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 10,431,066 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2018
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• 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:
  US16/229,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20190122520A1
• Time in Patent Office: 284 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. An object monitoring method for an object monitoring system that includes a plurality of sensor units, a management server unit, and a plurality of terminal units that are communicably connected to each other via a network, the plurality of sensor units being provided corresponding to a plurality of objects to be monitored, and the object monitoring system monitoring the plurality of objects for nursing, care, or help by corresponding each of the plurality of sensor units to an object of the plurality of objects,

a sensor unit of the plurality of sensor units sensing a predetermined motion of an object corresponding to the sensor unit and generating an image, the management server unit receiving a sensing result on the object from the sensor unit and managing monitoring information on monitoring of the object, and a terminal unit of the plurality of terminal units receiving the monitoring information from the management server unit, displaying the monitoring information, and making an audio call, the method comprising:

receiving the monitoring information, by the terminal unit, from the management server unit via the network;

displaying the monitoring information received in the receiving on the terminal unit; and

processing one of first input operation, second input operation, and third input operation, wherein

in the processing of the first input operation, the terminal unit receives the first input operation for inputting a command to make communicable connection with the sensor unit corresponding to the object based on the monitoring information via the network, communicably connects the sensor unit corresponding to the object based on the monitoring information with the terminal unit via the network, and displays that a condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked on other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the first input operation,

in the processing of the second input operation, the terminal unit receives the second input operation for inputting a command to display an animation shot by the sensor unit corresponding to the object based on the monitoring information, makes connection with the sensor unit corresponding to the object based on the monitoring information via the network to allow downloading of an animation, reproduces the animation on the terminal unit, and displays that the condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked on the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation, and

in the processing of the third input operation, the terminal unit receives the third input operation for inputting an intention to actually perform an action on the object based on the monitoring information, and causes the plurality of terminal units to transit to a standby mode.

2. The object monitoring method according to claim 1, wherein the processing of the first input operation further includes disabling the first input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the first input operation.

3. The object monitoring method according to claim 2, wherein the processing of the first input operation further includes receiving, by the terminal unit that has received the first input operation, a fourth input operation for inputting a command for ending the audio call and cancels the disablement of the first input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the fourth input operation.

4. The object monitoring method according to claim 3, further comprising forcibly ending the audio call of the terminal unit that has received the first input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the first input operation receives the third input operation.

5. The object monitoring method according to claim 4, wherein forcibly ending the audio call further includes disabling the second input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation.

6. The object monitoring method according to claim 3, further comprising forcibly ending reproduction of the animation on the terminal unit that has received the second input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation receives the third input operation.

7. The object monitoring method according to claim 6, wherein forcibly ending the audio call further includes disabling the second input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation.

8. The object monitoring method according to claim 2, further comprising forcibly ending the audio call of the terminal unit that has received the first input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the first input operation receives the third input operation.

9. The object monitoring method according to claim 8, wherein forcibly ending the audio call further includes disabling the second input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation.

10. The object monitoring method according to claim 2, further comprising forcibly ending reproduction of the animation on the terminal unit that has received the second input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation receives the third input operation.

11. The object monitoring method according to claim 1, further comprising forcibly ending the audio call of the terminal unit that has received the first input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the first input operation receives the third input operation.

12. The object monitoring method according to claim 11, wherein forcibly ending the audio call further includes disabling the second input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation.

13. The object monitoring method according to claim 12, wherein in the forcibly ending the audio call, the terminal unit that has received the second input operation further receives a fifth input operation for inputting a command for ending reproduction of the animation and cancels the disablement of the second input operation in the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the fifth input operation.

14. The object monitoring method according to claim 13, further comprising forcibly ending reproduction of the animation on the terminal unit that has received the second input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation receives the third input operation.

15. The object monitoring method according to claim 12, further comprising forcibly ending reproduction of the animation on the terminal unit that has received the second input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation receives the third input operation.

16. The object monitoring method according to claim 11, further comprising forcibly ending reproduction of the animation on the terminal unit that has received the second input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation receives the third input operation.

17. The object monitoring method according to claim 1, further comprising forcibly ending reproduction of the animation on the terminal unit that has received the second input operation when a terminal unit among the other terminal units except the terminal unit that has received the second input operation receives the third input operation.