KR20190102777A - Apparatus and system for measuring cervical movement - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring movement of a neck. The apparatus may comprise: a frame formed of a glass type and fixed to a face of a subject; a first measurement sensor positioned at the center of the lens connecting edge of the frame to measure a tilt angle of a neck; a second measurement sensor positioned on an upper surface of the frame to measure a rotational angle of the neck; and a display positioned adjacent to a first measurement sensor and displaying the neck state information of the subject. Accordingly, the movement of the neck may be accurately measured to help prevent neck disease.

Description

Neck movement measuring device and system {APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING CERVICAL MOVEMENT}

The present invention relates to a neck motion measuring apparatus and system, and more particularly, to a neck motion measuring apparatus and system for measuring the range of motion of the neck joint in three dimensions.

Chronic pain in the neck and shoulders from the use of computers and smart devices has become a risk factor for related diseases. If you lean your head or pull your neck long to see the text on your computer and smart device, you will have an extra 27kg of weight on the neck of an adult, and the incidence of neck pain will be about 2.3 per 100 people per year. There is a situation.

Due to the weight and pressure applied to the neck, turtle neck syndrome or text neck syndrome, which causes abnormalities and pains in cervical vertebrae, is severely generated.

Losing the natural curvature of the spine, such as Turtle Neck Syndrome or Text Neck Syndrome, can put more pressure on the spine over time, causing premature wear, damage, and deterioration of the neck disc and spine. After surgery, it is easy to leave aftereffects.

In order to prevent such neck problems, a method of accurately measuring the range of motion of the neck joints is required. The range of motion of the neck joint is measured by the movement of the three human faces, which can be measured by the bending of the neck in the sagittal plane, the flexion of the neck in the sagittal plane, the lateral bending of the left or right in the forehead plane, and the rotational movement of the neck in the plane. .

In the prior art, there were devices for measuring the range of motion of the neck joint, but there was a problem that the measurement accuracy was low while the cost was low. There is a need for a method that accurately measures the range of motion of the neck joint, which is guaranteed at a lower cost.

On the other hand, the above information is only presented as background information to help the understanding of the present invention. No determination is made as to whether any of the above is applicable as the prior art concerning the present invention, and no claims are made.

Publication No. 10-2017-0100700 (Published: 2017.9.5)

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an embodiment of the present invention proposes an apparatus and system for accurately measuring the movement of the neck.

The technical problems to be achieved in the present invention are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned above will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. Could be.

Neck motion measuring apparatus for realizing the above object is formed of a glass type frame fixed to the face of the subject; A first measurement sensor positioned at the center of the lens connection edge of the frame to measure an inclination angle of the neck; A second measurement sensor positioned on an upper surface of the frame to measure a rotation angle of a neck; And a display configured to display neck state information of the subject adjacent to the first measurement sensor.

More specifically, the neck movement measuring apparatus may include a communication unit capable of transmitting angle measurement information collected from the first measurement sensor and the second measurement sensor to an external device; And a control module configured to transmit the collected measurement information to an external device through the communication unit when the collected angle measurement information exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

More specifically, the first measurement sensor may be a digital goniometer, and the second measurement sensor may be a digital compass.

More specifically, the first measurement sensor and the second measurement sensor may be a gyro sensor.

More specifically, the laser sensor may further include a plurality of laser pointers arranged in a triangle shape around the first measurement sensor.

More specifically, the apparatus further includes a sound output unit or a vibration unit, and the control module outputs a warning sound through the sound output unit or vibrates through the vibration unit when the collected measurement information exceeds a predetermined threshold value. Can be generated.

On the other hand, the neck motion measuring system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a neck motion measuring device and a mobile terminal, the neck motion measuring device is formed of a glass type frame fixed to the face of the subject, A first measurement sensor positioned at the center of the lens connection edge of the frame to measure the tilt angle of the neck, a second measurement sensor positioned at the upper surface of the frame to measure the rotation angle of the neck, and adjacent to the first measurement sensor And a display configured to display neck state information of the subject, wherein the mobile terminal receives neck state information of the subject from the device and receives a notification message based on the received neck state information of the subject. It may be displayed on the mobile terminal.

According to various embodiments of the present invention, the following effects may be derived.

First, there is provided an apparatus for accurately measuring neck movement, thereby preventing neck diseases.

Second, the data on the neck movement of the subject can be easily confirmed by the measurer, thereby improving the convenience and measurement accuracy.

Effects obtained in the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned above may be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. will be.

1 shows an apparatus for measuring neck motion according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an apparatus for measuring neck motion of FIG. 1.
Figure 3 shows a neck movement measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 shows the driving of the neck movement measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 to 6 (d) show various aspects of the neck movement measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 illustrates driving of a neck movement measuring system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 illustrates a neck movement measuring apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The neck movement measuring apparatus 100 of the neck may be formed in the shape of glasses and worn by the subject USER.

The neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may measure a range of joint movement in which a neck joint of a user USER may move using a plurality of sensors. Neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may measure the movement displacement of the neck moving in the X-axis, Y-axis, Z-axis.

The neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may measure the bending and stiffness of the neck at the sagittal plane of the neck, the right and left bends at the forehead surface, and the right and left rotational movements of the neck in the plane. To this end, the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may include a first measuring sensor 110 measuring a tilt angle of the neck, a second measuring sensor 120 measuring the rotation angle of the neck, and the like. .

The first measurement sensor 110 may be a digital goniometer, and the digital goniometer may measure the tilt angle of the neck. A digital goniometer can be a goniometer, a device that measures the direction of propagation in engineering, and can accurately measure the angle of inclination of the neck.

The second measurement sensor 120 may be applied to a digital compass (Compass) for measuring the rotation angle of the neck, the digital compass may be used to measure the rotation angle of the neck with a device made to know the orientation by needle.

The first measurement sensor 110 and the second measurement sensor 120 described above may be replaced by a gyroscope sensor, and the gyroscope sensor is a rotor shaft orthogonal to the rotor shaft whose rotational axis that can rotate at high speed is its own axis. It is a device made to be able to rotate freely around three axes with the horizontal axis and the vertical axis, respectively, can be used to measure the tilt and rotation angle of the neck.

The display 130 is a device that enables the measurer to know the state of the neck of the user USER, and may display various information. The display 130 may display data such as neck tilt angle information and neck rotation angle information of the current subject, and may display information on whether the neck state of the subject is normal.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating respective components of the apparatus for measuring neck motion 100 shown in FIG. 1.

According to FIG. 2, the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 includes a first measuring sensor 110, a second measuring sensor 120, a display 130, a communication unit 140, an optical output unit 150, and a sound output unit. 160, a vibrator 170, and a control module 180. The configurations shown in FIG. 2 are not essential to implementing the neck movement measuring apparatus 100, so that the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 described herein is more or less than the components listed above. It can have elements.

The first measurement sensor 110 is used to measure the inclination angle of the neck, may be implemented with a digital goniometer, it may be implemented with a gyroscope sensor. The first measurement sensor 110 may be positioned in the center of the lens connection edge of the frame which is formed of a glass type and is fixed to the face of the subject.

The second measurement sensor 120 may measure the rotation angle of the neck and may be located on the upper surface of the frame. The second measurement sensor 120 may be implemented as a digital compass, or may be implemented as a gyroscope sensor.

The display 130 may display the state information of the subject to the measurer near the periphery of the first measuring sensor 110. The display 130 is a liquid crystal display (LCD), a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a flexible display (flexible display) ), At least one of a 3D display and an e-ink display.

The communicator 140 may communicate with an external communication device. For example, the communication unit 140 may communicate with an external mobile terminal 200. The communication unit 140 may include technical standards or communication schemes for mobile communication (for example, Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), Code Division Multi Access (CDMA), Code Division Multi Access 2000 (CDMA2000), and EV-DO). Enhanced Voice-Data Optimized or Enhanced Voice-Data Only (WCDMA), Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), Long Term Evolution (LTE), Long Term Evolution-Advanced) and the like can transmit and receive radio signals with at least one of a base station, an external terminal, and a server on a mobile communication network. In addition, the communication unit 140 may include a wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi), wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), digital living network alliance (DLNA), wireless broadband (WiBro), and world interoperability for WiMAX (WiMAX). Microwave Access, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), and the like may be supported. In addition, the communication unit 110 is a module for short range communication, and includes: Bluetooth ™, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Infrared Data Association (IrDA), Ultra Wideband (UWB), ZigBee, It may support at least one of Near Field Communication (NFC), Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Wi-Fi Direct, and Wireless Universal Serial Bus (Wireless USB) technologies.

The light output unit 150 may be disposed in the shape of a triangle around the first measurement sensor 110 and may be implemented as a laser pointer. The light output unit 150 may be used to zero the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 by outputting light to a specific region. However, the number of the light output unit 150 may be configured differently at the time of implementation.

The light output unit 150 may be used to visually display the movable range of the movement of the neck to the outside.

The sound output unit 160 may be implemented as a speaker that outputs a warning sound, a notification sound, and the like. The sound output unit 160 may output a warning sound when the movement of the neck lasts a predetermined time. Thus, it can be helpful to prevent disease.

The vibrator 170 may generate vibration when necessary under the control of the control module 180. The vibrator 160 may also generate a vibration to notify a user wearing the neck movement measuring device when the neck movement lasts a predetermined time at a specific angle.

The control module 180 is a module for overall control of the neck movement measuring apparatus 100.

If the collected angle measurement information exceeds a predetermined threshold, the control module 180 may transmit the collected measurement information to the external device 200 through the communication unit 140. In this case, the external mobile terminal 200 may drive a specific application to display neck angle measurement information collected from the neck movement measuring apparatus 100, display a warning message, or output a warning notification.

The specific application may display this on the user interface when the user performs an excessive movement on the neck even while living, not when measuring the movement of the user's neck.

In addition, when the collected measurement information exceeds a predetermined threshold, the control module 180 may output a warning sound through the sound output unit 160 or generate vibration through the vibration unit 170.

In addition to the above components, the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may further include a storage unit (not shown). The storage unit may store various information according to the control of the control module 170, and the storage unit may include a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a solid state disk type, and an SDD type. (Silicon Disk Drive type), multimedia card micro type, card type memory (e.g. SD or XD memory, etc.), random access memory (RAM), static random access memory (SRAM), It may include a storage medium of at least one type of read-only memory (ROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EPEROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), magnetic memory, magnetic disk, and optical disk. . The neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may be operated in connection with a web storage that performs a storage function of the storage unit on the Internet.

3 shows a neck movement measuring apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may be implemented in a glass form or a form that does not include a lens. The second measurement sensor 120 may be disposed on the upper surface of the neck movement measuring apparatus 100, and may further include a fixed support 193. The fixed support 193 corresponds to a fixed part for allowing the neck movement measuring device 100 to be fixed to the face of the subject.

Referring to FIG. 3, the second measurement sensor 120 may be disposed on the upper surface, and the first measurement sensor 110 may be disposed at the center of the lens connection edge of the frame.

The control module 180 may calculate data about the movement of the neck by comprehensively considering the data of the first measurement sensor 110 and the second measurement sensor 120.

Figure 4 shows the driving of the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The plurality of light output units 150A to 150C of the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may set a zero point using the specific target finger 30. The control module 180 may set a zero point on the neck of the subject through the direction of light output from the plurality of light output units 150A to 150C.

The control module 180 may set the direction of the light output from the plurality of light output units 150A to 150C to be the origin. The control module 180 may set the neck movement in the most comfortable state for each person to be the origin, and in this case, the plurality of light output units 150A to 150C may be set to face the center point of the target finger 30.

5 to 6 (d) show various aspects of the neck movement measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to FIG. 5, the display 130 of the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may display information on whether the neck state of the subject is normal, abnormal, treatment, and the like, and particularly, the neck tilt angle of the subject. Information, neck rotation angle information and the like can be displayed. The neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may notify the measurer by displaying the phrase “normal” on the display 130.

In addition, the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may monitor the state of the neck of the subject in real time, and transmit the corresponding information to the mobile terminal whenever an abnormality is found.

6A to 6D, the neck movement measuring apparatus 100 may include a second measuring sensor 120 on an upper surface thereof. The second measurement sensor 120 may be disposed on a flat surface to accurately measure the rotation angle of the neck.

The shape of FIG. 6 (a) may be 8 cm in height, and the width of the lower part may be implemented in 2 cm, but embodiments are not limited thereto. The shape may be implemented as a surface perpendicular to the surface on which the first measurement sensor 110 is disposed. Accordingly, the bending of the neck can be measured from the first measuring sensor 110 and at the same time the rotational movement of the neck can be accurately measured through the second measuring sensor 120.

According to FIG. 6B, a second measurement sensor 120 may be disposed at the end of the shape. The length of the upper end of the shape may be 15 cm, the length of the upper end may be adjusted according to the distance between the user's forehead.

Referring to FIGS. 6 (c) and 6 (d), shapes in other directions of the shapes may be expressed.

7 illustrates driving of the angle measuring system according to an exemplary embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 7, the mobile terminal 200 may collect and display various information from the neck movement measuring apparatus 100. For example, the mobile terminal 200 may display a message for correcting a user's behavior when the neck tilt angle or neck rotation angle collected from the neck motion measuring apparatus 100 is not normal for a predetermined time. Can be. For example, the mobile terminal 200 may display a message such as “correct posture” and “WARNING”.

The mobile terminal 200 includes a mobile phone, a smart phone, a laptop computer, a digital broadcasting terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a navigation device, and a slate PC. , Tablet PCs, ultrabooks, wearable devices, such as smartwatches, glass glasses, head mounted displays, and the like. have. However, those skilled in the art can easily apply to a fixed terminal such as a digital TV, a desktop computer, a digital signage, and the like, except that the configuration according to the exemplary embodiment described herein is applicable only to the mobile terminal 200. You will know.

Meanwhile, the functional operations and implementations of the subject matter described in this specification may be implemented in digital electronic circuitry, computer software, firmware or hardware including the structures and structural equivalents disclosed herein, or one or more of them. It can be implemented in combination. Implementations of the subject matter described herein may be embodied as one or more modules related to computer program instructions encoded on a program storage medium of tangible type for controlling or by the operation of one or more computer program products, ie control systems. Can be implemented.

The computer readable medium may be a machine readable storage device, a machine readable storage substrate, a memory device, a composition of materials affecting a machine readable propagated signal, or a combination of one or more thereof.

As used herein, the term " device " encompasses all devices, devices, and machines for controlling data, including, for example, programmable processors, computers or multiple processors or computers. The control system may include, in addition to hardware, code that forms an execution environment for a computer program on demand, such as code constituting processor firmware, a protocol stack, a database management system, an operating system, or a combination of one or more thereof. .

Computer programs (also known as programs, software, software applications, scripts, or code) may be written in any form of programming language, including compiled or interpreted languages, or a priori or procedural languages. It can be deployed in any form, including components, subroutines, or other units suitable for use in a computer environment. Computer programs do not necessarily correspond to files in the file system. A program may be in a single file provided to the requested program, in multiple interactive files (eg, a file that stores one or more modules, subprograms, or parts of code), or part of a file that holds other programs or data. (Eg, one or more scripts stored in a markup language document). The computer program may be deployed to run on a single computer or on multiple computers located at one site or distributed across multiple sites and interconnected by a communication network.

Computer-readable media suitable for storing computer program instructions and data, on the other hand, include, for example, semiconductor memory devices such as EPROM, EEPROM, and flash memory devices, such as magnetic disks such as internal hard disks or external disks, magneto-optical disks, and CDs. It may include all types of nonvolatile memory, media and memory devices, including -ROM and DVD-ROM disks. The processor and memory can be supplemented by or integrated with special purpose logic circuitry.

Implementations of the subject matter described herein may include, for example, a backend component such as a data server, or include a middleware component such as, for example, an application server, or a web browser or graphical user, for example, where a user may interact with the implementation of the subject matter described herein. It may be implemented in a computing system that includes a front end component, such as a client computer with an interface, or any combination of one or more of such back end, middleware or front end components. The components of the system may be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication such as, for example, a communication network.

Although the specification includes numerous specific implementation details, these should not be construed as limiting to any invention or the scope of the claims, but rather as a description of features that may be specific to a particular embodiment of a particular invention. It must be understood. Likewise, certain features described herein in the context of separate embodiments may be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment can also be implemented in multiple embodiments individually or in any suitable subcombination. Furthermore, while the features may operate in a particular combination and may be initially depicted as so claimed, one or more features from the claimed combination may in some cases be excluded from the combination, the claimed combination being a subcombination Or a combination of subcombinations.

In addition, although the drawings depict operations in a particular order, it is to be understood that such operations must be performed in the specific order or sequential order shown in order to obtain desirable results or that all illustrated acts must be performed. Can not be done. In certain cases, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Moreover, the separation of the various system components of the above-described embodiments should not be understood as requiring such separation in all embodiments, and the described program components and systems will generally be integrated together into a single software product or packaged into multiple software products. Should understand that

As such, this specification is not intended to limit the invention to the specific terms presented. Thus, while the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above examples, those skilled in the art can make modifications, changes, and variations to the examples without departing from the scope of the invention. The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

Claims (7)

A frame formed of a glass type and fixed to the face of the subject;
A first measurement sensor positioned at the center of the lens connection edge of the frame to measure an inclination angle of the neck;
A second measurement sensor positioned on an upper surface of the frame to measure a rotation angle of a neck; And
And a display for displaying neck condition information of the subject adjacent to the first measurement sensor. The method of claim 1,
A communication unit capable of transmitting angle measurement information collected from the first measurement sensor and the second measurement sensor to an external device; And
And a control module for transmitting the collected measurement information to an external device through the communication unit when the collected angle measurement information exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the first measurement sensor is a digital goniometer and the second measurement sensor is a digital compass. The method of claim 2,
And said first and second measurement sensors are gyro sensors. The method of claim 2,
And a plurality of laser pointers arranged in a triangular shape around the first measuring sensor. The method of claim 2,
Further comprising a sound output unit or a vibration unit,
The control module,
When the collected measurement information exceeds a predetermined threshold value, outputs a warning sound through the sound output unit or generates a vibration through the vibration unit, neck movement measuring apparatus. A neck movement measuring device and a mobile terminal,
The motion measurement device of the neck,
A frame formed of a glass type and fixed to the face of the subject,
A first measurement sensor positioned at a center of the lens connecting edge of the frame to measure an inclination angle of a neck;
A second measurement sensor positioned on an upper surface of the frame to measure a rotation angle of a neck;
A display for displaying neck state information of the subject adjacent to the first measurement sensor;
The mobile terminal,
Receiving neck state information of the subject from the device and displaying a notification message on the mobile terminal based on the received neck state information of the subject.

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