Wearable apparatus for monitoring various physiological and environmental factors are provided. Real-time, noninvasive health and environmental monitors include a plurality of compact sensors integrated within small, low-profile devices, such as earpiece modules. Physiological and environmental data is collected and wirelessly transmitted into a wireless network, where the data is stored and/or processed.

Wearable apparatus for monitoring various physiological and environmental factors are provided. Real-time, noninvasive health and environmental monitors include a plurality of compact sensors integrated within small, low-profile devices, such as earpiece modules. Physiological and environmental data is collected and wirelessly transmitted into a wireless network, where the data is stored and/or processed.

Health and care are improved through monitoring health markers. In one example a method includes measuring repeatedly at different times a quantity of a biochemical marker in a patient, storing the measurements in a log as entries associated with the patient, analyzing the stored measurements by comparing the quantity of the marker across the plurality of log entries, and determining an illness condition when a recent entry is different from previous log entries, for example when the recent entry is different by more than a threshold or when a baseline level or regular pattern is established from the multiple stored measurements and the recent entry is a change from the baseline by more than a threshold. If a deviation is determined, then an alert condition regarding the patient is determined.

A biological feature detection apparatus and an electronic device are provided. The apparatus includes a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit. The light emitting unit is configured to emit light to a detection surface of a biological tissue, the light emitted by the light emitting unit is processed by the biological tissue and then transmitted to the light receiving unit, and the light receiving unit is configured to receive the light and perform a photoelectric conversion to generate an original electrical signal for biological feature detection; the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit are attached to the detection surface of the biological tissue. As such, the signal-to-noise ratio of the original electrical signal is improved and accuracy of biological feature detection is enhanced.

A monitoring apparatus includes a housing that is configured to be attached to a body of a subject. The housing includes a sensor region that is configured to contact a selected area of the body of the subject when the housing is attached to the body of the subject. The sensor region is contoured to matingly engage the selected body area. The apparatus includes at least one physiological sensor that is associated with the sensor region and that detects and/or measures physiological information from the subject and/or at least one environmental sensor associated with the sensor region that is configured to detect and/or measure environmental information. The sensor region contour stabilizes the physiological and/or environmental sensor(s) relative to the selected body area such that subject motion does not impact detection and/or measurement efforts of the sensor(s).

Virtual reality method intended to be implemented in a virtual reality system, the method including the production of a stimulus in the system during a period of stimulation, the stimulus including: a projection of an image sequence; a production of a first sound signal including a soundtrack linked to the progress of the image sequence; a production of a second sound signal having a first frequency and a third sound signal having a second frequency, the second sound signal being audible from one ear and the third sound signal being audible from the other ear of the user; a production of a fourth sound signal including a spoken presentation; during an initial portion of said predetermined period, the stimulus further including an induction signal; and during a final portion of said predetermined period, the intensity of the sound signals decreasing in intensity until a zero intensity, and the image sequence decreasing in intensity until a zero intensity.

A wearable blood analyte measurement device includes a casing defining an appendage—receiving bore and having an interior volume. A plurality of magnets is within interior volume. The magnets produce a magnetic field in the bore. A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) transceiver is supported by the casing and positioned to emit radiofrequency (RF) pulses to and receive NMR signals from the bore. An electronics assembly is within the interior volume and in communication with the NMR transceiver. A power source is in the interior volume and powers the NMR transceiver and the electronics assembly.

A substance concentration monitoring method includes inserting a temperature probe noninvasively into a volume of a body in which a concentration of a substance is to be measured. An internal temperature of the volume is measured and an internal temperature signal is produced. An incident first near infrared beam in a first wavelength band is directed from a light source into a portion of the volume, the first wavelength band including a wavelength at which an absorption peak exists in a NIR absorption spectrum of the substance. An incident second NIR beam in a second wavelength band is directed from the light source into the portion of the volume, the substance exhibiting no absorption or negligible absorption in the second wavelength band. Substance concentration is calculated based on values corresponding to the internal temperature signal, a first and second initial power signal, and a first and second material absorption signal.

An animal wellness notification system includes an attachment body configured to securely engage with an ear of the animal; an elongated temperature probe secured to the attachment body and configured to extend within the ear of the animal; a housing secured to the attachment body; a power module electrically connect to and configured to provide power to (or recharge) at least one other element of the animal wellness notification system; a computer disposed within the housing and operably associated with the temperature probe; and a notification device in data communication with the computer, the notification device being configured to provide notice if a temperature of the animal goes beyond a determined.

An overdose of opioids can cause the user to stop breathing, resulting in death. A physiological monitoring system monitors respiration based on oxygen saturation readings from a fingertip pulse oximeter in communication with a smart mobile device and sends opioid monitoring information from the smart mobile device to an opioid overdose monitoring service. The opioid overdose monitoring service notifies a first set of contacts when the opioid monitoring information