Wearable Heartbeat and Breathing Waveform Continuous Monitoring System

Abstract

Apparatus and method are provided to collect and analyze heartbeat waveforms. In one novel aspect, the heartbeat waveforms are collected from wearable devices. In one embodiment, the wearable device collects heartbeat waveforms by attaching the device to the patient for a long period and sends the collected waveforms to a receiver through a wireless network. In another novel aspect, an application program is installed in a smart device to receive heartbeat waveforms from one or more wearable devices. The application program either relays the received waveform to a remote processing center or processes the data before sending. In another novel aspect, an analysis method compares received patient's current heartbeat waveform with historic data. In one embodiment, the historic data are stored in a cloud-based database. In another novel aspect, the remote processing center is an open platform data center, which takes in certified third party inputs.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system comprising:
 a database, wherein the database stores historic waveform information for a plurality of users and one or more disease diseases patterns;   a data processing center, wherein the data processing center is connected with a network interface that receives heartbeat waveform information from one or more remote devices, and wherein the data process center is configured to obtain one or more current heartbeat waveform inputs associated with a current user; retrieves one or more sets of past heartbeat waveform inputs that are associated with the said current user; identifies changes associated with the said current user by comparing the one or more current heartbeat waveform inputs with the one or more past heartbeat waveform based on predefined comparison algorithms; generates a current user report based on the identified changes associated with the said current user based on comparison report algorithms.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the network interface receives waveform information from one or more wearable heartbeat waveform collecting devices. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the network interface receives waveform information from one or more smart devices, and wherein the one or more smart devices receives original waveform information from one or more wearable heartbeat waveform collecting devices. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the comparison algorithm is developed by a third party, and wherein the comparison algorithm is certified by the system before it is accepted by the system. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the comparison algorithm involves:
 retrieving or generating a computational cardiology model of the said current user, wherein the computational cardiology model predicts a heartbeat waveform;   identifying differences between the current heartbeat waveform and predicted heartbeat waveform through the computational cardiology model;   adjusting parameters of the computational cardiology model to match the current heartbeat waveform; and   generating a comparison report based on the adjusted parameters.   
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the data processing center is configured to further obtain one or more movement waveform inputs, wherein each of the one or more movement waveform inputs associates with a corresponding current heartbeat waveform inputs, and wherein each movement waveform input indicates a movement status of the current user. 
     
     
         7 . An apparatus comprising:
 a wearable size container, wherein the container has an inner chamber and an outer surface, wherein the container can be attached to a body;   a series of acoustic sensors arranged inside the wearable size container to receive sound from different directions; and   an acoustic waveform collector that collects and generates acoustic waveform from the series of acoustic sensors; and   a waveform transmitter that transmits the acoustic waveform.   
     
     
         8 . The apparatus of claim  12 , wherein the acoustic waveform is transmitted via a wireless connection. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus of claim  12 , wherein the acoustic waveform collector further applies filter to the valid signal sections to filter out body noise and environmental noise. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus of claim  12 , wherein the acoustic waveform collector further obtains one or more movement waveform inputs, wherein each of the one or more movement waveform inputs associates with a corresponding current heartbeat waveform inputs, and wherein each movement waveform inputs indicates a movement status of the user.