EMERGENCY RESCUE SYSTEM, EMERGENCY RESCUE METHOD, MOBILE PHONE DEVICE FOR EMERGENCY RESCUE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EMERGENCY RESCUE

• US 20080242261A1
• Filed: 03/26/2008
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Amano, Naoyuki, Owai, Toru, SHIMANUKI, MASAHIRO
• Application Number:
  US12/055,836
• Publication Number:
  US 20080242261A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/00 Fire alarms; Alarms responsive to explosion
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0446 worn on the body to detect changes of posture, e.g. a fall, inclination, acceleration, gait
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/08 responsive to the presence of persons in a body of water, e.g. a swimming pool; responsive to an abnormal condition of a body of water
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/005 Alarm destination chosen according to a hierarchy of available destinations, e.g. if hospital does not answer send to police station
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72421 with automatic activation of emergency service functions, e.g. upon sensing an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

Disclosed is an emergency rescue system comprising a mobile terminal device and a control center. The mobile terminal device includes: a sender unit capable of sending an electrical mail; an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment; a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information; and a control unit which judges whether a level of sensing of the abnormality sensed by the abnormality sensor is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value. The control center judges a state of accident based on both a satellite image and the GPS positional information attached to the template mail sentence received from the mobile terminal device.

Claims

1. An emergency rescue system comprising:

a mobile terminal device including;

a memory which stores data representing a predetermined designated call destination and data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call;

a sender unit capable of sending an electrical mail;

an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment;

a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information; and

a control unit which judges whether a level of sensing of the abnormality sensed by said abnormality sensor is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value, said control unit, if the level is judged as being not smaller than the threshold value, reading said data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call and said data representing a predetermined designated call destination from said memory, and causing said sender to send an electrical mail containing the read data representing the template mail sentence together with said GPS positional information attached to the template mail sentence, to an address specified by the read data representing the designated call destination; and

a control center which judges a state of accident based on both a satellite image and said GPS positional information attached to the template mail sentence received from said mobile terminal device.

2. The emergency rescue system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said abnormality sensor senses at least one abnormality selected from an externally-applied impact, environmental temperature, smoke and water.

3. The emergency rescue system as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said data representing the designated call destination contains data representing either or both of a unique designated call destination and a variable designated call destination; and

said control unit updates said variable designated call destination to a nearest call destination based on said GPS positional information.

4. The emergency rescue system as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said data representing the unique designated call destination contains data representing at least one of affiliated companies, family and home; and

said data representing the variable designated call destination contains data representing at least one of a nearest police station, fire station and hospital at the time of accident.

5. The emergency rescue system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal device has either one or both of a notifier and a sound generator, said notifier notifying of contents of said template mail sentence and an emergency message in an artificial voice, and said sound generator generating an alarm sound.

6. The emergency rescue system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal device is capable of operating in a hands-free mode.

7. A mobile phone device comprising:

a memory which stores data representing a predetermined designated call destination and data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call;

a sender unit capable of sending a mail;

an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment;

a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information; and

a control unit which judges whether a level of sensing of the abnormality sensed by said abnormality sensor is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value, said control unit, if the level is judged as being not smaller than the threshold value, reading said data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call and said data representing a predetermined designated call destination from said memory, and causing said sender to send an electrical mail containing the read data representing the template mail sentence, to an address specified by the read data representing the designated call destination,

wherein;

said data representing the designated call destination contains data representing either or both of a unique designated call destination and a variable designated call destination; and

said control unit updates said variable designated call destination to a nearest call destination based on said GPS positional information.

8. The mobile phone device as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

said data representing the unique designated call destination contains data representing at least one of affiliated companies, family and home; and

said data representing the variable designated call destination contains data representing at least one of a nearest police station, fire station and hospital at the time of accident.

9. The mobile phone device as claimed in claim 7, wherein said GPS positional information is attached to the template mail sentence.

10. The mobile phone device as claimed in claim 7, wherein said abnormality sensor senses at least one abnormality selected from an externally-applied impact, environmental temperature, smoke and water.

11. The mobile phone device as claimed in claim 7, further comprising either one or both of a notifier and a sound generator, said notifier notifying of contents of said template mail sentence and an emergency message in an artificial voice, and said sound generator generating an alarm sound.

12. The mobile phone device as claimed in claim 7, having a function of operating in a hands-free mode.

13. An emergency rescue method using a mobile terminal device which comprises:

a memory which stores data representing a predetermined designated call destination and data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call;

a sender unit capable of sending an electrical mail;

an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment;

and a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information, said emergency rescue method comprising;

judging whether a level of sensing of the abnormality sensed by said abnormality sensor is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value;

if the level is judged as being not smaller than the threshold value, reading said data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call and said data representing a predetermined designated call destination from said memory, and causing said sender to send an electrical mail containing the read data representing the template mail sentence together with said GPS positional information attached to the template mail sentence, to an address specified by the read data representing the designated call destination; and

judging a state of accident based on both a satellite image and said GPS positional information attached to said template mail sentence received from said mobile terminal device.

14. The emergency rescue method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said abnormality sensor senses at least one abnormality selected from an externally-applied impact, environmental temperature, smoke and water.

15. The emergency rescue method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising updating a variable designated call destination to a nearest call destination based on said GPS positional information,

wherein said data representing the designated call destination contains data representing either or both of a unique designated call destination and said variable designated call destination.

16. The emergency rescue method as claimed in claim 15, wherein:

said data representing the unique designated call destination contains data representing at least one of affiliated companies, family and home; and

said data representing the variable designated call destination contains data representing at least one of a nearest police station, fire station and hospital at the time of accident.

17. The emergency rescue method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said mobile terminal device has either one or both of a notifier and a sound generator, said notifier notifying of contents of said template mail sentence and an emergency message in an artificial voice, and said sound generator generating an alarm sound.

18. The emergency rescue method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said mobile terminal device is capable of operating in a hands-free mode.

19. A computer program product for emergency rescue which is executed by a processor by using a mobile terminal device including:

a memory which stores data representing a predetermined designated call destination and data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call;

a sender unit capable of sending an electrical mail;

an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment;

a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information; and

a control unit which judges whether a level of sensing of the abnormality sensed by said abnormality sensor is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value, said control unit, if the level is judged as being not smaller than the threshold value, reading said data representing a template mail sentence for emergency call and said data representing a predetermined designated call destination from said memory, and causing said sender to send an electrical mail containing the read data representing the template mail sentence together with said GPS positional information attached to the template mail sentence, to an address specified by the read data representing the designated call destination,

said computer program product comprising;

code for receiving said GPS positional information from said mobile terminal device attached to the template mail sentence; and

code for judges a state of accident based on both a satellite image and the received GPS positional information.