Analysis of bodily emissons
AssigneeOutsense Diagnostics Ltd.
InventorYaara Kapp-Barnea
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods are described for use with urine and feces of a subject that are emitted into a toilet bowl. One or more sensors are coupled to the toilet bowl and are configured to detect one or more urine-related parameters relating to the subject's urine and one or more feces-related parameters relating to the subject's feces, without requiring any action to be performed by any person subsequent to emission of the urine or feces into the toilet bowl. A computer processor determines that the subject is suffering from dehydration, at least partially based upon the one or more urine-related parameters, and classifies the dehydration as being a given type of dehydration, at least partially based upon the one or more feces-related parameters. Other applications are also described.
Claims14
An apparatus for use in conjunction with a toilet bowl into which urine of a subject and feces of the subject can be emitted and in conjunction with an output device, the apparatus comprising:
- an illumination component configured to illuminate the emitted urine with light at a selected wavelength band;
- one or more sensors configured to couple to the toilet bowl, detect one or more urine-related parameters relating to the emitted urine and detect one or more feces-related parameters relating to the emitted feces wherein the one or more urine-related parameters includes a first parameter being urine color and wherein the one or more sensors includes a first sensor configured to detect the urine color based on the absorption of the light at the selected wavelength band;
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- at least one computer processor configured to:
- receive the detected one or more urine-related parameters;
- identify the one or more urine-related parameters including the detected urine color;
- receive the detected one or more feces-related parameters;
- identify the one or more feces-related parameters;
- using at least one of the identified one or more urine-related parameters including the detected urine color, determine whether the subject is dehydrated or is not dehydrated;
- using at least one of the identified one or more feces-related parameters, and responsive to determining the subject is dehydrated, classify the subject with a particular dehydration;
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- generate an output signal indicative of the classification of the particular dehydration to the output device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.