A device can be used for a long period of time without increasing the size and weight, and a biological signal is surely measured. An aspect of the present invention includes acquiring, from a first sensor, a first biological signal related to a heartbeat of a subject, acquiring, from a second sensor, a second biological signal related to the heartbeat of the subject, detecting a first feature from the first biological signal acquired, setting a light emission control pattern based on a detection timing of the first feature and information indicating time correlation between the first biological signal and the second biological signal, and driving a light emitting element of the second sensor to perform intermittent light emission based on the light emission control pattern set.

An electronic system for a surgical instrument is disclosed. The electronic system comprises a main power supply circuit configured to supply electrical power to a primary circuit. A supplementary power supply circuit configured to supply electrical power to a secondary circuit. A short circuit protection circuit coupled between the main power supply circuit and the supplementary power supply circuit. The supplementary power supply circuit is configured to isolate itself from the main power supply circuit when the supplementary power supply circuit detects a short circuit condition at the secondary circuit. The supplementary power supply circuit is configured to rejoin the main power supply circuit and supply power to the secondary circuit, when the short circuit condition is remedied.

Apparatus and method are provided for synchronized multiple vital health measurements. In one novel aspect, an integrated wearable device with multiple sensors that can collect multiple vital health signals, digitize them, send them through wireless network to a receiver. In one embodiment, the wearable device has a plurality of different types of sensors including at least one or more acoustic-to-electric sensors collecting phonocardiogram (PCG) electrical signal and one or more electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors, a control module includes a synchronization circuitry that synchronizes measurements of the plurality of different types of sensors. In another novel aspect, a system performs a synchronized measurement using a plurality type of health-monitoring sensors, performs a correlation analysis of the plurality of measurement results using selected one or more analytical rules, and obtains a set of parameters with recognized medical values and generating one or more medical health records based on the correlation analysis.

Devices and methods are disclosed for quantifying temporal changes in human anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) structural properties, such as Anterior-Posterior tibial shear force (TSF) and Anterior-Posterior tibial shear displacement (TSD) for testing ACL overuse injury during training and minimizing or preventing ACL injury.

In some examples, a medical device includes an elongated body defining an inner lumen. The medical device further includes an anchoring member and a first sensor at a proximal portion of the elongated body, and a second sensor at a distal portion of the elongated body or distal to a distal end of the elongated body. The second sensor is configured to sense a substance of interest and the elongated body comprises a material that is a substantially non-permeable to the substance of interest.

A bed has a mattress. One or more temperature sensors are used, each sensor configured to: sense a temperature for the sleeper; and transmit, to a controller, temperature readings; one or more pressure sensors, each pressure sensor configured to: sense a pressure applied to the mattress by the sleeper; and transmit, to a controller, pressure readings. A controller may include a processor and memory, the controller configured to: receive, from the temperature sensors, the temperature readings; determine a skin temperature for the sleeper based on the temperature readings; receive, from the pressure sensors, the pressure readings; determine at least one cardiac parameter for the sleeper; and determine, from the skin temperature and the cardiac parameter, a core temperature for the sleeper that is different than the skin temperature and represents thermal state of a core of a body of the sleeper.

Embodiments relate to a non-invasive electronic device including at least one sensing unit capable of accurately monitoring a user's health condition for a long time such as a few weeks without malfunction while it is worn on the wearer's skin in a non-invasive manner and a method for fabricating the non-invasive electronic device. The non-invasive electronic device includes for example, a skin sensor device.

Assemblies are provided for positioning within a lumen comprising a stent graft; and a sensor positioned on the stent graft. Within certain aspects the sensors are wireless sensors, and include for example one or more fluid pressure sensors, contact sensors, position sensors, pulse pressure sensors, blood volume sensors, blood flow sensors, chemistry sensors (e.g., for blood and/or other fluids), metabolic sensors (e.g., for blood and/or other fluids), mechanical stress sensors and/or temperature sensors.

Methods, systems, and devices for temperature calibration are described. A device may support temperature calibration for a set of temperature sensors. For example, a wearable device may activate a set of temperature sensors associated with the wearable device. The set of temperature sensors may include a primary temperature sensor and one or more secondary temperature sensors. The wearable device may determine a trigger to calibrate the one or more secondary temperature sensors based on one or more conditions, and calibrate the one or more secondary temperature sensors using the primary temperature sensor based on the trigger. Based on the calibrating, the wearable device may process temperature data associated with a user that is received from one or more of the primary temperature sensor or the one or more secondary temperature sensors.

A system includes a minimally intrusive display system (MIDS) configured to be disposed on an eyewear. The MIDS includes a display system and a sensor system configured to provide for a sensor data. The MIDS further includes a processor configured to process the sensor data to derive a physiological measure. The processor is further configured to display, via the display system, the physiological measure, wherein the display system is disposed in the eyewear so that the physiological measure is only viewed when a user of the eyewear turns the user's pupil towards the display system at angle α from a forward direction.