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 . 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.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the acoustic waveform is transmitted via a wireless connection. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the acoustic waveform collector further applies filter to the valid signal sections to filter out body noise and environmental noise. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 1 , 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.