Patent ID: 6304774
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: A61B,Y02A,Y10S

Abstract:
A personal heart rate monitor, comprisinga sensor for sensing biomedical signals related to heartbeats,means for transforming a sequence of said sensed biomedical signals to a sequence of transmission signals that can be wirelessly transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver, each said transmission signal being a sequence of pulses theinitiation of which coincides with a feature of said biomedical signals,means for generating data signals as part of said transmission signals,means for generating an identification signal for identifying a transmitter-receiver pair, said identification signal being part of said transmission signals,a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting said sequence of transmission signals to a receiver, said transmitting being initiated by the occurrence of said biomedical signals,a receiver for receiving said sequence of transmission signals,identification means for using said identification signal to determine if said transmission signals in said sequence are from said transmitter,means for rejecting said transmission signals if said transmission signals are not from said transmitter,means for using said sequence of received transmission signals to calculate heart rate if said sequentially received transmission signals are from said transmitter, anda display for displaying said heart rate.