Physiological monitoring system

• US 10,076,244 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2017
• Issued: 09/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Aulisa Medical Devices Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Taiwan Aulisa Medical Devices Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Lien, Augustine Yen
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q
• Application Number:
  US15/645,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20170303787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0431 Portable apparatus, e.g. comprising a handle or case
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0204 Acoustic sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0257 Proximity sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0271 Thermal or temperature sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/029 Humidity sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0077 Devices for viewing the surface of the body, e.g. camera, magnifying lens
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1128 using image analysis A61B5/1127 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/00 Instruments for auscultation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/185 Signal analysis techniques for reducing or preventing false alarms or for enhancing the reliability of the system
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A physiological monitoring system includes a near-end portable monitoring module for generating first sensed data, capturing a user'"'"'s first image, an image sensing module for synchronizing the first sensed data and the first image to form first combination data, and searching and connecting the corresponding near-end portable monitoring module to receive the first sensed data and display the near-end information display module corresponding to the screen of the first combination data, when the first sensed data includes a warning signal, the first combination data is transmitted and stored in the Internet by the second communication unit within a time period from a first time before the warning signal is issued to a second time for releasing the warning signal, and the first combination data within the time period from the first time to the second time is transmitted to the near-end information display module to display the first combination data.

Claims

1. A physiological monitoring system, for monitoring a user'"'"'s physiological status, or the physiological status and a first image, comprising:

a near-end portable monitoring module, having a first communication unit and a first sensing unit, and provided for the user to wear, and the first sensing unit sensing the physiological status of the user to generate first sensed data, and the first communication unit transmitting the sensed data;

an image sensing module, having a second communication unit and an image capturing unit, and the second communication unit receiving the first sensed data, and the image capturing unit capturing the first image of the user, and the image capturing unit tracking the user to obtain the first image by the near-end portable monitoring module, wherein the image sensing module synchronizes the first sensed data and the first image to form first combination data;

a near-end information display module, having a third communication unit and a first display unit, and the near-end information display module using the third communication unit to connect to the Internet to search and connect to the corresponding near-end portable monitoring module to receive the first sensed data and display the first sensed data from a screen of the first display unit to where the first combination data is transmitted from the image sensing module, when the first sensed data includes a warning signal, the first combination data is transmitted to and stored in an Internet storage unit of the Internet by the second communication unit within a time period from a first time before the warning signal is issued to a second time for releasing the warning signal, and the first combination data within the time period from the first time to the second time is transmitted to the near-end information display module to display the first combination data;

a network communication unit for connecting the Internet, and the network communication unit complying with a communication specification, and at least one of the first communication unit, the second communication unit and the third communication unit complying with the communication specification, so that the first sensed data are transmitted among the near-end portable monitoring module, the image sensing module and the near-end information display module via the Internet; and

the near-end information display module at least shows a connecting status between the near-end information display module and the Internet, and a connecting status between and the near-end portable monitoring module and the Internet.

2. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sensing unit is provided for sensing at least one selected from the group consisting of temperature, audio frequency, sound, humidity, brightness, movement vital sign, physiological signal, and distance.

3. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the near-end information display module comprises a memory unit or a storage unit, and the near-end information display module searches and connects the corresponding near-end portable monitoring module, and the physiological monitoring system stores the sensed data through a procedure comprising the steps of :

1) storing the address of the near-end portable monitoring module into the memory unit or storage unit;

     2) searching and connecting the near-end portable monitoring module by the near-end information display module based on the address through the Internet;

     3) establishing a connection between the near-end information display module and the near-end portable monitoring module by the Internet;

     4) synchronizing the first sensed data and the first image by the image sensing module to form first combination data;

     5) receiving the first sensed data by the near-end information display module, and displaying the first sensed data from a screen of the first display unit to where the first combination data is transmitted from the image sensing module, when the first sensed data includes a warning signal, the first combination data is transmitted to and stored in the Internet storage unit of the Internet by the second communication unit within a time period from a first time before the warning signal is issued to a second time for releasing the warning signal, and the first combination data within the time period from the first time to the second time is transmitted to the near-end information display module to display the first combination data.

4. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a far-end information display module having a fourth communication unit and a second display unit, and the fourth communication unit receiving the first sensed data via the Internet and displaying the frame corresponsive to the first sensed data on the second display unit, wherein the fourth communication unit complies with the communication specification.

5. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a far-end portable monitoring module having a fifth communication unit and a second sensing unit, provided for the user to wear, and the second sensing unit sensing at least one of the physiological status and second image of another user to generate second sensed data, and the fifth communication unit transmitting the second sensed data to the Internet.

6. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the second sensing unit is provided for sensing at least one selected from the group consisting of temperature, audio frequency, sound, humidity, brightness, movement, vital sign, physiological signal, and distance.

7. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 5, further comprising an alarm unit having a sixth communication unit and a first processing unit, and the sixth communication unit receiving the second sensed data, and the first processing unit selectively generating a warning signal according to the second sensed data.

8. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the Internet further comprises an Internet storage unit for storing the warning signal.

9. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the Internet further comprises an Internet storage unit, and the near-end information display module displays the history track of another user'"'"'s physiological status.

10. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a servo host having a seventh communication unit and a second host unit, and the seventh communication unit receiving at least one of the first sensed data, the first image, the second sensed data and the second image, and the second host unit generating at least one frame according to the first image and the second image, and the second host unit generating a warning signal according to at least one of the first sensed data and the second sensed data.

11. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an alarm unit having a sixth communication unit and a first processing unit, and the sixth communication unit receiving the first sensed data, and the processing unit selectively generating a warning signal according to the first sensed data.

12. The physiological monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a servo host having a seventh communication unit and a second host unit, and the seventh communication unit receiving at least one of the first sensed data and the image, and the second host unit generating a frame according to the image, and the second host unit generating a warning signal according to at least one of the first sensed data and the image.