Patent ID: 9285788
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: A61B,G05B,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A body garment for detecting body kinematics comprising: a plurality of sensors distributed throughout the garment, each sensor being configured to sense body state information from a local surface area of a body part covered by the garment; and a plurality of sensor nodes in proximity to the plurality of sensors respectively, each sensor node including a processor and configured to receive sensing body state information from at least one of the plurality of sensors; wherein each processor is configured to receive body state information locally from one or more sensors in proximity to said each processor; to utilize the information to determine a local surface shape of the surface of a portion of the body part covered by said one or more sensors; and to exchange local surface shape information with neighboring sensor nodes, and wherein at least one processor of at least one sensor node utilizes the local surface shape information received from the sensor nodes to generate one overall model of a surface shape of the entire surface of the body part covered by the garment.