Terminal Apparatus And Terminal Processing Method For Object Monitoring System, Central Processing Apparatus And Central Processing Method For Object Monitoring System, And Object Monitoring System

• US 20180122206A1
• Filed: 03/02/2016
• Published: 05/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Yamashita, Masanori, Tsuji, Aki, Noda, Atsuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,198,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1113 Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1115 Monitoring leaving of a patient support, e.g. a bed or a wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups A61G1/00 - A61G11/00, e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food service or tea-tables, trolleys or wagons A47B31/00; Prescription lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/41 Medical
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0294 Display details on parent unit
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0476 Cameras to detect unsafe condition, e.g. video cameras

Abstract

A terminal apparatus and method therefor according to the present invention are an apparatus and method for receiving and displaying monitoring information in an object monitoring system for sensing and monitoring an object, have a plurality of operation modes including a condition check mode of checking a condition of the object until receiving an intention to actually perform an action on the object after receiving the monitoring information, and prohibit executing the condition check mode on the object when a condition of the object is being checked by other apparatus in the condition check mode. The present invention relates to an object monitoring system using the terminal apparatuses, and a central processing apparatus and central processing method therefor.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A terminal apparatus for an object monitoring system, the terminal apparatus for receiving and displaying monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a communicator that makes communication;

a display that displays;

an input that receives an input operation;

a condition check processor that checks a condition of the object; and

a display processor that, when the communicator receives a monitoring information communication signal housing the monitoring information therein, displays the monitoring information housed in the monitoring information communication signal on the display,

wherein the condition check processor prohibits an operation of checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information when the communicator receives a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information.

20. A terminal processing method for an object monitoring system, the terminal processing method for receiving and displaying monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the terminal processing method comprising:

checking a condition of the object; and

displaying the monitoring information housed in a monitoring information communication signal on a display when a communicator receives the monitoring information communication signal housing the monitoring information therein,

wherein the checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information is prohibited from being performed when the communicator receives a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information.

21. A central processing apparatus for an object monitoring system, the central processing apparatus for managing monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system comprising a plurality of terminal apparatuses and directed for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the central processing apparatus comprising:

a communicator that makes communication; and

a monitoring processor that manages the monitoring information,

wherein when the communicator receives a condition checking notification communication signal for notifying that a condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by a condition check processor for checking a condition of the object from a terminal apparatus among the terminal apparatuses, the monitoring processor transmits a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information to other terminal apparatuses except the terminal apparatus among the terminal apparatuses by the communicator.

23. A central processing method for an object monitoring system, the central processing method for managing monitoring information on an object in the object monitoring system comprising a plurality of terminal apparatuses and directed for sensing and giving notification of a predetermined motion of the object to be monitored and monitoring the object, the central processing method comprising:

managing the monitoring information,

wherein the managing includes, when a communicator receives a condition checking notification communication signal for notifying that a condition of the object based on the monitoring information is being checked by a condition check processor for checking a condition of the object from a terminal apparatus among the terminal apparatuses, transmitting a condition check function prohibiting command communication signal for giving notification of a command to prohibit checking a condition of the object based on the monitoring information to other terminal apparatuses except the terminal apparatus among the terminal apparatuses by the communicator.