Patent classifications
A61B5/0532
Physiological Signal Assisted Acupuncture System and Automatic Electroacupuncture System
A system that assists acupuncture based on the physiological signals of the human body. Physiological signals comprise respiratory signals, electrocardiographic signals, electrical skin signals, electroencephalograph signal, blood flow signals, pulse wave signals and/or signals derived from above signals. The acupuncture treatment process comprises the following: controlling the actuator of the automatic acupuncture device through physiological signals to start, to stop acupuncture treatment or to perform acupuncture techniques such as twisting or lifting-thrusting. It also provides an automatic acupuncture system to assist acupuncture based on Chinese Medicine Body Clock information.
Body physiotherapy machine
A body physiotherapy machine contains a conductive sphere member and a body configured to output electric physiotherapy energy to the conductive sphere member. The conductive sphere member is held by a user to contact his/her discomfort or acupuncture points so as to comfort the user and to enhance metabolism by ways of the electric physiotherapy energy, thus maintaining health easily.
Body physiotherapy machine
A body physiotherapy machine contains a conductive sphere member and a body configured to output electric physiotherapy energy to the conductive sphere member. The conductive sphere member is held by a user to contact his/her discomfort or acupuncture points so as to comfort the user and to enhance metabolism by ways of the electric physiotherapy energy, thus maintaining health easily.
Methods and Apparatus for Electro-Meridian Diagnostics
A current sensor may take measurements of electrical currents that flow between two limbs of a patient through at least a portion of the patient's torso. The current measurements may be taken during a single diagnostic session while the patient holds a ground electrode in a hand of one limb and a probe electrode is sequentially placed at different locations on the distal portions of other limbs. Each of the measurement locations may be an acupuncture point. An electrical current state for the diagnostic session may be calculated. This state may consist of current ranges for one or more electrical currents that are measured during the session. A lookup table may be employed to determine one or more medical conditions that are indicated by the current state. Alternatively, a trained machine learning model may predict, based on the measured currents, one or more medical conditions.
System and method for generating acupuncture points on reconstructed 3D human body model for physical therapy
System and method for generating acupuncture points on reconstructed 3D human body mesh for physical treatment are disclosed. The computing device obtains a first two-dimensional image of a human subject that captures at least a predefined portion of the human subject; processes the first two-dimensional image of the first human subject using a trained human body recovery model to obtain a plurality of parameters representing a three-dimensional human body mesh with corresponding acupuncture points. The trained human body recovery model includes an iterative three-dimensional regression module that is supervised by a discriminator and that minimizes a combined loss below a preset threshold. The combined loss includes a discriminator error that provides a measure of whether the obtained three-dimensional human body mesh with corresponding acupuncture points correspond to real human shape, pose, and acupuncture points.
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRO-MERIDIAN DIAGNOSTICS
A current sensor may take measurements of electrical currents that flow between two limbs of a mammal through at least a portion of the mammal’s torso. The current measurements may be taken during a single diagnostic session while a ground electrode contacts the body at a preferably distal location on a limb and a probe electrode is sequentially placed at different locations on distal portions of other limbs. Each of the current delivery locations may be an acupuncture point. An electrical current state for the diagnostic session may be calculated. This state may consist of current ranges for one or more electrical currents that are measured during the session. A lookup table may be employed to determine one or more medical conditions that are indicated by the current state. Alternatively, a trained machine learning model may predict, based on the measured currents, one or more medical conditions.
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRO-MERIDIAN DIAGNOSTICS
A current sensor may take measurements of electrical currents that flow between two limbs of a mammal through at least a portion of the mammal’s torso. The current measurements may be taken during a single diagnostic session while a ground electrode contacts the body at a preferably distal location on a limb and a probe electrode is sequentially placed at different locations on distal portions of other limbs. Each of the current delivery locations may be an acupuncture point. An electrical current state for the diagnostic session may be calculated. This state may consist of current ranges for one or more electrical currents that are measured during the session. A lookup table may be employed to determine one or more medical conditions that are indicated by the current state. Alternatively, a trained machine learning model may predict, based on the measured currents, one or more medical conditions.
DEVICE AND METHOD TO MEASURE MERIDIAN IMPEDANCES
A meridian impedance measurement device and method are provided, including: at least one set of measurement electrodes placed on the wrists or ankles, each set including six measurement electrodes in contact with six corresponding meridians; at least one reference electrode placed on the wrists or ankles, simultaneously being in contact with all the six corresponding meridians; at least one impedance measurement unit; a microprocessor; an impedance display unit; and a storage unit. During measurement, the adjustable voltage output unit delivers voltage to each pair of measurement electrode and reference electrode, the impedance measurement unit collects signals and pass the signals to the microprocessor for calculation. The whole procedure is done automatically and can be built into a wearable device.
Conductivity compensation factor for assessing bioelectric measurements
Systems, methods, and devices for capturing and assessing bioelectric measurements. A method includes receiving a skin resistance measurement for a skin site of a user from an electrodermal sensor and determining a standard skin conductivity value. The method includes calculating a compensation factor for the user based at least in part on the skin resistance measurement and the standard skin conductivity value.
Devices, systems and methods for controlling a spring force exerted on a sensor for obtaining bio-conductance readings using a linear actuator
A probe device provides an enhanced bioelectric and spring-loaded sensing tip with an integrated force sensor. The probe device measures the bioelectric conductance value from a patient for therapeutic and/or diagnostic purpose using the spring-loaded sensing tip. In addition, the probe device measures the force applied by the spring-loaded sensing tip against the patient using the integrated force sensor. Using feedback from the force sensor and the bioconductive data of the patient, the force applied at the spring-loaded sensing tip may be adjusted to obtain improved results.