Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Koninkliike Philips N.v.

Koninklijke Philisp N.v.

Lucas Jacobus Franciscus Geurts

Vincentius Paulus Buil

Johan Partomo Djajadiningrat

Matthew John Lawrenson

Pieter Frank De Jong

Pei-Yin Chao

Rob Kremers

Daniel Duret

Michael De Regt

Leendert Teunis Rozendaal

Frederik Jan De Bruijn

Karin Klabunde

Karl Catharina Van Bree

Bas Groenendaal

Niels Laute

Rik Remco Wesselink

Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis

Mark Thomas Johnson

Julian Charles Nolan

Floris Maria Hermansz Crompvoets

Lieven Adriaenssen

Walter Dees

Martin Jurna

Elise Claude Valentine Talgorn

Marco Van Leeuwen

Christopher Wright

Peter Bingley

Maria Estrella Mena Benito

Paul Augustinus Peter Kaufholz

Niels Roman Rotgans

Ramon Eugene Franciscus Van De Ven

Jaap Knoester

Daniel Karl Pezzutti

Johanna Maria De Bont

Mustafa Ghassan Radha

Ivo Don Stuyfzand

Mark Anthony Hennessy

Stuart Ronald Pill

Herman Ter Horst

Vanessa Sattele

Duco Annardo David Das

Andreas Henricus Elisabeth Lamers

Jan Jasper Van Den Berg

Victor Barend Hendrik Donker

Erik Gerardus Hubertus Bastiaans

Gideon Martin Reinier Weishut

Adam Henriksson

Jori Marcellinus Nicole Verbeek

Angus David Dick

Gavin Mark Proctor

Hendirkus Petrus Maria Sterken

Paul Kaufholz

Geert Henricus Maria Christiaansen

Christina Ferraz Rigo

Jeanne De Bont

Floor Marijn Borgonjen

Mirjam Van Laarhoven

Christopher John Wright

Floor Borgonjen

Mohammed Meftah

Cristina Ferraz Rigo

A method and system for monitoring the location of an oral care device () within the mouth of a user, includes: an oral care device () having a light source (); an optical sensor () configured to receive light emitted by the light source and to receive light reflected from a user using the oral care device; a computing device () adapted to receive and process signals generated by the optical sensor, and programmed to: detect at least one facial feature of the user from the received light reflected from a user; estimate the location of the user's teeth according to the detected facial feature; determine a location of the light source according to the received emitted light; compare the location of the light source to the location of the teeth to estimate the position of the oral care device with respect to the teeth of the user.

System and method for tracking an oral care device

Some embodiments are directed to a data filtering device configured to select for a widget of visualizing type out of multiple widgets, the controlling widgets of filtering type, wherein a widget is controlling according to a control rule, said control rule depending on the widget location of the widget of visualization type and the widget location of the widget of filtering type.

Data filtering device

There is provided a method and apparatus for controlling a privacy setting of at least one sensor. A signal is acquired from one or more sensors. A characteristic of one or more subjects is detected in the acquired signal. A privacy level is set based on the detected characteristic of the one or more subjects. A privacy setting of at least one sensor is controlled based on the set privacy level.

Sensor privacy setting control

According to an aspect, there is provided a method of determining a position and/or orientation of a hand-held device with respect to a subject. The hand-held device is for use on a body of the subject. The method comprises receiving () images from an imaging unit arranged in or on the hand-held device; receiving () a displacement signal from a displacement sensor that is arranged in or on the hand-held device to measure displacement of the hand-held device along the body when the hand-held device is in contact with the body; processing () the received images to determine whether a body part of the subject can be identified in the received images; determining () whether the hand-held device is in contact with the body; determining () a mode of operation to use to determine a position and/or orientation of the hand-held device based on whether a body part can be identified and whether the hand-held device is in contact with the body; wherein the mode of operation to use is determined as (i) a first mode when a body part can be identified, (ii) a second mode when a body part cannot be identified and the hand-held device is not in contact with the body, and (iii) a third mode when the hand-held device is in contact with the body; and determining () the position and/or orientation of the hand-held device with respect to the body of the subject using the received images and/or received displacement signal according to the determined mode of operation.

Method of determining a position and/or orientation of a hand-held device with respect to a subject, a corresponding apparatus and a computer program product

A system and method are provided for warning of an exposure of a second individual to an allergen by transfer from a first individual. Movements of the individuals are tracked so that allergen types and levels to which the individuals have been exposed can be obtained. Using knowledge of user sensitivity information to different allergens, it is determined if the first individual has been exposed to allergen types and levels which pose a risk to the second individual by GPS transfer from the first individual to the second individual. Thus, action can be taken when there is a determined risk of allergen transfer between individuals.

Allergen warning system and method

The described embodiments relate to a sensor patch that can be temporarily removed and re-applied in the same location using a side element of the sensor patch. The side element can be folded onto the sensor patch when the sensor patch is adhered to an object such as an appendage of a person. The side element can be unfolded and adhered to the appendage in order to preserve the placement of the sensor patch on the appendage. In this way, maintenance such as cleaning can be performed on the area where the sensor patch is located without having to dispose of the sensor patch. Once maintenance is completed, the side element can be folded back onto a surface of the sensor patch until maintenance is to be performed again.

Lifting sensor patch

A user device that receives plural strings of data corresponding to physiological data, generated from a training model trained in an unsupervised manner using concurrently implemented loss functions, and using a distance metric, relative to a threshold, applied between the plural strings to provide an indication of authenticity.

Self-learning verification method for data authenticity

There is provided an apparatus () for determining a location of a personal care device on a user. The apparatus () comprises a processor () configured to detect a location of one or more parts of the body of a user, detect motions of at least one of the parts of the body of the user induced by the personal care device when the personal care device is in use and determine the location of the personal care device on the user based on the detected motions of the at least one part of the body of the user in relation to the detected location of the at least one part of the body of the user. The processor () is configured to acquire images of the user from an imaging sensor () directed at the user, and detect the location of the one or more parts of the body of a user and the motions of the at least one part of the body of the user induced by the personal care device from the acquired images of the user.

Personal care device localization

Thus there is provided an object retrieval apparatus for retrieving an object which has been lost which comprises a location module arranged to determine a location indication indicative of the location of the apparatus, a first body-coupled communication (BCC) device configured to establish a communication link with a second body-coupled communication device in a tag () attachable to the object, wherein the first BCC device is further configured to check the communication link at check times, the check times occurring at repeated intervals, and to generate a link status signal indicating whether the communication link is intact or not, a control module arranged to receive the link status signal, and, if the link status signal indicates a broken link, to set a flag, record the location as a loss recorded location and generate an alert.

System and method for registering a position of loss of an object

Display screen with icon

A notifying system for notifying a user is provided. The system comprises an apparatus () arranged to perform a task. The apparatus may for example be a kitchen appliance such as an oven, where its task is heating food. The apparatus may also be a ticket machine of a public transport service. The system further comprises a mobile notifying device () for notifying the user about a task of the apparatus. The apparatus may be arranged to automatically detect the mobile notifying device if the mobile notifying device is in the vicinity of the apparatus once the task is initiated by a user, and to associate the task with the mobile notifying device. The apparatus and notifying device are arranged to communicate a notification message via a wireless communication network. This notification message comprises information related to the task, such as a message telling the user that the food is cooked. By automatically detecting the mobile notifying device, the apparatus is able to send a message to a person which has (most probably) initiated the task.

Method of notifying a user on a task of an apparatus

The present invention relates to a system () for capturing spatial and temporal relationships between physical content items () and user actions related to the physical content items (), comprising a sensor unit () for detecting the physical content items () and for outputting sensor data, a monitoring device () for user identification and monitoring of user action related to the physical content items () and for outputting monitoring data, and a processor () for processing said sensor data and said monitoring data by prioritizing and interrelating said sensor data and said monitoring data in correspondence to the frequency and/or duration of the at least one user action in connection with the at least one physical content items () and for generating a data set including said prioritized and interrelated sensor data and monitoring data.

System and method for capturing spatial and temporal relationships between physical content items

Method for sharing data (SD) between users (). The method comprises initiating body coupled communication (BCC) between first and second devices () and in response to the body coupled communication (BCC), sending a data request (Q) from one or both of the devices () to a remote server (). The data request (Q,Q) comprises first device data (ID) and the second device data (ID). The server () processes the data request (Q) and determines shared data (SD) based at least in part on both the first device data (ID) and the second device data (ID). The server sends a data response (R) to the first device (), wherein the data response (R) comprises the shared data (SD).

Data sharing using body coupled communication

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Lucas Jacobus Franciscus Geurts