Patent ID: 9619039
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for monitoring an individual installing equipment, comprising: using a motion sensor to monitor an individual when the individual is installing equipment that involves the positions of kneeling, standing or reaching; collecting, at a computer, motion sensor input data of motions of the individual from a motion sensor for an interval of time, for use in determining qualitative descriptions of positions of the individual; analyzing, using the computer, the motion sensor input data to classify and identify a position of the individual using an associative memory classification as one of at least standing or kneeling, and to classify a movement captured during the interval of time as a motion corresponding to one of a plurality of pre-determined motions of interest based on shared relative attributes, where the plurality of pre-determined motions includes at least a bending over movement; generating an output providing notice of an identified predetermined motion of interest to a monitoring system, and monitoring the duration the individual maintains the identified position, to collect metrics on how long the individual maintains a potentially risky position.