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US 12,458,135 B2Granted
Toothbrush system
AssigneeQuip Nyc Inc.
InventorsWilliam Thomas May, Simon Enever, Paul Koh, John Dey, Zachary Zaro, Andrew McLeod, Fernando D. Paredes, Donald J. Deficcio, II, William M. Sakran
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Abstract
A toothbrush apparatus, a method, and a medical system. The apparatus includes a sensing module configured to detect one or more brushing parameters for determining at least a brushing intensity. One or more processors are communicatively coupled to the sensing module and are configured to determine at least the brushing intensity and output the determined brushing intensity.
Claims15
A toothbrush apparatus comprising:
- an accelerometer arranged to detect an acceleration of the toothbrush apparatus along at least one axis during brushing;
- one or more processors communicatively coupled to the accelerometer;
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- a memory including a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions for causing the one or more processors to
- receive, from the accelerometer, a signal indicative of the acceleration, filter the signal to generate a waveform,
- determine a slope of the waveform,
- based on the slope of the waveform, count a number of brushstrokes during a predetermined time period, wherein the number of brushstrokes is counted when the slope exceeds a predetermined threshold value associated with a valid brushing motion,
- store, in the memory, data including the number of brushstrokes.
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