Systems and methods for controlling position

Inventors

Levendowski, Daniel J. • Zavora, Timothy • Westbrook, Philip R. • Mitrovic, Mirko • Veljkovic, Bratislav • Berka, Christine • Trejo, Jonny

Assignees

Advanced Brain Monitoring Inc

Abstract

Systems and methods for assessing compliance with position therapy. In an embodiment, position therapy is provided to a user while the user is wearing a position therapy device. The position therapy comprises, by the device, collecting positional data, determining positions of the user over a time period based on the positional data, and, when it is determined that the user is in a target position, providing feedback to the user to influence the user to change to a non-target position. In addition, the device stores a duration of use in its memory. The duration of use indicates a duration that the user has used the wearable position therapy device in each of one or more positions. An assessment of the user's compliance with the position therapy is then provided based, at least in part, on the duration of use.

Core Innovation

The invention relates to a wearable position therapy device and method that provides position feedback to a user by detecting user positional data using one or more position detectors while the user is wearing the wearable device. The positional data is used to determine whether the user is in a target position or one or more non-target positions. When the user is determined to be in the target position, one or more feedback generators generate feedback intended to influence the user to change to the one or more non-target positions.

A report of the position feedback is generated based on time spent in the target position and one or more non-target positions. The report is generated in the method and in the wearable device implementations, using the positional data to quantify time spent in target versus non-target positions. The device and method are configured to deliver the feedback when the positional determination indicates the user is in the target position.

In certain implementations, feedback is adaptively delivered by increasing the feedback generated by the one or more feedback generators until the user changes to the one or more non-target positions. Additional reporting and feedback-adjustment refinements include baselines for comparison and adaptive increases, such as increasing feedback until the user transitions away from the target position. The device further includes processor instructions stored in a memory to execute the positional detection, target determination, feedback generation, and report generation.

Claims Coverage

The document provides three independent claims covering a method for position feedback plus reporting, and wearable devices that perform the same core functionality, with an additional adaptive feedback increase feature in one independent claim. Across the independent claims, there are 3 main inventive feature sets: target/non-target position determination with feedback generation, report generation based on time spent, and adaptive feedback delivery by increasing feedback until position change.

The independent claims collectively require positional data acquisition from position detectors, determination of whether the user is in a target versus non-target position, feedback generation when the user is in the target position, and generation of a report based on time spent in target versus non-target positions. One independent device claim further adds adaptively increasing the feedback until a position change occurs.

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