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US 8,525,687 B2Granted
Personal emergency response (PER) system
OwnerBao Traninventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for identifying an activity of an object includes identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of a device attached to the object; and identifying the activity of the object, comprising matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity.
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A method of identifying an activity of an object, comprising:
- identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of a device attached to the object;
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- identifying the activity of the object, comprising matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity;
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- making a telephone call through a telephone base station to request help if a dangerous condition is detected, and wherein sequences of human motions are classified into groups of similar postures represented by model-states with a posture model depicting inter-relationships among model-states.
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An apparatus for identifying an activity of an object, comprising:
- a controller operative to identify each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of device attached to the object;
- and the controller operative to identify the activity of the object, comprising matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the object with stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity, wherein the controller initiates a telephone call to request help if a dangerous condition is detected, and wherein sequences of human motions are classified into groups of similar postures represented by model-states with a posture model depicting inter-relationships among model-states.
A system for identifying an activity of an animate or inanimate object, comprising:
- means for identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of an device attached to the animate or inanimate object;
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- means for identifying the activity of the animate or inanimate object, comprising matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity;
- wherein the means for identifying each elemental motion comprises:
- means for generating an acceleration signature based on sensed acceleration of the device;
- means for matching the acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with a type of motion;
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- means for identifying the type of motion of the device based on the matching of the acceleration signature with the stored acceleration signature;
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- a base station coupled to a telephone network to initiate a telephone call to request help if a dangerous condition is detected, and wherein sequences of human motions are classified into groups of similar postures represented by model-states with a posture model depicting inter-relationships among model-states.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.