Garments and methods for detecting one or more characteristics of a wearer
AssigneeTheo Health Limited
InventorJodie Sinclair
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Abstract
An apparatus (1) comprising a garment (2), the garment comprising: at least one muscle activity sensor (4, 34) for detecting activity of a muscle at least partially covered by the garment; at least one electrical visual indicator device (14); and a controller (11) configured to: receive an activity signal indicative of detected activity of the muscle from the at least one muscle activity sensor; and cause the at least one electrical visual indicator device to output a visual indication of the detected activity of the muscle in dependence on the received activity signal.
Claims27
An apparatus comprising:
- a garment comprising:
- at least one muscle activity sensor configured to detect activity of a muscle at least partially covered by the garment;
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- at least one electrical visual indicator device;
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- a controller, the controller being configured to:
- receive from the at least one muscle activity sensor an activity signal indicative of detected activity of the muscle;
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- cause the at least one electrical visual indicator device to output a visual indication of the detected activity of the muscle in dependence on the received activity signal.
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A method of visually indicating activity of at least one muscle, the method comprising:
- providing an apparatus comprising a garment, the garment comprising:
- at least one muscle activity sensor configured to detect activity of a muscle at least partially covered by the garment;
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- at least one electrical visual indicator device,
- the method comprising:
- receiving an activity signal indicative of a detected activity of the muscle from the at least one muscle activity sensor;
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- causing the at least one electrical visual indicator device to output a visual indication of the activity of the muscle in dependence on the received activity signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.