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US 2022/0015675 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for user stress monitoring
OwnerSoumik Chakrabortyinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring user stress levels is provided. One embodiment measures blood pressure using a blood pressure monitor in a monitoring sock; measures heart rate of the user using a heart rate monitor in the monitoring sock; monitors galvanic skin response (GSR) of the foot using at least one electrode in a monitoring shoe that is being worn by the user; generates supplemental information that includes at least a date and time of acquisition of the received blood pressure data, the heart rate data, and/or the GSR data; communicates the supplemental information, the blood pressure the heart rate data, and the GSR data; and stores the supplemental information, the blood pressure data, the heart rate data, and the GSR data into a memory.
Claims20
A user stress level monitoring system, comprising:
- a monitoring sock configured to be placed over a foot of a user, comprising:
- a blood pressure monitor that measures blood pressure of the user above an ankle of a foot of the user and that outputs blood pressure data corresponding to the measured blood pressure of the user;
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- a heart rate monitor that measures a heart rate of the user at the foot of the user and that outputs heart rate data corresponding to the measured heart rate of the user;
- a monitoring shoe, comprising:
- at least one electrode that monitors galvanic skin response (GSR) of the foot and that outputs a GSR measurement signal;
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- a GSR monitoring processor communicatively coupled to the at least one electrode, that receives the GSR measurement, and that converts the received GSR measurement signal into GSR data;
- a stress level monitoring processor system communicatively coupled to the blood pressure monitor, the heart rate monitor, and the GSR monitoring processor, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor,
- wherein the processor generates supplemental information that includes at least one of a date and time of acquisition of at least one of the received blood pressure data, the received heart rate data, and the received GSR data, and
- wherein the processor stores the received blood pressure data, the received heart rate data, the received GSR data, and the supplemental information into the memory.
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A method of monitoring user stress levels, comprising:
- measuring blood pressure of a user using a blood pressure monitor that is disposed in at least one of a cuff of a monitoring sock and a backstay of a monitoring shoe that is being worn by the user, wherein the blood pressure monitor is located above an ankle of a foot of the user and that outputs blood pressure data corresponding to the measure blood pressure of the user;
- measuring a heart rate of the user using a heart rate monitor that is disposed in at least one of a cuff of a monitoring sock and a backstay of a monitoring shoe that is being worn by the user, wherein the heart rate monitor outputs heart rate data corresponding to the measured heart rate of the user;
- monitoring galvanic skin response (GSR) of the foot using at least one electrode that outputs a GSR measurement signal, wherein the at least one electrode resides in the monitoring shoe that is being worn by the user;
- receiving the GSR measurement at GSR monitoring processor that is communicatively coupled to the at least one electrode, wherein the GSR monitoring processor converts the received GSR measurement signal into GSR data;
- communicating the blood pressure data, the heart rate data, and the GSR data to a stress level monitoring processor system that is communicatively coupled to the blood pressure monitor, the heart rate monitor, and the GSR monitoring processor;
- generating, at the stress level monitoring processor, supplemental information that includes at least one of a date and a time of acquisition of the received blood pressure data, the received heart rate data, and the received GSR data;
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- storing the received blood pressure data, the received heart rate data, the received GSR data, and the supplemental information into a memory.
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A user stress level monitoring system residing in a monitoring shoe, comprising:
- a blood pressure monitor that measures blood pressure of the user above an ankle of a foot of the user and that outputs blood pressure data corresponding to the measured blood pressure of the user;
- a heart rate monitor that measures a heart rate of the user at the foot of the user and that outputs heart rate data corresponding to the measured heart rate of the user;
- at least one electrode that monitors galvanic skin response (GSR) of the foot and that outputs a GSR measurement signal;
- a GSR monitoring processor communicatively coupled to the at least one electrode, that receives the GSR measurement, and that converts the received GSR measurement signal into GSR data;
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- a stress level monitoring processor system communicatively coupled to the blood pressure monitor, the heart rate monitor, and the GSR monitoring processor, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor,
- wherein the processor generates supplemental information that includes at least one of a date and a time of acquisition of at least one of the received blood pressure data, the received heart rate data, and the received GSR data, and
- wherein the processor stores the received blood pressure data, the received heart rate data, the received GSR data, and the supplemental information into the memory.
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