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US 2015/0030185 A1Published application
Multisensory control of a patient-lifting-device
AssigneeAltorr Corporation
InventorBradford A. Clough
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Abstract
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some multisensory implementations, a patient-lifting-device is controlled by voice recognition, keyboard text input, synaptic control and/or tongue tactile input commands.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver of multisensory input from a plurality of input devices;
- a command-extractor that is operable to extract from the multisensory input a command that is associated with a patient-movement-actuator, the command-extractor being operably coupled to the receiver of the multisensory input;
- a lift-device-controller that is operable to receive the command from the command-extractor and that is operable to generate at least one to electrical signal from the command, the lift-device-controller being electrically coupled to the command-extractor;
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- a two dimensional patient-lifting-device that is electrically coupled to the lift-device-controller, the two dimensional patient-lifting-device having two-dimensional motion in four directions, the patient-movement-actuator including a double-pole-double-throw relay for each direction of motion, the patient-movement-actuator having four double-pole-double-throw relays.
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A method comprising:
- receiving multisensory input from a plurality of input devices, the plurality of devices including a hand-held keypad controller and a microphone;
- responsive to the receiving of multisensory input, filtering environment background noise from the multisensory input, yielding filtered multisensory input;
- responsive to the filtering environment background noise from the multisensory input, extracting a command of a patient-lifting-device from the filtered multisensory input, the patient-lifting device having two-dimensional motion in four directions, the patient-lifting-device including a double-pole-double-throw relay for each direction of motion, the patient-lifting-device having four double-pole-double-throw relays;
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- performing motion by the patient-lifting-device in accordance with the command of the patient-lifting-device.
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A non-transitory computer-accessible medium having computer executable instructions to control a lift-device-controller, the computer executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:
- receiving multisensory input from a plurality of input devices, wherein the multisensory input further comprises information in a plurality of communication mediums;
- extracting a command that is operable by the lift-device-controller from the multisensory input, wherein the command that is operable by the lift-device-controller is selected from a group of commands comprising up, down, forward, backward and stop, each of the commands being associated with a double-pole-double-throw relay of four double-pole-double-throw relays;
- transmitting an electrical control signal that is representative of the command to the lift-device-controller;
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- performing the electrical control signal by the lift-device-controller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.