Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080228089 | Method and apparatus for cufflessly and non-invasively measuring wrist blood pressure in association with communication device - A method of cufflessly and non-invasively measuring blood pressure in a wrist region of a patient in association with a communication device that relays the information being measured includes: detecting a magnitude difference between a plurality of pulse wave signals detected from a wrist of a user; detecting feature points from an electrocardiogram (ECG) and pulse wave signals detected from the user; extracting variables needed to calculate the highest blood pressure and the lowest blood pressure using the detected feature points; and calculating the highest blood pressure and the lowest blood pressure of the user by deducing a scatter diagram using the extracted variables. | 09-18-2008 |
20090024041 | Apparatus for measuring bio-information - Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring bio-information of a user. The apparatus includes an input device for receiving basic bio-information of the user, a first light source radiating a first light having a first wavelength on the surface of the skin, a second light source radiating a second light having a second wavelength on the surface of the skin, a third light source arranged so as to be placed in a more distant position from a photo detector than the first and the second light sources, said third light source radiating a third light having a third wavelength on the surface of the skin, the photo detector for detecting a first, second and third detection lights transmitted through the surface of the skin and converting said first, second and third detection light into electrical signals, said first, second and third detection light corresponding to said first, second and third wavelengths and a control unit for enabling the first, second and third light sources to be driven in a known order and for producing bio-information of the user on the basis of the inputted basic bio-information and intensities of the first, second and third detection lights. | 01-22-2009 |
20090062661 | SENSOR FOR MEASURING LIVING BODY INFORMATION AND EARPHONE HAVING THE SAME - A sensor for measuring living body information includes a light guide member for guiding a first light; a light extracting member, disposed adjacent to the light guide member, for outputting the first light guided by the light guide member to an exterior of the light guide member through contact with the light guide member; and a light coupling member, disposed adjacent to the light guide member, for coupling a second light to the light guide member through contact with the light guide member. | 03-05-2009 |
20090069641 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING STRESS BASED ON MULTI-MEASURED BIO-SIGNALS - Disclosed is a method and system for analyzing stress and managing stress by using a mobile electronic apparatus and a data management server. The method includes: generating bio-signal pattern information upon periodically receiving a bio-signal from a bio-signal measuring device connected to each of a plurality of unspecified individuals, and forming reference information for stress analysis based on received answers to each of a plurality of questions for checking a stress level; receiving bio-signal pattern information from a bio-signal measuring device connected to a specified user; and determining a stress level corresponding to the bio-signal pattern information of the specified user based on the reference information. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE PROGRAM SERVICE BASED ON VITAL SIGNALS AND CONDITION INFORMATION - A method for providing a healthcare program service in a system for providing a healthcare service over a wireless communication network includes: receiving vital signals for condition, measured by means of corresponding measurement devices, transmitted from multiple users over the wireless communication network, and grouping the received receiving vital signals for condition according to particular condition; registering by a plurality of service providers, corresponding healthcare programs classified by particular diseases, and providing a healthcare program service to the multiple users, receiving a feedback of a use satisfaction for each of the healthcare programs from each user via said wireless communication network, and gathering satisfaction information for each of the healthcare programs, counting the number of uses of each of the healthcare programs, and gathering utilization information for each of the healthcare programs, searching for a corresponding group of users using each of the healthcare programs, adding up the gathered user satisfactions and utilizations, and databasing the results according to preferred healthcare programs of the corresponding user group; upon receipt of vital signals for condition from a particular user, comparing a similarity of the vital signals for condition of the particular user using the databased healthcare programs, and recommending a preferred healthcare program for a corresponding user group having vital signals for condition, which is most similar to the vital signals for the particular user, according to the comparison result. | 03-12-2009 |
20090083203 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING DATABASE TO DEDUCE DISEASE AND PROVIDING U-HEALTH SERVICE - A method for constructing a database to deduce a disease and constructing a Bayesian network for U-Health application, the method including the steps of analyzing U-Health information, which includes a disease, a symptom, and a treatment, and constructing a plurality of U-Health ontologies required for service provision, setting a meta-model defining cause-and-effect relationships between the constructed U-Health ontologies and selecting at least two specific U-Health ontologies from among the plurality of U-Health ontologies, setting the selected U-Health ontologies as nodes, and generating a Bayesian network by applying the meta-model to the set nodes. | 03-26-2009 |
20100130876 | PORTABLE DEVICE FOR MEASURING BLOOD PRESSURE AND METHOD THEREFOR - A portable blood pressure measuring apparatus and a method therefor are provided. In the portable blood pressure measuring apparatus, a blood pressure measurer measures a wrist or finger blood pressure being an arterial pressure at a wrist or a finger, a Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) measurer measures a PWV, a controller controls compensation of the wrist or finger blood pressure using the PWV so that the wrist or finger blood pressure corresponds to a brachial blood pressure, and a display displays the compensated wrist or finger blood pressure. | 05-27-2010 |
20110152699 | BLOOD PRESSURE MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING BLOOD VESSEL ELASTICITY - A blood pressure measuring method which can measure blood vessel elasticity, so that that the blood vessel elasticity can be commonly applied to all subjects, calculating pulse transit time at the time when no pressure is applied, calculating pulse transit time in an area where the pressure is changed by the cuff, and then calculating the elasticity of a blood vessel, using the pulse transit times. | 06-23-2011 |
20140147912 | BIO-SENSOR - A bio-sensor configured with a lower substrate including a plurality of electrode portions, an insulating layer, a spacer layer, and an upper substrate provided on the spacer layer is provided. The bio-sensor includes a first sample injection portion provided between the upper substrate and the lower substrate along a longitudinal direction in which a sample is introduced and a second sample injection portion that is connected with the first sample injection portion in a direction substantially longitudinal direction, and formed larger than a sample inlet of the first sample injection portion. | 05-29-2014 |
20140206969 | BLOOD GLUCOSE METER - A blood glucose meter is provided. The blood glucose meter includes a body of the blood glucose meter, a lancing unit which is provided at one side of the body of the blood glucose meter and includes a lancet to puncture a skin in order to sample blood of a user, a sensor strip unit which is provided at another side of the body of the blood glucose meter which is different than the one side of the body at which the lancing unit is provided, the sensor strip unit being configured to sample the blood of the user, and a measurement unit which measures the blood sampled by the sensor strip unit. The blood glucose meter has the measurement unit which is integrally assembled with the body of the blood glucose meter and includes the lancing unit having the lancet and the sensor strip unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20150087930 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING SLEEPING PATTERN, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING THE METHOD - A method and apparatus for measuring a first bio-signal from a user in an unrestrictive manner are provided. The method includes extracting a second bio-signal including a motion signal and a respiration signal, based on the first bio-signal; determining an apnea measurement reference signal including a respiration measurement signal and a motion measurement signal, based on the second bio-signal; dividing the apnea measurement reference signal by a first time interval to generate a first evaluation signal, and dividing the first evaluation signal by a second time interval, that is smaller than the first time interval, to generate second evaluation signals; calculating standard deviation information based on the second evaluation signals; and determining a sleeping pattern for the second time intervals corresponding to the second evaluation signals, based on the standard deviation information. | 03-26-2015 |