Samsung to launch a smart-shirt that connects to your phone and can diagnose pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma and COPD
- The sensors in the shirt can diagnose diseases by making lung function readings
- Samsung have already patented their design and released many smart items
- Big name companies are all experimenting with wearable tech
- It hopes that tech like the smart shirt can cut down on doctor's waiting times
Samsung is thought to be developing a new smart shirt with built in sensors that can diagnose diseases through your smartphone.
The technology uses sensors can make extensive lung function readings by detecting sound from the organs and providing diagnosis and advice, LetsGoDigital reports.
The Korean manufacturing giant have respiratory diseases can be diagnosed as well as the frequency and strength of breath can be measured.
A number of different diagnoses can be made including pneumonia and bronchitis, but also chronic lung diseases such as asthma and COPD are recognised.
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Samsung has developed a new smart shirt with built in sensors that can diagnose diseases through your smartphone. The sensors can make extensive lung function readings and provide diagnosis and advice to your smartphone
According to a patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the technology takes your health history into account along with your Body Mass Index.
To get the correct diagnosis, the user's age, gender, weight and height are taken into account along with their medical history.
The sensors connect to the smartphone, so the user can read the diagnosis, like 'pneumonia symptoms' or 'respiratory infection' on the screen.
Based on the result, advice is then given, varying from preventive to emergency measures.
It has already introduced their smart suit last year and a smart skating suit with which the Dutch short trackers could train for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Last month they released Samsung smart shoes, which gives athletes real-time feedback on their training performance.
The Korean manufacturing giant have respiratory diseases can be diagnosed as well as the frequency and strength of breath can be measured. A number of different diagnoses can be made including pneumonia and bronchitis, but also chronic lung diseases
According to a patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the technology takes your health history into account along with your Body Mass Index. To get the correct diagnosis, the user's age, gender, weight and height are taken into account along with their medical history
The sensors can also be integrated into other types of clothing. It is not known when the smart clothing range will be on the market to the general public.
Although the company says that the possibilities are 'endless'.
'Consider, for example, a professional footballer who is on the sports field, where the lung function can be monitored in real time,' a spokesperson said.
'But also for a sick baby or child this technological solution can offer a solution.'
'If you can easily make a long scan at home, that is of course a big win. Obviously the smart shirt must be made a size smaller for this group of users.'
Not all patents that are filed and granted become reality as large companies regularly apply for patents on its ideas.
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Smartphone rivals Samsung and Apple were been locked in a vicious court battle over allegedly stolen patents.
The trial first erupted in 2011, just a year after Apple released the original iPhone 4.
The two hi-tech behemoths went to court over the designs that have now become commonplace on most popular smartphones, with a court ruling in 2012 in flavor of Apple.
At issue were design features by now familiar to consumers: a black, rectangular, round-cornered phone front, a surrounding rim, known as the 'bezel' and a grid of 16 colourful icon.
Samsung was ordered to pay over a billion dollars to Apple, but that amount was later lowered to roughly $340 million. Now, the pair are back in court for a new trial
Those design elements were protected, prompting the jury to award Apple all the profits from sales of smartphones containing those features, Samsung lawyers said in their filing.
Samsung was ordered to pay over a billion dollars to Apple, but that amount was later lowered to roughly $340 million.
The company appealed the damages in a new case, in May 2018.
In the latest trial, Apple has the burden of proof to prove that Samsung should pay the full $1 billion in damages.
At the end of May, a jury handed down its most recent decision regarding the Apple v. Samsung case, declaring the South Korean tech giant owes $533,316,606 for infringing on Apple's iPhone design patents.
Another $5.3 million was awarded for two utility patents.
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