Patent ID: 9064039
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for calculating a physiological index, applicable to an electronic device, the method comprising: dividing a physiological data sequence into a plurality of windows, wherein each window comprises a data segment of the physiological data sequence; analyzing the data segment in each window to obtain metadata that represents data characteristics of the data segment; updating the metadata comprising the data characteristics of all data segments in the windows up to a previous window by using the metadata corresponding to one of the windows to obtain the metadata comprising the data characteristics of all data segments in the windows up to a current window; and calculating a physiological index by using the updated metadata, wherein the step of analyzing the data segment in each window to obtain the metadata that represents the data characteristics of the data segment comprises: wherein the step of updating the metadata comprising the data characteristics of all data segments in the windows up to the previous window by using the metadata corresponding to one of the windows to obtain the metadata comprising the data characteristics of all data segments in the windows up to the current window comprises: