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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149126 | Lift monitoring system and method Systems and methods are discussed for providing a sensor enhanced employee safety evaluation system. Systems that monitor and assess employee lifting behavior are employed at the workplace of an insured entity. Data from the lift monitoring systems are processed to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8111166 | Device, system and method for monitoring animal posture pattern A device for determining a posture pattern of an animal comprises a housing configured and adapted to be attached to a part of the animal; the housing comprises a posture sensor operative to sense an orientation of the part of the animal indicating the posture of th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8063785 | Head gatch alarm system A head gatch alarm system reduces medical risk for aspirational pneumonia when an angle of the head gatch section is outside a predetermined range. The system includes an inclinometer and a pump. The inclinometer is attached to the head gatch section for sensing an ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8018346 | Back bend sensor A trainable back bend monitor system for use by individuals that will monitor and sense bending as it occurs and where a threshold level of bending can be set so that the individual will be warned when that predetermined threshold, unique to that individual, has bee... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7843351 | Back training device A novel back training device is disclosed. The back training device includes a control box; a detector mounted to the control box, for detecting when a person bends at the waist; and an alert means, operatively connected to the detector for alerting the person when ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7733233 | Methods and systems for monitoring position and movement of human beings Methods and systems for detecting a predetermined position of a user wearing a disposable absorbent article are given. The methods and systems may include detecting that the user of the disposable absorbent article is in the predetermined position, wherein the prede... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7701354 | Portable alarm transmitter for compliance monitoring A portable alarm transmitter for compliance monitoring detects whether a user is wearing the device. If not, a special alarm signal is sent to the monitoring service provider so that remedial actions can be taken. The alarm transmitter comprises a motion sensor, and... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7652582 | System and method for ergonomic tracking for individual physical exertion A system and method are provided for tracking a user's posture. The system and method include an environmental module for determining the user's physical environment, a biomechanical module for determining at least a user's posture in the user's physical environment... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7450016 | Driver fatigue assessment device and method A driver fatigue assessment device may include; a look information generator to generate look information regarding at least one of a driver's direction of a look and a locus at which a driver is looking; a visual stimulator to provide a visual stimulus within a dri... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7423537 | Procedure and system for detecting a person's fall A person under supervision wears a sensor consisting of at least one accelerometer (31) and a magnetometer (41), oriented in his vertical direction. A fall event is picked up when a significant and rapid oscillation of the acceleration signal coincides... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400259 | Activity monitoring device A device for monitoring the activity of a user to prevent deep vein thrombosis when travelling on transportation vehicles. The device comprises a carrier (20) for positioning on or adjacent a user, a motion sensor (10) mounted on the carrier (20... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397931 | Human identification apparatus and human searching/tracking apparatus A human identification apparatus, which can judge for identification of human images even in temporally-distant frames or frames shot with different cameras, judges whether or not persons represented by human images respectively included in different image sequences... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397380 | Device and method for monitoring state of thermal comfort of a baby at sleep or a partially disabled patient Systems and methods for monitoring baby's or partially disabled patient's level of thermal comfort during his/her rest in bed are provided. Preferably, the system comprises: a sensor of infrared (IR) radiation coupled to electric circuitry, the circuitry includes a ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394385 | Comprehensive monitoring system A monitoring system for physically challenged clients can have a base hub unit, one or more sensor units, one or more repeater units, and a mobile unit for a client to wear in a residential setting. In an institutional setting, a mobile repeater can be used for moni... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7355519 | Body force alarming apparatus and method A device and method to detect force and provide feedback to a runner or jogger so that the person can judge whether to adjust his or her stride in order to lessen the impact on his or her body. The device includes a housing, a power supply, a piezo sensor, a control... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7330121 | Method for locating a lost registered person The present invention is addressed to a method for establishing a membership of subscribing members for alerting each to the loss of a registered person within a subscribing member. The method commences by establishing a membership of one or more subscribing members... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315249 | System and method for ergonomic tracking for individual physical exertion A system and method are provided for tracking a user's posture. The system and method include an environmental module for determining the user's physical environment, a biomechanical module for determining at least a user's posture in the user's physical environment... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7301464 | Process and method for safer vehicle navigation through facial gesture recognition and operator condition monitoring A vehicle operator condition monitoring system is provided. In one embodiment, the vehicle condition monitoring system includes a physical condition monitoring unit such as a camera, a data processing system, a navigation system, and a communication system. The phys... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294112 | Motion monitoring apparatus The present invention relates to a motion monitoring apparatus and method for monitoring a patient under medical care. A sensor arrangement is provided in the form of a pad which the patient lies on. The sensor arrangement provides a signal which can be monitored to... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7268689 | Alerting and intruder deterring device The invention relates generally to the field of warning signs intended to alert one of presence of an animal and intruder deterrence. More specifically, the invention integrates an adjustable motion detector, a warning sign, a light source aimed at the warning sign,... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265680 | Object tilt and fall detection apparatus An object tilt and fall detection apparatus (30) capable of detecting the tilt and fall of an object by using a disk body (11) rolling according to the tilt of the object, comprising a timer means (50) starting the measurement of a time, stoppin... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258653 | Postural awareness apparatus A postural awareness apparatus includes a pad, signal means for producing a signal, detection means for determining a weight applied to the pad and activating the signal means when the weight exceeds a predetermined weight, means for producing an output when the det... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256686 | Vehicle seat with vibration monitoring ability The present invention concerns a system for measuring the vibration an operator of a piece of the equipment encounters while operating the equipment. The system includes at least one motion measuring means, such as an accelerometer. The accelerometer may be affixed ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252051 | Neck motion detector and method for bark control device An electronic apparatus (1) for control of vocalization by a dog includes first and second stimulus electrodes (5) connected to a surface (9) of the housing, a vibration sensor (6), control circuitry in the housing having an input coupled... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248172 | System and method for human body fall detection A system and method is provided for detection of a human body fall event. The fall detection system (100, 200) includes a monitoring unit (102, 202), including a plurality of accelerometers (106, 206), a processor (108, 208) and a wireles... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242305 | Device and method for monitoring movement within a home A device and method for monitoring whether a resident is away from home or inactive within the home. A sensor, which includes a transmitter, a processor, a timer, and a detector, watches for motion to occur within a home. Upon sensing motion, the sensor sends a firs... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233792 | Proximity triggered job scheduling system and method A system and method combine mobile computing device (0100), wireless communication interface (0105), and an application program (0108) to provide the mobile computing device user to schedule and execute jobs based on the proximity to peer wirele... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7205747 | System and method for monitoring a charging period in a battery charger An apparatus and method for disabling a charging counter circuitry within a battery charger is disclosed. The apparatus includes circuitry connected to a pin associated with the charging counter circuitry of the battery charger, said circuitry receiving a signal fro... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202792 | Drowsiness detection system and method A low-cost system for detecting a drowsy condition of a driver of a vehicle includes a video imaging camera located in the vehicle and oriented to generate images of a driver of the vehicle. The system also includes a processor for processing the images acquired by ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7183929 | Control of toys and devices by sounds A method of controlling at least one device by incidental sound produced by a living creature and including: attaching a sound-maker to a living creature so that the natural movements of the living creature will cause the sound-maker to emit a sound; receiving the s... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7153278 | Sleep apnea syndrome diagnosing device and signal analyzer, and methods thereof A sleep apnea syndrome diagnosing device disclosed herein comprises: a snoring sound collector which collects snoring sound; a snoring sound holder which holds the collected snoring sound; a correlation coefficient calculator which divides a time axis of the snoring... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150141 | Waist chain and related method Presented in one embodiment is a waist chain comprising a plurality of links; a plurality of coupling members which connect the plurality of links, thereby forming a chain with two ends; and at least one end connection member which is connectable to both ends of the... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7127370 | Attitude indicator and activity monitoring device An attitude indicator device for detecting, indicating, and/or logging the positional attitude of an individual in response to deviation from a set of one or more reference angles. By way of example and not of limitation, the device is mounted on the thigh of a pati... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119694 | Proximity dead man interrupter, alarm and reporting system A system for controlling operation of a machine or process includes a control point and a remote node. The control point is located with respect to the machine or process. The remote node is located with respect to an operator of the machine or process for detecting... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114822 | Article of footwear with remote sound activating unit An article of footwear such as a shoe having an array of light sources and at least one loudspeaker is provided in combination with a separate device having a recording unit which records sound and a transmitter which transmits an RF signal representative of the sou... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109872 | Apparatus and method for postural assessment while performing cognitive tasks A postural assessment chair provides a device for monitoring the posture of an individual seated thereon, and correlating changes in the individual's posture, along with indicia of movement of the chair itself and the cognitive workload of the individual, to determi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106885 | Method and apparatus for subject physical position and security determination Method and apparatus for analyzing an orientation of a subject. An image of an area that includes a subject to be monitored is captured, so that a model can be produced. A consistency test is then performed on the produced model to determine predetermined features o... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106190 | Child position monitoring system A child position monitoring system for providing a warning to a user that a child being monitored has or is moving. The child position monitoring system includes a motion detection assembly detects when the child rolls over, the motion detection assembly includes a ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098786 | Mechanism for providing automatic item coupling with the coupling range determined by context information A system (100) includes a wireless device (101) and at least one transponder (102). The wireless device (101) includes a memory (201) with an area (202) for storing coupling range profiles, a processor (203), a bus ( | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089720 | Automatic system-based animal training device An automated animal-training system is provided, which includes an enclosure device for the animal, an arrangement for adjustably fixing the location of the animal within the enclosure device, and an actuation mechanism for moving the automated animal-training syste... | 08/15/2006 |
