Emergency notification system and emergency notification

• US 20060128356A1
• Filed: 02/10/2006
• Published: 06/15/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kawabata, Masaaki, Yamazaki, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,103,239 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.100
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence

Abstract

An emergency notification uses a normal cellular telephone terminal instead of a dedicated terminal without requiring communication using a voice. An emergency notification system has a mobile communication network including a cellular telephone terminal, an emergency notification device for receiving an emergency notification, a communication line connecting the mobile communication network and the emergency notification device, and the cellular telephone terminal including display means for displaying a menu for identifying kind of emergency notification on a display screen and means for performing the emergency notification in response to selection of one of items in the menu by a user.

Claims

1. An emergency notification system comprising:

a mobile communication network including a cellular telephone terminal;

an emergency notification device for receiving an emergency notification; and

a communication line connecting said mobile communication network and said emergency notification device,

wherein said cellular telephone terminal includes a display device for displaying a menu for identifying kind of the emergency notification;

identification means for identifying kind of said emergency notification on a display device; and

emergency notification transmission means for transmitting emergency notification including information on kind of the emergency notification identified by the identification means to said emergency notification device, and

said emergency notification device comprises reception confirmation information transmission means, responsive to reception of the emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal, for transmitting emergency notification reception confirmation information toward said cellular telephone terminal; and

said cellular telephone terminal further includes a tentative location measurement means for measuring a location of the cellular telephone terminal, and said emergency notification transmission means transmits location information measured by said tentative location measurement means as well as information for correcting an error in the location information.

2. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said emergency notification device further includes means, responsive to reception of emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal through said mobile communication network, for checking whether said cellular telephone terminal is registered in the emergency notification system.

3. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said emergency notification device further includes means for transmitting reception information indicative of reception of the emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal, and said cellular telephone terminal further includes means for generating vibration responsive to reception of said reception information.

4. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said cellular telephone terminal further includes a camera and said emergency notification transmission means transmits image information to said emergency notification device.

5. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said emergency notification device includes means, responsive to reception of the emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal, for transmitting a message indicative of occurrence of received emergency notification to at least one telephone registered in relation to said cellular telephone terminal.

6. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said emergency notification device includes a database of storing IDs of registrants and personal information of registrants in a correlated state;

search means, responsive to reception of the emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal, for searching for said databases on the basis of said ID information; and

reception confirmation information transmission means, responsive to extraction of a registrant ID from said database by said search means, for transmitting emergency notification reception confirmation information toward said cellular telephone terminal which has transmitted said emergency notification.

7. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said emergency notification device includes means, responsive to reception of the emergency notification calling ambulance from said cellular telephone terminal, for obtaining health data of a registrant registered in relation to said cellular telephone terminal from a hospital.

8. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said cellular telephone terminal includes means for inputting personal information on the basis of screen information for registration received from the emergency notification device to transmit said personal information inputted.

9. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein screen information for displaying said menu for identifying kind of said emergency is transmitted from said emergency notification device.

10. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said communication line connecting said mobile communication network and said emergency notification system is a dedicated line.

11. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said one emergency notification device is provided to each of a plurality of service areas of said mobile communication network and said emergency notification system further comprises a dedicated line for connecting the emergency notification devices each other.

12. The emergency notification system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said emergency notification systems set forth in claim 1 are respectively connected to a plurality of said mutually connected mobile communication networks and a plurality of emergency notification systems thereof are mutually connected through dedicated lines.

13. An emergency notification device connected to a mobile communication network including a cellular telephone terminal through a communication line, comprising:

means, responsive to access from the cellular telephone terminal via said mobile communication network, for transmitting screen information for displaying a menu for identifying kind of the emergency notification on a display device of said cellular telephone terminal; and

means for identifying an accurate location of said cellular telephone terminal in responsive to reception of tentative location information transmitted from said cellular telephone terminal as well as information of correcting an error in that location information.

14. The emergency notification device as set forth in claim 13, further comprising means, responsive to reception of emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal through said mobile communication network, for checking whether said cellular telephone terminal is registered in an emergency notification system.

15. The emergency notification device as set forth in claim 13, which further comprises:

a database of storing IDs of registrants and personal information of said registrants in a correlated state, search means, responsive to reception of the emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal, for searching for said databases on the basis of said ID information; and

reception confirmation information transmission means, responsive to extraction of a registrant ID from said database by said search means, for transmitting emergency notification reception confirmation information toward said cellular telephone terminal which has transmitted said emergency notification.

16. The emergency notification device as set forth in claim 13, which further comprises, responsive to reception of the emergency notification from said cellular telephone terminal, means for transmitting a message for announcing received emergency notification to at least one telephone registered in relation to said cellular telephone terminal.