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US 12,721,546 B2Granted
Footwear sensors for human movement measurement
AssigneeUniversiteit Twente
InventorsHuawei Wang, Massimo Sartori
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Abstract
A system comprising a body wearable unit, with one or more cameras, a control system, and an electrical power source and a method for generating wearer data using the system, wherein the method comprises monitoring with one or more cameras a user wearing the wearable unit and providing a related camera signal; generating wearer data based on the related camera signal, wherein the wearer data comprise one or more of (i) wearer posture related data and (ii) wearer movement related data.
Claims30
A system comprising a body wearable unit, one or more cameras, a control system, and an electrical power source;
- wherein:
- the body wearable unit comprises the one or more cameras, the control system, and the electrical power source;
- the one or more cameras are configured to monitor a user wearing the wearable unit and to provide a related camera signal, wherein the one or more cameras are configured to record a body of the user, the one or more cameras looking upwards from a lower extremity;
- the electrical power source is configured to provide electrical power to the one or more cameras, and the control system;
- the control system is configured to generate wearer data based on the related camera signal;
- wherein the wearer data comprises (i) wearer posture related data and (ii) wearer movement related data;
- the body wearable unit comprises footwear, wherein the footwear comprises a shoe or a boot;
- and
- the one or more cameras, the control system, and the electrical power source are functionally coupled to the body wearable unit.
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