Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yonsei University

Kun-kook Park

Kyung-Ho Kim

In-duk Hwang

Jeong-je Park

Kun-soo Shin

Hong-sig Kim

Kye-jin Jeon

Jong-youn Lee

Jin-sung Kim

Jae-geol Cho

Su-Jin Kim

Young-Jun Seo

Youn-ho Kim

Young-Jun Hong

Hwa-Kyung Kim

Kyoung-Youm Kim

Gil-Won Yoon

Ju-hee Kim

Byung-hoon Ko

Jong-gwan Yook

Eun-young Choe

Jae-Min Kang

Soo-kwan Kim

Hye-jin Jung

Hye-jeong Kim

Jong-sung Dong

Tae-wan Koo

Ji-kwon Kim

Sung-ji Kang

Hye-kang Roh

Hoon-jong Jwa

A method of determining a length of an object by using an electronic device includes obtaining, by the electronic device, a length, of the electronic device, between a first point and a second point on the electronic device; obtaining, by the electronic device, a tension applied to a third point on the electronic device, the third point being located between the first point and the second point; and correcting the obtained length by using the obtained tension and prestored reference tension information, the prestored reference tension information indicating a relationship of the tension applied to the third point with respect to the length of the object, and determining the corrected length as a final length of the object.

Method and system for determining a length of an object using an electronic device

A wearable communication system including an antenna pattern configured to transmit or receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal, a main board configured to control the wearable communication system, and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the main board, wherein the antenna pattern is spaced apart from the main board and the power supply unit.

Communication system

An apparatus for eliminating motion artifacts in a bio signal includes a bio signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a bio signal from a patient; a reconstruction signal generator configured to generate a reconstruction signal of the acquired bio signal based on a result of comparing the acquired bio signal with a bio signal pattern of the patient generated using a bio signal measured from the patient before acquiring the bio signal from the patient; and a motion artifact elimination unit configured to eliminate motion artifacts in the acquired bio signal based on a difference between the reconstruction signal and the acquired bio signal.

Method and apparatus for eliminating motion artifacts of bio signal using personalized bio signal pattern

Disclosed is a living body measurement apparatus including: a first light source placed on the surface of the skin in a living body and radiating a first light in a visible light wavelength range onto the surface of the skin; a second light source placed on the surface of the skin and radiating a second light in a near-infrared wavelength range onto the surface of the skin; an optical detector placed on the surface of the skin at a predetermined distance from the first and second light sources to detect, as an electric signal, first or second detection light penetrating up through the skin and inputted thereto among the radiated first or second light; and a controller for sequentially driving the first and second light sources.

Living body measurement apparatus with waveguide light source and light extracting pattern

A non-invasive probe for measuring body components, and a non-invasive body component measurement system including the non-invasive probe is provided. The non-invasive probe includes an input light transferring unit for transferring an input light emitted from a light source; a light splitting unit for splitting the input light into a plurality of living body incident lights; a light condensing unit for condensing the plurality of living body incident lights, so that the plurality of living body incident lights can be irradiated onto a plurality of measuring points, each measuring point corresponding to one of the plurality of living body incident lights; and an output light transferring unit for transferring a plurality of output lights, which each correspond to the one of the plurality of measuring points and, which are obtained by irradiating the plurality of living body incident lights, to a spectrometer that classifies the output lights by wavelength.

Non-invasive probe for measuring body components and a non-invasive body component measurement system including the non-invasive probe

A method and device for tinnitus therapy. The method includes generating pure sounds, each having a predetermined frequency, within an audible range, and waiting for a user to press an input button when the user hears the pure sound. Then, the hearing characteristics of the user are interpreted in conjunction with equal loudness contours. From this interpretation, either a tinnitus masking method or a tinnitus retraining therapy are selected according to the hearing characteristics of the user.

Method and device for tinnitus therapy

Provided are a method and apparatus for measuring body fat using current electrodes and voltage electrodes. The method includes continually detecting a voltage drop across the voltage electrodes by smoothly raising a contact pressure applied to the electrodes; determining a threshold contact pressure with reference to the detected voltage drop depending on variation of the contact pressure, the voltage drop across the voltage electrodes not increasing under the threshold contact pressure even when the contact pressure increases; comparing a detected contact pressure with the threshold contact pressure; detecting a measurement voltage across the voltage electrodes only when the detected contact pressure is larger than the threshold contact pressure; and compensating the measurement voltage for a threshold contact voltage corresponding to the threshold contact pressure and calculating a body fat value corresponding to the compensated measurement voltage.

Method and apparatus for measuring body fat by using bioelectrical impedance

A method and apparatus for measuring body fat using bioelectrical impedance, that reduces measurement errors and improves repeatability by compensating for variation of a contact voltage caused by variation of an electrode contact area. The method includes: detecting a voltage across the voltage electrodes under a first conditional pressure and a second conditional pressure to obtain a first conditional voltage and a second conditional voltage; determining the conditional pressures, a difference between the conditional pressures, the conditional voltages, and a difference between the conditional voltages to store them in a memory; detecting a measurement voltage under an arbitrary pressure; performing interpolation by using the conditional pressures, the difference between the conditional pressures, the conditional voltages, the difference between the conditional voltages, and the arbitrary pressure to obtain a contact voltage; and compensating the measurement voltage for the contact voltage to calculate a body fat value corresponding to the compensated measurement voltage.

In a non-invasive body component measuring apparatus for measuring a concentration of a body component in a measuring portion of a living body, and a method of non-invasively measuring the concentration of the body component, the non-invasive body component measuring apparatus includes a light source unit for generating light of a predetermined wavelength and for applying the light onto the measuring portion, a detection unit for detecting light reflected or transmitted by the measuring portion and for converting the detected light into an electrical signal, a signal processing unit for processing the electrical signal, and a body-apparatus interface unit for fixing a periphery of the measuring portion during measurement.

Non-invasive body component concentration measuring apparatus and method of noninvasively measuring a concentration of a body component using the same

A diagnosis method and apparatus for measuring blood hemoglobin concentration, oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiration rate, or degree of aging of blood vessels using light includes an input/output unit for receiving a command for measurement from a user and for providing information on the result of a measurement to the user; a control unit for receiving the command for measurement from the input/output unit and for generating a control signal; a light generating unit for generating at least two light beams for measurement according to the control signal; a light receiving unit for receiving the light beams transmitted through an object that is subject to measurement and for converting the received light beams into electrical signals; and a data processing unit for processing the electrical signals received from the light receiving unit and for outputting information on the result of a predetermined measurement.

Diagnostic method and apparatus using light

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Kun-kook Park