52 patents
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Patient Video Monitoring Systems and Methods for Thermal Detection of Liquids
11 Jan 24
A system for monitoring a patient in a patient area having one or more detection zones, the system comprising one or more cameras, a user interface, and a computing system configured to receive a chronological series of frames from the one or more cameras, identify liquid candidates by comparing a current frame with a plurality of previous frames of the chronological series, determine locations of the liquid candidates, identify thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, determine types of liquids of the liquid candidates based on the locations and thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, and generate an alert with the user interface corresponding to the determined types of liquids.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio, Kenneth W. Chapman
Filed: 6 Jun 23
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Surveillance System and Method for Predicting Patient Falls Using Motion Feature Patterns
4 Jan 24
A method and system for detecting a fall risk condition, the system comprising a surveillance camera configured to generate a plurality of frames showing an area in which a patient at risk of falling is being monitored, and a computer system comprising memory and logic circuitry configured to store motion feature patterns that are extracted from video recordings, the motion feature patterns are representative of motion associated with real alarm cases and false-alarm cases of fall events, receive a fall alert from a classifier, determine motion features of one or more frames from the plurality of frames that correspond to the fall alert; compare the motion features of the one or more frames with the motion feature patterns, and determine whether to confirm the fall alert based on the comparison.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 2 Mar 23
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Electronic Patient Sitter Management System and Method for Implementing
14 Sep 23
An electronic sitter management system coupled to patient surveillance network having a plurality of video cameras, each camera transmitting a stream of surveillance video of a respective patient room.
Sam Anthony Greco, Steven Gail Johnson, Matthew Cameron Clark, Derek Stevan del Carpio
Filed: 18 Nov 22
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Systems and Methods for Monitoring and Controlling Bed Functions
10 Aug 23
A method and system for patient monitoring, the system comprising a surveillance camera configured to generate a plurality of frames showing an area in which a patient in a bed is being monitored, and a computer system comprising memory and logic circuitry configured to determine bed rails positions of the bed, identify a position of the patient, and generate signals that control the bed rails of a bed based on the bed rails positions and the position of the patient.
Jeffrey C. Lightcap, Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 17 Oct 22
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System and Method for Monitoring a Fall State of a Patient While Minimizing False Alarms
10 Aug 23
Various embodiments concern a system for monitoring a patient in a bed, the system comprising a camera, a user interface comprising a screen, and a computing system.
Matt Clark, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 14 Oct 22
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Patient video monitoring systems and methods for thermal detection of liquids
25 Jul 23
A system for monitoring a patient in a patient area having one or more detection zones, the system comprising one or more cameras, a user interface, and a computing system configured to receive a chronological series of frames from the one or more cameras, identify liquid candidates by comparing a current frame with a plurality of previous frames of the chronological series, determine locations of the liquid candidates, identify thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, determine types of liquids of the liquid candidates based on the locations and thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, and generate an alert with the user interface corresponding to the determined types of liquids.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio, Kenneth W. Chapman
Filed: 5 May 21
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Surveillance system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns
4 Apr 23
A method and system for detecting a fall risk condition, the system comprising a surveillance camera configured to generate a plurality of frames showing an area in which a patient at risk of falling is being monitored, and a computer system comprising memory and logic circuitry configured to store motion feature patterns that are extracted from video recordings, the motion feature patterns are representative of motion associated with real alarm cases and false-alarm cases of fall events, receive a fall alert from a classifier, determine motion features of one or more frames from the plurality of frames that correspond to the fall alert; compare the motion features of the one or more frames with the motion feature patterns, and determine whether to confirm the fall alert based on the comparison.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 23 Jul 21
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Patient Video Monitoring Systems and Methods Having Detection Algorithm Recovery from Changes In Illumination
9 Mar 23
Various embodiments concern video patient monitoring with detection zones.
Matthew Cameron Clark, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 8 Sep 22
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Electronic patient sitter management system and method for implementing
10 Jan 23
An electronic sitter management system coupled to patient surveillance network having a plurality of video cameras, each camera transmitting a stream of surveillance video of a respective patient room.
Sam Anthony Greco, Steven Gail Johnson, Matthew Cameron Clark, Derek Stevan del Carpio
Filed: 1 Jun 21
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System and method for monitoring a fall state of a patient while minimizing false alarms
15 Nov 22
Various embodiments concern a system for monitoring a patient in a bed, the system comprising a camera, a user interface comprising a screen, and a computing system.
Matt Clark, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 6 May 21
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Patient video monitoring systems and methods having detection algorithm recovery from changes in illumination
18 Oct 22
Various embodiments concern video patient monitoring with detection zones.
Matthew Cameron Clark, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 3 May 21
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Dual Camera Patient Monitoring System
8 Sep 22
A method and system for calibrating cameras of a monitoring system, the method comprises receiving a plurality of video frames including a wide area view of a patient area from a primary camera of a monitoring subsystem and a view of a region of interest within the patient area from a secondary camera of the monitoring subsystem, detecting a patient event based on an analysis of given ones of the plurality of video frames corresponding to the wide area view, transmitting the given ones of the plurality of video frames and an identification of the patient event to a viewer client device, generating detection-based calibration instructions based on the patient event, wherein the detection-based calibration instructions including control information that controls operation of the secondary camera based on a location of the patient event, and transmitting the detection-based calibration instructions to the monitoring subsystem, wherein the monitoring subsystem configures the secondary camera based on the control information of the detection-based calibration instructions.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio, Jeffrey C. Lightcap
Filed: 8 Mar 21
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Smart Monitoring Safety and Quality of Life System Using Sensors
31 Mar 22
A smart monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor devices within a home or facility, at least one of the plurality of sensor devices comprising sensor elements configured to detect activity of an individual in the home or facility, and a computing device configured to receive activity signals from the plurality of sensor devices associated with the individual from the home or facility, parse the activity signals into scoring components by correlating the plurality of sensor devices to the scoring components, the scoring components including a sleep score, a motion score, and an event score, compute a current scoring of the individual based on the scoring components, compare the current scoring of the individual to historic scoring and peer scoring, generate a quality of life score for the individual based on the based on the comparison, and process a clinical analysis of the individual based on the quality of life score, the clinical analysis including graphical representations of the quality of life score and the scoring components.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 9 Dec 21
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System and Method for Documenting Patient Procedures
10 Mar 22
The local surveillance sub-system recognizes that a patient medical procedure has or will soon commence by sensing the presence of a healthcare professional in or near the surveillance area, and in response, creates a separate patient medical procedure A/V file for the surveillance data that will be captured.
Steven Gail JOHNSON
Filed: 19 Nov 21
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Smart monitoring safety and quality of life system using sensors
18 Jan 22
A smart monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor devices within a home or facility, at least one of the plurality of sensor devices comprising sensor elements configured to detect activity of an individual in the home or facility, and a computing device configured to receive activity signals from the plurality of sensor devices associated with the individual, parse the activity signals into scoring components including a sleep score, a motion score, and an event score, compute a current scoring of the individual based on the scoring components, compare the current scoring of the individual to historic scoring and peer scoring, generate a quality of life score for the individual based on the based on the comparison, and process a clinical analysis of the individual based on the quality of life score, the clinical analysis including graphical representations of the quality of life score and the scoring components.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 25 Jun 19
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System and method for documenting patient procedures
28 Dec 21
The local surveillance sub-system recognizes that a patient medical procedure has or will soon commence by sensing the presence of a healthcare professional in or near the surveillance area, and in response, creates a separate patient medical procedure A/V file for the surveillance data that will be captured.
Steven Gail Johnson
Filed: 20 Jun 19
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Smart Monitoring Safety System Using Sensors
25 Nov 21
A smart monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor devices coupled to appliances and fixtures within a dwelling environment, at least one of the plurality of sensor devices comprising sensor elements including an accelerometer configured to detect a usage associated with the appliances and fixtures, and a computing device operative to receive event signals from the plurality of sensor devices, generate a collection of data with the event signals, analyze the collection of data, generate analytics and pattern data based on the analysis, and generate notifications based on abnormalities in the analytics and pattern data.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio, James M. Fathman
Filed: 9 Aug 21
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Surveillance System and Method for Predicting Patient Falls Using Motion Feature Patterns
11 Nov 21
A method and system for detecting a fall risk condition, the system comprising a surveillance camera configured to generate a plurality of frames showing an area in which a patient at risk of falling is being monitored, and a computer system comprising memory and logic circuitry configured to store motion feature patterns that are extracted from video recordings, the motion feature patterns are representative of motion associated with real alarm cases and false-alarm cases of fall events, receive a fall alert from a classifier, determine motion features of one or more frames from the plurality of frames that correspond to the fall alert; compare the motion features of the one or more frames with the motion feature patterns, and determine whether to confirm the fall alert based on the comparison.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio
Filed: 23 Jul 21
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Electronic Patient Sitter Management System and Method for Implementing
16 Sep 21
An electronic sitter management system coupled to patient surveillance network having a plurality of video cameras, each camera transmitting a stream of surveillance video of a respective patient room.
Sam Anthony Greco, Steven Gail Johnson, Matthew Cameron Clark, Derek Stevan del Carpio
Filed: 1 Jun 21
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Smart monitoring safety system using sensors
7 Sep 21
A smart monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor devices coupled to appliances and fixtures within a dwelling environment, at least one of the plurality of sensor devices comprising sensor elements including an accelerometer configured to detect a usage associated with the appliances and fixtures, and a computing device operative to receive event signals from the plurality of sensor devices, generate a collection of data with the event signals, analyze the collection of data, generate analytics and pattern data based on the analysis, and generate notifications based on abnormalities in the analytics and pattern data.
Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio, James M. Fathman
Filed: 5 Jul 18