Patent Document ID: 20090306484
Application ID: 12542780
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for unobtrusive screening the well-being of a person using a plurality of sensing devices in a physiological monitoring system, comprising: operating a physiological monitoring system in a fixed capture area, using the sensing devices, including at least one camera to capture images without control of ambient light exposure conditions; automatically detecting the presence of a person during an image capture event; identifying the person as a subject being monitored by the system and tracking the position and pose of the subject person; associating known semantic data with the subject person; using the sensing devices to automatically and unobtrusively sense one or more body parameters of the subject person from the image capture data obtained during the image capture events, while automatically determining the capture conditions, including the ambient light exposure and subject pose, as present during the capture events; automatically analyzing the captured images and the capture condition data for a capture event to determine the acceptability of the captured images relative to defined capture criteria; continuing image capture in an attempt to acquire acceptable images, until either such images are acquired or the subject person leaves the capture area; calculating and storing wellness parameters, which are derived from the sensed body parameter data, including the image capture data, which have been determined acceptable relative to capture conditions; and compiling a wellness record for the subject person and automatically evaluating the well-being of the subject person based on current and prior semantic data including comparing the wellness parameters to previously determined wellness parameters for that person.