An expandable electrode set, methods of using the expanding electrode set, electrode set systems, and methods of manufacturing an electrode set. Various examples of an electrode set include nodes that are physically connected to each other by connectors that have a shape that allows for the deformation of the electrode set. The shape and material of the connectors is designed to provide a consistent deformation so that, when placing alignment markers on a part of a body to be monitored, the nodes end up in correct locations on the part of the body for the measurement being performed. The electrode set may include sensors, emitters, or sensors and emitters in various configurations.

An expandable electrode set, methods of using the expanding electrode set, electrode set systems, and methods of manufacturing an electrode set. Various examples of an electrode set include nodes that are physically connected to each other by connectors that have a shape that allows for the deformation of the electrode set. The shape and material of the connectors is designed to provide a consistent deformation so that, when placing alignment markers on a part of a body to be monitored, the nodes end up in correct locations on the part of the body for the measurement being performed. The electrode set may include sensors, emitters, or sensors and emitters in various configurations.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a portion of a conductive portion, a display visually exposed to an outside through a portion of the housing, a communication circuit electrically connected to the conductive portion, a sensor electrically connected to the conductive portion, a first blocking circuit connected between the conductive portion and the communication circuit and configured to block a signal in a first frequency range, a second blocking circuit connected between the conductive portion and the sensor to block a signal in a second frequency range, and a processor operatively connected to the display, the communication circuit and the sensor, wherein the conductive portion is configured to operate as an antenna of the communication circuit and a biometric electrode of the sensor.

A composite wiring includes: elastic wiring comprising an elastic tube, a conductor wire disposed inside the tube, and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube together at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions; other wiring separate from the elastic wiring; and a connection member that connects the conductor wire of the elastic wiring and a conductor wire of the other wiring by caulking in a state of being brought into contact with each other, the connection member having an interior section sealed in a watertight manner with a sealing material.

A device for functional electrical stimulation (FES), neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), and/or in receiving electromyography (EMG) signals includes a sleeve and electrodes. The sleeve is sized and shaped to be worn on a human arm, and comprises a stretchable fabric The sleeve has a distal end disposed on or adjacent a wrist of the human arm when the sleeve is worn on the human arm and a proximal end opposite from the distal end. The electrodes are secured with the sleeve and positioned to contact skin of the human arm when the sleeve is worn on the human arm. The sleeve may include an inner sleeve contact with the skin and an outer sleeve disposed over the inner sleeve. The inner sleeve has openings in which the electrodes are disposed.

Hearing assistance systems, devices and methods including obtaining, by the device, multiple brain and bio-signals indicative of the auditory and visual attentional focus of the user, obtaining a mixed sound signal from multiple sound sources and applying, by the device, speech-separation and enhancement processing to the mixed sound signal to derive a plurality of separated signals that each contains signals corresponding to different groups of the multiple sound sources, and selecting one of the pluralities of separated signals either solely based on the obtained brain signals, or on a combination of bio-signals, including but not limited to eye gaze direction, head, neck and trunk orientation, etc. The separated signals may then be processed (i.e., amplified, attenuated) based on the needs of the user.

According to the present disclosure, a wearable device is disclosed, the wearable device may include: a front surface including a display; a frame having the display seated therein and forming the sides of the wearable device, wherein the frame includes a plurality of conductive regions and a non-conductive region exposed between the plurality of conductive regions; a plurality of biosensors arranged in a space formed by the frame and electrically connected to the plurality of conductive regions; and a processor electrically connected to the plurality of biosensors, wherein the processor is configured to: identify occurrence of an event related to the acquisition of biometric information, identify, in response to the occurrence of the event, at least one conductive region for acquiring the biometric information among the plurality of conductive regions, and acquire the biometric information using the identified at least one conductive region.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ECG monitoring device that comprises a housing cable comprising a plurality of signal cables positioned therein and a set of electrodes positioned along the housing cable. Each of the set of electrodes may contact a particular location of a user without requiring any muscular activity of the user when the ECG monitoring device is connected to the user. The ECG monitoring device may further comprise a computing device positioned along the housing cable and operatively coupled to each of the four or more electrodes via a respective signal cable of the plurality of signal cables. The computing device may comprise a memory and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to perform, using the four or more electrodes, an electrocardiogram (ECG) of the user.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ECG monitoring device that comprises a housing cable comprising a plurality of signal cables positioned therein and a set of electrodes positioned along the housing cable. Each of the set of electrodes may contact a particular location of a user without requiring any muscular activity of the user when the ECG monitoring device is connected to the user. The ECG monitoring device may further comprise a computing device positioned along the housing cable and operatively coupled to each of the four or more electrodes via a respective signal cable of the plurality of signal cables. The computing device may comprise a memory and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to perform, using the four or more electrodes, an electrocardiogram (ECG) of the user.

A method includes receiving acoustic inputs; generating signal channels from the acoustic inputs; pre-processing data in the signal channels; extracting S1-S2 peaks from the pre-processed data; removing artifacts and outliers from the S1-S2 peaks; generating S1-S2 signal channels based on the S1-S2 peaks in the pre-processed signal channels; selecting two or more of the S1-S2 signal channels; and combining the selected two or more S1-S2 signal channels to produce an acoustic uterine monitoring signal.