MOTOR FUNCTION NEURAL CONTROL INTERFACE FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20200206503A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16729035

    申请日:2019-12-27

    IPC分类号: A61N1/36 A61N1/02

    摘要: At least one electrical brain signal is received from a patient and is demultiplexed into an efferent motor intention signal and at least one afferent sensory signal (such as an afferent touch sense signal and/or an afferent proprioception signal). A functional electrical stimulation (FES) device is controlled to apply FES to control a paralyzed portion of the patient that is paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury of the patient. The controlling of the FES device is based on at least the efferent motor intention signal. A demultiplexed afferent touch sense signal may be used to control a haptic device. The afferent sensory signal(s) may be used to adjust the FES control.

    Neurosleeve for closed loop EMG-FES based control of pathological tremors

    公开(公告)号:US11160971B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-02

    申请号:US17002135

    申请日:2020-08-25

    IPC分类号: A61N1/04 A61N1/36

    摘要: A tremor suppression device includes a garment wearable on an anatomical region and including electrodes contacting the anatomical region when the garment is worn on the anatomical region, and an electronic controller configured to: detect electromyography (EMG) signals as a function of anatomical location and time using the electrodes; identify tremors as a function of anatomical location and time based on the EMG signals; and apply neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) at one or more anatomical locations as a function of time using the electrodes to suppress the identified tremors.

    Activity assistance system
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11037670B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-15

    申请号:US17023577

    申请日:2020-09-17

    摘要: An activity assistance system includes a video camera arranged to acquire video of a person performing an activity, an output device configured to output human-perceptible prompts, and an electronic processor programmed to execute an activity script. The script comprises a sequence of steps choreographing the activity. The execution of each step includes presenting a prompt via the output device and detecting an event or sequence of events subsequent to the presenting of the prompt. Each event is detected by performing object detection on the video to detect one or more objects depicted in the video and applying one or more object-oriented image analysis functions to detect a spatial or temporal arrangement of one or more of the detected objects. Each event detection triggers an action comprising at least one of presenting a prompt via the output device and and/or going to another step of the activity script.