An electronic device, such as a watch, has a housing to which a carrier is attached. The carrier has a first surface interior to the electronic device, and a second surface exterior to the electronic device. A set of electrodes is deposited on the exterior surface of the carrier. An additional electrode is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while the first electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The additional electrode may be positioned on a user-rotatable crown of the electronic device, on a button of the electronic device, or on another surface of the housing of the electronic device. A processor of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter of the user based on voltages at the electrodes. The biological parameter may be an electrocardiogram.

Embodiments provide physiological measurement systems, devices and methods for continuous health and fitness monitoring. A wearable strap may detect reflected light from a user's skin, where data corresponding to the reflected light is used to automatically and continually determine a heart rate of the user. The wearable strap may monitor heart rate data including heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep quality. The systems may include a processing module that generates an indicator of physical recovery based on the heart rate data. The recovery indicator may be used to determine strain related to an exercise routine, qualitative information on the user's health, whether to alter a user's exercise plan, and so forth.

An ear-wearable electronic device has a shell with an outer surface. A mounting void goes through the outer surface of the shell and exposes an internal volume of the shell. The mounting void is located at an ear-contacting region of the shell. The ear-wearable device includes a photoplethysmography sensor assembly having an optical transmission structure mounted in the mounting void and having a distal end exposed proximate the outer surface. The distal end of the optical transmission structure conforms to the outer surface of the shell at the ear-contacting region. The distal end is in contact with ear tissue of a user of the ear-wearable electronic device during use.

A photoplethysmography front-end receiver is capable of eliminating an error in the estimation of an ambient-light current. The receiver includes a current-to-voltage conversion circuit, an integrator, a switch circuit, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The current-to-voltage conversion circuit converts an input current into a differential voltage signal. The integrator receives the differential voltage signal and outputs an analog output voltage. The switch circuit is set between the current-to-voltage conversion circuit and the integrator, forwards the differential voltage signal to the integrator in a first duration when a controllable light source is turned on, and forwards an inverted signal of the differential voltage signal to the integrator in a second duration when the controllable light source is turned off, wherein the second duration is after or before the first duration. The ADC generates a digital signal for analysis according to the analog output voltage after the second duration.

The invention relates to a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensing device comprising —a pulsed light source, —at least one pixel to create photo-generated electrons, synchronized with said pulsed light source. It is mainly characterized in that each pixel comprises: —a pinned photodiode (PPD) having two electronic connection nodes, —a sense node (SN), to convert the photo-generated electrons into a voltage, and —a Transfer Gate (TGtransfer) transistor, having its source electronically connected to one electronic connection node of said pinned photodiode (PPD), and being configured to act as a transfer gate (TG) between said pinned photodiode (PPD) and said sense node (SN), allowing the photo-generated electrons to sink when the light is pulsed-off, the photo-generated electrons integration when the light is pulsed-on and the transfer of at least part of the integrated photo-generated electrons to said sense node for a read-out.

A sensor interface is configured to receive a sensor signal. A transmitter generates a transmit signal. A receiver receives the signal corresponding to the transmit signal. Further, a monitor interface is configured to communicate a waveform to the monitor so that measurements derived by the monitor from the waveform are generally equivalent to measurements derivable from the sensor signal.

The present technology relates to the field of medical monitoring. Patient monitoring systems and associated devices, methods, and computer readable media are described. In some embodiments, a patient monitoring system includes one or more sensors configured to capture first data related to a patient and a monitoring device configured to receive the first data. In these and other embodiments, the patient monitoring system can include an image capture device configured to capture second data related to the patient. In these and still other embodiments, the one or more sensors can be configured to instruct the patient monitoring system to display the second data.

Provided is an apparatus configured to detect a light signal, the apparatus including a light source configured to radiate light toward an object, a light receiver configured to receive an ambient light and a transmitted light corresponding to the light radiated toward the object from the light source, at least one processor configured to control the light source to be turned off such that a first output signal is generated by the light receiver and control the light source to be turned on such that a second output signal is generated by the light receiver, and an operator configured to generate a transmitted light signal from which noise is removed by differentially operating the second output signal from the first output signal.

An optical speckle receiver for receiving a speckle signal from a sample, the optical speckle receiver comprising an optical detector and an aperture and/or lens array. The aperture and array respectively comprise a plurality of apertures or lenses and is located between the sample and the optical detector such that the received speckle pattern is obtained from multiple discrete sample locations.

An electronic device of a charging module system may include a housing having a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a display device at least partially is exposed through the first surface to display information to the outside; a biometric sensor disposed to be exposed in at least an area of the second surface and sensing biometric information of a user; a battery disposed between the display device and the biometric sensor; and a plurality of electrodes disposed adjacent to the at least an area of the second surface and formed to be exposed in at least another area of the second surface, in which the plurality of electrodes may surround at least a portion of the biometric sensor, and each of the plurality of electrodes has a notch protruding or recessed at least at one end.