DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALORIC INTAKE DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20190167154A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-06

    申请号:US16323982

    申请日:2017-08-14

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device, system and method for automatic and unobtrusive caloric intake detection. The device comprises a respiration input for obtaining a respiration signal indicating the subject's respiration, and an analysis unit for analyzing the obtained respiration signal in the frequency domain by determining one or more respiration signal features from the obtained respiration signal in the frequency domain related to changes in oxidation and by detecting changes of the one or more determined respiration signal features to detect periods of caloric intake by the subject.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING THE INGESTION OF FOOD AND/OR DRINK BY A SUBJECT

    公开(公告)号:US20180325444A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US15775125

    申请日:2016-12-07

    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for monitoring the ingestion of food and/or drink by a subject, the apparatus comprising a control unit that comprises a first obtaining module configured to obtain measurements of one or more physiological characteristics of the subject; a second obtaining module configured to obtain measurements of eddy currents generated in the body of the subject by an externally-applied magnetic field; a setting module configured to set a respective cut-off frequency for one or more filtering stages based on a respective frequency for each of said one or more physiological characteristics; a filtering module configured to filter the measurements of eddy currents using the one or more filtering stages to remove signal components due to the one or more physiological characteristics; and a processing module configured to process the filtered measurements to determine whether food and/or drink is present in the stomach of the subject.

    DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF A PERSON

    公开(公告)号:US20180249951A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-06

    申请号:US15571051

    申请日:2016-12-19

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for accurately estimating the energy expenditure of a person, in particular by which the effect of cardiovascular drift is taken into account. The device comprises an input unit (10) for obtaining a movement signal (13) representing physical activity of the person and a heart rate signal (15) representing the heart rate of the person, a cardiovascular drift determination unit (16) for determining cardiovascular drift phases (17) from said movement signal (13) and either said heart rate signal (15) and/or one or more cardiovascular drift related signals (23) carrying information on one or more of amount of sweat, weight loss, temperature rise, blood lactate concentration and physical fatigue of the person, a correction unit (18) for correcting the heart rate signal (15) generated and representing the heart rate during a cardiovascular drift phase, and an estimation unit (20) for estimating the energy expenditure of the person from the corrected heart rate signal (19).

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