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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2023
Sword Health, S.a., Oporto, PT;
José Carlos Coelho Alves, Oporto, PT;
Márcio Filipe Moutinho Colunas, Oporto, PT;
Pedro Henrique Oliveira Santos, Oporto, PT;
Virgílio António Ferro Bento, Oporto, PT;
SWORD HEALTH, S.A., Oporto, PT;
Abstract
A method for assessing whether one or more trackers are positioned on a person according to a predetermined configuration of tracker positions, comprising: transmitting, from a computing device to at least one tracker of the one or more trackers, an instruction to change an operation of the light emitter of the tracker to which the instruction is transmitted; taking one or more images by the optical sensing device; digitally processing the one or more images to digitally determine both first positions of a plurality of joints of the person on each image, and second positions of the one or more trackers positioned on the person on each image based on both a light of the light emitter of each of the one or more trackers and the transmitted instructions; digitally determining on which body member each of the one or more trackers is positioned on the person based on the first and second positions; and digitally comparing the position of each of the one or more trackers on the body members with the predetermined configuration of tracker positions.