RECORDING MEDIUM, APNEA DETERMINING DEVICE, AND APNEA DETERMINING METHOD

• US 20130281874A1
• Filed: 02/06/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: NISHIDA, Asako
• Application Number:
  US13/760,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20130281874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/534
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/113 occurring during breathing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4818 Sleep apnoea
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/003 Detecting lung or respiration noise

Abstract

A portable terminal includes a breath determining unit that, when having detected sounds having similar frequency components periodically in picked-up sounds by a microphone while an object person is being asleep, determines the sounds to be breath sounds. The terminal includes a snore determining unit that, when the sound pressure of the breath sounds is greater than a first level threshold value, determines the sounds to be a snoring sound. The terminal includes a body motion determining unit that determines whether a body motion is detected after the breath sound are determined. The terminal further includes an apnea determining unit that determines whether a silent interval is detected from a period of time between timings of the breath sound and the body motion when the body motion is detected and that determines the silent interval to be an apnea state when the silent interval is detected.

Claims

1. A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an apnea determining program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:

when having detected sounds having similar frequency components periodically in picked-up sounds, first determining the detected sounds to be breath sounds of an object person;

second determining whether a body motion of the object person is detected after the breath sounds are determined at the first determining;

third determining whether a silent interval is detected from a period of time between timings of the breath sound determined at the first determining and the body motion detected by the second determining when the body motion is detected; and

fourth determining the silent interval to be an apnea state when the silent interval is detected.

2. The recording medium according to claim 1,

wherein the second determining, when the sound pressure of the determined breath sounds is greater than a predetermined threshold value, includes fifth determining the breath sounds to be a snoring sound and sixth determining whether the body motion of the object person is detected after the snoring sound is determined, and

the fourth determining, when the body motion is detected, includes determining whether the silent interval is detected from a period of time between timings of the snoring sound determined at the fifth determining and the body motion detected by the sixth determining.

3. An apnea determining device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory,

wherein the processor executes a process comprising;

first determining, when having detected sounds having similar frequency components periodically in picked-up sounds, the detected sounds to be breath sounds of an object person;

second determining whether a body motion of the object person is detected after the breath sounds are determined at the first determining;

third determining whether a silent interval is detected from a period of time between timings of the breath sound determined at the first determining and the body motion detected by the second determining when the body motion is detected; and

fourth determining the silent interval to be an apnea state when the silent interval is detected.

4. An apnea determining method that causes an electronic apparatus to perform a process comprising:

when having detected sounds having similar frequency components periodically in picked-up sounds, first determining the detected sounds to be breath sounds of an object person, using a processor of the electronic apparatus;

second determining whether a body motion of the object person is detected after the breath sounds are determined at the first determining, using the processor;

third determining whether a silent interval is detected from a period of time between timings of the breath sound determined at the first determining and the body motion detected by the second determining when the body motion is detected; and

fourth determining the silent interval to be an apnea state when the silent interval is detected.