Patent ID: 6334073
Filing Date: 2001-12-25
Classification: A61B,G01S,G07C,Y10S

Abstract:
An internal monitoring and behavior control system comprising:a plurality of internal radio transmitters, each said internal radio transmitter being implanted in a human for transmitting a plurality of signal pulses, each signal pulse being encoded with at least information uniquely identifying one said internal radio transmitter;a plurality of external radio receivers each having a corresponding clock, with the clocks associated with said external radio receivers being synchronized, each said external radio receiver for receiving each of the plurality of signal pulses transmitted by each of said plurality of internal radio transmitters and for generating a plurality of received signal data, each received signal datum corresponding to each received signal pulse and including at least (a) a time-of-arrival of when the received signal pulse was received by said external radio receiver, the time-of-arrival being generated in accordance with the synchronized clock of said external radio receiver and (b) the internal radio transmitter identifying information decoded from the received signal pulse;a central processor for (1) estimating a location for each said internal radio transmitter, and thus for each human, in accordance with the time-of-arrival generated by each of said plurality of external radio receivers, (2) storing, for each human, authorized or unauthorized areas to which the human is assigned, (3) determining an event of whether the estimated location is within the authorized area or the unauthorized area assigned to any one of the humans and stored in said central processor, and (4) generating a command upon occurrence of the event, wherein the command includes information uniquely identifying the human for which the event occurred;a plurality of relays, each relay for relaying said plurality of received signal data from each said external radio receiver to said central processor;a plurality of behavior control units, each said behavior control unit implanted in a different one of the humans and electrically connected to said implanted internal radio transmitter for causing a reaction in the human upon receipt of the command;plurality of internal radio receivers, each said internal radio receiver implanted in a different one of the humans and electrically connected to said implanted behavior control unit, for receiving the command generated by said central processor and, if the command is intended for the one human as determined by the unique identification information, relaying the command to said connected behavior control unit;an external radio transmitter for transmitting the command to said plurality of internal radio receivers; anda second relay for relaying the command from said central processor to said external radio transmitter,wherein said behavior control unit comprises one of:(a) an electrical charge application device implanted within the human that is configured to apply an electrical charge to an internal (i) organ, (ii) tissue, (iii) nerve, or (iv) muscle, and(b) a chemical dispensing device implanted within the human that is configured to dispense a chemical to the human.