Monitoring activities of daily living of a person

• US 10,402,542 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2016
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Schuurkamp, Gertjan Laurens, Jaartsveld, Rob, Poesse, Jan Hendrik
• Primary Examiner(s): Sams, Michelle L
• Application Number:
  US15/548,118
• Publication Number:
  US 20180025122A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/08 Monochrome to colour transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

Presented are concepts for monitoring activities of daily living, ADLs, of a person within an environment. Once such concept provides a graphical interface for an ADL monitoring system, wherein the graphical interface is adapted to display a graphical element representative of an ADL detected by the ADL monitoring system, and wherein the shape, size, position, orientation, pulsating and/or color of at least a portion of the graphical element is based on one or more attributes of the detected ADL.

Claims

1. A method of generating instructions for displaying a GUI on a display device using a processor device, which GUI is for monitoring of an Activities of Daily Living (ADL) of a person within an environment and comprises a plurality of graphical elements for representing the ADL at a respective plurality of different points in time, the graphical elements each being defined by at least a first graphical feature and a second graphical feature different from the first graphical feature, the method comprising:

the data processor device performing the steps of;

obtaining an attribute of the ADL for each of the plurality of different points in time;

defining the first graphical feature;

defining the second graphical feature, wherein the second graphical feature comprises a dimension of the graphical elements;

for each graphical element;

setting the first graphical feature based on the attribute of the ADL corresponding to a different one of the different points in time;

setting the second graphical feature based on the point in time corresponding to an attribute of the ADL upon which the setting of the first graphical feature of that particular element was based;

generating the instructions for displaying the GUI,

characterized wherein for the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to a current time, the dimension of the second graphical feature of that graphical element is set to be larger than any dimension set of the respective graphical features for the other graphical elements of the plurality of elements, and the dimensions of the respective graphical features for the other graphical elements of the plurality of elements decrease with increasing time differences between the respective points in time and the current time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the data processor device is performing the further steps of:

comparing the attribute of the ADL with a first threshold value;

setting the first graphical feature to a first feature value when the obtained attribute of the ADL is equal to or higher than the first threshold value, or

setting the first graphical feature to a second feature value different from the first feature value when the obtained attribute of the ADL is lower than the first threshold value.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the data processor device is performing the steps in a repeating fashion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each graphical element is defined by a third graphical feature, and wherein

the plurality of graphical elements comprises a main graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to current time;

the data processor device is performing the step of;

defining the third graphical feature to be position in the GUI;

setting the position of at least the plurality of graphical elements except the main graphical element such that they are arranged in the GUI in an array of graphical elements in the order of increasing or decreasing age with respect to current time of the attribute of the ADL they represent.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein

the processing device is performing the step of:

defining the array to be a linear array; and

orienting the array row wise and positioning the array next to and either above, or below the main graphical element, or

orienting the array column wise and positioning the array next to and either on the left or on the right side of the main graphical element.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

the processing device is performing the step of:

displaying a third graphical element around a circumferential edge of the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to the current time, wherein the third graphical element represents a circumferential time line and comprises bar-shaped elements extending outwardly from the circumferential edge in a radial direction, and each of the bar-shaped elements has a length that represents a value of the ADL, at a different time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein

the plurality of graphical elements comprises a main graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to current time;

the attribute of the ADL comprises an average or cumulative value of the attribute over a period of time;

the data processor device is performing the further steps of;

providing the attribute of the ADL represented by the main graphical feature also as an alphanumerical value.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein

the GUI is for monitoring a plurality of ADLs of the person;

the data processor device is performing the steps of;

obtaining an attribute of the plurality of ADLs of the person

for each one of the plurality of ADLs, arranging the one or more graphical elements representing that one ADL to be positioned within an ADL GUI area;

positioning the different ADL GUI areas within the GUI area such that they do not overlap at least partially.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein,

the step of positioning the different ADL GUI areas comprises positioning the different ADL GUI areas within the GUI in either row or column orientation.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein

the data processor device comprising the step of:

obtaining identification data for identifying the person and corresponding to the ADL represented by the graphical elements of the ADL;

adding the identification data to the GUI to enable a user to identify the person that the graphical elements of an ADL belong to.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing the instructions for displaying the GUI, which causes a display device to display the GUI.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein

the data processor is performing the steps of:

obtaining user input in the form of input device signal to switch from a first GUI screen comprising ADL data of a plurality of persons to a GUI screen showing ADL data of a particular one person of the plurality of persons, or to show ADL data of a particular one person of the plurality of persons in a further GUI window.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein

the processing device is performing the step of:

displaying the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to the current time above the other graphical elements; and

displaying second and third graphical elements next to the graphical element corresponding to the point in time nearest to the current time and above the other graphical elements,

wherein the second graphical element indicates a value of the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to the current time during a day time period,

wherein the third graphical element indicates a value of the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to the current time during a night time period, and

wherein the second graphical element is above the third graphical element.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store a computer program product downloadable from a communications network wherein the computer program product comprises computer program code instructions, which when executed on a computer, causes the computer to:

obtain an attribute of an Activities of Daily Living (ADL) of a person within an environment for each of a plurality of different points in time;

define a first graphical feature;

define a second graphical feature, wherein the second graphical feature comprises dimension of graphical elements for representing the ADL over the plurality of different points in time;

set, for each of the graphical elements, the first graphical feature based on the attribute of the ADL corresponding to a different one of the different points in time;

set, for each of the graphical elements, the second graphical feature based on the point in time corresponding to an attribute of the ADL upon which the setting of the first graphical feature of that particular element was based; and

generate instructions for displaying a GUI on a display device, which GUI is for monitoring of the ADL,

wherein for the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to a current time, the dimension of the second graphical feature of that graphical element is set to be larger than any dimension set of the respective graphical features for the other graphical elements of the plurality of elements, and

wherein for the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is farthest from the current time, the dimension of the second graphical feature of that graphical element is set to be smaller than any dimension set of the respective graphical features for the other graphical elements of the plurality of elements.

15. A system configured to generate instructions for displaying a GUI on a display device using a processor device, which GUI is for monitoring of an Activities of Daily Living (ADL) of a person within an environment and comprises a plurality of graphical elements for representing the ADL at a respective plurality of different points in time, the graphical elements each being defined by at least a first graphical feature and a second graphical feature different from the first graphical feature, the system comprising the data processor device, wherein:

the data processor device is configured to;

obtain an attribute of the ADL for each of the plurality of different points in time;

define the first graphical feature;

define the second graphical feature, wherein the second graphical feature comprises a dimension of the graphical element;

for each graphical element;

set the first graphical feature based on the attribute of the ADL corresponding to a different on of the different points in time;

set the second graphical feature based on the point in time corresponding to an attribute of the ADL upon which the setting of the first graphical feature of that particular element was based;

generate the instructions for displaying the GUI,

wherein for the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to the current time, the dimension of the second graphical feature of that graphical element is set to be larger than any dimension set of the respective graphical features for the other graphical elements of the plurality of elements,

wherein for the graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is farthest to the current time, the dimension of the second graphical feature of that graphical element is set to be smaller than any dimension set of the respective graphical features for the other graphical elements of the plurality of elements, and

wherein for the graphical elements which represent the attributes of the ADL corresponding to points in time between the nearest and farthest times to the current time, the dimensions of the second graphical features of those graphical elements decrease in size from the nearest and farthest times to the current time.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein

the data processor device is configured to:

compare the attribute of the ADL with a first threshold value;

set the first graphical feature to a first feature value if the obtained attribute of the ADL is equal to or higher than the first threshold value, or

set the first graphical feature to a second feature value different from the first feature value if the obtained attribute of the ADL is lower than the first threshold value.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein

the data processor device is configured to:

perform the steps in a repeating fashion.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein each graphical element is defined by a third graphical feature, and wherein

the plurality of graphical elements comprises a main graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to current time;

the data processor device is configured to;

define the third graphical feature to be the position in the GUI;

set the position of at least the plurality of graphical elements except the main graphical element such that they are arranged in the GUI in an array of graphical elements in the order of increasing or decreasing age with respect to current time of the attribute of the ADL they represent.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein

the processing device is configured to:

define the array to be a linear array; and

orient the array row wise and position the array next to and either above, or below the main graphical element, or

orient the array column wise and position the array next to and either on the left or on the right side of the main graphical element.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the first graphical element is circular in shape.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein

the plurality of graphical elements comprises a main graphical element which represents the attribute of the ADL corresponding to the point in time that is nearest to current time;

the attribute of the ADL comprises an average or cumulative value of the attribute over a period of time;

the data processor device is configured to;

provide the attribute of the ADL represented by the main graphical feature also as an alphanumerical value.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein

the GUI is for monitoring a plurality of ADLs of the person;

the data processor device is configured to;

obtain an attribute of the plurality of ADLs of the person

for each one of the plurality of ADLs, arrange the one or more graphical elements representing that one ADL to be positioned within an ADL GUI area;

position the different ADL GUI areas within the GUI area such that they do not overlap at least partially.

23. The system of claim 22 wherein,

to position the different ADL GUI areas comprises to position the different ADL GUI areas within the GUI in either row or column orientation.

24. The system of claim 15, wherein

the data processor device is configured to:

obtain identification data for identifying the person and corresponding to the ADL represented by the graphical elements of the ADL;

add the identification data to the GUI to enable a user to identify the person that the graphical elements of an ADL belong to.

25. The system of claim 15, wherein the data processor device is further configured to

display the GUI based on the generated instructions.

26. The system of claim 25, comprising:

a server device comprising the data processor device;

a client device comprising the display device;

wherein

the server device is configured to transmit the generated instructions for display of the GUI to the remote client device;

the remote client device is configured to receive the generated instructions for display of the GUI and to use the instructions to display the GUI.

27. The system of claim 25, comprising

a client device comprising the data processor device and the display device.

28. The system of claim 15, comprising:

a server device comprising the data processor device and the configured to;

transmit the generated instructions for display of the GUI to a client device or communication network.