METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE USING VISIBLE-LIGHT IMAGES TO DETERMINE A HEART RATE

摘要

An apparatus (400) can receive (101) a plurality of visible light images as correspond to a subject's skin (403) proximal to a blood-transporting capillary (404) and then process (102) that plurality of visible light images to thereby determine a heart rate for the subject. These teachings will accommodate both light-transmissive images and light-reflective images. By one approach, these visible light images can comprise images that are captured by use of a cellular telephone camera (402). The aforementioned processing can occur, in whole or in part, at the cellular telephone or at a remotely located server (408).