KR20150081048A

KR20150081048A - Wearable apparatus for detecting biological rhythm

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Publication number: KR20150081048A
Application number: KR1020140000609A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 진규태; 이동우
Original assignee: 에스케이텔레콤 주식회사
Priority date: 2014-01-03
Filing date: 2014-01-03
Publication date: 2015-07-13

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wearable deice for sensing biorhythm. The wearable device includes: a condition sensing unit which senses plural pieces of condition information including motion condition information; a condition comparison unit which compares the sensed condition information with a predetermined mode conversion condition; and a mode conversion unit which automatically converts a mode from a sleeping mode to an activity mode and vice versa based on the comparison result. Therefore, when compared to the prior technology wherein mode conversion depends on manual command input, convenience of skipping direct input of a mode conversion command is provided to a user. Moreover, reliability of collected biorhythm information is relatively higher because the mode is automatically converted based on collected information, which depends less on the user and thus is objective.

Description

[0001] WEARABLE APPARATUS FOR DETECTING BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM [0002]

The present invention relates to a wearable device for detecting a biorhythm, and more particularly, to a wearable device having a function of switching between a sleep mode and an active mode so as to collect sleep rhythm in the biorhythm.

In today's healthcare, exercise and fitness are becoming increasingly important, and these types of occasions have combined various types of skills into fitness and athletic activities. For example, various portable electronic devices such as an MP3 player, a DVD player, or a mobile communication terminal are used for exercise or fitness activities.

Among such various portable electronic devices, mobile communication terminals have evolved into devices capable of performing high-level computing operations owing to the rapid development of information technology (IT) technology, and have developed a unique wireless communication function and a personal digital assistant ) Has been called as a smart phone in the sense that it combines the functions of a smart phone.

Smartphones are well suited for collecting and recording biorhythms detected by various sensors during exercise or fitness activities, as they not only perform sophisticated computing operations but also support various types of wireless communication. In addition, as application programs that enable smart phones to function as activity trackers have been developed and popularized, the utilization of smartphones in collecting biorhythms is further increased.

In recent years, wearable devices that can be worn on the wrist in the form of a watch or a bracelet, which detect a biorhythm through various sensors such as an acceleration sensor, and transmit information on the detected biorhythm to a computing terminal such as a smart phone Is receiving much attention.

Such a wearable device is called a smart band or a smart watch, and when it supports the sleep mode and the active mode, the sleep rhythm, that is, the sleep pattern can be collected in the biorhythm. When the sleep mode is supported, not only can a sleeping pattern can be collected at the interfacing computing terminal but also a power saving can be achieved by disabling an unnecessary function during the sleep mode in the wearable device.

Conventional wearable devices such as smart bands, smart watches and the like rely on passive command input in switching between sleep mode and active mode. When waving on the wrist for a predetermined number of times or by operating the mode selection button, the mode switching command is recognized to switch between the sleep mode and the active mode.

The conventional wearable device, which relies on passive command input in this manner, provided the user with the inconvenience of manually inputting the mode switching command every time.

In addition, when the user forgets to input the mode switching command, an error may occur in the information about the sleep rhythm, i.e., the sleep pattern, collected by the interlocking computing device. Depending on the skill of the user to operate the wearable device There is a problem in that the reliability of the collected biorhythm information is low because the input time of the mode switching command can be changed.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2013-0045382, published on May 03, 2013.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a wearable device that automatically switches between a sleep mode and an active mode according to a monitoring signal by various sensors.

The problems to be solved by the present invention are not limited to those mentioned above, and another problem to be solved can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a wearable apparatus for detecting a biological rhythm includes a state sensing unit for sensing a plurality of state information including motion state information, And a mode switching unit for automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a result of the comparison.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program stored in a recording medium, the program comprising the steps of: detecting a plurality of pieces of status information including motion status information; comparing the detected plurality of status information with predetermined mode switching conditions; And automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a result of the comparison.

According to the embodiments of the present invention, the sleep mode and the active mode are automatically switched according to a plurality of state information including a monitoring signal by various sensors, i.e., motion state information.

Thus, compared to the prior art in which mode switching was relied solely on passive command input, on the user side, the convenience of not having to directly enter the mode switching command is provided.

In addition, since the mode switching is automatically performed according to the objective collection information with low dependency on the user, the reliability of collected biorhythm information is relatively higher.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless connection state of a wearable device and a smartphone for detecting a biorhythm according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a wearable device for detecting a biorhythm according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for detecting a biorhythm performed by a wearable device for detecting a biorhythm according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. To fully disclose the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. The following terms are defined in consideration of the functions in the embodiments of the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention of the user, the intention or the custom of the operator. Therefore, the definition should be based on the contents throughout this specification.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless connection state of a wearable device and a smartphone for detecting a biorhythm according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As described above, the wearable device 100 according to the embodiment can be formed in a ring shape so that the wearable device can be worn like a bracelet or a wrist on the user's wrist. Also, the wearable device 100 can be provided with an activity tracker or smart And can perform short-range wireless communication with the mobile phone 200. The wearable device 100 may include a command input unit 110 through which a user can input a mode change command or the like, and an output unit 120 capable of displaying various information such as time A light emitting diode (LED), a liquid crystal display (LCD), or the like.

The wearable device 100 senses a plurality of pieces of state information including motion state information and automatically switches between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a result of comparison between the detected plurality of state information and predetermined mode switching conditions, Gather information related to the biorhythm during sleep mode or activity mode. For example, the wearable device 100 may detect state information including motion and illumination, and automatically switch between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a result of comparison between the motion and the illumination mode. Alternatively, it is possible to automatically switch between the sleep mode and the active mode according to the result of comparison between the motion and the predetermined mode switching condition by detecting the state information including the motion and the time. In addition, it is also possible to automatically switch between the sleep mode and the active mode according to the result of comparison between the motion, the illumination and the predetermined mode switching condition by detecting the state information including both the motion, the illumination and the time.

The smartphone 200 receives information related to the biorhythm of the sleep mode or the active mode collected from the user wearing the wearable device 100 from the wearable device 100 and stores the information on the activity tracker or the application program having the fitness management function Depending on the driving, the user's biorhythm can be displayed on the screen in the form of a graph or a character. The smartphone 200 is an embodiment of a computing terminal capable of providing an activity tracker or a fitness management function, and may be implemented by other electronic devices capable of communication and elevation calculations such as a tablet PC.

2 is a block diagram of a wearable device for detecting a biorhythm according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The wearable apparatus 100 according to the embodiment includes an instruction input unit 110, an output unit 120, a status sensing unit 130, a control unit 140, a data storage unit 150, a communication unit 160, And the like. The state sensing unit 130 includes a motion sensing unit 131, an illuminance measurement unit 133, a time counting unit 135, a GPS receiving unit 137, and the like. The control unit 140 includes a state comparator 141, a mode switching unit 143, an information collecting unit 145, a signal processing unit 147, and the like.

The command input unit 110 may be provided in the form of a button or the like through which a user can input a mode switching command or the like. For example, when the button is operated, a predetermined signal may be generated and input to the controller 140.

The output unit 120 may be provided in the form of an LED, an LCD, or the like capable of displaying various information including status information such as a time counted by the status sensing unit 130 or a processing result by the control unit 140 .

The state detection unit 130 detects a plurality of pieces of state information including motion state information. The state detection unit 130 may detect movement, illumination, time, GPS coordinate information, and the like as state information.

For this, the state sensing unit 130 includes a motion sensing unit 131, an illuminance measurement unit 133, a time counting unit 135, a GPS receiving unit 137, and the like. The state detecting unit 130 may be implemented in a form in which the illuminance measuring unit 133 and the GPS receiving unit 137 are excluded and the time counting unit 135 and the GPS receiving unit 137 are excluded. For example, the motion detection unit 131 may be implemented by an acceleration sensor or the like.

The control unit 140 compares the plurality of state information sensed by the state sensing unit 130 with the predetermined mode switching condition in the data storage unit 150, And transmits information related to the bio-rhythm during the sleep mode or the active mode to the output unit 120 so that a plurality of detected status information can be output, And provides the signal to the communication unit 160. [

The control unit 140 includes a state comparator 141, a mode switching unit 143, an information collecting unit 145, a signal processing unit 147, and the like.

The state comparator 141 loads a predetermined mode change condition from the data storage unit 150 when a plurality of state information detected by the state detector 130 is provided and compares the plurality of state information with a mode change condition Determines whether the detected state information satisfies the mode switching condition.

The mode switching unit 143 automatically switches between the sleep mode and the active mode according to the determination result when the state comparison unit 141 determines that the mode switching condition is satisfied. In addition, the mode switching unit 143 can switch from the sleep mode to the active mode or to the sleep mode from the active mode according to the mode switching command input from the command input unit 110. [

The information collecting unit 145 collects information related to the biological rhythm sensed by the state sensing unit 130 during the sleep mode or the active mode and may store information related to the collected biological rhythm in the data storage unit 150 . For example, movement distance information in the activity mode can be collected and stored based on various state information such as motion, time, and GPS coordinate information.

The signal processing unit 147 performs signal processing to output a plurality of pieces of status information sensed by the state sensing unit 130 and transmits the processed signal to the output unit 120. The signal processing unit 147 receives the state information from the body rhythm collected by the information collecting unit 145 And provides the signal to the communication unit 160 so that related information can be transmitted. The signal processing unit 147 may process the signal to output various information such as a telephone reception state or the like provided from the smartphone 200 through the communication unit 160 and may transmit the processed signal to the output unit 120.

The data storage unit 150 stores a mode switching condition that can be used when automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode and stores information related to the biorhythm collected by the information collection unit 145. [

The communication unit 160 transmits information related to the biorhythm of the sleep mode or activity mode collected by the information collection unit 145 of the control unit 140 to the smartphone 200. The communication unit 160 may receive various information such as a telephone reception status from the smartphone 200 and provide the information to the signal processing unit 147 of the control unit 140. [

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for detecting a biorhythm performed by a wearable device for detecting a biorhythm according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As described above, the biological rhythm sensing method according to the embodiment includes steps S301 and S303 of sensing a plurality of pieces of state information including motion state information. For example, at least one of illumination and time can be further detected as state information.

The method further includes steps (S305 and S307) for comparing the plurality of detected state information with predetermined mode switching conditions to determine whether the plurality of state information satisfy the mode switching condition.

The method further includes steps S309 and S313 for maintaining the current mode or automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode according to whether or not the plurality of status information satisfies the mode switching condition.

Next, the method further includes collecting information related to the biorhythm during the sleep mode or the active mode (S311, S315).

The method further includes a step S317 of storing and outputting information related to the collected biorhythm, or transmitting the information to an activity tracker or a fitness management function.

Hereinafter, the process of automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the wearable device 100 is worn on a specific part such as the user's wrist. During the active mode or the sleep mode, the state detection part 130 detects a plurality of state information required for the corresponding mode, (S301, S303).

For example, when the mobile terminal is operating in the active mode as in the example of FIG. 3, it can detect motion, illuminance, time, and GPS coordinate information necessary for collecting information on the activity pattern. Or in the sleep mode, it is possible to detect movement, illumination, and time necessary for collecting information on the sleep pattern. Here, for the automatic mutual switching between the sleep mode and the active mode, the state information to be used later may be all of motion, illumination, time, etc., and only motion and illumination may be used, or only motion and time may be used .

The state comparing unit 141 of the control unit 140 loads the mode switching condition pre-stored in the data storage unit 150 at step S305, The switching conditions are compared to determine whether the current state information satisfies the mode switching condition (S307).

Here, the state comparing unit 141 compares the state information including the motion and the illuminance with a predetermined mode switching condition to determine whether the mode switching condition is satisfied or the state information including the motion and the time, It is possible to determine whether the mode switching condition is satisfied or whether the mode switching condition is satisfied by comparing the state information including the motion, illumination, and time with the predetermined mode switching condition.

For example, if the motion value included in the state information is greater than the motion threshold value of the mode change condition and the illumination value included in the state information is higher than the illumination threshold value of the mode change condition, It can be determined that the condition is not satisfied. Alternatively, if the motion value contained in the state information is greater than the motion threshold of the mode switching condition and the time value contained in the state information is earlier than the time threshold value of the mode switching condition (for example, morning waking time) It can be determined that the mode switching condition is not satisfied. Alternatively, if the motion value included in the state information is larger than the motion threshold value of the mode change condition, the illumination value included in the state information is higher than the illumination threshold value of the mode change condition, and the time value included in the state information is It can be determined that the mode switching condition to the sleep mode is not satisfied if it is earlier than the time threshold value (for example, the morning waking time).

Then, when the mode switching unit 143 is operating in the current active mode, the mode switching unit 143 does not change the mode, but maintains the current active mode (S309).

The information collecting unit 145 collects activity pattern information related to the biological rhythm sensed by the state sensing unit 130 during the active mode. For example, movement distance information in the activity mode can be collected based on various state information such as motion, time, and GPS coordinate information (S311).

On the other hand, if the motion value included in the state information is smaller than the motion threshold value of the mode change condition and the illumination value included in the state information is lower than the illumination threshold value of the mode change condition, It can be determined that the switching condition is satisfied. Alternatively, if the motion value included in the state information is smaller than the motion threshold value of the mode change condition and the time value included in the state information is later than a time threshold value (for example, evening time) of the mode change condition, It can be determined that the mode switching condition is satisfied. Alternatively, if the motion value included in the state information is smaller than the motion threshold value of the mode change condition, the illumination value contained in the state information is lower than the illumination threshold value of the mode change condition, and the time value included in the state information is the mode change condition It is possible to determine that the mode switching condition to the sleep mode is satisfied if it is later than the time threshold value of the sleep mode (e.g., evening sleep time).

Then, when the mode switching unit 143 is operating in the current active mode, it automatically switches to the sleep mode (S313).

The information collecting unit 145 collects sleep pattern information related to the biological rhythm sensed by the state sensing unit 130 during the sleep mode. For example, the sleep time information in the sleep mode can be collected based on various state information such as motion and time (S315).

Next, the signal processing unit 147 processes the information related to the biorhythm collected by the information collecting unit 145 and provides the processed information to the communication unit 160, and the communication unit 160 includes the information collecting unit 145 To the smartphone 200 (S317). [0053] The smartphone 200 transmits the information related to the biorhythm in the sleep mode or the active mode collected by the user.

The smartphone 200 receives information related to the biorhythm of the sleeping mode or the active mode collected from the user wearing the wearable device 100 from the wearable device 100 and displays the activity tracker or the application having the fitness management function The user's biorhythm can be displayed on the screen in the form of a graph or a character in accordance with the operation of the program.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the wearable apparatus 100 for detecting the biorhythm can detect a sleep mode and an active mode according to a plurality of status information including monitoring signals, Automatically switch between each other. Therefore, when the mode switching is compared with the case where only the manual command input is used, the convenience of the user does not need to input the mode switching command directly. In addition, since the mode switching is automatically performed according to the objective collection information with low dependency on the user, the reliability of the collected biorhythm information is very high.

Combinations of the steps of the flowcharts appended to the present invention may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus so that the instructions, which are executed via a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, Lt; / RTI > These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to implement the functionality in a particular manner so that the computer usable or computer readable memory It is also possible to produce manufacturing items that contain instruction means for performing the functions described in each step of the flowchart. Computer program instructions may also be stored on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment so that a series of operating steps may be performed on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer- It is also possible for the instructions to perform the processing equipment to provide steps for executing the functions described in each step of the flowchart.

In addition, each step may represent a module, segment, or portion of code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative embodiments, the functions mentioned in the steps may occur out of order. For example, the two steps shown in succession may in fact be performed substantially concurrently, or the steps may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the wearable device for detecting the biorhythm automatically switches between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a plurality of status information including a monitoring signal by various sensors, i.e., motion state information. Therefore, when the mode switching is compared with the case where only the manual command input is used, the convenience of the user does not need to input the mode switching command directly. In addition, since the mode switching is automatically performed according to the objective collection information with low dependency on the user, the reliability of the collected biorhythm information is very high.

The present invention can be applied to various wearable devices capable of providing an activity tracker or a fitness management function in cooperation with a computing terminal capable of communication and elevation calculation such as a smart phone or a tablet PC.

100: wearable apparatus 110: command input unit
120: output unit 130: status detection unit
131: motion detection unit 133: illuminance measurement unit
135: time counting unit 137: GPS receiving unit
140: control unit 141:
143: Mode switching section 145: Information collecting section
147: Signal processing unit 150: Data storage unit
160:

Claims

A state detection unit for detecting a plurality of pieces of state information including motion state information,
A state comparing unit for comparing the plurality of detected state information with predetermined mode switching conditions,
And a mode switching unit for automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a result of the comparison.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the state detection unit further detects at least one of illumination and time as the state information.

Detecting a plurality of pieces of state information including motion state information,
Comparing the detected plurality of state information with predetermined mode switching conditions,
And automatically switching between the sleep mode and the active mode according to a result of the comparison.

The method of claim 3,
Wherein the sensing of the state information further senses at least one of illumination or time as the state information. &Lt; Desc / Clms Page number 19 >