Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electrical sensing, pacing, and ablation device comprising a bendable and stretchable balloon catheter and a bendable and stretchable first layer connected to or embedded in said balloon catheter, where the first layer has an electrode array with a plurality of electrodes. The is also a bendable and stretchable second layer connected to or embedded in the balloon catheter, and the second layer has a pressure sensor array with a plurality of pressure sensors.

Abstract: A system and method for vestibular and/or balance rehabilitation by monitoring and measuring head motion data of a user having vestibular impairment. The system as includes a user device, a head tracking device, and a remote server device. The user device receives therapeutical configuration data prescribed by a therapist using the remote server device. A visual and auditory and/or haptic stimuli is generated in the user interface according to the received therapeutic configuration data during a training session or initial assessment session. Head motion data from the head tracking device during the training session is received along with user inputted data pertaining to symptoms of the user. The remote server device receives and processes the head motion and positional data, the user inputted symptoms data and communicates a set of updated therapeutic configuration data to the user device based on the processed data for use in a next training session.

Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure relates to a smart pseudo-palate for use in a Smart Electropalatograph (EPG) for Linguistic and Medical Applications (SELMA) system. In one aspect, the pseudo-palate is constructed from a thin, flexible polymer membrane and having an embedded electrode array. The pseudo-palate is configured to detect tongue contacts during speech while causing minimal disturbance or interference with speech motion. The disclosed pseudo-palate in the SELMA system is integrated with a microcontroller, wireless electronic module, and external readout app. The disclosure, in another aspect, relates to integration of the pseudo-palate with a smart sports/health mouth guard containing a series of sensors for monitoring head impacts, body temperature, and heart rate.

Abstract: The present invention is a rehabilitation system for performing rehabilitation of higher brain dysfunction, and includes: an image processing apparatus that executes an app for presenting a patient a problem for rehab based on an image using virtual reality, augmented reality, or mixed reality and stores the patient's problem solution record as rehab record information; a practitioner-side terminal that receives the rehab record information from the image processing apparatus; a server that saves the rehab record information transmitted from the practitioner-side terminal; and a doctor-side terminal that receives the rehab record information from the server and displays the state of rehabilitation performed for the patient on the basis of the rehab record information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides alert implants that comprise a medical device and an implantable reporting processor (IRP), where one example of such a medical device includes a component for a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) such as a tibial extension, a femoral component for hip replacements, a breast implant, a distal rod for arm or leg breakage repair, a scoliosis rod, a dynamic hip screw, a spinal interbody spacer, and tooling and methods that may be used to form the alert implant, and uses of such alert implants in the health maintenance of patients who receive the implant.

Abstract: Methods and systems for sensing a physiological characteristic of a subject. At least one receiver antenna can be provided in proximity to a portion of the subject's body to obtain at least one receiver signal resulting from at least one transmitter signal that has propagated to the receiver antenna and has been reflected, diffracted, scattered, or transmitted by or through the portion of the subject's body. One or more coherent signal pairs can be formed. Then, amplitude and phase information of a plurality of frequency components for each signal pair can be determined. A set of comparison values can be determined for each signal pair by comparing respective frequency component phases and respective frequency component amplitudes of the signals. Physiological characteristics of the subject can then be determined from these comparison values.

Abstract: A heart monitoring system includes at least two sensors embedded in a seat, such as a driver's seat in a vehicle. One of the sensors obtains a phonocardiogram (PCG) of the driver's heart in addition to noise. Another sensor is a reference sensor that obtains a noise signal, but does not include the PCG signal. Processing circuitry receives the heart signal with the noise and the reference noise signal, and performs adaptive filtering to remove the noise from the heart signal. Further analysis detects a heart rate or other heart measurements in the heart signal, and may output an alert if a heart condition is detected.

Abstract: A servomechanism and method of operating same are provider. The servomechanism may be used in walking vehicles or construction vehicles. An operator provides a force to an input joint which controls a powered joint of the vehicle. Force is detected in a feedback system between the powered joint and input joint to control the power to an actuator driving the powered joint.

Abstract: A battery monitoring apparatus includes a battery ECU, satellite devices each of which measures the voltage at a battery cell in response to a command signal from the battery ECU, and a wireless module which achieves a wireless communication between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices after a wireless connection between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices is completed. when receiving a start signal outputted before a start switch for a drive power source of the vehicle is turned on, the wireless module is activated to start the wireless connection between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices. This establishes and completes the wireless connections faster than when the wireless module is activated simultaneously with turning on of the start switch for the drive power source. This achieves quick monitoring of the state of the battery cells.

Abstract: The invention provides a multi-dimensional broad-spectrum clinical in-situ testing equipment designed to evaluate the material properties of plantar soft tissue. The equipment comprises the following features: 1. A testing table with a designated area corresponding to the sole of the foot; 2. A vertical reciprocating stress-strain testing unit mounted on the testing table, for applying vertical tensile and compressive stresses to the plantar and measuring the stress-strain responses; 3. A shear stress-strain testing unit, mounted on the testing table, for applying shear stresses to the plantar and measuring the stress-strain responses; 4. A torque stress-strain detection unit, positioned on the testing stage, for applying torque to the plantar and measuring the stress-strain responses; 5. A lifting mechanism that facilitates the vertical movement of the three testing units.

Abstract: A patient monitor for displaying a physiological signal can include a visual element having a middle portion indicative of a transition in the physiological signal between physiological states. The visual element can also include first and second extremity portions, the first extremity portion extending from the middle portion in a first direction and the second extremity portion extending from the middle portion in a second direction. The visual element can also include an actionable value indicator to specify a value about the middle portion and the first and second extremity portions. The patient monitor can also include a processor configured to cause the value indicator to actuate in both the first and second directions according to changes in the physiological signal.

Abstract: The controller of a wearable device is used to determine swim characteristics of a swimmer. The controller is connected to at least one motion sensor selected from a group including a multi-axis gyroscope and a multi-axis accelerometer. The controller is adapted to detect input signals from the at least one motion sensor. The controller is further configured to perform dynamic stroke segmentations based on at least one of the input signals using a stroke segmentation module, extract feature vectors, using feature extraction module, from the at least one input signal based on the stroke segmentations, and determine the swim characteristics by using the feature vectors through a classifier module. The controller dynamically adapts to a style of the swimmer to detect the swim characteristics.

Abstract: A bed pan assembly with excretion analyzation beneficially configured to collect, read, sample, analyze, and/or notify one or more desired users of one or more targeted properties of a stool or urine sample and comprising a portable bed pan housing with a bottom wall, a sidewall, an excretion storage cavity, and at least one analyzing sensor operably configured to detect at least one of a targeted stool or urine property from a stool or urine specimen received within the excretion storage cavity, communicatively couplable to a remote electronic communication device over a wireless network, and operably configured to communicate an electronic notification of the at least one of the targeted stool or urine property to the remote electronic communication device over the wireless network. The analyzing sensors may be specifically, operably configured to detect excreta occult blood, urine flowrate, oxyhemoglobin, deoxyhemoglobin, melanin, weight, or movement as the targeted properties.

Abstract: A multi-joint type surgical device includes a driving part configured to control a pitch rotation of an end tool. The driving part includes a driving part pitch relay pulley formed such that at least a portion of a wire is wound therearound and a driving part pitch satellite pulley that changes a position thereof relative to the driving part pitch relay pulley by moving relative to the driving part pitch relay pulley while being spaced a certain distance from the driving part pitch relay pulley, and is formed such that at least a portion of the wire is wound therearound, and when the driving part pitch satellite pulley is moved relative to the driving part pitch relay pulley, the pitch rotation of the end tool is controlled as an overall length of the wire in the driving part is changed.

Abstract: A tibial spacer paddle comprises a spacer block comprising opposing bearing surfaces, an alignment slot extending into the spacer block; and a handle extending from the spacer block. The spacer block can include feet for passively engaging the femur or pegs for actively engaging a femoral component so that the spacer block is linked to the femur while the tibia rotates. A tibial spacer system comprises a provisional component having an alignment tab extending from a body and an alignment indicator located on the body, a femoral component and a pin extending from the femoral component. The pin can engage the alignment tab so that the provisional component is linked to the femur while the tibia rotates. In addition to or alternatively to the alignment tab and pin, the provisional component can include a tibial plate that can be rotationally connected to the provisional component.

Abstract: A method of reducing the likelihood of shivering comprises monitoring at least one physiological characteristic in a human or animal subject to detect preshivering and acting to reduce the likelihood of shivering when preshivering is detected.

Abstract: At least partial function of a human limb is restored by surgically removing at least a portion of an injured or diseased human limb from a surgical site of an individual and transplanting a selected muscle into the remaining biological body of the individual, followed by contacting the transplanted selected muscle, or an associated nerve, with an electrode, to thereby control a device, such as a prosthetic limb, linked to the electrode. Simulating proprioceptive sensory feedback from a device includes mechanically linking at least one pair of agonist and antagonist muscles, wherein a nerve innervates each muscle, and supporting each pair with a support, whereby contraction of the agonist muscle of each pair will cause extension of the paired antagonist muscle. An electrode is implanted in a muscle of each pair and electrically connected to a motor controller of the device, thereby simulating proprioceptive sensory feedback from the device.

Abstract: The present teaching relates to automated trocar/robot base location determination. An input related to a surgical operation includes a three-dimensional (3D) model for an organ with cut points on the organ forming a surgical trajectory. A surgical instrument is controlled by a robot to reach the cut points to carry out the operation. An insertion location for inserting the surgical instrument is identified. Based on the identified insertion location, a robot base location is determined with respect to the identified insertion location to deploy the robot for controlling the surgical instrument to reach the cut points. Signals for configuring the surgical setting are then generated based on the insertion location for the surgical instrument and the base location for the robot.

Abstract: A mattress system can include a foam layer positioned proximate a mattress top and having a head end, a foot end, and opposite lateral ends, a mattress core positioned under the foam layer, and a sensor strip. The sensor strip can include a carrier strip and a plurality of sensors attached to the carrier strip and spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the carrier strip. The carrier strip can be configured to be releasably attached to the foam layer. The carrier strip can also extend between the opposite lateral ends of the foam layer.

Abstract: The learning system includes a data generation unit configured to generate learning data based on rehabilitation data and a learning unit configured to perform machine learning using the learning data. A sensor is provided to detect a plurality of motion amounts in a walking motion of a trainee, and it is evaluated that, when one of the motion amounts matches one of abnormal walking criteria, that the walking motion is an abnormal walking pattern that meets the matched abnormal walking criterion. The data generation unit generates each of the pieces of rehabilitation data before and after a change in the results of evaluation of the abnormal walking pattern as learning data. The learning unit sequentially inputs each of the pieces of rehabilitation data as one data set, thereby performing machine learning.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor operably connected to a radar transceiver. The processor is configured to transmit, via the radar transceiver, radar signals to detect an object. The processor is also configured to detect the object using a single radar frame or multiple radar frames from the radar signals. The processor is further configured to determine whether to use the single radar frame or the multiple radar frames based on motion of the object for angle identification between the object and the electronic device. Additionally, the processor is configured to identify the angle using the single radar frame based on a determination to use the single radar frame or the multiple radar frames based on a determination to use the multiple radar frames. The processor is also configured to modify radio frequency exposure levels based on the angle of the object relative to the electronic device.

Abstract: A mind-controlled switch is described, which comprises input circuitry for receiving mind state data from a first external device, an actuator, responsive to user actuation to set one or more threshold mind state values, and control circuitry for controlling a second external device in dependence on the mind state data and the mind state value(s). Notably, the mind-controlled switch is provided separately both from a first external device (which actually collects the mind state data from the user) and the second external device, which is the device being controlled by the switch. Accordingly, the second external device need not have its own mind-controllable functionality, but can instead be a conventional device which is imbued with this functionality by way of the separate mind-controlled switch.

Abstract: An acoustic feature extraction (AFE) circuit includes a plurality of band-pass filters (BPFs) adaptable to a plurality of channels with different band-pass frequency ranges respectively for switchably receiving an amplified signal, thereby generating corresponding filtered signals, the plurality of BPFs including an operational amplifier that is shared among the plurality of channels; and a rectifier switchably coupled to receive the filtered signals, thereby generating a rectified signal. The amplified signal is time-division demultiplexed onto the BPFs in different phases, and the filtered signals are time-division multiplexed onto the rectifier in different phases.

Abstract: A squatting bionic device of a human lower-limb joint is provided. In the squatting bionic device, a vertical support plate is provided on the device with a sliding table, which is driven by a first motor to slide up and down in a height direction of the vertical support plate or to be fixed on the vertical support plate. A horizontal fixed shaft is fixed on the sliding table. The middle of the fixed shaft is connected with a femoral shaft through a first universal joint. A lower end of the femoral shaft is fixedly connected with a lower femur simulation block. A wire rope is wound around a rotation shaft of a second motor fixed on a base. One end of the wire rope is fixed on the rotation shaft of the second motor, and the other end thereof extends upwards.

Abstract: An exemplary method and system is disclosed that facilitates the monitoring of worker's productivity and safety, for example, at a construction site and other like labor-intensive occupation and settings. The exemplary method and system provides wearable-based motion sensing and/or proximity sensing between worker and construction equipment. A study discussed herein suggests that sensing at two or more torso locations can provide 95% accuracy in classifying worker's action or motion at a construction site. In some embodiments, as discussed herein, the acquired sensed data are transmitted, over a mesh network, e.g., established between the wearable devices, to a cloud infrastructure to facilitate the real-time monitoring of action and actions that such sites.

Abstract: Medical devices coupled to a sensor, and systems including such devices, can generate data and analysis based on that data, which may be used to identify and/or address problems associated with the implanted medical device, including incorrect placement of the device, unanticipated degradation of the device, and undesired movement of the device. Also provided are medical devices coupled to a sensor, and devices and methods to address problems that have been identified with an implanted medical device.

Abstract: A method and a device for generating a control signal for a controllable device are provided. The controllable device has an optical position detection system. At least two images of at least one spatial region are generated with at least one optical detection device of the optical position detection system. Markers are identified in the images and the control signal is generated when a relative position between at least two markers changes. In addition, a marker array and a controllable system are provided.

Abstract: A magnetizer system for use with a medical device including ferrous elements. The magnetizer can include a magnetizer body defining a cavity, the magnetizer body having a body opening in communication with the cavity, the magnetizer body including one or more magnets configured to generate a magnetic field configured to imprint a magnetic signature on ferrous elements within the cavity. The magnetizer can include one or more mechanisms configured to detect the presence of the medical device.

Abstract: A system for processing biological data is provided and includes a monitoring device configured to receive biological data responsive to a living being. The system also includes an interface device communicated with the monitoring device to receive the biological data. Furthermore, the system includes a data transfer device, configured to receive the biological data from the interface device and communicate the biological data to a processing device for processing. Additionally, a method for processing biological information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving biological information from a monitoring device responsive to a first party and responsive to an exercise regime and processing the biological information to generate resultant information responsive to at least one physical characteristic of the first party.

Abstract: A system for reporting one or more events of interest in a structure, including an apparatus configured to be securely adhered to a surface of the structure, the apparatus having a flexible portion which conforms to a shape of the surface of the structure. The flexible portion containing a sensor to measure mechanical strain in the surface of the structure, and conductive traces to connect the sensor to electronics. The electronics to capture and buffer a signal output by the sensor, and a computational element to analyze the captured signal into a polynomial representing an event of interest. The system further including a wireless communication element to transmit the event of interest.

Abstract: A method for dynamically acquiring maximal oxygen consumption includes acquiring user's age, gender, weight, resting heart rate and maximum heart rate; detecting basic heart rate data comprising a plurality of exercise heart rates and basic speed data comprising a plurality of exercise speeds; calculating a characteristic heart rate and a characteristic speed based on the basic heart rate data and the basic speed data; and calculating the user's maximal oxygen consumption according to the user's age, gender, weight, resting heart rate and maximum heart rate, the characteristic heart rate and the characteristic speed. The maximal oxygen consumption for each exercise can be dynamically calculated and the result is accurate.

Abstract: A wireless device, network node and network management node are disclosed. The wireless device, network node and management node may cooperate to facilitate monitoring of the wireless device and detection of an incident involving a user of the wireless device. The wireless device is operable to connect to a network and comprises processing circuitry configured to cause the wireless device to enter an enhanced monitoring mode, receive, from a network node, configuration information specifying a measuring configuration for measuring signal strength, and measure signal strength in accordance with the received configuration information.

Abstract: A method, comprising receiving a time series of patient body signal, determining first and second sliding time windows for the time series; applying an autoregression algorithm, comprising: applying an autoregression analysis to each of the first and second windows, yielding autoregression coefficients and a residual variance for each window; estimating a parameter vector for each window based on the autoregression coefficients and residual variances; and determining a difference between the parameter vectors; and determining seizure onset and seizure termination based on the difference between the parameter vectors. A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computer system for human gait analysis are described. A video stream of an individual walking includes a plurality of frames reflecting the walk of the individual. A skeletal motion of the individual is extracted, by inferring, from the obtained video stream, three-dimensional gait information. The three-dimensional gait information includes estimates of the individual's joint locations including at least the individual's foot locations on each frame, wherein the estimates are derived by matching for each frame two-dimensional coordinates of the respective frame with respective three-dimensional model information of the individual's body. One or more gait parameters of the individual may be determined, based on the individual's foot locations in local extrema frames showing local extrema of the distance between one foot location of the individual and a corresponding reference joint location.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for detecting motion-induced errors received from inertial-type input devices and for generating accurate vehicle control commands that account for operator movement. These methods and systems may determine, using motion data from inertial sensors, whether the hand/arm of the operator is moving in the same motion as the body of the operator, and if both are moving in the same way, these systems and methods may determine that the motion is not intended to be a motion-induced command. However, if the hand/arm of the operator is moving in a different motion from the body of the operator, these methods and systems may determine that the operator intended the motion to be a motion-induced command to a vehicle.

Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes a shoe having a sole with at least a portion of foam replaced with a composite polymeric foam, at least one probe disposed in the composite polymeric foam, a voltage detector coupled to the probe that detects voltage data generated by the composite polymeric foam, and a transformation module that converts voltage data generated by the composite polymeric foam in response to deformation events into GRF, acceleration, or pressure data. In another example, a method includes receiving voltage data produced by composite polymeric foam, the composite polymeric foam providing support and padding in the sole of a shoe, converting the voltage data to force data, comparing the force data to a profile, and transmitting, when the force data fails to fall within a threshold of the profile, a feedback signal to a physical feedback device, the feedback signal indicating a difference with the profile.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of facilitating physiological property forecasting for detecting disease complications is disclosed. The method involves receiving signals representing sensed physiological property indicators, each of the sensed physiological property indicators representing a sensed physiological property of a patient at a respective time and receiving signals representing one or more contextual indicators associated with the sensed physiological property indicators.

Abstract: A method for physical exercise using a motion tracking system having a computing device and inertial measurement units adapted to be arranged on body members of a person. The method includes: digitally processing first sets of measurements provided by the units to determine whether and adjust the operation of the motion tracking system when: any of the units is arranged on a body member with an orientation outside of a predetermined orientation range for a unit on that body member; and/or two or more units arranged on interchanged body members according to the predetermined unit arrangement; adjusting the operation of the motion tracking system when the computing device determines, based on at least the first sets of measurements, that: at least one unit has an orientation outside of the predetermined orientation range, and/or two or more units are arranged on interchanged body members; and digitally processing second sets of measurements.

Abstract: A circadian rhythm shifting method to improve future therapy effectiveness including receiving a future therapy indication, identifying a circadian cycle period that performance of the therapy is preferred, receiving a user normal circadian rhythm indication, defining a user circadian performance time range, identifying a circadian shift to change the user circadian performance time range, defining a user circadian shift protocol to cause the identified circadian shift, and providing an indication to perform an activity of the user circadian shift protocol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for remotely tuning treatment parameters in movement disorder therapy systems where the subject and clinician are located remotely from each other. The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette syndrome, stroke, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of remotely tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be transmitted and provided to the subject via his or her therapy device. The present invention also provides treatment and tuning remotely, allowing for home monitoring of subjects.

Abstract: This habit improving device is provided with: a first calculation unit which, for every first period, acquires an activity amount of the user totaled for each first period, and which calculates a distribution pattern that indicates the change over time in the activity amount during a second period, which includes a first period; a sorting unit which classifies multiple of the distribution patterns into one or more groups; a second calculation unit which, on the basis of attribute information relating to the user's attributes, and external factor information relating to external factors, which are factors affecting the user by matters outside of the user, calculates, and associates with the groups, a target pattern as a target for the user; and a presenting unit which presents advice information to the user on the basis of the current distribution pattern and the target pattern.

Abstract: An eye sensor, system and method for measuring fixational eye movements of an individual's eyeball (e.g., ocular microtremors and microsaccades) to provide a variable voltage biosignal for measuring the individual's brain stem activity. The eye sensor comprises a sensor mounted on the individual's closed or opened eyelid so as to be deflected by the fixational eye movements of the eyeball. A shielded flexible ribbon assembly supplies the biosignal generated by the sensor to an amplifier located on the individual's skin where the biosignal is amplified. The amplifier is interconnected with a signal processor and a display by which graphical and numerical representations of the biosignal are made accessible to an anesthesiologist, intensivist or clinician. A method for analyzing the biosignal to determine the brainstem activity of a patient.

Abstract: A technique for generating and presenting context-aware recommendations to assist a patient in managing a chronic health condition. A health management platform provides various services that are accessible to a patient via a graphical user interface (GUI). Input data are received from various services and processed to generate contextual data associated with the patient such as a health state of the patient. Using the contextual data, a recommendation to access a particular service is generated and presented to the patient via the GUI. For example, in response to determining a health state of a patient, a recommendation to access a service to improve the health state of the patient can be automatically presented via the GUI to encourage the patient to access the service.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination of sensors, a system and a method for monitoring incontinence and physiological parameters. The system includes a plurality of electrodes on an absorbent article including an absorbent core to be worn by a wearer being monitored, a device for electrical connection with the electrodes and for monitoring one or more electrical properties of the electrodes indicative of the occurrence of an incontinence event, an oxygen saturation sensor for monitoring the oxygen saturation of the blood of the wearer, and wherein the operation of the oxygen saturation sensor is controlled according to the body position of the wearer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for training and implementing a sensorimotor control framework in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for operating a sensorimotor control framework. The method includes steps for determining a current state of a musculoskeletal model, determining a desired state of the musculoskeletal model, computing a set of muscle activations, based on a difference between the current and desired states, and driving a musculoskeletal model based on the computed muscle activations.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) that transmits sensor data to another UE may also send information about the associated sensor and its performance. For example, the UE may determine a set of rules that apply to a sensor. The set of rules may define an association between a group of performance values and a group of performance levels corresponding to one or more metrics of the sensor. The UE may identify a performance value from the group of performance values for the sensor based on a performance level of the sensor and the set of rules. After determining the performance value, the UE may transmit an indication of the set of in a first data frame of a message and an indication of the performance value in a second data frame of the message.

Abstract: An improved orthopaedic external fixation system with removable rails or skates and may include: at least a distal foot fixation element; at least a pair of rails or skates removably connected to the foot fixation element; at least a load sensor associated to at least one of the rails or skates; an electronic apparatus coupled to the load sensor and receiving an electric signal from the load sensor; an electronic controller coupled to the apparatus and issuing at least a flag signal upon detection of a threshold pressure force on said at least one of said rails or skates. This electronic controller may be mounted on the orthopaedic system or may be a structurally independent host device including a controller that is in signal communication with the load sensors.

Abstract: To more effectively improve mobility impairment of a user by supporting rehabilitation, this invention provides a rehabilitation support apparatus for supporting rehabilitation of a user with mobility impairment, including a requester that requests a target action in a three-dimensional virtual space, and a feedback unit that performs feedback that stimulates at least two of five senses to the user who has performed the target action almost at the same time as a timing of performing the target action.

Abstract: A method for collecting plasma includes determining the weight, height, and hematocrit of a donor, and calculating a donor plasma volume and a target plasma collection volume. The target plasma collection volume is based on the donor plasma volume and a target percentage of plasma. The method then withdraws blood from the donor through a line connected to a blood component separation device, and introduces anticoagulant into the withdrawn blood. The blood component separation device separates the blood into a plasma component and a second blood component, and the plasma component is collected from the blood component separation device and into a plasma collection container. The method may then calculate the volume of pure plasma collected within the plasma collection container, and continue processing/collecting until the calculated volume of pure plasma equals the target plasma collection volume.

Abstract: A specialized audio/instrument cable with built-in digital signal processing capabilities that adds digital audio sampling capabilities that allows the user to trigger synthesized sounds or virtual musical instruments from within the cable itself to affect the sound generated from an instrument or microphone such that the cable is the only connection needed between the instrument or microphone and an output device. Using voice recognition, the specialized cable can select an audio effects chain algorithm and/or sampled sound algorithm extrapolated from a musical digital audio fingerprint (MDAF) created from a desired musician's instrument to alter the sound of the input instrument's audio.