KR20190073752A - Apparatus for processing multi sensor data - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a multi-sensor data processor which is capable of receiving signals sensed from a plurality of sensors with a single terminal, analyzing the signal and producing a data needed for the health management of a user. The present invention comprises: a sleep sensor which is installed on a user′s bed to sense an activity during a sleep of the user and transmit a sleep activity signal of the user; a biosensor which is worn by the user to sense the user′s biosignal and transmit the same; and a motion sensor which is worn by the user or installed on the exercise equipment used by the user to sense the motion of the user and transmit a motion signal of the user. The processor further comprises a sensor data process terminal which is provided separately from the sensors in a portable device, receives and analyzes the sleep activity signal, the biosignal, and the motion signal, produces sleep data, biometric data, and motion data of the user and transmits the sleep data, the biometric data, and the motion data to an external terminal. The present invention is capable of preventing redundant investment for purchasing a plurality of measurement devices and conveniently monitoring the sleep activity, a biological condition, and an exercise amount with low cost.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MULTI SENSOR DATA [0002]

The present invention relates to a multi-sensor data processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a multi-sensor data processing apparatus that receives a corresponding signal from a plurality of sensors that detect a user's sleeping activity, a user's living condition, And more particularly, to a multiple sensor data processing apparatus for generating data.

In recent years, along with the development of smart devices, interest in health of consumers has increased, and devices for managing user's health based on data sensed by sensors for sensing a user's sleeping activity, living state, and momentum Is being developed.

Such a health management apparatus has already been disclosed in Korean Registered Patent No. 1113172 (a portable biometric information monitoring apparatus and a biometric information monitoring system using the same).

However, the sensors used in the conventional health management apparatus are provided with a sensor for sensing a signal and a device for analyzing and processing signals sensed by the sensor in a single terminal. That is, each of the sensors includes a main component for detecting a user's living state, sleep activity, momentum, and the like, and generating an electrical signal, a memory for storing the generated signal, a calculation device for calculating data, , A display device for displaying a graph or the like is provided in an integrated form in one terminal.

Accordingly, in order to utilize signals detected from a large number of sensors for detecting a user's living state, sleep activity, and momentum as data, the user has to carry separate measurement terminals for each sensor.

For example, in order for a user to detect sleep activity and utilize data related to sleep activity during user health management, the user must carry a sleep measurement terminal, and an external terminal such as a smart phone and a sleep measurement terminal And then confirm the data.

In addition, in order for the user to sense the amount of exercise and utilize the data related to the exercise amount in the health management of the user, the user must carry a separate exercise measuring terminal separate from the sleep measuring terminal, And then confirm the data.

In this way, the user needs to separately provide each measuring device, and it takes a financial burden to follow, and it is necessary to carry a large number of terminals, and the pairing operation between each measuring terminal and the external terminal must be preceded each time, .

Prior Art 1: Korean Patent No. 1113172 (registered on Jan. 31, 2012)

It is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-sensor data processing apparatus which receives signals generated from various sensors and processes sensor data for generating data necessary for a user's health management based on the signals, by a single terminal .

The multi-sensor data processing apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one sensor for sensing a signal related to a living body, a sleeping surface, and a movement of a user and a detachable type detachable from the sensor, A sensor data processing terminal for generating biometric data, sleeping data, and exercise data for the user based on raw data and transmitting the biometric data, the sleeping data, and the exercise data to an external terminal have.

Wherein the sensor data processing terminal comprises: a signal receiver for receiving the signal generated from the sensor after buffering; a processor for analyzing the raw data to generate the biometric data, the sleep data, and the movement data, A sensor data analyzer for compressing the exercise data, and a sensor data transmitter for buffering the biometrics data, the sleeping data, and the exercise data and transmitting the buffered data to the external terminal.

The sensor data processing terminal may further include a preprocessor for removing the noise of the signal and transmitting the signal to the sensor data analysis unit.

The sensor may generate an identification signal for allowing the sensor data processing terminal to identify the sensor and transmit the identification signal to the sensor data processing terminal.

The sensor data processing terminal may further include a memory unit storing the biometric data, the sleeping data, and the exercise data at an address assigned to the sensor.

The sensor may be an optical sensor, a photocoupler, a photointerruptor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a position sensor, an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, a gas sensor, an oxygen sensor, a peltier cooling element, Sensor, tilt sensor, ultrasonic transducer, motion sensor, UV sensor, magnetic sensor, geomagnetic sensor, position sensor, flow sensor, current sensor, smoke sensor, flame sensor, impact sensor, touch sensor, lead sensor, industrial sensor, An inertial navigation device sensor, a radiation sensor, an infrared sensor, a vernier sensor, a dust sensor, a level sensor, a water level sensor, a color sensor, a proximity sensor, a vacuum sensor, and various other sensors.

According to the present invention having such a configuration, it is possible to prevent redundant investment for purchasing a plurality of measurement devices separately, and to acquire data necessary for user's health management with low cost easily.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for processing multiple sensor data according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a sensor data processing terminal of a multi-sensor data processing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a multi-sensor data processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a multi-sensor data processing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a multi-sensor data processing apparatus 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention may include a surface sensor 110, a biometric sensor 120, and a motion sensor 130.

The sleep sensor 110 may sense activity during sleep of the user. The sleep sensor 110 may be installed in a bed used by a user. The sleep sensor 110 may monitor the user's movement during sleep and may detect a sleep state due to activity, breathing, or heartbeat during sleep.

The biometric sensor 120 can sense a user's biometric signal. The biometric sensor 120 may be worn by the user. The biological sensor 120 can sense various biological signals such as a user's pulse, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, body temperature, blood sugar, and the like.

The motion sensor 130 may sense the user's momentum. The motion sensor 130 may be worn on the user or installed on a user-used exercise machine. The motion sensor 130 can sense a user's walking, moving distance, aerobic exercise, exercise using a device, and the like.

The biometric sensor 120 and the motion sensor 130 may be provided in the form of a wearable device so as to minimize a sense of rejection in use by the user.

These sensors 110, 120, and 130 may include sensors such as optical sensors, photo couplers, photointerrupters, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, position sensors, acceleration sensors, gyroscopes, gas sensors, oxygen sensors, , Differential pressure sensor, distance measuring sensor, ultrasonic sensor, tilt sensor, ultrasonic transducer, motion sensor, UV sensor, magnetic sensor, geomagnetic sensor, position recognition sensor, flow sensor, current sensor, smoke sensor, flame sensor, A sensor, a lead sensor, an industrial sensor, an inertial navigation device sensor, a radiation sensor, an infrared sensor, a vernier sensor, a dust sensor, a level sensor, a water level sensor, a color sensor, a proximity sensor, One or more of them may be combined. Such sensor technology is already well known in the art, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Meanwhile, the sensors 110, 120, and 130 used in the multi-sensor data processing apparatus 100 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention include only elements for sensing the corresponding signals and transmitting the signals, A memory for storing a signal, a computing device for computing data, and a display device for displaying a numerical value or a graph to a user may be omitted.

In the multi-sensor data processing apparatus 100 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the signals sensed by the sensors 110, 120 and 130 are transmitted to the sensor data processing terminal 200 to be described later, This is because the terminal 200 generates sleep data, biometric data, and exercise data for the user based on raw data composed of signals transmitted by the sensors 110, 120, and 130.

However, the multi-sensor data processing apparatus 100 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention needs to identify which sensor the signals sensed by the sensors 110, 120, and 130 are transmitted. Accordingly, each signal transmitted by each of the sensors 110, 120, and 130 is transmitted to each of the sensors 110, 120, and 130 when the sensors 110, 120, and 130 are connected to the sensor data processing terminal 200. [ ) Can be mounted.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a sensor data processing terminal of a multi-sensor data processing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the sensor data processing terminal 200 may include a signal receiving unit 210, a sensor data analyzing unit 250, and a sensor data transmitting unit 290.

The signal receiving unit 210 receives signals transmitted from the sensors 110, 120, and 130. The sensors 110, 120 and 130 and the signal receiver 210 may be connected to each other via a wire communication interface or a wireless communication interface (e.g., UART, RS-232, I2C, SPI, Analog Interface, Digital Interface, zigbee, -direct, Bluetooth, custom RF, etc.).

Signals transmitted by the sensors 110, 120, and 130 may be transmitted in a digital or analog manner, in the form of stream data of a continuous signal, encrypted as needed. Therefore, it is preferable that the signal receiving unit 210 is equipped with a buffering function for eliminating the bottleneck of signals transmitted by the sensors 110, 120 and 130.

In order to remove noise from a signal transmitted from the signal receiving unit 210 to the sensor data analyzing unit 250, a preprocessing unit 230 is disposed between the signal receiving unit 210 and the sensor data analyzing unit 250 . The preprocessing unit 230 can remove noise mounted on the signal by a preprocessing method such as a low-pass filter that passes only a frequency signal of a specific frequency or less.

Meanwhile, the sensor data analyzer 250 generates sleep data, biometric data, and exercise data based on raw data composed of signals transmitted from the sensors 110, 120, and 130.

That is, the sensor data analyzer 250 analyzes the raw data including the activity signals of the user during the sleep sensed by the sleep sensor 110, generates sleep data that can measure activity and sleep quality of the user during sleep do. The sensor data analyzer 250 analyzes the raw data including the biological signals detected by the biological sensor 120 and generates biometric data that can be used to determine the user's biological condition. In addition, the sensor data analyzer 250 analyzes the raw data formed by the motion signals sensed by the motion sensor 130, and generates motion data that can measure the amount of motion of the user.

As described above, since the signals transmitted by the sensors 110, 120, and 130 can be transmitted in the form of a data stream, the amount of signals transmitted to the sensor data analysis unit 250 is large, It may be difficult to transmit the data to the mobile station 10.

Therefore, the sensor data analysis unit 250 needs to compress the above-described data to reduce the amount of data. Accordingly, the sensor data analysis unit 250 can perform centering, whitening, dimensionality reduction, and the like in a manner of reducing data complexity. In addition, the sensor data analysis unit 250 may reduce the complexity of data by various methods such as Principal Component Analysis, Singular Value Decomposition, Infomax, Fast ICA, JADE, statistical methods, FFT, .

Here, the sensor data processing terminal 200 may further include a memory unit 270. The memory unit 270 has addresses assigned to the respective sensors 110, 120 and 130. The data processed by the sensor data analysis unit 250 is stored in addresses assigned to the sensors 110, 120 and 130 .

The sensor data transmitting unit 290 may transmit the data generated by the sensor data analyzing unit 250 to the external terminal 10 such as a smart phone. In this case, when the sensor data processing terminal 200 and the external terminal 10 are connected by a wireless communication interface, there is a limitation on the amount of wireless data to be transmitted and the reliability of the wireless communication interface. Therefore, It is preferable to be mounted.

The external terminal 10 is connected to the server 20 and the data transmitted from the sensor data processing terminal 200 to the external terminal 10 are compared and analyzed with the data stored in the server 20, It can be used to monitor living body condition, momentum, and so on.

Hereinafter, the operation of the multiple sensor data processing apparatus according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described.

First, the user can select any one of the water surface sensor 110, the biometric sensor 120, and the motion sensor 130 and use it.

For example, the user may connect the sensor data processing terminal 200 with the sleep sensor 110 installed in the bed before going to bed. The sleep sensor 110 transmits a sleep sensor identification signal so that the sensor data processing terminal 200 can recognize the sleep sensor 110. Thereafter, the sleep sensor 110 senses the movement of the user in the bed and transmits the sensed signal to the sensor data processing terminal 200.

The sensor data processing terminal 200 identifies the signal as a signal transmitted from the sleep sensor 110 according to the sleep sensor identification signal and outputs the received signal to an address specified in the sleep sensor 110 of the memory unit 270 . In addition, the sensor data processing terminal 200 analyzes the signal after the sleep sensor identification signal into sleep data that can be used to measure the activity of the user during sleep, and supplies the sleep data to the sleep sensor 110 of the memory unit 270 And stores it as an address.

Here, the user can previously connect or pair the sensor data processing terminal 200 and the external terminal 10, and operate the sensor data processing terminal 200 and the external terminal 10 together. Therefore, the sleeping data is transmitted to the external terminal 10, and the external terminal 10 can compare the sleeping data with the data stored in the server 20 and display it.

In this manner, the user can connect the sleep sensor 110 and the sensor data processing terminal 200, collect the signals transmitted by the sleep sensor 110 to the sensor data processing terminal 200, and acquire the analyzed sleep data have. At this time, the acquired sleeping data can be confirmed through the external terminal 10.

On the other hand, the user can acquire the exercise data by connecting the sensor data processing terminal 200 to the exercise sensor 130. That is, the user removes the sensor data processing terminal 200 used to acquire the sleeping data from the sleeping surface sensor 110 and carries it thereon. The user then carries out the exercise (for example, a cycle) Can be connected to the mounted motion sensor 130. The motion sensor 130 transmits a motion sensor identification signal so that the sensor data processing terminal 200 can recognize the motion sensor 130. Then, the motion sensor 130 senses the amount of use of the exercise device and transmits the sensed signal to the sensor data processing terminal 200.

The sensor data processing terminal 200 identifies the signal as a signal transmitted from the motion sensor 130 according to the motion sensor identification signal and outputs the received signal to an address specified in the motion sensor 130 of the memory unit 270 . At the same time, the sensor data processing terminal 200 analyzes the signal after the motion sensor identification signal as motion data that can measure momentum, and stores the motion data in the address specified in the motion sensor 130 of the memory unit 270 .

The user connects the motion sensor 130 to the sensor data processing terminal 200 and acquires the analyzed sleep data by collecting signals transmitted by the motion sensor 130 to the sensor data processing terminal 200 have. At this time, the acquired sleeping data can be confirmed through the external terminal 10.

As described above, the multiple sensor data processing apparatus according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention does not require a separate pairing process for connection with each sensor, and the sensor data processing terminal 200 is connected to the sleep sensor 110, The body surface sensor 110, the body sensor 120, and the motion sensor 130 are distinguished from other sensors by only connecting the sensor 120 and the motion sensor 130 to each other so that sleep data, .

Therefore, the multi-sensor data processing apparatus according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention can acquire sleeping data, biometric data, and exercise data of a user by collecting and analyzing signals of various sensors using a single terminal, It is possible to prevent redundant investment for purchasing, and to acquire data necessary for user's health management with low cost easily.

10: External terminal
20: Server
100: Multiple sensor data processing device
110: Surface sensor
120: Biosensor
130: motion sensor
200: sensor data processing terminal
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250: Sensor data analysis section
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290: Sensor data transfer section

Claims (1)

A sensor for sensing at least one signal among a signal relating to a living body, a sleeping surface, and a motion of the user; And
And at least one of biometric data, sleeping data, and exercise data for the user is generated based on raw data composed of the signal and received from the sensor And a sensor data processing terminal for transmitting the biometric data, the sleeping data, and the exercise data to an external terminal.

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