Asthma diagnostic apparatus, asthma diagnostic method, and storage medium storing asthma diagnostic program

• US 20060116878A1
• Filed: 08/25/2005
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Albertus Messenger, Kenji Nagamine
• Original Assignee: David Messenger, Kenji Nagamine
• Inventors: Nagamine, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US11/211,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20060116878A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/239
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

An asthma diagnostic apparatus includes: a reference laughter storage unit storing the laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data; an input unit inputting the laughter of a person to be diagnosed; a similarity determination unit determining the similarity between the laughter as reference data and the input laughter; and an output unit outputting a determination result of the similarity.

Claims

1. An asthma diagnostic apparatus which diagnoses a person to be diagnosed and determines whether or not the person is a mild asthmatic, comprising:

a reference laughter storage unit storing laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data;

an input unit inputting laughter of a person to be diagnosed;

a similarity determination unit determining similarity between the laughter as the reference data and the input laughter; and

an output unit outputting a determination result of the similarity.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the reference laughter storage unit stores laughter of a plurality of asthmatics, and the similarity determination unit determines the person to be diagnosed to be a mild asthmatic when the laughter of the person to be diagnosed is determined to be similar to the laughter of at least one of the laughter of the plurality of asthmatics.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a laughter storage unit storing input laughter.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the output unit outputs an audio determination result by a buzzer.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the output unit outputs a determination result by turning on an illumination unit.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the output unit outputs and displays a determination result in a message display area of a display device of the apparatus.

7. An asthma diagnostic apparatus which diagnoses a person to be diagnosed and determines whether or not the person is a mild asthmatic, comprising:

a reference laughter storage unit storing laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data;

an input unit inputting laughter of a person to be diagnosed;

a laughter feature value calculation unit calculating a feature value of input laughter or laughter as reference data;

a feature value similarity determination unit determining similarity between the calculated feature value of laughter as reference data and a feature value of the input laughter; and

an output unit outputting a determination result of similarity of the feature value.

8. An asthma diagnostic method of a computer which diagnoses a person to be diagnosed and determines whether or not the person is a mild asthmatic, comprising:

determining similarity between laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data stored in a storage device of the computer and laughter of a person to be diagnosed input through an input device of the computer; and

outputting a determination result of the similarity.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein

a determination result of the similarity is output and displayed in a message display area of the display device of the apparatus.

10. An asthma diagnostic method of a computer which diagnoses a person to be diagnosed and determines whether or not the person is a mild asthmatic, comprising:

calculating a feature value of laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data stored in a storage device of a computer;

calculating a feature value of input laughter;

determining similarity between the feature value of the laughter as the calculated reference data and the input laughter; and

outputting a determination result of the similarity of the feature value.

11. A storage medium storing a program used to direct a computer to determine whether or not a person to be diagnosed is a mild asthmatic, the program comprising:

a step of determining similarity between laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data stored in a storage device of the computer and laughter of a person to be diagnosed input through an input device of the computer; and

a step of outputting a determination result of the similarity.

12. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein

in the determination result step of the similarity determination, a determination result of the similarity is output and displayed in a message display area of the display device of the apparatus.

13. A storage medium storing a program used to direct a computer to determine whether or not a person to be diagnosed is a mild asthmatic, the program comprising:

a step of calculating a feature value of laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data stored in a storage device of a computer;

a step of calculating a feature value of input laughter;

a step of determining similarity between the feature value of the laughter as the calculated reference data and the input laughter; and

a step of outputting a determination result of the similarity of the feature value.

14. An asthma diagnostic system which diagnoses a person to be diagnosed and determines whether or not the person is a mild asthmatic, comprising:

an asthma diagnostic server apparatus comprising;

a reference laughter database storing laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data;

a similarity determination unit determining similarity between received laughter of a person to be diagnosed and laughter of the reference data; and

a transmission unit returning a determination result of the similarity to a terminal of a transmitter of laughter of a person to be diagnosed; and

one or more terminals transmitting laughter of a person to be diagnosed to the server apparatus.

15. A server apparatus for use in an asthma diagnostic system which diagnoses a person to be diagnosed and determines whether or not the person is a mild asthmatic, comprising

an asthma diagnostic server apparatus comprising:

a reference laughter database storing laughter of a mild asthmatic as reference data;

a similarity determination unit determining similarity between laughter of a person to be diagnosed received from a terminal transmitting laughter of a person to be diagnosed, and laughter of the reference data; and

a transmission unit returning a determination result of the similarity to the transmitting source terminal of laughter of a person to be diagnosed.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising

a reference laughter data addition unit adding received laughter of a person to be diagnosed to the reference laughter data when the received laughter of the person to be diagnosed is determined to be laughter of a mild asthmatic in determining the similarity.