Terminal apparatus and terminal processing method for object monitoring system, central processing apparatus and central processing method for object monitoring system, and object monitoring system

• US 10,198,926 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2016
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Yamashita, Masanori, Tsuji, Aki, Noda, Atsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Murillo Garcia, Fabricio R
• Application Number:
  US15/561,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20180122206A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,070 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1113 Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1115 Monitoring leaving of a patient support, e.g. a bed or a wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups A61G1/00 - A61G11/00, e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food service or tea-tables, trolleys or wagons A47B31/00; Prescription lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/41 Medical
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0294 Display details on parent unit
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0476 Cameras to detect unsafe condition, e.g. video cameras

Abstract

A terminal apparatus and method therefor according to the present invention are an apparatus and method for receiving and displaying monitoring information in an object monitoring system for sensing and monitoring an object, have a plurality of operation modes including a condition check mode of checking a condition of the object until receiving an intention to actually perform an action on the object after receiving the monitoring information, and prohibit executing the condition check mode on the object when a condition of the object is being checked by other apparatus in the condition check mode. The present invention relates to an object monitoring system using the terminal apparatuses, and a central processing apparatus and central processing method therefor.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus for an object monitoring system, the terminal apparatus for receiving and displaying monitoring information of an object in the object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a communicator that makes communication;

a display that displays;

an input that receives an input operation;

a condition check processor that checks a condition of the object; and

a display processor that, when the communicator receives a monitoring information communication signal housing the monitoring information, displays the monitoring information housed in the monitoring information communication signal on the display,

wherein the condition check processor prohibits an operation of checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information when the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by another terminal apparatus and the communicator receives a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information.

2. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 1,

wherein when the communicator receives a condition check function canceling command communication signal for giving notification of a command to cancel the prohibition based on the monitoring information before the communicator receives an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information from the input or receives a no-action notification communication signal for notifying that an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information is received by another terminal apparatus, the condition check processor cancels the prohibition based on the monitoring information.

3. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 2,

wherein when the communicator receives the condition check function prohibiting command communication signal, the display processor displays checking information indicating that the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by another terminal apparatus on the display.

4. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 2,

wherein when the other terminal apparatus receives an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information, the screen displaying the monitoring information is erased.

5. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 2, further comprising:

an action-related processor that forcibly ends an operation of the condition check processor in execution when the operation of checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information of the condition check processor is in execution and the communicator receives the no-action notification communication signal.

6. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 2,

wherein a plurality of operation modes including a condition check mode of checking the condition of the object are provided, and

the condition check mode is at least any of displaying an animation shooting the object on the display, calling the object by an audio input/output (I/O) part of the terminal apparatus, and talking with the object.

7. An object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of an object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the object monitoring system further comprising:

the terminal apparatus according to claim 2 for receiving and displaying monitoring information on the object.

8. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 1,

wherein when the communicator receives the condition check function prohibiting command communication signal, the display processor displays checking information indicating that the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by the other terminal apparatus on the display.

9. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 8,

wherein when the other terminal apparatus receives an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information, a screen displaying the monitoring information is erased.

10. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 1,

wherein when the other terminal apparatus receives an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information, a screen displaying the monitoring information is erased.

11. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an action-related processor that forcibly ends an operation of the condition check processor in execution when the operation of checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information of the condition check processor is in execution and the communicator receives a no-action notification communication signal.

12. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of operation modes including a condition check mode of checking the condition of the object are provided, and

the condition check mode is at least any of displaying an animation shooting the object on the display, calling the object by an audio input/output (I/O) part of the terminal apparatus, and talking with the object.

13. An object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of an object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the object monitoring system comprising:

the terminal apparatus according to claim 1 for receiving and displaying monitoring information on the object.

14. The object monitoring system according to claim 13, wherein the a screen displaying the monitoring information is erased when the plurality of terminal apparatuses except the selected terminal apparatus receive an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information.

15. A terminal processing method for an object monitoring system, the terminal processing method for receiving and displaying monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the terminal processing method comprising:

checking a condition of the object; and

displaying the monitoring information housed in a monitoring information communication signal on a display when a communicator receives the monitoring information communication signal housing the monitoring information,

wherein the checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is prohibited from being performed when the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by another terminal apparatus and the communicator receives a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information.

16. A central processing apparatus for an object monitoring system, the central processing apparatus for managing monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system comprising a plurality of terminal apparatuses and directed for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the central processing apparatus comprising:

a communicator that makes communication; and

a monitoring processor that manages the monitoring information,

wherein when the communicator receives a condition checking notification communication signal for notifying that a condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by a condition check processor for checking the condition of the object from a selected terminal apparatus from among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, the monitoring processor transmits a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information to the plurality of terminal apparatuses except the selected terminal apparatus by the communicator.

17. The central processing apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 16,

wherein a screen displaying the monitoring information is erased when the plurality of terminal apparatuses except the selected terminal apparatus receive an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information.

18. An object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of an object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the object monitoring system comprising:

the central processing apparatus according to claim 16 for managing the monitoring information.

19. A central processing method for an object monitoring system, the central processing method for managing monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system comprising a plurality of terminal apparatuses and directed for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the central processing method comprising:

managing the monitoring information,

wherein the managing includes, when a communicator receives a condition checking notification communication signal for notifying that a condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by a condition check processor for checking the condition of the object from a selected terminal apparatus from among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, transmitting a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information to the plurality of terminal apparatuses except the selected terminal apparatus by the communicator.

20. The central processing method for the object monitoring system according to claim 19,

wherein a screen displaying the monitoring information is erased when the plurality of terminal apparatuses except the selected terminal apparatus receive an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information.

21. A terminal apparatus for an object monitoring system, the terminal apparatus for receiving and displaying monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a communicator that makes communication;

a display that displays;

an input that receives an input operation;

a condition check processor that checks a condition of the object; and

a display processor that, when the communicator receives a monitoring information, displays the monitoring information on the display,

wherein the condition check processor prohibits an operation of checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information when the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by another terminal apparatus and the communicator receives a condition check prohibiting signal.

22. The terminal apparatus for the object monitoring system according to claim 21,

wherein when the communicator receives a condition check cancel signal for canceling the prohibition of the condition check of the object based on the monitoring information, the condition check processor cancels the prohibition based on the condition check cancel signal.

23. An object monitoring method comprising:

receiving a notification of a predetermined motion of the object;

displaying a monitoring information on a display based on the notification; and

receiving a condition check prohibiting signal to prohibit checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information when the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by another apparatus,

wherein the checking the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is prohibited when receiving the condition check prohibiting signal.

24. The object monitoring method according to claim 23, further comprising:

receiving a condition check cancel signal to cancel the prohibition of the condition check of the object based on the monitoring information, and

canceling the prohibition of the condition check based on the condition check cancel signal.