VITAL INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE, PROCESSING SYSTEM, VITAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150185819A1
• Filed: 12/19/2014
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: SAITO, Toshiki
• Application Number:
  US14/576,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20150185819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3293 by switching to a less power-consuming processor, e.g. sub-CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A vital information measuring device which includes a power state information acquiring unit that acquires power state information indicating a power state, a vital information acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of vital information from a plurality of vital sensors, and a processing unit that performs power management of the plurality of vital sensors based on the power state information, wherein the processing unit sets a priority of power supply for each of the plurality of vital sensors based on each of the plurality of pieces of vital information, and executes the power management on the plurality of vital sensors based on the priority and the power state information.

Claims

1. A vital information measuring device comprising:

a power state information acquiring unit that acquires power state information indicating a power state;

a vital information acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of vital information from a plurality of vital sensors; and

a processing unit that performs power management of the plurality of vital sensors based on the power state information,

wherein the processing unit sets a priority of power supply for each of the plurality of vital sensors based on each of the plurality of pieces of vital information, and executes the power management on the plurality of vital sensors based on the priority and the power state information.

2. The vital information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

the processing unit performs, based on the plurality of pieces of vital information, a process of determining whether or not an abnormal value is detected in the plurality of vital sensors, and

when the abnormal value is detected in a first vital sensor and the abnormal value is not detected in a second vital sensor that is different from the first sensor in the plurality of vital sensors, the processing unit sets the priority of the first vital sensor to be higher than the priority of the second vital sensor.

3. The vital information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

when it is determined based on the power state information that remaining battery power is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, the processing unit performs the power management in which the vital sensor whose priority is high is set into a normal power consumption mode and the vital sensor whose priority is low is set into a low power consumption mode or an off state.

4. The vital information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

when, in the plurality of vital sensors, a first priority is set for a first vital sensor, a second priority that is low compared to the first priority is set for a second vital sensor, and a third priority that is low compared to the second priority is set for a third vital sensor, the processing unit:

sets the first vital sensor, the second vital sensor, and the third vital sensor into a normal power consumption mode in a first power state,

sets the first vital sensor and the second vital sensor into the normal power consumption mode and sets the third vital sensor into a low power consumption mode or an off state in a second power state in which remaining battery power is low compared to the first power state, and

sets the first vital sensor into the normal power consumption mode and sets the second vital sensor and the third vital sensor into the low power consumption mode or the off state in a third power state in which the remaining battery power is low compared to the second power state.

5. The vital information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

the processing unit:

sets a threshold value of the priority based on the power state information,

sets the vital sensor whose set priority is higher than the threshold value in the plurality of vital sensors into a normal power consumption mode, and

sets the vital sensor whose set priority is equal to or lower than the threshold value in the plurality of vital sensors into a low power consumption mode or an off state.

6. A processing system comprising:

a receiving unit that receives a plurality of pieces of vital information from a plurality of vital sensors provided in a vital information measuring device;

a processing unit that produces priority information used for power management of the vital information measuring device; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the priority information to the vital information measuring device,

wherein the processing unit generates, based on each of the plurality of pieces of vital information, the priority information for setting a priority of power supply for each of the plurality of vital sensors.

7. A vital information processing method comprising:

receiving a plurality of pieces of vital information from a plurality of vital sensors provided in a vital information measuring device;

generating, based on each of the plurality of pieces of vital information, priority information used for power management of the vital information measuring device and for setting a priority of power supply for each of the plurality of vital sensors; and

transmitting the priority information to the vital information measuring device.

8. A computer program causing a computer to perform a series of computer-executable functions, the computer program comprising:

a receiving unit that receives a plurality of pieces of vital information from a plurality of vital sensors provided in a vital information measuring device;

a processing unit that produces priority information used for power management of the vital information measuring device; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the priority information to the vital information measuring device,

wherein the processing unit generates, based on each of the plurality of pieces of vital information, the priority information for setting a priority of power supply for each of the plurality of vital sensors.