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US 8,476,849 B2Granted
Multisensory control of a patient-lifting-device
AssigneeAltorr Corporation
InventorBradford A. Clough
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Abstract
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some multisensory implementations, a patient-lifting-device is controlled by voice recognition, keyboard text input, synaptic control and/or a tongue tactile input commands.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a receiver of multisensory input from a plurality of input devices;
- a command-extractor that is operable to extract from the multisensory input a command that is associated with a patient-movement-actuator, the command-extractor being operably coupled to the receiver of the multisensory input;
- a lift-device-controller that is operable to receive the command from the command-extractor and that is operable to generate at least one electrical signal from the command, the lift-device-controller being electrically coupled to the command-extractor;
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- a patient-movement-actuator that is electrically coupled to the lift-device-controller and that is operable to receive at least one electrical signal from the lift-device-controller and that is operable to perform motion in accordance with the at least one electrical signal and in response to the at least one electrical signal, wherein the patient-movement-actuator includes a double-pole-double-throw (DPDT) relay for each direction of the motion.
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A method comprising:
- receiving multisensory input from a plurality of input devices, the plurality of devices consisting of a hand-held keypad controller and a microphone;
- responsive to the receiving of multisensory input, filtering environment background noise from the multisensory input, yielding filtered multisensory input;
- responsive to the filtering environment background noise from the multisensory input, extracting a patient-lifting-device command from the filtered multisensory input;
- responsive to the extracting of a patient-lifting-device command from the filtered multisensory input, generating at least one electrical signal from the patient-lifting-device command;
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- responsive to the generating of the at least one the electrical signal, performing motion of a patient-lifting-device in accordance with the at least one electrical signal.
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A non-transitory computer-accessible medium having computer executable instructions to control a patient-movement-actuator, the computer executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:
- receiving multisensory input from a plurality of input devices, wherein the multisensory input further comprises information in a plurality of communication mediums;
- extracting a command relevant to the patient-movement-actuator from the multisensory input, wherein the command relevant to the patient-movement-actuator is selected from a group of commands comprising up, down, forward, backward and stop;
- transforming the command into an electrical control signal by generating the electrical control signal from the command;
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- responsive to the transforming, transmitting the electrical control signal to the patient-movement-actuator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.