【2020 Solutions】 Juyi Intelligence Detects Symptoms with Just a Single Optical Lens
In ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine doctors diagnosed by looking, smelling, asking, and touching to assess the pulse, facial complexion, and interrogation of the patient to understand the symptoms; modern AI doctors, with a single optical lens, can scan and detect physiological information of the user, obtaining heartbeat, blood pressure, heart rate variability, etc., making symptoms nowhere to hide.
AI doctors 'see' physiological signals
The AI start-up company Juyi Intelligence, founded by Wu Bingfei, a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University, is at the core of 'AI optic-based physiological information measurement' technology. It uses common photographic lenses to capture continuous facial images for signal processing. After algorithms process the data, it can obtain physiological information such as heartbeat, heart rate variability, and blood pressure. The key feature of this technology is non-contact measurement.
With the advent of an aging society, the demand for long-term care has surged. However, for the elderly who dislike wearing devices, even the best wearable devices are ineffective. Additionally, seniors are generally unfamiliar with using 3C products, thus such devices might become a burden. However, Juyi Intelligence has a new solution by using an optical lens in an imaging detection system to observe facial expressions, it can detect blood pressure and heartbeat. Compared to other wearable devices, whether worn on the body or the wrist, the advantage of a photographic lens is its simplicity and complete unobtrusiveness.
Real-time measurement, precise tracking
Currently, most available products on the market are wearable physiological measurement devices or video surveillance products that do not have physiological detection capabilities. This solution is the only successfully commercialized system for image-based physiological information measurement. The technical highlights are:
1. Commercializable, non-contact continuous detection technology for heartbeat, heart rate variability, and blood pressure.
2. Heart rate measurement results can be output within 6 seconds.
3. Direct measurement even with glasses on.
4. High accuracy measurement compared to medical-grade devices.
5. Clinical trials conducted with hospitals to collect real physiological data to optimize AI algorithms.
6. Wide applications using physiological information measurements for stress, fraud, or fatigue detection.
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Horizontal technology creates diverse vertical applications
In healthcare, it mainly assists elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases, avoiding the discomfort of wearing medical devices, without needing to change daily habits, allowing the system to automatically perform daily health records and predict related diseases, saving medical staff for more intelligent elder care solutions.
In the smart finance sector, facial image processing technology detects physiological information and emotional changes along with masking behaviors. Implemented in bank ATMs or counter systems to enhance monitoring camera functions, it observes the state of withdrawers, sends alerts to clerks upon detecting abnormal emotions or behaviors, thus preventing financial crimes or fraud.
In transportation, using Juyi's technology can detect whether drivers are fatigued. If data indicates the driver has become fatigued, an alert can be issued, advising the driver to stop driving to avoid accidents.
In the financial field, Juyi Intelligence has also cooperated with Shanghai Commercial Bank, introducing the image-based physiological information detection system in newly established smart branches, using physiological information to enhance emotion recognition, strengthening the bank's KYC verification and ATM anti-fraud operations along with VIP exclusive services, providing bank customers with a brand-new digital financial service experience. This technology has been implemented in digital branches in Taichung and Hsinchu.
Furthermore, the non-contact physiological information measurement has a wide range of applications, focusing on smart healthcare, smart finance, smart transportation, and smart security. Initially, these sectors were independent vertical blocks, but Juyi specializes in horizontal technology that allows more diverse applications in each vertical sector, providing more versatile grounding applications.
「Translated content is generated by ChatGPT and is for reference only. Translation date:2024-05-19」