Patent ID: 6440067
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: A61B,G08B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for remotely monitoring and identifying functional activities performed by a test subject, the method comprising the steps of:(a) extracting a given type of signals from each of a predetermined set of muscles of a control subject during the performance thereby of a given non-communicative functional activity; (b) processing said signals to provide for said signals given non-communicative parameters affected by said given functional activity; (c) storing data obtained in step (b); (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) for a plurality of other control subjects; (e) utilizing said data stored in steps (c) to establish a normative data base indicative of said given non-communicative functional activity; (f) extracting said given type of signals from each of at least some of said predetermined set of muscles of a test subject during a given monitoring period during which said test subject is engaged in a variety of functional activities including non-rebilitative functional activities; and (g) comparing said data base to said signals of step (f) to identify during said monitoring period portions thereof during which said test subject was performing said given non-communicative functional activity.