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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165667 | Methods and systems for optimizing exercise compliance diagnostic parameters A medical device detects certain patient activity based on a programmable activity threshold and determines the duration of detected activity. The activity threshold may be optimized by obtaining first and second duration measurements for at least one of a first act... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8073533 | Heart rate monitor with cross talk reduction A heart rate monitor determines a heart rate for a primary subject by reducing noise and cross-talk from unwanted signal transmission sources. A set of pulse peaks having about the same amplitude and an amplitude greater than any other set of peaks are processed to ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7991460 | Methods and apparatus for detecting cardiac events based on heart rate sensitive parameters A system for the detection of cardiac events occurring in a human patient is provided. At least two electrodes are included in the system for obtaining an electrical signal from a patient's heart. An electrical signal processor is electrically coupled to the electro... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7953477 | Determination of sympathetic activity An apparatus, a method and a computer program for the determination of sympathetic activity are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving heart activity data of a person; determining a recovery heart rate change speed during a recovery heart rate period in the hear... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7917197 | Methods and devices for determining exercise diagnostic parameters A device, such as an implantable cardiac device, and methods for determining exercise diagnostic parameters of a patient are disclosed. Specifically, a maximum observed heart rate of a patient during exercise can be identified when an activity level and a heart rate... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917198 | Calibration of performance monitor In the solution of the invention, an association is formed between activity information characterizing the activity level of a user and a performance parameter value proportional to the heart rate information of the user, the activity information and heart rate info... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7822472 | Methods and systems for optimizing exercise compliance diagnostic parameters A medical device detects certain patient activity based on a programmable activity threshold and determines the duration of detected activity. The activity threshold may be optimized by obtaining first and second duration measurements for at least one of a first act... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7797038 | Heart rate monitor with cross talk reduction A heart rate monitor determines a heart rate for a primary subject by reducing noise and cross-talk from unwanted signal transmission sources. A set of pulse peaks having about the same amplitude and an amplitude greater than any other set of peaks are processed to ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787943 | Heart rate monitor for swimmers There provided a heart rate monitor that includes a pair of electrodes, a program control panel having a power supply, a vibration feedback module for advising the user when predetermined heart rates have been reached, and a data retrieval member. The electrodes are... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7676262 | Methods and devices for determining exercise compliance diagnostics One or more sensors sense patient heart rate and patient activity and provide related signals to a processor. The processor is responsive to sensor signals and obtains an activity threshold based on historical patient heart-rate signals and historical patient activi... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668590 | Methods and devices for determining exercise diagnostic parameters A device, such as an implantable cardiac device, and methods for determining exercise diagnostic parameters of a patient are disclosed. Specifically, a maximum observed heart rate of a patient during exercise can be identified when an activity level and a heart rate... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7526333 | Sound reproduction system and method based on physical and mental states of a drive One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an system which can detects degradation in a driving mental state of a driver, that is, sleepiness, fatigue, fret, and so on during driving of a vehicle and notifies the driver of the degradation to encourage... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7499744 | Statistical method for assessing autonomic balance A computationally efficient method for assessing a subject's autonomic balance by measurement of heart rate variability is disclosed which is particularly suitable for implementation by an implantable medical device. Statistical surrogates are used to represent freq... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7395109 | System for, and method of, monitoring heartbeats of a patient Heart monitor signals indicating a patient's heart characteristics are amplified without affecting the signal characteristics. The amplified heart monitor signals with atypical characteristics are transmitted to a pattern recognition platform which stores the patien... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383081 | Training device and method A wristop heart rate monitor comprising a dial, which comprises a current heart rate indicator, which is responsive to a heart rate signal measured from a user of the wristop heart rate monitor and functionally connected to a heart rate scale, and a reference indica... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379770 | Devices and methods for heart rate measurement and wrist-watch incorporating same A method and device for heart rate measurement uses a stream of signals containing ECG signals to select a reference QRS complex according to a set of predetermined criteria and obtain electrical signal characteristics of the reference QRS complex. A first QRS compl... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366565 | Exercise machine, physical strength evaluation method and pulse rate meter In an exercise machine, when a measurement starts, an electrocardiographic signal is detected by an electrocardiographic sensor 1 (ST33), a load drive is started (ST4), and heartbeat rate intervals of the electrocardiographic signal are sequenti... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361146 | System and method for detecting abnormal respiration via respiratory parameters derived from intracardiac electrogram signals Techniques are provided for tracking patient respiration based upon intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) signals or other electrical cardiac signals. Briefly, respiration patterns are detected based upon cycle-to-cycle changes in morphological features associated with in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359837 | Peak data retention of signal data in an implantable medical device Methods and apparatus for storing data records associated with an extreme value are disclosed. Signal data is stored in a first buffer of a set of buffers. If a local extreme value for the first buffer exceeds a global extreme value, signal data is stored in a secon... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354380 | Heart rate monitor for controlling entertainment devices Described is a motivational fitness device, which controls the audio output of a television or audio component in response to the heart rate. The user must exercise in their specific heart rate target training range to keep their entertainment device turned on at an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353127 | Apparatus and method for detection and quantification of oscillatory signals A method of determining the location in time of maxima and/or minima of an oscillatory signal. The method may have application to measurement of biological signals, in particular measurement of heart rate from a pulsatile blood signal. The method includes a first st... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346388 | Method and apparatus for rate accuracy enhancement in ventricular tachycardia detection An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) executes a rate accuracy enhancement algorithm to select measured atrial and ventricular intervals for classifying a detected tachycardia based on average atrial and ventricular rates calculated from the selected atria... | 03/18/2008 |
| RE40116 | Mobile digital communication computing device including heart rate monitor A mobile client device, such as a wireless mobile or a palm sized personal digital assistant, is provided with a number of sensors and companion programming instructions/circuitry to generate a heart rate reading for a user holding the device. The sensors are used t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333855 | Method and apparatus for determining oversensing in a medical device A method and apparatus for determining oversensing in a medical device that includes sensing cardiac signals and detecting cardiac events via a first electrode configuration, determining the presence of an episode event in response to the detected cardiac events, an... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330752 | Procedure for detection of stress by segmentation and analyzing a heart beat signal A procedure for the detection of stress state is disclosed, wherein ambulatory heart beat signal is measured. In the first phase segments are defined from heart beat signal with a chosen rule for segmentation. Then at least one segment describing a physiological sta... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326150 | Fat combustion value calculating method, fat combustion value calculating device, and exercise machine In the fat burning value calculating apparatus (6), an electrocardiographic signal is detected (1, 41, 45-47) at the start of exercise, and a heart rate is calculated from the detected value. Further, a power of heart rate variability is calcula... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318000 | Biometric quality control process Systems and methods configured to guide and manage laboratory analytical process control operations. A Biometric quality control (QC) process application is configured to monitor bias and imprecision for each test, characterize patient population data distributions ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313439 | Method and apparatus for predicting arrhythmias using diurnal heart rate A method of predicting an arrhythmia, such as ventricular tachycardia, for example, in a medical device using a quantitative measure in order to allow assessment of patient risk and to enable preventative interventions by the device and clinicians. The trending of d... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295871 | ECG signal processor and method Chest compressions are measured and prompted to facilitate the effective administration of CPR. A displacement detector determines a displacement indicative signal indicative of the displacement of the CPR recipient's chest toward the recipient's spine. A signaling ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286957 | Biometric quality control process Systems and methods configured to guide and manage laboratory analytical process control operations. A Biometric quality control (QC) process application is configured to monitor bias and imprecision for each test, characterize patient population data distributions ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283870 | Apparatus and method for obtaining cardiac data An apparatus and method for obtaining information, such as heart rate or the presence of atrial fibrillation, from electrodes applied to the feet of a subject. A scale having electrodes may be used for this purpose. The signal obtained from the electrodes is digitiz... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277754 | Method and system for removing pacing artifacts from subcutaneous electrocardiograms An implantable cardiac rhythm management device is configured to remove pacing artifacts from recorded electrograms by a subtraction method. A template waveform representing a recorded pace without accompanying cardiac electrical activity is generated. Such a pacing... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274959 | System and method for detecting cardiac ischemia using an implantable medical device A technique is provided for detecting episodes of cardiac ischemia based on an examination of post-T-wave signal segments. Since cardiac ischemia is often a precursor to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), the technique thereby provid... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272428 | Wireless electrocardiograph system and method A method and system for wireless ECG monitoring is provided. An electrode connector, transmitter and receiver operate with existing electrodes and ECG monitors. The electrode connector includes connectors for attaching to disposable or reusable single electrodes. Th... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272436 | System and method for distinguishing among cardiac ischemia, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia using an implantable medical device Techniques are described for detecting ischemia, hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia based on intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) signals. Ischemia is detected based on a shortening of the interval between the QRS complex and the end of a T-wave (QTmax), alone or in combinati... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269458 | Cardiopulmonary functional status assessment via heart rate response detection by implantable cardiac device An implantable cardiac device is configured and programmed to assess a patient's cardiopulmonary function by evaluating the patient's heart rate response. Such evaluation may be performed by computing a heart rate response slope, defined as the ratio of an increment... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7245968 | Implantable cardiac device providing rapid pacing T wave alternan pattern detection and method An implantable cardiac device that delivers electrical therapy to a patient's heart determines if a T wave alternan pattern of the patient's heart exists. The device includes a sensing circuit that generates an electrical signal including T waves representing paced ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231244 | Method and arrangement for predicting perioperative myocardial ischemia A method and an arrangement for predicting perioperative myocardial ischemia. Heart rate measurements are carried out for example at night- and day-time before the operation to obtain heart rate data. The heart rate data obtained is carried to a device configured to... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225015 | System and method for detecting cardiac ischemia based on T-waves using an implantable medical device A technique is provided for detecting episodes of cardiac ischemia based on an examination of the total energy of T-waves. Since cardiac ischemia is often a precursor to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), the technique thereby provid... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218960 | System and method for detecting cardiac ischemia based on T-waves using an implantable medical device A technique is provided for detecting episodes of cardiac ischemia based on an examination of the total energy of T-waves. Since cardiac ischemia is often a precursor to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), the technique thereby provid... | 05/15/2007 |
