TWI815738B - Method and device for monitoring the state of pregnant woman and her fetus with smart watch - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to method and device for monitoring the state of a pregnant woman and her fetus with smart watch. The method includes: attaching a smart watch to a coupling portion of an abdominal wearable device in a detachable manner so that a watch measuring unit of the smart watch and a plurality of auxiliary measuring units jointly constitute a vibration measurement array; letting the abdominal wearable device be worn on the abdomen of a pregnant woman; using the watch measuring unit to detect a sound signal of the abdomen to obtain a comprehensive heart rhythm information; using the vibration measurement array to detect a vibration signal of the abdomen to obtain a fetal movement information and a uterine contraction information; using an optical measuring device of the watch measuring unit to detect a blood vessel in the abdomen of the pregnant woman to obtain a mother heart rhythm information, and further obtain a fetal heart rhythm information by filtering the mother heart rhythm information out from the comprehensive heart rhythm information.

Description

Methods and devices for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with smart watches and abdominal puncture Wearing accessories

The invention relates to a method for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses using a smart watch, as well as a device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses and abdominal wearables thereof.

During pregnancy, fetal movements help determine the condition of the fetus. In order to avoid the risk of being infected by other diseases when going to the hospital, some pregnant women choose to observe fetal movements by themselves, but this is easily affected by the sensitivity of the pregnant woman and the environment.

Therefore, U.S. Patent Publication No. US20200155000A1 provides a fetal movement measuring instrument, which mainly uses a detection unit attached to the abdomen of pregnant women to detect dynamic physiological signals of pregnant women and fetal electrocardiogram signals.

However, when a pregnant woman does not need to measure fetal movement for the time being, or after giving birth, the fetal movement measuring instrument in the aforementioned patent cannot be detached from the fetal movement sensor part separately, and is not easy to be used in other places.

Therefore, the inventor of the present invention proposes a method for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch for use by a pregnant woman. The method for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch includes the following steps: setting an abdominal wearing piece, and setting the abdominal wearing piece There is a combination part and a plurality of auxiliary measurement units; a smart watch is detachably combined with the combination part, so that a watch measurement unit of the smart watch is connected to the aforementioned auxiliary measurement units. The auxiliary measurement units together form a vibration measurement array; the abdominal wearable piece is worn on an abdomen of the pregnant woman, wherein the watch measurement unit is attached to a central position of the abdomen, and the auxiliary measurement unit is attached to A surrounding position of the abdomen; using the watch measurement unit to measure a sound signal of the abdomen, and the smart watch obtains a comprehensive heart rhythm information based on the sound signal; using the vibration measurement array to measure a vibration signal of the abdomen, The smart watch obtains fetal movement information and uterine contraction information based on the vibration signal; uses an optical measurement element of the watch measurement unit to measure a pregnant woman's blood vessels in the abdomen, obtains a pregnant woman's heart rhythm information, and transmits the pregnant woman's heart rhythm information A screening process is performed with the aforementioned comprehensive heart rhythm information to screen out a fetal heart rhythm information in the comprehensive heart rhythm information.

The fetal movement information includes one or a combination of the following information: a fetal movement position information, a fetal movement intensity information, and a fetal movement time information.

Furthermore, there is a warning step, which is to respectively set a reference value of fetal movement position, a reference value of fetal movement intensity, a reference value of fetal movement time, a reference value of uterine contraction, a reference value of pregnant woman's heart rate and a reference value of fetal heart rate, and calculate by using an arithmetic unit One of the following: a fetal movement position dispersion value between the fetal movement position information and the fetal movement position reference value, a fetal movement intensity dispersion value between the fetal movement intensity information and the fetal movement intensity reference value, a fetal movement time information and the fetal movement intensity reference value. A fetal movement time dispersion value between the fetal movement time reference value, a uterine contraction dispersion value between the uterine contraction information and the uterine contraction reference value, a pregnant woman's heart rhythm between the pregnant woman's heart rhythm information and the pregnant woman's heart rhythm reference value Dispersion value, a fetal heart rate dispersion value between the fetal heart rhythm information and the fetal heart rhythm reference value; when the fetal movement position dispersion value, the fetal movement intensity dispersion value, the fetal movement time dispersion value, the uterine contraction dispersion value When any one of the difference value, the maternal heart rhythm dispersion value and the fetal heart rhythm dispersion value is greater than a preset value, the computing unit outputs a warning message.

Further, the warning message is transmitted to one or a combination of the smart watch, a mobile phone, a tablet computer and a computer.

Further, the optical measuring element is used to measure the blood vessels of the pregnant woman to obtain blood oxygen information of the pregnant woman.

Further, there is a message display step of displaying one of the following messages or a combination thereof through a display unit: the comprehensive heart rhythm message, the fetal movement message, the uterine contraction message, the pregnant woman's heart rhythm message and the fetal heart rhythm message.

Wherein, the abdominal wearing piece is an abdominal belt.

Wherein, the abdominal wearing piece is a radiating adhesive piece, and a plurality of radiating strips of the radiating adhesive piece extend from the central position to the peripheral position.

The inventor also proposes an abdominal wearable device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses, which is worn on the abdomen of a pregnant woman. The abdominal wearable device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses includes: a contact surface for contacting the abdomen; an outer surface, Located on the opposite surface of the contact surface; a joint portion corresponding to a central position of the abdomen, the joint portion matches a watch body of a smart watch, the joint portion is used to combine and fix the watch body; and a plurality of auxiliary measurement units , respectively corresponding to a peripheral position of the abdomen, each of the auxiliary measurement units has an auxiliary measurement surface, the auxiliary measurement surface is located on the contact surface, and the auxiliary measurement unit and the watch body are both signally connected; as mentioned above After the watch body is combined with the joint part, a watch measurement unit of the watch body is located on the contact surface.

The inventor further proposes a device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses, which includes the aforementioned abdominal wearable for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses, and further includes: a smart watch selectively coupled to the joint.

Among them, the smart watch signal is connected to one of the following devices or a combination thereof: a mobile phone, a tablet computer, and a computer.

According to the above technical characteristics, the following effects can be preferably achieved:

1. Through the optical measurement element of the smart watch, the heart rhythm information of pregnant women can be measured separately. The measurement unit of the smart watch can measure the sound signal of the abdomen of pregnant women to obtain the comprehensive heart rhythm information of pregnant women and fetuses, and then use screening The program can filter out the pregnant woman's heart rhythm information from the comprehensive heart rhythm information and obtain the fetal heart rhythm information separately, preventing the fetal heart rhythm information from being confused by the comprehensive heart rhythm information, and providing effective monitoring for grasping the fetal heart rhythm status.

2. By cooperating with the watch measurement unit and each auxiliary measurement unit to construct a vibration measurement array, the fetal movement position information can be detected, and the fetal position can be determined based on the fetal movement position information, which can effectively assist in reminding the abnormal fetal position.

3. Integrating the timing function of the smart watch can store fetal movement position, fetal movement intensity, uterine contraction, maternal heart rhythm, maternal blood oxygen and fetal heart rhythm according to time parameters, providing long-term status analysis of pregnant women and fetuses to detect abnormalities immediately. status.

4. Equipped with a detachable smart watch, when there is no need to perform fetal status detection, the smart watch can still be removed and worn on the wrist.

5. Through the setting of multiple reference values, when pregnant women or fetuses are in danger, warning messages can be output immediately to improve the safety of pregnant women and fetuses.

6. The measured information will be displayed through the display unit, which is convenient for pregnant women or relatives and friends to view.

1,1a: Abdominal wear

11: Contact surface

12:Outer surface

13:joint part

14,14a: Auxiliary measurement unit

141: Auxiliary measurement surface

2,2a: smart watch

21,21a: Surface body

211: Screening Procedure

22,22a:strap

23:Watch measurement unit

231: Optical measurement components

3: mobile phone

A:Vibration measurement array

B:pregnant woman

B1: Abdomen

C: Comprehensive heart rhythm information

D: Pregnant woman’s heart rhythm information

E: Fetal heart rhythm information

F: fetal movement message

F1: Fetal movement position information

G: Uterine contraction message

[Figure 1] is an exploded perspective view of the first embodiment of the present invention.

[The second figure] is a three-dimensional assembled view of the first embodiment of the present invention.

[The third figure] is a perspective assembled view from another direction of the first embodiment of the present invention.

[Figure 4] is a system block diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention.

[Figure 5] is a flow block diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention.

[Figure 6] is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the combination with the abdomen of a pregnant woman.

[Figure 7] is the second schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the display of information through the watch body.

[Figure 8] is the third schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the display of messages through a mobile phone.

[Figure 9] is a schematic diagram 4 of the first embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the acquisition of different messages.

[Figure 10] is a schematic diagram 5 of the first embodiment of the present invention, illustrating obtaining fetal movement position information.

[Figure 11] is a schematic diagram 6 of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing that the position of fetal movement is relatively concentrated.

[Figure 12] is a schematic diagram 7 of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing that the positions of fetal movements are relatively dispersed.

[Figure 13] is an exploded perspective view of the second embodiment of the present invention.

Based on the above technical features, the main functions of the method and device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with smart watches and the abdominal wearables of the present invention will be clearly demonstrated in the following embodiments.

Please refer to Figures 1 to 4, which reveal the first embodiment of the device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses according to the present invention, including an abdominal wearable device (hereinafter referred to as the abdominal wearable device 1) for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses according to the present invention. and a smart watch 2 to construct a vibration measurement array A. Monitor pregnant women and fetuses The status device can also be used to perform one of the methods of the present invention for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch.

The abdominal wearing piece 1 is worn on an abdomen B1 of a pregnant woman B, as shown in the sixth figure. In this embodiment, the abdominal wearing piece 1 is a radiating adhesive piece, and a plurality of radiating strips of the radiating adhesive piece extend from a central position of the abdomen B1 to a peripheral position of the abdomen B1. Preferably, the central position refers to the vicinity of the belly button of the pregnant woman B, and the surrounding positions surround the central position.

The abdominal wearing piece 1 includes: a contact surface 11 , an outer surface 12 , a connecting portion 13 and a plurality of auxiliary measurement units 14 .

The contact surface 11 is for contacting the abdomen B1, and the outer surface 12 is located on the opposite surface of the contact surface 11. The coupling part 13 corresponds to the central position, and the auxiliary measurement units 14 respectively correspond to the peripheral positions. Each of the auxiliary measurement units 14 has an auxiliary measurement surface 141 located on the contact surface 11 .

The smart watch 2 is selectively connected to the joint part 13. Preferably, the smart watch 2 includes a watch body 21 and a watch band 22. The auxiliary measurement unit 14 and the watch body 21 are both signally connected, and The signal of the smart watch 2 is connected to one of the following devices or a combination thereof: a mobile phone 3, a tablet computer and a computer. In the drawings of the present invention, the mobile phone 3 is only shown in the eighth figure for illustration.

After the smart watch 2 removes the strap 22 , the watch body 21 matches the coupling part 13 so that the coupling part 13 can combine and fix the watch body 21 .

After the watch body 21 is combined with the joint part 13, a watch measurement unit 23 of the watch body 21 will be located on the contact surface 11. The watch measurement unit 23 and each of the auxiliary measurement units 14 are jointly constructed to form the watch body 21. Vibration measurement array A.

The watch measurement unit 23 itself can be equipped with a sound sensing element, an inertial measurement element and an optical measurement element 231, such as a microphone, a gyroscope, an infrared transceiver, etc., respectively, to perform different measurement functions. In the drawings of the present invention, only the optical measurement element 231 is shown for illustration, and the auxiliary measurement unit 14 can also be the inertial measurement element respectively.

Please refer to Figures 4 to 6. When the pregnant woman B wants to perform the method of monitoring the status of the pregnant woman and the fetus with a smart watch, she first combines the watch body 21 with the abdominal wearable 1 and wears the abdominal wearable 1 On the abdomen B1, the watch measurement unit 23 is attached to the central position, and the auxiliary measurement unit 14 is attached to the peripheral position.

Please refer to the seventh to ninth figures, and please match the fourth and fifth figures. Then, use the watch measurement unit 23 to measure a sound signal of the abdomen B1, and the smart watch 2 obtains a sound signal based on the sound signal. Comprehensive heart rhythm information C.

And use the optical measuring element 231 to measure a pregnant woman's blood vessel in the abdomen B1, obtain a pregnant woman's heart rhythm information D and a pregnant woman's blood oxygen information, and perform a screening process 211 on the pregnant woman's heart rhythm information D and the aforementioned comprehensive heart rhythm information C, The maternal heart rhythm information D is filtered out from the comprehensive heart rhythm information C, and a fetal heart rhythm information E in the comprehensive heart rhythm information C is screened out.

However, using visible light or non-visible light to measure heart rhythm and blood oxygen, and determining heart rhythm from sound are common techniques. Those with ordinary knowledge in the relevant technical field can naturally configure them according to actual needs.

In addition, the vibration measurement array A can also be used to measure a vibration signal of the abdomen B1, and the smart watch 2 obtains a fetal movement message F and a uterine contraction message G based on the vibration signal.

In addition to displaying the above-mentioned information through a display unit, for example, it can be directly displayed on the watch body 21 as shown in the seventh figure, or displayed on the mobile phone 3 as shown in the eighth figure, for the purpose of providing information to the pregnant woman. Viewed by the woman B or her relatives and friends, it can also be transmitted to a computing unit, such as the watch body 21 or the mobile phone 3. The computing unit combines a preset fetal movement position reference value, a fetal movement intensity reference value, and a fetal movement time reference value. , a uterine contraction reference value, a pregnant woman's heart rhythm reference value and a fetal heart rhythm reference value for calculation.

For example, a fetal movement position dispersion value between the fetal movement position information F1 and the fetal movement position reference value, a fetal movement intensity dispersion value between the fetal movement intensity information and the fetal movement intensity reference value, and the fetal movement intensity reference value can be calculated respectively. A fetal movement time dispersion value between the time information and the fetal movement time reference value, a uterine contraction dispersion value between the uterine contraction information G and the uterine contraction reference value, the pregnant woman's heart rhythm information D and the pregnant woman's heart rhythm reference value A maternal heart rhythm dispersion value between the fetal heart rhythm information E and the fetal heart rhythm reference value.

When any one of the fetal movement position dispersion value, the fetal movement intensity dispersion value, the fetal movement time dispersion value, the uterine contraction dispersion value, the maternal heart rhythm dispersion value and the fetal heart rhythm dispersion value is greater than a predetermined value, When setting the value, the computing unit outputs a warning message to the smart watch 2, the mobile phone 3, the tablet or the computer so that the pregnant woman B or her relatives and friends can be informed immediately so that they can handle it as soon as possible, thus improving the relationship between the pregnant woman B and the patient. Fetal safety.

Please refer to Figures 10 to 12. Preferably, the fetal movement message F includes one of the following messages or a combination thereof: a fetal movement position message F1, a fetal movement intensity message and a fetal movement time message.

Taking the fetal movement position information F1 as an example, the position where the fetal movement occurs can be determined by measuring the distance between the position where the fetal movement occurs and each of the auxiliary measurement units 14 and the watch body 21, and then using the watch body 21 to locate the position where the fetal movement occurs. This is the fetal movement position information F1, as indicated by the footprints in the figure.

The fetal movement intensity information and the fetal movement time information can be respectively the intensity average and the time average measured by each of the auxiliary measurement units 14 and the watch body 21, etc., and the present invention is not limited thereto.

Based on several fetal movement position messages F1, the fetal position can be further evaluated. For example, in the 11th picture, the fetal movement is concentrated on the lower left side of the abdomen B1, which may mean that the fetus is head-up. When the fetal movement starts to move upward as in the 12th picture, Upward dispersion means that the fetus may gradually turn head-down. When the gestation period is relatively large, further evaluation is required to determine whether delivery is imminent, whether the fetal position is abnormal, etc.

Please refer to Figure 13, which reveals the second embodiment of the device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses of the present invention. The difference between this embodiment and the first embodiment is that in the first embodiment, the abdominal wearing piece 1 It is a radial adhesive piece [please refer to the seventh figure for the first embodiment]; and in this embodiment, the abdominal wearing piece 1a is an abdominal belt.

Similar to the seventh figure, after removing the strap 22a of the smart watch 2a, the watch body 21a and the auxiliary measurement unit 14a can be attached to the abdomen B1 of the pregnant woman B using the abdominal belt. , and obtains various required information like the device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses in the first embodiment.

Pregnant woman B can choose the abdominal belt or the radiating adhesive piece according to the number of weeks of pregnancy or her own condition. For example, when the number of weeks of pregnancy is large, the radiating adhesive piece can be preferred to avoid the discomfort of compressing the abdomen B1 during the measurement process. .

Please refer to the first and eighth pictures again. By combining the detachable smart watch 2, when there is no need to perform fetal status detection, the smart watch 2 can still be removed and worn on the wrist of the pregnant woman B, and Will not be idle.

Based on the description of the above embodiments, the operation, use and effects of the present invention can be fully understood. However, the above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and should not be used to limit the implementation of the present invention. The scope, that is, simple equivalent changes and modifications based on the patent scope of the present invention and the description of the invention, are all within the scope of the present invention.

1:Abdominal wear piece

14: Auxiliary measurement unit

21: Surface body

B:pregnant woman

B1: Abdomen

Claims (10)

A method for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch for use by a pregnant woman. The method for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch includes the following steps: setting up an abdominal wearable piece, the abdominal wearable piece is provided with a joint and a plurality of auxiliary quantities The measurement unit; detachably combine a smart watch with the joint part, so that a watch measurement unit of the smart watch and the aforementioned auxiliary measurement unit together form a vibration measurement array; wear the abdominal wearable piece on the pregnant woman An abdomen, wherein the watch measurement unit is attached to a central position of the abdomen, the auxiliary measurement unit is attached to a peripheral position of the abdomen, and the abdominal wearing piece is a radial adhesive piece, and the A plurality of radiating strips of the radiating adhesive member extend from the central position to the peripheral position; the watch measurement unit is used to measure a sound signal of the abdomen, and the smart watch obtains a comprehensive heart rhythm information based on the sound signal; the vibration amount is used The measurement array measures a vibration signal of the abdomen, and the smart watch obtains fetal movement information and uterine contraction information based on the vibration signal; an optical measurement element of the watch measurement unit is used to measure a pregnant woman's blood vessel in the abdomen, and obtains A pregnant woman's heart rhythm information, and a screening process is performed on the pregnant woman's heart rhythm information and the aforementioned comprehensive heart rhythm information to screen out a fetal heart rhythm information among the comprehensive heart rhythm information. The method of monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch as described in claim 1, wherein the fetal movement information includes one or a combination of the following information: a fetal movement position information, a fetal movement intensity information and a fetal movement time information. As described in claim 2, the method for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch further includes a warning step, which is to respectively set a fetal movement position reference value, a fetal movement intensity reference value, and a fetal movement reference value. A time reference value, a uterine contraction reference value, a pregnant woman's heart rhythm reference value and a fetal heart rhythm reference value are used to calculate one of the following by an arithmetic unit: a fetal movement position deviation value between the fetal movement position information and the fetal movement position reference value , a fetal movement intensity dispersion value between the fetal movement intensity information and the fetal movement intensity reference value, a fetal movement time dispersion value between the fetal movement time information and the fetal movement time reference value, the uterine contraction information and the uterine contraction reference value A uterine contraction dispersion value between the values, a maternal heart rhythm dispersion value between the maternal heart rhythm information and the maternal heart rhythm reference value, a fetal heart rhythm dispersion value between the fetal heart rhythm information and the fetal heart rhythm reference value ; When any one of the fetal movement position dispersion value, the fetal movement intensity dispersion value, the fetal movement time dispersion value, the uterine contraction dispersion value, the maternal heart rhythm dispersion value and the fetal heart rhythm dispersion value is greater than one At default value, the computing unit outputs a warning message. For example, in the method of monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch as described in claim 3, further, the warning message is transmitted to one of the smart watch, a mobile phone, a tablet computer and a computer, or a combination thereof. As described in claim 1, the method of monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch further uses the optical measurement element to measure blood vessels of the pregnant woman to obtain blood oxygen information of the pregnant woman. The method of monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch as described in claim 1 further includes a message display step of displaying one or a combination of the following messages through a display unit: the comprehensive heart rhythm message, the fetal movement message, the uterus contraction information, the maternal heart rhythm information and the fetal heart rhythm information. The method of monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses with a smart watch as described in claim 1, wherein the abdominal wearable piece is an abdominal belt. An abdominal wearable device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses, intended to be worn on the abdomen of a pregnant woman. The abdominal wearable device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses includes: a contact surface for contacting the abdomen; An outer surface located on the opposite surface of the contact surface; a joint portion corresponding to a central position of the abdomen, the joint portion matches a watch body of a smart watch, the joint portion is used to combine and fix the watch body; and a plurality of Auxiliary measurement units respectively correspond to a peripheral position of the abdomen. Each of the auxiliary measurement units has an auxiliary measurement surface. The auxiliary measurement surface is located on the contact surface. The auxiliary measurement unit and the watch body are both Signal connection; after the aforementioned watch body is combined with the joint part, a watch measurement unit of the watch body is located on the contact surface; the abdominal wearable device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses is a radiating adhesive piece, and the radiating adhesive piece A plurality of radiating strips extend from the central position to the surrounding positions. A device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses, including the abdominal wearable for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses as described in claim 8, further comprising: a smart watch selectively coupled to the joint. The device for monitoring the status of pregnant women and fetuses as described in claim 9, wherein the smart watch signal is connected to one of the following devices or a combination thereof: a mobile phone, a tablet computer, and a computer.

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