Method and system for determining whether a monitored individual's hand(s) have entered a virtual safety zone
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1. A method for detecting when a monitored individual has moved one or both of his or her hands within a virtual safety zone, the method comprising, at a computerized monitoring system:
- receiving one or more selections for configuring a virtual safety zone representing an area where an individual to be monitored should not place his or her hands;
accessing one or more 3D motion sensors to capture live video data from the virtual safety zone;
receiving the video data from the one or more 3D motion sensors;
determining that one or more hands of the individual to be monitored are within the virtual safety zone;
determining that an amount of time the one or more hands are within the virtual safety zone meets or exceeds a predetermined period of time; and
upon determining that the one or more hands of the individual are within the virtual safety zone for at least the predetermined period of time, electronically transmitting an alert to at least one of the monitored individual, one or more caregivers, and a centralized monitoring station.
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Abstract
A system and method that allows caregivers, central monitoring services, and other persons to monitor whether a monitored individual'"'"'s hand(s) have entered into an area where the caregiver has determined the monitored individual'"'"'s hand(s) should not be, such as where the monitored individual may remove or disturb a piece of medical equipment. Where the monitored individual'"'"'s hand(s) do enter the restricted area that is represented by an electronic virtual safety zone, an alert can be generated by the system and method.
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1. A method for detecting when a monitored individual has moved one or both of his or her hands within a virtual safety zone, the method comprising, at a computerized monitoring system:
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receiving one or more selections for configuring a virtual safety zone representing an area where an individual to be monitored should not place his or her hands; accessing one or more 3D motion sensors to capture live video data from the virtual safety zone; receiving the video data from the one or more 3D motion sensors; determining that one or more hands of the individual to be monitored are within the virtual safety zone; determining that an amount of time the one or more hands are within the virtual safety zone meets or exceeds a predetermined period of time; and upon determining that the one or more hands of the individual are within the virtual safety zone for at least the predetermined period of time, electronically transmitting an alert to at least one of the monitored individual, one or more caregivers, and a centralized monitoring station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for determining whether a monitored individual has placed one or both hands in a virtual safety zone, the system comprising:
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one or more 3D motion sensors co-located with a monitored individual; a computerized monitoring system configured to; receive data from the one or more 3D motion sensors; identify a position of one or more hands of the monitored individual; determine whether the one or more hands of the monitored individual have entered a virtual safety zone; determine that the one or more hands are within the virtual safety zone for at least a predetermined period of time; and upon determining that the one or more hands of the individual are within the virtual safety zone for at least the predetermined period of time, transmit, to a computerized communication system, a determination that the one or more hands are within the virtual safety zone; the computerized communication system configured to; receive, from the computerized monitoring system, the determination that the one or more hands of the individual are within the virtual safety zone; and send an alert of the one or more hands being in the virtual safety zone to at least one designated recipient. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. Non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
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receive visual data from one or more 3D motion sensors; identify a monitored individual'"'"'s location from the visual data; establish a virtual safety zone at least partially overlapping the monitored individual'"'"'s location; identify one or more hands of the monitored individual from the visual data; determine, using the visual data, whether the one or more hands of the monitored individual enter the virtual safety zone; time the duration for which the one or more hands of the monitored individual remain in the virtual safety zone; determine that the duration for which the one or more hands of the monitored individual remain in the virtual safety zone meets or exceeds a predetermined period of time; and issue an alert upon determining the duration meets or exceeds the predetermined period of time. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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