Patent ID: 7987069
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: A61B,A61G,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. At a computer system, a method for detecting a support platform exiting event, the method comprising: accessing movement data from sensors that are monitoring a patient resting on a support platform, the movement data indicative of movement in one or more portions of the patient's body; generating a motion capture pattern summary for the patient from the accessed movement data, the motion capture pattern summary capturing movements for the one or more portions of the patient's body; comparing the motion capture pattern summary to one or more movement pattern data sets in a library of movement pattern data sets, the one or more movement pattern data sets in the library of movement pattern data sets being representative of movements having some probability of indicating platform support exiting; determining that the motion capture pattern summary is sufficiently similar to one of the one or more movement pattern data sets in the library of movement pattern data sets; and detecting that the patient is attempting to exit the support platform based on the determined similarity by: