Device for assisting the ambulation with measuring of the position and remote assistance

An ambulation assistance wearable device, comprising:

• at least one support, adapted to be removably attached to a body of a person in an attachment position;
• at least one power supply, anchored to said at least one support;
• at least one light source, mounted on said at least one support and electrically connected to said at least one power supply, said at least one light source being configured, in use, to emit at least one beam of visible light towards a ground, at least at one front stepping point to which the person has to move a foot, in order to move forward along an ambulation direction;
• at least one sensor means configured to detect at least one control parameter identifying an ambulation condition;
• at least one processing unit operatively connected to said at least one power supply, said at least one light source and said at least one sensor and configured to control an activation-deactivation of said at least one light source, as a function of said at least one control parameter, corresponding to an angle or to a displacement measurement related to an instant position of at least one part of the body wearing the ambulation assistance wearable device during ambulation;
• at least one measuring member configured to measure, save, and/or transmit a linear or an angular variation of the position of at least one part of the body of the person, to which assistance to ambulation makes is provided,
• wherein said at least one control parameter is determined at least at one time instant and at least as a function of said at least one measuring member of the linear and/or the angular variation of the position of at least one part of the body of the person, to whom the said assistance to the ambulation is provided,
• wherein said at least one measuring member determines a variation of position by detecting a distance with respect to at least one part of the body of the person wearing the ambulation assistance wearable device,
• wherein said at least one measuring member determines the variation of the position by acting with respect to a reference outside of the person wearing the ambulation assistance wearable device, and
• wherein said at least one measuring member is secured to said at least one support in a substantially outer side position or a substantially inner side position with respect to a plane of sagittal symmetry of the person or substantially at said plane of sagittal symmetry.

An ambulation assistance wearable device, comprising:

• at least one support, adapted to be removably attached to a body of a person in an attachment position;
• at least one power supply, anchored to said at least one support;
• at least one light source, mounted on said at least one support and electrically connected to said at least one power supply, said at least one light source being configured, in use, to emit at least one beam of visible light towards a ground, at least at one front stepping point to which the person has to move a foot, in order to move forward along an ambulation direction;
• at least one sensor means configured to detect at least one control parameter identifying an ambulation condition;
• at least one processing unit operatively connected to said at least one power supply, said at least one light source and said at least one sensor and configured to control an activation-deactivation of said at least one light source, as a function of said at least one control parameter, corresponding to an angle or to a displacement measurement related to an instant position of at least one part of the body wearing the ambulation assistance wearable device during ambulation;
• at least one measuring member configured to measure, save, and/or transmit a linear or an angular variation of the position of at least one part of the body of the person, to which assistance to ambulation makes is provided,
• wherein said at least one control parameter is determined at least at one time instant and at least as a function of said at least one measuring member of the linear and/or the angular variation of the position of at least one part of the body of the person, to whom the said assistance to the ambulation is provided;
• further comprising at least one additional local support system including:
• at least one second power supply,
• at least one energy transfer unit,
• at least one second processing unit comprising at least one electronic processor,
• at least one non-volatile storing unit,
• at least one volatile storing unit,
• at least one module for receiving information coming from the ambulation assistance wearable device, said at least one module being configured to operate with electromagnetic signals propagated in different ways, even concurrently,
• at least one graphic processing unit with at least one display unit,
• at least one algorithm that processes data coming from the at least one sensor, operative steps and instructions of said at least one algorithm being encoded as part of a processing program that can be called up and executed by said at least one additional local support system, said at least one additional local support system being configured so that, following execution of the operative steps of said at least one algorithm, predictive and/or corrective actions supplementing said at least one control parameter are defined, said actions contributing to an operation of the ambulation assistance wearable device depending on a behavior of the ambulation assistance wearable device and/or of the body to which the ambulation assistance wearable device is applied.