Design of a low-frequency microphone for mobile phones and its application to ubiquitous medical and healthcare monitoring

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 934-941

  Watanabe, Kajiro ^a   Kurihara, Yosuke ^b   Nakamura, Tetsuo ^c   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^d  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEIKEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kunitachi R and D Center   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Low frequency microphone; Mobile phone; Sleep depth estimation; Ubiquitous medicine

Indexed keywords

DEPTH ESTIMATION; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY MICROPHONE; UBIQUITOUS MEDICINE;

HEALTH CARE; MICROPHONES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 77950302011     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2038230     Document Type: Article

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