DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20130050221A1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Kohei
• Granted Patent: US 8,922,561 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14507 specially adapted for measuring characteristics of body fluids other than blood devices for taking samples of body liquids A61B10/0045
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4277 saliva secretion
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A data processing device is provided that is able to identify data when data from both licensed and unlicensed devices coexist. The data processing device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a plurality of pieces of a same category of bio-information about a same person, the bio-information measured with both a licensed first device and an unlicensed second device; a judgment unit that judges whether each acquired piece of bio-information acquired in the previous acquisition was measured by the first device or by the second device; and a display processing unit that displays with different display modes on a same screen, a first data group of a plurality of pieces of bio-information judged to have been measured with the first device, and a second data group of a plurality of pieces of bio-information judged to have been measured with the second device.

Claims

1. A data processing device comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of bio-information pieces of a single category about a single person, the bio-information pieces including (i) pieces measured by a measurement device, the measurement device being a first device that is a medical device licensed for manufacture by a certain organization, (ii) pieces measured by a measurement device, the measurement device being a second device that is a medical device unlicensed for manufacture by the certain organization;

a judgment unit that judges whether each acquired bio-information piece was measured by the first device or by the second device; and

a display processing unit that displays on a same screen, with different visual representations, a first data group representing a plurality of bio-information pieces judged to have been measured by the first device, and a second data group representing a plurality of bio-information pieces judged to have been measured by the second device.

2. The data processing device of claim 1, wherein

the display processing unit revises the bio-information pieces measured by the second device using the bio-information pieces measured by the first device as a standard, according to a correlation between the bio-information pieces measured by the first device and the bio-information pieces measured by the second device, and displays a data group made up of revised bio-information pieces as the second data group.

3. The data processing device of claim 2, wherein

the acquisition unit acquires, with each bio-information piece, a device ID that identifies one of the first and second devices as having measured the bio-information piece, and

the judgment unit performs the judgment of the acquired bio-information piece by judging, based on the device ID, whether the device ID indicates the first device or the second device.

4. The data processing device of claim 3, wherein

When the device ID indicates the first device, the device ID indicates authorization by the certain organization, and is an authorization number associated with the first device,

the acquisition unit further acquires signature data for the authorization number, and

the judgment unit performs verification of the signature data, and when judging from the verification results that the authorization number is valid, judges, as a result of the verification, that the corresponding bio-information piece was measured by the first device.

5. The data processing device of claim 2, including:

a data acquisition device provided with the acquisition unit and the judgment unit, and

a data display device provided with the display processing unit, wherein the data acquisition device and the data display device are connected via the Internet,

when outputting to the display device the plurality of bio-information pieces acquired by the data acquisition device from the first and second devices, and the judgment results of the judgment unit, the data acquisition device adds a signature to the bio-information piece that the judgment unit has judged to have been measured by the first device, and

the data display device carries out display with the display processing unit only when the bio-information piece corresponding to the signature verification based on the signature data has been judged valid.

6. The data processing device of claim 2, wherein

the display processing unit also displays identifying information to show whether the bio-information pieces displayed with one of the visual representations were measured by the first device or the second device, when the display processing unit displays the first data group and second data group.

7. A data processing system comprising:

a first device that is a medical device licensed for manufacture by a certain organization;

a second device that is a medical device unlicensed for manufacture by the certain organizations; and

a data processing device, wherein

the first device and the second device measure a single category of bio-information, and

the data processing device comprises;

an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of bio-information pieces of a single category about a single person, the bio-information pieces including (i) pieces measured by a measurement device, the measurement device being the first device, (ii) pieces measured by a measurement device, the measurement device being the second device;

a judgment unit that judges whether each acquired bio-information piece was measured by the first device or by the second device, and

a display processing unit that displays on a same screen, with different visual representations, a first data group of a plurality of bio-information pieces judged to have been measured by the first device, and a second data group of a plurality of bio-information pieces judged to have been measured by the second device.

8. A data processing method used in a data processing device comprising an acquisition unit, a judgment unit and a display processing unit, the data processing method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a plurality of bio-information pieces of a single category about a single person, the bio-information pieces including (i) pieces measured by a measurement device, the measurement device being the first device that is a medical device licensed for manufacture by a certain organization, (ii) pieces measured by a measurement device, the measurement device being the second device that is a medical device unlicensed for manufacture by the certain organization,

judging whether each bio-information piece acquired was measured by the first device or by the second device, and

displaying on a same screen, with different visual representations, a first data group of a plurality of bio-information pieces judged to have been measured by the first device, and a second data group of a plurality of bio-information pieces judged to have been measured by the second device.