix to the functional data. The optimized functional images relate to levels of hemoglobin at the voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Quing Zhu, Mark Anastasio, Shihab Uddin
  • Publication number: 20200260961
    Abstract: An insert according to the invention includes a needle tube that has an inclined surface having a leading end opening, a needle base that has a chamber communicating with an inside of the needle tube and holds the needle tube, and a light introduction portion that communicates with the chamber and has an insertion path into which a light guide member is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Kaku IRISAWA
  • Publication number: 20200260962
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring cardiopulmonary data of a wearer, comprising: a sensor operable to produce a data stream indicative of movements of a wearer's body; a positioning device holding said sensor proximate an anatomical landmark on said wearer's body for conduction of mechanical vibrations from said wearer's body to said sensor; and a processor configured to receive said data stream and produce a rate signal indicative of cardiac or respiratory rate data of said wearer using an algorithm comprising peak detection;
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Anthony MOUCHANTAF, Miles James MONTGOMERY, Alexander Ibrahim MOSA, Firas Kamal EDDINE, Aniruddha BORAH, Wenzhong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200260963
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of assessing a narrowing in a fluid filled tube having a fluid flow pressure wave having a backward-originating pressure component and a forward-originating pressure component without taking a flow velocity measurement, comprising: taking pressure measurements in the tube; separating the pressure components into the backward-originating pressure component and the forward-originating pressure component; identifying a time window when the differential of flow velocity (dU) is minimal or absent; and deriving the backward and forward pressure components for pressure measurements taken in at least the time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Helen DAVIES, Justin DAVIES
  • Publication number: 20200260964
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for assessing the vasculature of a subject. In certain aspects, systems and methods of the invention involve receiving functional flow data of a subject via a data collector co-located with a radiopaque label, receiving imaging data of the vasculature including the radiopaque label, generating a vasculature map corresponding to the functional flow data, and displaying the vasculature map image on a monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Donna COLLINS, Mary Lynne GADDIS, Nathaniel J. KEMP, Bernhard STURM
  • Publication number: 20200260965
    Abstract: A system (1) for estimating the stroke volume and/or the cardiac output of a patient, comprises a processor device (12) constituted to receive a bio-impedance measurement signal (VC) relating to a bio-impedance measurement on the thorax (2) of a patient (2), process the bio-impedance measurement signal (VC) to extract a group of characteristic features from the bio-impedance measurement signal (DVC) and/or its derivative (DVC), and determine, using the group of extracted characteristic features, an output value indicative of the stroke volume and/or the cardiac output using at least one non-linear model (110, 111). The processor device (12) furthermore is constituted to process the bio-impedance measurement signal (VC) to compute at least one time-frequency distribution (TFD) based on the bio-impedance measurement signal (VC) and/or its derivative and to determine at least one characteristic feature of said group of characteristic features based on the at least one time-frequency distribution (TFD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jesus Escriva Munoz, Erik Weber Jensen
  • Publication number: 20200260966
    Abstract: A modular wearable health sensor having a substantially flexible attachment means connected to a housing comprising a power source and at least one processor through a relatively rigid and narrow spine disposed substantially centrally thereon having a variety of clinical and non-clinical uses that provides more comfortable and durable attachment of biometric sensors to a user by allowing the attachment means to contour to the user's body without the housing also being forced to do so along its entire width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen A McCalmont, Stuart P. MacEachern
  • Publication number: 20200260967
    Abstract: In a sensor system (12), output signals of at least one PPG sensor (14) are processed to derive a modified pulse amplitude variation (PAV) value, being modified to take account of a baseline variation of the PPG sensor output signal. In particular, the modified PAV is derived through performing a modification step (42) in which either: a baseline variation of the PPG sensor output is derived and combined with a previously derived PAV, or, a PPG sensor output is first processed to perform baseline variation compensation, in advance of then deriving a PAV from the compensated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Shaoxiong SUN, Wouter Herman PEETERS, Rick BEZEMER, Xi LONG, Ronaldus Maria AARTS
  • Publication number: 20200260968
    Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus with a cuff comprises a cuff, an inflation unit, a deflation unit, a pressure sensor, a signal record and storage unit, and an operation and analysis unit. The operation and analysis unit is used to control the inflation unit and the deflation unit to increase the pressure within the cuff to a first pressure, maintain the pressure at the first pressure for a specified interval, then increase the pressure to a second pressure, and decrease the pressure. The blood pressure measurement is accordingly finished. The operation and analysis unit calculates an arteriosclerosis index based on a pulse waveform signal when the adjustable pressure unit maintains the pressure at the first pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Chia-Ming LIN
  • Publication number: 20200260969
    Abstract: A technique for predicting fluid responsiveness in a critically ill patient comprises measuring physiological data of the patient, then generating an estimate of pulse pressure variability from a Fourier transform of the physiological waveform. Both invasive and non-invasive physiological data measurements may be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Sebastian Acosta, Mubbasheer Ahmed, Suellen Yin, Kenneth M. Brady, Daniel J. Penny, Craig Rusin
  • Publication number: 20200260970
    Abstract: A system may intermittently illuminate a region, detect light from the intermittently illuminated region to form a detected signal, and process the detected signal with a demodulator. The demodulator may include a capacitor having an input to receive the detected signal, a resistor having an input connected to an output of the capacitor at a connection point, and a switch that connects the connection point to ground during times when the region is not illuminated. An output of the resistor may produce an output signal that is a high-pass filtered version of the detected signal during times when the region is illuminated, and a time-invariant ground signal during times when the region is not illuminated. Such a demodulator may reduce the effects of low-frequency noise sources, such as background light, op-amp offsets related to input bias, photodiode 1/f noise and dark current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew D. Pickett, Jason M. Seitz
  • Publication number: 20200260971
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a wearable device may have an optical sensor. The optical sensor may have a light source such as one or more visible-light light-emitting diodes or other light-emitting devices and may have a light detector formed from one or more photodetectors. The wearable device may have a wearable housing in which the optical sensor is mounted. During operation, light from the light source may pass through a transparent portion of the housing, may reflect from an external object such as a wrist or other body part of a user, and may be received by the photodetectors after passing through light control members. The light control members may be arranged in a ring with a center and may have curved shapes with concave surfaces that face the center. Each light control member may be formed from a stack of laminated bent light control films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell
  • Publication number: 20200260972
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device is disclosed, including: a housing having a front plate disposed facing in a first direction, a rear plate disposed facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, at least a part of the rear plate substantially transparent, and a side member defining a space between the front plate and the rear plate, a substrate disposed within the space, a biometric sensor module disposed between the substrate and the rear plate including at least one light source configured to emit light to an exterior of the wearable electronic device and at least one light detector configured to receive reflected light corresponding to the emitted light reflected from the exterior, and at least one magnetic substance disposed between the light source and the light detector to limit an amount of light reaching the biometric sensor module other than the reflected emitted light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Seonho HAN, Taegyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20200260973
    Abstract: A watch or other type of portable electronic console that employs a number of different functions in order to improve its usability. The watch may, for example, allow a user to connect the watch to one or more remote electronic devices, such as an electronic performance sensor or MP3 player. The watch then displays information related to the connected electronic devices. Still further, the watch may allow a user to control the operation of one or more connected remote electronic devices. Thus, if the watch is connected to a remote speed/distance monitor employing a calibration variable, then the watch may allow the user to adjust the calibration variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Prstojevich, Christopher A. Robinette, Theodore H. Helprin, Charles W. Case, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200260974
    Abstract: A heartbeat measurement device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a transmission signal from a transmission antenna to a person to be measured, a receiver configured to receive a signal reflected from the person to be measured as a reception signal using a reception antenna, and an orthogonal detection circuit configured to generate an I signal that is an in-phase component of the transmission signal and the reception signal and a Q signal that is a quadrature component of the transmission signal and the reception signal. The heartbeat measurement device further includes a Fourier transform unit configured to calculate a spectrum in positive and negative frequency domains on the basis of the I signal and the Q signal and a signal processing unit configured to compare positive and negative frequency components in the spectrum to extract a heartbeat component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Koichi TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200260975
    Abstract: Devices and techniques for continuously monitoring pressure and simultaneously monitoring changes in blood flow, vascular resistance, and/or vascular behavior are provided. The techniques are employed in measuring intracranial pressure (ICP), while simultaneously measuring cerebral blood flow and/or cerebrovascular resistance or behavior. A sensor device includes an optical and piezoelectric sensing assembly integrated into a deployable ICP monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin R. Ward, Kenn Oldham, Lu Wang, Sardar Ansari
  • Publication number: 20200260976
    Abstract: An estimating method according to an embodiment is an estimating method for estimating a region of nerve activity, the estimation method including estimating which nerve bundle has conducted an electric current in a subject, based on information representing a three-dimensional structure of nerve bundles and information representing a distribution of a magnetic field near a surface of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki SASAKI, Hitoshi Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20200260977
    Abstract: Provided is a cognitive impairment diagnosis method including: receiving an electroencephalogram signal of a user by a cognitive impairment diagnosis device; preprocessing the electroencephalogram signal by the cognitive impairment diagnosis device; extracting features, by the cognitive impairment diagnosis device, from the electroencephalogram signal by using a brain connectivity-based analysis method; and outputting cognitive impairment diagnosis information of the user by the cognitive impairment diagnosis device, on the basis of features having a causal relationship with the cognitive impairment diagnosis information, among the extracted features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: IMEDISYNC, INC.
    Inventors: Seung Wan KANG, Young Chul YOUN
  • Publication number: 20200260978
    Abstract: Systems and methods can be used to provide an indication of heart function, such as an indication of mechanical function or hemodynamics of the heart, based on electrical data. For example, a method for assessing a function of the heart can include determining a time-based electrical characteristic for a plurality of points distributed across a spatial region of the heart. The plurality of points can be grouped into at least two subsets of points based on at least one of a spatial location for the plurality of points or the time-based electrical characteristics for the plurality of points. An indication of synchrony for the heart can be quantified based on relative analysis of the determined time-based electrical characteristic for each of the at least two subsets of points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: CHARULATHA RAMANATHAN, HAROLD WODLINGER, MARIA STROM, STEVEN G. ARLESS, PING JIA
  • Publication number: 20200260979
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence self-learning-based static electrocardiography analysis method and apparatus, the method comprising data preprocessing, heartbeat detection, heartbeat classification based on a depth learning method, heartbeat verification, heartbeat waveform feature detection, measurement and analysis of electrocardiography events, and finally automatic output of reporting data, realizing an automated static electrocardiograph analysis method having a complete and rapid flow. The static electrocardiography analysis method can also record modification information of an automatic analysis result, collect modified data, and feed same back to the depth learning model to continue training, thereby continuously making improvements and improving the accuracy of the automatic analysis method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jun Cao, Kaifeng Zang, Youchao LV, Pengfei Zhao, Erbin Wang, Chang Liu