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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Louis Nicolas Atallah, Eindhoven, NL;
Kiran Hamilton J. Dellimore, Eindhoven, NL;
Marcel Cornelis Dirkes, Eindhoven, NL;
Jens Mühlsteff, Aachen, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A device and method for monitoring pain of a user () are presented. The device () comprises a receiving unit () for receiving an accelerometer signal () from an accelerometer sensor () worn by the user (), wherein the accelerometer signal () comprises components of a pulse signal () and a respiration signal (); and a processing unit () configured to: derive the pulse signal () and the respiration signal () from the accelerometer signal (); adapt the pulse signal () based on the respiration signal () in order to obtain a corrected pulse signal (); and derive a pain descriptor based on the corrected pulse signal ().