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US 11,589,796 B2Granted
Method and system for analyzing neural and muscle activity in a subject's head for the detection of mastication
OwnerSivan Kinreichinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for calculating eating bites of a user. The method comprises: (a) continuously measuring the electrical properties data of mastication of a user for a predetermined period of time; (b) periodically determining single eating bites according to the data obtained in step (a) through a time interval; (c) periodically storing the bites determined throughout the predetermined period of time, through a time interval.
Claims4
A method for calculating eating bites of a user wherein the method comprises a preliminary stage and a regular stage wherein:
- i. the preliminary stage comprises:
- (a) continuously measuring electrical properties data of mastication for a first predefined period of time;
- (b) periodically determining single bites according to data obtained in (a) of the preliminary stage, through a time interval;
- (c) periodically storing bites determined throughout a first period of time and a time of each bite, through a time interval;
- (d) periodically calculating time gaps between bites, through a time interval;
- (e) providing a predetermined time duration, determining groups of sequential time gaps between bites such that each sequential time gap in each group is beneath a predetermined time duration;
- (f) adding the sequential time gaps in each group and storing added sequential time gaps in each group;
- (g) calculating an average of summed sequential time gaps obtained in each group to be the second period of time;
- (h) adding a number of sequential time gaps in each group;
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- (i) calculating an average of the number of sequential time gaps in each group to be the threshold;
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- ii. the regular stage comprises:
- (j) continuously measuring electrical properties data of mastication of a user for a predetermined third period of time;
- (k) periodically determining single eating bites according to data obtained in (j) of the regular stage through a time interval;
- (l) periodically storing bites determined throughout the third predetermined period of time, through a time interval;
- (m) periodically summing up bites determined during a past second period of time, through a time interval;
- (n) periodically determining if summed up number of (m) of the regular stage exceeds said threshold, through a time interval;
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- (o) triggering an alert if the determining in (n) of the regular stage is deemed to be positive.
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A method for calculating eating bites of a user wherein the method comprises a preliminary stage and a regular stage wherein:
- i. the preliminary stage comprises:
- (a) continuously measuring electrical properties data of mastication for a first predefined period of time;
- (b) periodically determining single bites according to the data obtained in (a) of the preliminary stage, through a time interval;
- (c) periodically storing bites determined throughout a first period of time and a time of each bite, through a time interval;
- (d) periodically calculating the time gaps between bites, through a time interval;
- (e) providing a predetermined time duration, determining groups of sequential time gaps between bites such that each sequential time gap in each group is beneath a predetermined time duration;
- (f) adding the sequential time gaps in each group and storing added sequential time gaps in each group;
- (g) determining the group with the a largest summed sequential times and determining its summed sequential times to be a second period of time;
- (h) adding the number of sequential time gaps in each group;
- and
- (i) determining the group with the a largest summed number of sequential times and determining its summed number of sequential times to be a the predetermined threshold;
- and
- ii. the regular stage comprises:
- (j) continuously measuring the electrical properties data of mastication of a user for a predetermined third period of time;
- (k) periodically determining single eating bites according to the data obtained in step (j) of the regular stage through a time interval;
- (l) periodically storing bites determined throughout the third predetermined period of time, through a time interval;
- (m) periodically summing up a number of bites determined during a past second period of time, through a time interval;
- (n) periodically determining if the summed up number of step (m) of the regular stage exceeds said threshold, through a time interval;
- and
- (o) triggering an alert if the determining in step (n) of the regular stage is deemed to be positive.
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