Assessing responses to sensory events and performing treatment actions based thereon
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsMatthew Zygorodimos, James Davies, Rishi Wadhwani
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein are relevant to monitoring and treating sensory conditions affecting an individual. Sensors and intelligence integrated within a sensory prosthesis (e.g., an auditory prosthesis) can automatically obtain objective data regarding the ability of one or more of an individuals senses during day-to-day activities. A treatment action can be taken based on the objective data. Further disclosed herein are techniques relating to reducing the gathering of irrelevant sensory input and automatically transmitting relevant data to a caregiver device.
Claims30
An auditory prosthesis comprising:
- an implantable or wearable housing;
- a stimulator at least partially disposed within the housing and configured to impart energy to tissue of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis to evoke a hearing percept in the recipient;
- a plurality of sensors;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive event sensor data from the plurality of sensors;
- determine an occurrence of an auditory event proximate the auditory prosthesis using the event sensor data;
- detecting determine a response by the recipient to the occurrence of the auditory event using response sensor data;
- characterize the response by the recipient using the response sensor data;
- and
- initiate a treatment action relating to the recipient based on characterizing the response.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors proximate a recipient of a sensory device;
- detect an occurrence of a sensory event proximate the sensory device using the sensor data;
- classify the sensory event as a relevant sensory event or an irrelevant sensory event;
- responsive to the sensory event being a relevant sensory event, detect a response by the recipient to the occurrence of the sensory event using the response sensor data;
- characterize the response by the recipient using the response sensor data;
- and
- take a treatment action relating to the recipient based on the characterization.
A system comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- selectively operate in a monitored mode or an unmonitored mode;
- while operating in the monitored mode:
- receive event sensor data from a plurality of sensors;
- detect an occurrence of a sensory event proximate a sensory prosthesis;
- detect a response by the recipient to the occurrence of the sensory event using response sensor data;
- store sensory event data regarding the sensory event and response data regarding the response by a recipient;
- and
- transition to the unmonitored mode;
- and
- responsive to transitioning from the monitored mode to the unmonitored mode, transmit an analysis based on the sensory event data to a caregiver device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.