Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080292151 | CAPTURING DATA FOR INDIVIDUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING - A method for capturing images of an individual to determine wellness for such individual, including establishing baseline physiological data for the individual, and baseline capture condition data for the individual; detecting and identifying the presence of the individual in the image capture environment; providing semantic data associated with the individual; capturing one or more images of the individual during a capture event and determining the capture conditions present during the capture event; using the event capture conditions, the baseline physiological data for the individual and the baseline capture condition data to determine the acceptability of event captured images; and using the acceptable images and the semantic data in determining the wellness of the individual. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294012 | MONITORING PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS - A method for monitoring physiological conditions of an individual including capturing images according to predefined capture criteria of one or more body regions of the individual on an ongoing basis; transforming the captured images in response to capture conditions present during image capture to provide a normalized image; calculating wellness parameters based on the normalized image; storing system data, including the normalized image, capture parameters, normalization transforms, or wellness parameters, or combinations thereof, monitoring and analyzing the wellness parameters in view of both current and prior semantic data to identify potential changes in physiological conditions; and providing alerts indicative of changes in said physiological conditions of at least one image. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294013 | INFERRING WELLNESS FROM PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS DATA - A method for inferring the physiological condition an individual using a physiological monitoring system including providing a set of personal data regarding the individual, the personal data including wellness parameter data or semantic data or both, wherein the wellness parameters correspond to known physiological attributes for the individual; acquiring physiological data of the individual and associated capture condition data, during multiple capture events; calculating wellness parameter data for the individual, using the physiological data and the capture condition data; analyzing the wellness parameter data to identify changes in the wellness parameter data; and inferring the physiological condition of the individual from the changes in the wellness parameter data in view of the semantic data. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294016 | ESTABLISHING BASELINE DATA FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEM - A method for establishing baseline data for normalization in a physiological monitoring system which captures images of an individual in order to monitor the well being of the individual, including establishing the identity of an individual; assembling a set of personal data associated with the individual, including semantic data; using the semantic data to identify at least a portion of the wellness parameters to be monitored; acquiring images of the individual during separate capture events to establish baseline image-based wellness parameter data and baseline capture condition data for the individual and; using the baseline wellness parameter data and baseline capture condition data to monitor the physiological condition of the individual. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294017 | IMAGE DATA NORMALIZATION FOR A MONITORING SYSTEM - A method for providing normalized physiological monitoring data of an individual with a measure of the quality of the normalization, including providing a reference feature based on a physiological attribute of the individual for which an attribute value can be determined; unobtrusively capturing physiological monitoring data for the individual during a series of capture events and determining the capture conditions present during each capture event; detecting the presence of the reference feature in the series of captured physiological monitoring data and determining associated attribute values for each capture event; normalizing the captured physiological monitoring data from each capture event according to differences in the attribute values associated with each event and previously calculated attribute values; and calculating normalization confidence values for the individual at the series of capture events, based on capture conditions, normalization transforms, or semantic data, wherein the confidence values statistically measure the quality of the normalization. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294018 | PRIVACY MANAGEMENT FOR WELL-BEING MONITORING - A method for monitoring physiological conditions of a particular individual, while providing unobtrusively implemented controls for managing the privacy of the particular individual and their physiological data, including providing a set of personal data regarding the particular individual, the personal data including privacy settings data, wellness parameter data, or semantic data; determining initial values for the wellness parameters for the particular individual; unobtrusively acquiring physiological data of the particular individual from an image captured during an image capture event, wherein the image capture and image data management is in accordance with a privacy setting; analyzing the physiological data using wellness parameters to assess physiological conditions of the particular individual; and providing a report of the physiological conditions of the particular individual, where the reporting access is limited by privacy controls based on the privacy setting. | 11-27-2008 |
20090106671 | DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA SHARING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS - A method for producing and presenting a virtual immersive multimedia presentation in a virtual world environment. The method includes obtaining access to a plurality of digital multimedia, obtaining access to a virtual world environment capable of displaying digital multimedia. Based on a designated criteria automatically selecting one or more of the following: a subset of the digital multimedia from the plurality of digital multimedia, an immersive virtual environment from the plurality of prefabricated environments, and an avatar configuration from the plurality of avatar configurations for creating the digital multimedia presentation for display in the virtual world environment. | 04-23-2009 |
20090306484 | MONITORING PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS - A method for unobtrusive screening the well-being of a person using a plurality of sensing devices, including detecting the presence of a person; identifying and tracking the person; using sensing devices, which includes at least one camera, to unobtrusively sense one or more body parameters of the person; calculating and storing wellness parameters, which are derived from the sensed body parameter data; and automatically evaluating the well-being of the person based on current and prior semantic data including comparing the wellness parameters to previously determined wellness parameters for that person. | 12-10-2009 |
20140348403 | CAPTURING DATA FOR INDIVIDUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING - A method for capturing images of an individual to determine wellness for such individual, including establishing baseline physiological data for the individual, and baseline capture condition data for the individual; detecting and identifying the presence of the individual in the image capture environment; providing semantic data associated with the individual; capturing one or more images of the individual during a capture event and determining the capture conditions present during the capture event; using the event capture conditions, the baseline physiological data for the individual and the baseline capture condition data to determine the acceptability of event captured images; and using the acceptable images and the semantic data in determining the wellness of the individual. | 11-27-2014 |