Handheld system of automatic acupoint stimulation

#The present invention relates generally to a handheld system, and more particularly to a handheld system of automatic acupoint stimulation.

#Conventional techniques to stimulate the human body's acupoints include acupuncture treatment (acupuncture and moxibustion) and simpler treatments such as massage treatment and electrical stimulation treatment. The acupuncture treatment is to stimulate a human body's acupoints to harmonize the human body's meridians, for the purposes of health care and symptom treatments. Besides, acupuncture may harmonize the human body's vitality, relieve the human body's meridians to improve the blood circulation, and promote a healthy body. According to researches, the acupuncture treatment apparently alleviates the symptoms of human body's nervous system, skeleton and muscle system, and functional disorders (such as stroke, after effects of spinal cord injuries, sports injuries, pains, abnormal gastrointestinal motility, abnormal peripheral circulation, primary dysmenorrhea, migraine, and so on). With the development of the modern medical technology, the use of the acupuncture treatment is more comprehensive. The acupuncture treatment not only alleviates the symptoms, but also improves the body constitution. Therefore, the acupuncture treatment has progressively become a daily health care.

#However, the conventional acupoint-stimulating treatment has two major disadvantages. Firstly, the curative effect of the acupuncture treatment results from the accuracy of the acupoint position recognition. Most of the ordinary people do not have the ability to recognize the positions of the acupoints. Even if one ordinary, non-professional person has the ability, the accuracy of the ordinary person should be lower than that of a professional person skilled in the acupoint-stimulating treatment. Hence, a proper acupoint-stimulating treatment should be performed by a professional person. The patient must personally go to the medical institution (such as the hospital or the clinic) for meeting with and recognized by the professional person. The patient spends and wastes a lot of time travelling to and from the medical institution. It is much inconvenient for the elderly people or people with disabilities to leave home and go to the medical institution.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention;

#FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention;

#FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a third embodiment of the present invention;

#Detailed embodiments and drawings of the present invention are provided as follows for the purpose that the technical features and effects of the present invention can be understood and implemented.

#With reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 5, the present invention provides a handheld system of automatic acupoint stimulation. In a first embodiment of the present invention, the handheld system comprises a case 10, a camera unit 20, a storage unit 40, a processing unit 50, a human-machine-interface (HMI) unit 60, an acupoint recognizing unit 70 and an acupoint stimulating unit 80. With reference to FIG. 2, in a second embodiment of the present invention, the handheld system further comprises a wireless transmission unit 30. With reference to FIG. 3, in a third embodiment of the present invention, the handheld system further comprises a tripod head 91, a posture detecting unit 92, and a supplemental lighting lamp L.

#The case 10 has an accommodating space S formed in an interior of the case 10. The case 10 has a handle portion 11. The wireless transmission unit 30, the storage unit 40, the processing unit 50, the HMI unit 60, and the acupoint recognizing unit 70 are mounted in the accommodating space S of the case 10. The handle portion 11 is provided for being held by a user.