This application claims priority to Indian Application No. 201941035980, filed Sep. 6, 2019. The disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to health care systems for monitoring the health condition of persons. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a system and method for measuring health parameters of persons.

BACKGROUND

The background description includes information that may be useful in understanding the present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the presently claimed invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.

A daily health check is essential for people who are suffering from chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, hypertension and lipidemia. In a medical centre, a trained medical personnel performs these tests. In recent days, in-home environment handheld devices are also used to monitor these conditions. Each of these conditions require a different device which involve traditional invasive techniques like drawing blood samples from a finger prick of an individual, causing pain and discomfort. This invasive procedure demotivates people to avoid regular health checks, and a healthy person does not put efforts to do these checks causing delay in detection of the condition.

There is no efficient and common existing device/system that may collectively monitor the cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid monitoring and lipidemia. Devices that are available only for the specific disease, and may require the subject/person/individual to visit a physician or trained operator to perform tests and/or collect data related to the condition of the diseases. The diseases like diabetes require the subject to visit a physician daily or to use the invasive technique at home to record the blood sugar levels. The existing devices for monitoring diabetes involve invasive techniques where the subject has to take blood samples by pricking, and the samples are analyzed for observing the blood glucose values. The hypertension is diagnosed based on pressure values observed for a week or two. The cardiovascular complications require the subject to visit a physician for monitoring heart rate using devices like Electrocardiography (ECG) machines. This requires fixing of electrodes on the patient's body leading to discomfort. The lipidemia monitoring is again invasive, where blood samples are to be analyzed causing discomfort and delay in getting results.

There is, therefore, a need in the art to provide a simple and efficient non-invasive non-contact system and method for real-time monitoring health parameters of an individual

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

A general object of the present disclosure is to provide a simple and efficient solution which may obviate the foregoing limitations of conventional devices.

An object of the present disclosure is to provide an improved system and method for measuring and/or monitoring health parameters of an individual.

Another object of the present disclosure is to provide a common system that may collectively monitor various diseases like cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid monitoring, lipidemia etc. of a subject, such as humans.

Still another object of the present disclosure is to provide a simple and cost-effective health parameters measurement system and method which uses techniques, which are, robust, accurate, efficient, cost-effective, and easy to implement.

SUMMARY

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to health care systems for monitoring health conditions of individuals. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a system and method for measuring health parameters of individuals. The system may collectively monitor various diseases like cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid monitoring, lipidemia etc.

In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for measuring one or more health parameters of a subject, such as humans. The proposed system and method are based on a set of glasses comprising at least one glass, a frame for holding the set of glasses, and an image acquisition unit configured with the set of glasses. At least one glass may be a two way mirror. The image acquisition unit may include a thermal sensor for capturing any or a combination of one or more thermal images and videos of at least one body part, for example a face of the subject. The image acquisition unit may include an optical camera to capture any or a combination of one or more optical images and videos of the at least one body part of the subject. A processing unit that is operatively coupled to the image acquisition unit, and may be configured to identify a region of interest of the body part in each frame of the captured any or a combination of the one or more thermal images and videos. Identification of the region of interest may be based on correlation of the captured thermal images and/or videos with the captured optical images and/videos. The processing unit may extract one or more attributes associated with a heat intensity variation from the identified region of interest region in each frame of the captured thermal images and/or videos for comparing the extracted attributes with a predetermined set of reference data that are stored in a database operatively coupled to the processing unit to measure risk scores associated with one or more health parameters of the subject. The one or more health parameters may be selected from a group comprising a metabolic rate, state of diabetes mellitus condition, state of hypertension, state of dyslipidemia, body temperature, heart-rate, respiratory rate, and the like. Thus, it would be appreciated that the risk scores associated with one or more health parameters of the subject are determined non-invasively without contacting the subject and does not involve any harmful radiation. Hence, various diseases like cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, dyslipidemia etc. of the subject may be monitored in real-time non-invasively without touching the subject.

In an embodiment, the system may include a display unit to display measured risk scores associated with the one or more health parameters. The display unit may be configured with at least one glass, and operatively coupled to the processing unit. The display unit may include a user interface to receive inputs from users.

Various objects, features, aspects and advantages of the inventive subject matter will become apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, along with the accompanying drawing figures in which like numerals represent like components.

