Apple Latest Granted Patent for Fall Detection is Packed with Details - Patently Apple

Apple's archetypal patent for 'Fall Detection' was published successful 2018 nether exertion 20190103007. Since that clip we've posted a mates of related patent reports connected the taxable (01 & 02) with the erstwhile including "crash detection." Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a much elaborate patent regarding Fall Detection.

In 1 aspect, Apple's granted patent covers a method that includes obtaining, by a mobile instrumentality (Apple Watch), question information indicating question measured by a question sensor implicit a clip period. The question sensor is worn oregon carried by a user. The method besides includes determining, by the mobile device, an interaction experienced by the idiosyncratic based connected the question data, the interaction occurring during a archetypal interval of the clip period.

The method besides includes determining, by the mobile instrumentality based connected the question data, 1 oregon much archetypal question characteristics of the idiosyncratic during a 2nd interval of the clip period. The 2nd interval occurs anterior to the archetypal interval. The method besides includes determining, by the mobile instrumentality based connected the question data, 1 oregon much 2nd question characteristics of the idiosyncratic during a 3rd interval of the clip period. The 3rd interval occurs aft the archetypal interval. The method besides includes determining, by the mobile device, that the idiosyncratic has fallen based connected the impact, the 1 oregon much archetypal question characteristics of the user, and the 1 oregon much 2nd question characteristics of the user, and responsive to determining that the idiosyncratic has fallen, generating, by the mobile device, a notification indicating that the idiosyncratic has fallen.

Apple's patent FIG. 2A beneath is simply a diagram showing an illustration presumption of a mobile instrumentality connected a user's body; FIG. 2B is simply a diagram showing illustration directional axes with respect a mobile device; FIG. 12 is simply a diagram of an illustration authorities instrumentality for determining whether to transmit a distress telephone utilizing a mobile device.

Apple's patent FIG. 20 beneath is simply a schematic practice of an illustration autumn authorities machine; FIG. 21 is simply a diagram of antithetic types of falls that whitethorn beryllium experienced by a user.

For much details, decidedly reappraisal Apple's granted patent 11468759. This patent is packed with details. For instance, conscionable successful the patent summary unsocial Apple listed 124 circumstantial points astir their invention.