Systems, devices, and methods for capturing and outputting data regarding a bodily characteristic
AssigneeM3Dicine IP Pty Ltd
InventorArsil Nayyar Hussain
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for capturing and outputting data regarding a bodily characteristic. In one embodiment, a hardware device can operate as a stethoscope with sensors to detect bodily characteristics such as heart sounds, lung sounds, abdominal sounds, and other bodily sounds and other characteristics such as temperature and ultrasound. The stethoscope can be configured to work independently with built solid state memory or SIM card. The stethoscope can be configured to pair via a wireless communication protocol with one or more electronic devices, and upon pairing with the electronic device(s), can be registered in a network resident in the cloud and can thereby create a network of users of like stethoscopes.
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A medical device, comprising:
- a stethoscope that includes
- an audio sensor configured to sense body sounds of a subject from outside the subject's body,
- a vibration generator configured to vibrate,
- a light configured to illuminate, and
- a processor configured to cause the vibration generator to vibrate in a pattern indicative of the sensed body sounds in real time with the sensing of the body sounds, and configured to cause the light to illuminate in a pattern indicative of the sensed body sounds in real time with the sensing of the body sounds.
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A medical system, comprising:
- a stethoscope that includes a distal portion having a surface configured to contact a body of a subject, and a proximal head configured to move relative to the distal portion to selectively start a sensor sensing body sounds of the subject and stop the sensor from sensing the body sounds;
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- a display coupled to the stethoscope and configured to show a graphical representation of the sensed body sounds in real time with the gathering of the signals.
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A method, comprising:
- electronically linking a first electronic stethoscope to a second electronic stethoscope;
- gathering at the first electronic stethoscope raw data signals representative of body sounds of a subject;
- outputting at the first electronic stethoscope a first output that includes at least one of an audio output, a haptic output, and an illuminated output, the first output being indicative of the gathered signals, and the outputting at the first electronic stethoscope occurring in real time with the gathering;
- transmitting the gathered signals from the first electronic stethoscope to the second electronic stethoscope;
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- outputting at the second electronic stethoscope a second output that includes at least one of an audio output, a haptic output, and an illuminated output, the second output being indicative of the gathered signals, and the outputting at the second electronic stethoscope occurring in real time with the gathering.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.