Home care system, center terminal and patient terminal

• US 20040019260A1
• Filed: 07/21/2003
• Published: 01/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1994
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Junichi Koike, Keiichi Murakami, Keiichi Takeda, Keiko Nakamura, Minoru Iwata, Nagaaki Koshino, Satoshi Mori, Takaki Shimura, Takehito Takano
• Original Assignee: Junichi Koike, Keiichi Murakami, Keiichi Takeda, Keiko Nakamura, Minoru Iwata, Nagaaki Koshino, Satoshi Mori, Takaki Shimura, Takehito Takano
• Inventors: Koike, Junichi, Takeda, Keiichi, Murakami, Keiichi, Mori, Satoshi, Iwata, Minoru, Nakamura, Keiko, Shimura, Takaki, Takano, Takehito, Koshino, Nagaaki
• Application Number:
  US10/622,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20040019260A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0295 adapted for recording user messages or annotations
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/903 Radio telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/904 Telephone telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable television), a radio and the like, and further to center terminals and patient terminals which constitute such a home care system. The patient terminal has an urgency transmitter device for transmitting a predetermined urgency code to the center terminal, and the center terminal comprises an urgency receiver device for receiving, while connected to a first patient terminal, the urgency code transmitted from a second patient terminal, and an urgency alarm device for informing of the fact that the urgency code has been received.

Claims

1. A home care system in which at least one center terminal and patient terminals are disconnectably connected to each other via a communication line through which communications of data including image data are performed,

wherein said patient terminal is provided with a room illumination light for illuminating a room in which the patient terminal is disposed, and

wherein said center terminal is provided with a light turn-on operating means for turning on the room illumination light installed on the patient terminal.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said patient terminal is provided with a light control means for controlling a light quantity and/or an illumination angle of the room illumination light installed on the patient terminal, and

wherein said center terminal is provided with a light control operation means for giving an instruction as to a control of a light quantity and/or an illumination angle of the room illumination light installed on the patient terminal.