Inventors:
Robert Branch Faber - Nashville TN, US
Ataullah Arjomand - Bellevue WA, US
International Classification:
A61B 5/103, A61B 5/117, G08B 1/08, G08B 21/00
US Classification:
600587, 600595, 340500, 340501, 34053911, 34053912, 340669
Abstract:
A method and a device are disclosed including a clothing article with an embedded Data Measurement and Processing Module configured to measure a dynamic characteristic of a predefined significant impact to the user of the clothing article, and further including a video capturing device which provides video scenes related to the impact. In various embodiments, the embedded data collection and measurement module includes a multi-axis accelerometer and a processor, such as a microcontroller, coupled with the accelerometer to calculate a magnitude and direction of the imparted force, and a video camera that is configured to relate its different captured scenes to predefined significant impacts within each scene. In other various embodiments, the processor and/or the video capturing device may communicate collected and/or calculated data to a storage device and/or an external host computer for future analysis and use.