Smart toilet for human health monitoring

Devices, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring or analyzing excreta of a subject using a toilet. In one embodiment, the device includes a housing mounted adjacent a toilet bowl, a urinalysis module for deploying urinalysis strips into the toilet bowl to collect a urine sample from a subje...

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Main Authors Escobedo, Diego, Gambhir, Sanjiv Sam, Lee, Brian J, Lozano, Alexander, Won, Daeyoun, Park, Seung-Min, Bodapati, Sunil
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 14.03.2023
Subjects
CALCULATING
COFFEE MILLS
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DIAGNOSIS
DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES
FURNITURE
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
MEASURING
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
PHYSICS
SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
SPICE MILLS
SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
SURGERY
TESTING
TOILET ACCESSORIES
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Summary:Devices, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring or analyzing excreta of a subject using a toilet. In one embodiment, the device includes a housing mounted adjacent a toilet bowl, a urinalysis module for deploying urinalysis strips into the toilet bowl to collect a urine sample from a subject's urine stream delivered into the toilet bowl and a urinalysis sensor to acquire data from the urinalysis strip related to the urine sample, and a stool analysis module including a camera oriented into the toilet bowl to provide images of contents of the toilet bowl. In addition, the device may include a uroflowmetry module and/or a biometric identification module. One or more sensors are provided for identifying when a subject uses the toilet, and a processor activates one or more of the modules when the sensors indicate a subject is using the toilet.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201916506942