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- Patent Title: Apparatus, method, and computer program for detecting a physiological measurement from a physiological sound signal
- Patent Title (中): 用于从生理声音信号检测生理测量的装置,方法和计算机程序
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Application No.: US12272072Application Date: 2008-11-17
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Publication No.: US08622919B2Publication Date: 2014-01-07
- Inventor: Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen , Gerrit Sampimon
- Applicant: Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen , Gerrit Sampimon
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo SE Lund
- Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Mobile Communications AB
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Mobile Communications AB
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo SE Lund
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Main IPC: A61B5/02
- IPC: A61B5/02 ; A61B5/04 ; H04R25/00

Abstract:
An apparatus is disclosed, comprising a speaker suitable to be applied at a user's ear and enabled to be supplied with an audio signal for rendering; a microphone arranged in vicinity of the speaker to acquire a sound signal from sounds present in the ear of the user; and a signal processor, wherein the signal processor is arranged to subtract the audio signal from the sound signal to provide a physiological sound signal, and the signal processor is further arranged to detect a physiological measurement from the physiological sound signal. A method and a computer program are also disclosed.
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