Abstract:
A standing-up assistance apparatus includes a first sensor that measures a muscle potential of a lower leg of a user, a second sensor that measures a knee angle of the user, a processor that determines whether starting to assist the user in a standing-up motion from a seated state is possible, based on, at least, the measured muscle potential and the measured knee angle, and outputs an instruction signal if the processor determines that starting to assist the user in the standing-up motion is possible, and an assistance mechanism. The assistance mechanism starts assisting the user in the standing-up motion when the assistance mechanism receives the instruction signal from the processor.
Abstract:
A rise action assistance device according to an aspect of the present disclosure is provided with: a myoelectric potential acquirer that acquires a myoelectric value of a sitting user's tibialis anterior muscle, and a myoelectric value of the sitting user's vastus lateralis muscle or a myoelectric value of the sitting user's vastus medialis muscle; an angle acquirer that acquires a bend angle of the sitting user's upper body; a detector circuit that detects a start of a rise action by the user, based on the myoelectric value of the user's tibialis anterior muscle, the myoelectric value of the user's vastus lateralis muscle or the myoelectric value of the user's vastus medialis muscle, and the bend angle of the user's upper body; and an assistor that starts assistance of the rise action after the start of the rise action is detected.
Abstract:
A determination system includes a head electrode that is located on a left head portion of a user when an intention of the user to move a portion on a right side of a body of the user is detected and that is located on a right head portion of the user when an intention of the user to move a portion on a left side of the body of the user is detected; an ear hole electrode that is located in an ear hole of the user; an electroencephalogram signal measurer that obtains a voltage between the head electrode and the ear hole electrode; and a determiner that determines whether or not a change in the voltage includes the intention to move the portion on the right side of the body or the intention to move the portion on the left side of the body.
Abstract:
A biosignal determining device includes: an instruction output circuit which outputs a first instruction, a second instruction, and a third instruction to a user, the first instruction is for asking the user to perform an inhaling or exhaling motion to a limit, a second instruction is for asking the user to stop the motion, and a third instruction is for asking the user to perform a motion reverse to the motion to a limit; a detection circuit which obtains a first cardiography representing a potential difference between two electrodes disposed on a chest of the user, the first cardiography measured between a time when the second instruction is outputted and a time when the third instruction is outputted, and detects a plurality of peaks included in the first cardiography; and a determination circuit which determines whether the user has performed the motion asked in the first instruction to the limit depending on whether potential values of the plurality of peaks are included in a predetermined range.
Abstract:
A walking assistance apparatus includes a suit to be worn on a knee and waist of a user, a first wire that couples a portion included in the suit and worn above the knee to a portion included in the suit and worn on the waist, a second wire that couples a portion included in the suit and worn above a back of the knee to a portion included in the suit and worn on the waist, and motors coupled to the first and second wires to generate tensions so that the first and second wires each has a stiffness greater than 200 N/m during a first period including a period of 95% or more and 100% or less of a first gait cycle of the user and a period of 0% or more and 50% or less of a second gait cycle subsequent to the first gait cycle.
Abstract:
A pulse wave measuring apparatus includes a visible light receiver having a first surface and a pulse wave calculator. When a vehicle with the visible light receiver is viewed from a side, the first surface is in a first region between a first optical path of first reflection light and a second optical path of second reflection light, first light comes from an eye of a user on a seat of the vehicle, second light comes from a cheek of the user, an upper end of a rearview mirror of the vehicle reflects the first light to produce the first reflection light and reflects the second light to produce the second reflection light, and the pulse wave calculator calculates a pulse wave of the user on the basis of a waveform of visible light received by the visible light receiver via the first surface and outputs the calculated pulse wave.
Abstract:
A pulse wave measuring apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor instructs a lighting device outside thereof to cause the amplitude of a first hue waveform obtained from first visible light images to fall within a certain hue range, calculates a degree of correlation between a first visible light waveform obtained from first visible light images and a first infrared waveform obtained from first infrared images, outputs an infrared control signal and a visible light control signal for adjusting the amount of light of an infrared light source and the lighting device, respectively, in accordance with the degree of correlation, extracts a second visible light waveform and a second infrared waveform from second visible light images and second infrared images, respectively, calculates first biological information from feature values of at least either the second visible light waveform or the second infrared waveform, and outputs the first biological information.
Abstract:
A camera system that captures images of the eyeballs of an animal is provided with: a first illumination device that illuminates an eyeball of the animal; a fundus imaging camera that captures a fundus image of the eyeball illuminated by the first illumination device; a second illumination device that illuminates an eyeball of the animal at the same timing as the first illumination device; a pupil imaging camera that captures a pupil image of the eyeball illuminated by the second illumination device; and an output circuit that outputs the fundus image as identification information of the animal, and outputs the pupil image as biological information of the animal corresponding to that identification information.
Abstract:
A pulse wave measuring device includes a processor and a memory. The processor obtains a visible light image, in a visible light wavelength range, of a user irradiated with visible light by a visible light source, obtains an infrared light image, in an infrared light wavelength range, of the user irradiated with infrared light by an infrared light source, extracts a visible light wave indicative of a user's pulse wave from the visible light image, extracts an infrared light wave indicative of a user's pulse wave from the infrared light image, computes a correlation value between the visible and infrared light waves, supplies a control signal for controlling the amount of infrared light emitted from the infrared light source to the infrared light source in accordance with the correlation value, calculates biological information by using at least one of the visible and infrared light waves, and outputs the biological information.
Abstract:
A risk-of-falling determination apparatus includes a walk information obtainer that obtains walk information of a user, a myoelectric sensor that measures a first myoelectric potential difference on an anterior surface of a thigh of the user and a second myoelectric potential difference on a posterior surface of the thigh, a control circuit that identifies an interval of a stance phase by using the walk information, calculates a degree of co-contraction at a corresponding leg of the user on the basis of the first and second myoelectric potential differences for the stance phase, and determines whether the degree of co-contraction is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and an outputter that outputs a signal indicating that the user has a high risk of falling if the degree of co-contraction is greater than or equal to the first threshold.