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US 9,316,533 B2Granted
Ultraviolet monitoring device
AssigneeECD Holding Company, LLC
InventorsJean-Christophe Lapiere, Mathieu Jean-Claude Andre Hardy, Nicolas Michel Jacques Longo
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Abstract
Monitoring a user's exposure to ultraviolet radiation, including determining the amount of radiation to which the user is exposed from different directions, respectively.
Claims25
A device for monitoring a user's exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the monitoring device comprising:
- a UV sensor that detects UV radiation and that transmits UV radiation data indicative of an amount of the UV radiation received;
- a display unit;
- a power source;
- an orientation unit that detects displacement of the monitoring device from a default orientation and that transmits orientation data indicative of an orientation of the monitoring device;
- a control circuit including a processor, the processor being configured to receive the UV radiation data from the UV sensor, to receive the orientation data from the orientation unit, to determine a UV index value for radiation being received from each of a plurality of directions, respectively, and to communicate UV exposure information to the display unit for viewing by the user.
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A method for monitoring a user's exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the method comprising:
- a UV sensor, that detects UV radiation, transmitting UV radiation data, indicative of an amount of the UV radiation received, to a control circuit;
- an orientation unit, that detects displacement of the UV sensor from a default orientation, transmitting orientation data, indicative of an orientation of the UV sensor, to the control circuit;
- a processor of the control circuit determining a UV index value for radiation being received from each of a plurality of directions, respectively;
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- the control circuit communicating UV exposure information to a display unit for viewing by the user, the UV exposure information being indicative of the UV index value for radiation received from each of the plurality of directions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.