Personal emergency response appliance
OwnerBao Traninventor
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Abstract
A personal emergency system includes a motion sensor wearable by a human being to sense motion of the human being; a processor; wireless communications circuitry; computer code to match the acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with one or more types of motion; and computer code to identify the type of motion of the object based on the matching of the acceleration signature. An optional positioning system can be included where the location of the user is determined based on times of arrival of signals.
Claims22
A method of operating a base unit, comprising:
- communicating with a wearable tag through the base unit, wherein a call center operator communicates with a user through a speaker on the base unit;
- estimating a location of the wearable tag;
- and
- determining if a fall has occurred and requesting help through the base unit and notifying a service automatically without a user pressing a button to call for help.
A method of operating a base unit, comprising:
- communicating with a wearable unit through the base unit;
- estimating a location of the wearable unit;
- determining if a fall has occurred and requesting help through the base unit and notifying a service automatically without a user pressing a button to call for help;
- and
- providing the wearable unit with a service subscription which includes access to a personal password-protected website.
A method of operating a base unit, comprising:
- communicating with a wearable unit through the base unit;
- wearing the unit that captures movements;
- estimating a location of the wearable unit;
- determining if a fall has occurred and requesting help through the base unit and notifying a service automatically without a user pressing a button to call for help;
- and
- sending activity data by the base unit over a phone line to the website.
A method of operating a base unit, comprising:
- communicating with a wearable tag through the base unit;
- estimating a location of the wearable tag;
- and
- capturing movement activities and comparing the movement activities to fall patterns and determining if a fall has occurred and requesting help through the base unit and notifying a service automatically without a user pressing a button to call for help.
A method of operating a base unit, comprising:
- communicating with a wearable tag through the base unit;
- estimating a location of the wearable tag;
- determining if a fall has occurred and requesting help through the base unit and notifying a service automatically without a user pressing a button to call for help;
- and
- determining a fall pattern from normal body movements.
A method of automatically requesting assistance for a patient, comprising:
- wearing a wireless device with one or more accelerometers on the patient to detect patient motion;
- determining a fall based on detected patient motion;
- communicating with a call center and automatically requesting assistance on behalf of the patient if needed and notifying a service automatically without a user pressing a button to call for help.
A personal emergency system, comprising:
- a motion sensor wearable by a human being to sense motion of the human being, wherein
- the motion sensor comprises a fall detector;
- a processor;
- wireless communications circuitry;
- computer code to match an acceleration signature with at least one of a plurality of stored acceleration signatures, wherein each stored acceleration signatures corresponds with one or more types of motion;
- and
- computer code to identify the type of motion of the human being based on the matching of the acceleration signature, wherein a call center operator communicates with the user through a speaker on the base unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.