Technique for adjusting the posture of a seated person
AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorsDavide Di Censo, Stefan Marti
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Abstract
A posture adjustment system includes a set of sensors coupled to a chair on which a person may sit. The posture adjustment system gathers data from the set of sensors and generates a posture model that reflects a posture associated with the seated person. The posture adjustment system then determines corrections to the posture of the person that could, potentially, improve their posture. The posture adjustment system then indicates those corrections to the person, or, alternatively, applies a set of adjustments to the chair to cause the person to assume a new posture that reflects the posture corrections.
Claims16
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by a processing unit, cause the processing unit to effect modifications to the posture of a seated person, by performing the steps of:
- acquiring sensor data that reflects a current posture associated with the seated person;
- determining at least one modification to make to the current posture to change the current posture to a modified posture;
- generating one or more chair adjustments to be applied to a chair in which the seated person is sitting to change the current posture to the modified posture based on the at least one modification and a chair-posture mapping indicating changes in position or orientation of each section of the chair and corresponding changes in posture of a person sitting in the chair;
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- applying the one or more chair adjustments to the chair in which the seated person is sitting to automatically change the current posture of the seated person to the modified posture.
A system for adjusting the posture of a person, the system comprising:
- a sensor array configured to generate sensor data that indicates a first location associated with a portion of the person;
- a first section of a chair in physical contact with the portion of the person and having a first position;
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- a computing device configured to:
- generate one or more chair adjustments to be applied to the first section of the chair to relocate the portion of the person from the first location to a second location based on a chair-posture mapping indicating changes in position or orientation of each section of the chair and corresponding change in posture of a person sitting in the chair, and
- apply the one or more chair adjustments to the first section of the chair to cause the first section of the chair to reposition automatically from the first position to a second position to relocate the portion of the person from the first location to a second location.
A computer-implemented method for modifying the posture of a user, the method comprising:
- generating a first posture model that reflects a current posture associated with the user;
- comparing the first posture model to a second posture model to identify a set of posture modifications;
- generating one or more chair adjustments to be applied to a chair in which the seated person is sitting to change the current posture to a modified posture that reflects the second posture model based on the set of posture modifications and a chair-posture mapping indicating changes in position or orientation of each section of the chair and corresponding changes in posture of a person sitting in the chair;
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- applying the one or more chair adjustments to at least a first section of a chair in which the user is sitting to automatically change the current posture of the user to the modified posture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.