Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

Philips Intellectual Property & Standards Gmbh

Sheng Jin

Ningjiang Chen

Yang Peng

Bin Yin

Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate

Gang Wang

Heribert Baldus

Ying Zhang

Lin Nan Li

Bei Wang

Maarten Leonardus Christian Brand

Mingdong Li

Gongming Wei

Mian Ding

Dahua He

Yusi Liu

Yuqiang Wu

Qinfeng Zhang

Xin Chen

Yunji Xia

A system and method is provided for monitoring the fetal position and/or orientation of the fetus of an expectant mother. An acoustic sensor array is positioned over the belly. The pattern of acoustic sensor signals is processed to determine a fetal orientation and/or to determine movement over time of the fetus.

Fetal monitoring system and method

A device is provided for monitoring the delivery and taking of medication pills by detecting both the passage of a pill and the covering of a pill outlet region, which is indicative of an active operation of the user to remove the pill from the pill outlet region. In this way, pill delivery can be monitored as well as an indication of actual pill taking.

Monitoring device for monitoring the delivery and taking of medication pills and a monitoring method

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for tracking hand and/or wrist rotation of a user performing exercise. An aspect of the present invention proposes a method of tracking hand and/or wrist rotation of a user performing an exercise, wherein the user wears a marker on his/her hand, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring a first image and a second image of the marker by means of a camera when the hand is in a first posture and a second posture respectively; deriving the angle change of the hand and/or wrist from the change from the first posture to the second posture, based on the first image and the second image and the type of the exercise that the user is performing; and outputting the angle change of the hand and/or wrist, wherein the marker approximates a rectangular block, the marker has an opening for accommodating the palm(s) of the user and the side of the marker along the direction perpendicular to the palm is substantially shorter than two other sides. In this way, a single hand-worn marker is adequate for hand/wrist rotation tracking, so that the system implementation may be simplified and the cost for markers or other accelerometers can be saved.

Method and apparatus for tracking hand and/or wrist rotation of a user performing exercise

The invention provides a device () for assisting a cough, based on an oscillation pressure. The oscillation pressure causes a periodic oscillation airflow in a lung system and the periodic oscillation airflow comprises an oscillation exhalation airflow and an oscillation inhalation airflow. The device () comprises a controlling unit (), and the controlling unit () comprises:

Device and method for assisting a cough

A method of presenting an option comprises: calculating a movement range of an object; calculating an area of a display device based on the movement range; and presenting at least one option in the area of the display device.

Method and apparatus for presenting an option

There is provided a personal fall detection system comprising a sensor module that is suitable for attachment to a user, the sensor module comprising an accelerometer for measuring accelerations acting on the sensor module; and a processor for analyzing the measured accelerations to determine if the sensor module has suffered an impact, and for estimating a vertical displacement of the sensor module during a time period immediately before the impact; wherein the processor estimates the vertical displacement of the sensor module by twice integrating the measurements from the accelerometer.

Displacement measurement in a fall detection system

This invention relates to methods and apparatus for detecting a fall of a user, especially to methods and apparatus for detecting a fall of a user by using pressure sensors. This invention discloses an apparatus for detecting a fall of a user, and the apparatus comprises first and second pressure sensors configured to obtain first and second data values of atmosphere pressure and intended to be worn on the body of the user, and a processor configured to derive a third data value of atmosphere pressure for determining whether a fall occurs or not from the first and second data values of atmosphere pressure. The first and second pressure sensors are configured in a way such that preset orientations of the first and second pressure sensors are opposite to each other. In this way, the weight of measuring elements comprised in the first and second pressure sensors have opposite effects on the measured atmosphere pressure, and thus (?) the measurement error caused by pressure sensor orientation variation can be reduced or even eliminated.

Methods and apparatus for detecting a fall of user

There is provided a fall detection and/or prevention system, comprising one or more sensors for detecting characteristics of movement of a user of the fall detection and/or prevention system and for generating corresponding signals; processing means for analyzing the signals from the one or more sensors using a fall detection algorithm to determine if a fall has taken place or is likely to take place; wherein the processing means is further adapted to update said fall detection algorithm based on the result of the analysis of the signals and an indication whether a fall has actually taken place from the user or a third party.

Fall detection and/or prevention systems

A method of playing pictures includes receiving a voice message; extracting a key feature from the voice message; selecting pictures by matching the key feature with pre-stored picture information; generating a picture-voice sequence by integrating the selected pictures and the voice message; and playing the picture-voice sequence. An electronic apparatus includes a processing unit for implementing the method.

Method and apparatus for playing pictures

There is provided a fall detection system comprising a fall detector for monitoring the movement of a user and detecting if the user has fallen or is about to fall, one or more sensors for collecting measurements of one or more physical characteristics of the user, wherein the fall detector uses the measurements to adapt the fall detection to the physical characteristics of the user.

Fall detection system

A method and apparatus for playing a mobile video program buffers program content received in real time when there is a considerable movement state change. After the movement state becomes stable, playing will be resumed. While playing is resumed, the buffered contents can be firstly played, including the playing manners such as skipping, fast forward, etc, and then a program content received in real time will be played after all the buffered contents have been processed. According to the mobile video playing method, both the user's requirement for the continuity of a program content and the user's viewing effect will not be influenced by a fierce change of movement state of the mobile video apparatus.

Method and apparatus for playing a mobile video program

The present invention provides a method for finding a backup node for a node in a sensor network. Firstly, determining a node which is in a state of waiting for being an agent node among a plurality of nodes adjacent to the node to be backed up for using the agent node to find the backup node. The states of waiting for being backed up is that the quantity of electricity of the node to be backed up drops below a preset value. According to the present invention, the node to be backed up does not need to communicate with a large number of nodes. It only needs to determine an agent node among the adjacent notes to do the substantial search for a backup node.

Sensor network

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for optimizing optical disc navigators. According to the present invention, the optical disc player sets the optimum optical disc navigator that can be realized as the optical disc navigator for playing the optical disc by testing and adjusting basing on the optical disc navigator resources that are retrieved from the optical disc playing system (including the optical disc player, optical disc and network or other storage media) and the functions that can be realized by the default optical disc navigator within the optical disc playing system, so as to achieve the purpose of fully utilizing the resources and smooth playing.

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Shanghai, China

Sheng Jin