US 7,821,407 B2Granted

Apparatus, systems, and methods for gathering and processing biometric and biomechanical data

AssigneeApplied Technology Holdings, Inc.

InventorsJay Allan Shears, Lee Norman Cusey, Harold Dan Stirling

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Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for measuring and analyzing movements of a body and for communicating information related to such body movements over a network. In certain embodiments, a system gathers biometric and biomechanical data relating to positions, orientations, and movements of various body parts of a user performed during sports activities, physical rehabilitation, or military or law enforcement activities. The biometric and biomechanical data can be communicated to a local and/or remote interface, which uses digital performance assessment tools to provide a performance evaluation to the user. The performance evaluation may include a graphical representation (e.g., a video), statistical information, and/or a comparison to another user and/or instructor. In some embodiments, the biometric and biomechanical data is communicated wirelessly to one or more devices including a processor, display, and/or data storage medium for further analysis, archiving, and data mining. In some embodiments, the device includes a cellular telephone.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for obtaining body shape and movement data and storing the body movement data in a database, the system comprising:

clothing configured to conform to a first user's body in a manner that limits the shifting and movement of the clothing with respect to the user's body when the user is engaged in a body movement activity;
multiple sensors configured for positioning on the clothing of the first user and at least one sensor being associated with each of different appendages of the first user to gather biomechanical data there from, each sensor characterized by an independent data collection rate and each appendage having an independent expected relative movement speed wherein a first appendage has an expected relative movement speed which is faster than a second appendage having a slower expected relative movement speed than the first appendage, the sensor having faster data collection rates being associated with the first appendage having faster expected relative movement speeds and a sensor having slower data collection rates being associated with the second appendage, such that each sensor is configured to gather data at a rate that corresponds to an expected relative movement speed of the appendage with which it is associated;
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a transceiver configured to collect data from the multiple sensors and transmit that data to a first processor having software that allows a first user to view an animation of that data representing the first user's own movements reconstructed from the biomechanical data collected by the sensors, the first processor configured to communicate with a website having a biomechanical application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/697,180Filed 29 Jan 2010 · continuation
Priority: 9 Jan 2006
Published: US 2010/0121228 A113 May 2010
Granted: 26 Oct 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification38 codes

A61B 5/11
Measuring devices for testing the shape, pattern, colour, size or movement of the body or parts thereof, for diagnostic purposes: measuring…
A61B 5/1124
Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor or mobility of a limb: determining motor skills
A61B 5/22
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: ergometry; Measuring muscular strength or the force of a muscular blow
A61B 5/6802
Specially adapted to be attached to or worn on the body surface: sensor mounted on worn items

Family

Application60/757,915Us provisional application · filed 9 Jan 2006
Application60/765,382Us provisional application · filed 3 Feb 2006
Application60/772,612Us provisional application · filed 10 Feb 2006
Application60/781,612Us provisional application · filed 10 Mar 2006
Application60/794,268Us provisional application · filed 21 Apr 2006
Application11/601,438Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Nov 2006
Application12/488,491Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Jun 2009
US 7,602,301 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Oct 2009
US 2010/0121228 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 May 2010
US 2010/0204616 A1Published application
US 7,821,407 B2This patent

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