SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INTRUSIVE HEALTH MONITORING IN THE HOME

摘要

A hand-held device, such as a remote control, is provided for operation of a consumer appliance and is equipped with one or more biometric sensors to capture and report on the health condition of a user of the hand-held device. The data captured by such a hand-held device may be evaluated locally in the hand-held device itself or may be conveyed to a target consumer appliance either for local evaluation by that consumer appliance or for onward transmission to a central off-site monitoring service.

主权项

1. A hand-held controlling device for use in controlling functional operations of one or more controllable consumer appliances, comprising:
a processing device; a wireless transmitter coupled to the processing device; a user interface having a plurality of input elements coupled to the processing device; and at least one biometric sensor coupled to the processing device wherein the processing device functions to enable use of the at least one biometric sensor to capture biometric data from a user as the user holds the hand-held controlling device when the processing device determines that one or more of the plurality of input elements of the user interface has been activated to cause the wireless transmitter to transmit commands to control a functional operation of one or more of the controllable consumer appliances.