Method, device, and computer product for detecting emergency

• US 20070285260A1
• Filed: 10/19/2006
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiromi
• Application Number:
  US11/583,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20070285260A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.400
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

A mobile station is carried by a child. The mobile station fetches current location data and step data of the child, compares the fetched location data and the step data with past data, and determine whether a child is facing an emergency. If the child is facing an emergency, the mobile station notifies that the child is facing an emergency to a contact address of the child.

Claims

1. An emergency detecting device that detects an emergency faced by a monitored-person, the emergency detecting device comprising:

a fetching unit that fetches location data that indicates current location of the monitored person and step data that indicates a number of steps of the monitored person; and

a determining unit that determines whether the monitored person is facing an emergency based on the location data and the step data.

2. The emergency detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit analyzes the location data and the step data to check whether the location data and the step data satisfy a first condition that the monitored person is moving but not walking, and upon the first condition being satisfied the determining unit determines that the monitored person is facing an emergency.

3. The emergency detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit analyzes the location data and the step data to check whether the location data and the step data satisfy a second condition that the monitored person is not moving and a state that the monitored person is not walking continues for more than a predetermined time period, and upon the second condition being satisfied the determining unit determines that the monitored person is facing an emergency.

4. The emergency detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output unit that outputs to an emergency contact address corresponding to the monitored person, upon the determining unit determining that the monitored person is facing an emergency, data to the effect that the monitored person is facing an emergency.

5. A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program that causes a computer to detect an emergency faced by a monitored person, the computer program causing the computer to execute:

fetching location data that indicates current location of the monitored person and step data that indicates a number of steps of the monitored person; and

determining whether the monitored person is facing an emergency based on the location data and the step data.

6. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5, wherein the determining includes

analyzing the location data and the step data to check whether the location data and the step data satisfy a first condition that the monitored person is moving but not walking;

and

upon the first condition being satisfied, determining that the monitored person is facing an emergency.

7. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5, wherein the determining includes

analyzing the location data and the step data to check whether the location data and the step data satisfy a second condition that the monitored person is not moving and a state that the monitored person is not walking continues for more than a predetermined time period;

and

upon the second condition being satisfied, determining that the monitored person is facing an emergency.

8. A method of detecting an emergency faced by a monitored person, the method comprising:

fetching location data that indicates current location of the monitored person and step data that indicates a number of steps of the monitored person; and

determining whether the monitored person is facing an emergency based on the location data and the step data.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the determining includes

analyzing the location data and the step data to check whether the location data and the step data satisfy a first condition that the monitored person is moving but not walking;

and

upon the first condition being satisfied, determining that the monitored person is facing an emergency

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the determining includes

analyzing the location data and the step data to check whether the location data and the step data satisfy a second condition that the monitored person is not moving and a state that the monitored person is not walking continues for more than a predetermined time period;

and

upon the second condition being satisfied, determining that the monitored person is facing an emergency.