SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PERSON TO BE MONITORED, MONITORING INFORMATION SCREEN DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MONITORING INFORMATION SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20180233017A1
• Filed: 07/27/2016
• Published: 08/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: NISHIKADO, Masashi, NODA, Atsuhiro, TSUJI, Aki, YAMASHITA, Masanori
• Application Number:
  US15/751,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20180233017A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6887 mounted on external non-worn devices, e.g. non-medical devices
• 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: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/04 using a single signalling line, e.g. in a closed loop
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

Disclosed is a monitoring information screen display device for use in a to-be-observed person monitoring system equipped with a sensor device configured to, when it judges that a to-be-observed person has performed a given action, transmit monitoring information including a result of the judgment. The monitoring information screen display device comprises a communication section, a display section, and a display processing section. The display processing section is configured to generate a monitoring information screen including the judgment result, based on the monitoring information received by the communication section, and cause the display section to display the monitoring information screen thereon. The display processing section is operable, when the communication section receives new monitoring information in a state in which the display processing section causes the display section to display the monitoring information screen thereon, to cause the display section to display thereon another monitoring information screen generated based on the new monitoring information received by the communication section, in place of the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display section.

Claims

1. A monitoring information screen display device for use in a to-be-observed person monitoring system equipped with a sensor device which transmits monitoring information including a result of judgment when it judges that a to-be-observed person has performed a given action, the monitoring information screen display device comprising:

a communication section which receives the monitoring information via a network;

a display; and

a display processing section which generates a monitoring information screen including the judgment result, based on the monitoring information received by the communication section, and causes the display to display the monitoring information screen thereon,

wherein the display processing section is operable, when the communication section receives new monitoring information in a state in which the display processing causes the display section to display the monitoring information screen thereon, to cause the display to display thereon another monitoring information screen generated based on the new monitoring information received by the communication section, in place of the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display.

2. The monitoring information screen display device as recited in claim 1, which further comprises:

a manual input which allows input based on a first manipulation and input based on a second manipulation different from the first manipulation to be performed thereon; and

a storage which stores therein a plurality of the monitoring information screens each generated based on a respective one of a plurality of pieces of the monitoring information including the new monitoring information received by the communication section, in a state in which the plurality of monitoring information screens are time-serially arranged in order from latest to earliest in terms of timing when each of the plurality of pieces of the monitoring information is received by the communication section, in such a manner that the monitoring information screen generated based on the new monitoring information is positioned at a head of the plurality of monitoring information screens,

wherein the display processing section is operable, when the input based on the first manipulation is performed on the manual input, to read, from the storage, the monitoring information screen next to and on a latest side with respect to the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display, and cause the display to display the read monitoring information screen thereon, and, when the input based on the second manipulation is performed on the manual input, to read, from the storage, the monitoring information screen next to and on an earliest side with respect to the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display, and cause the display to display the read monitoring information screen thereon.

3. The monitoring information screen display device as recited in claim 2, wherein the display processing section is operable, when input based on a third manipulation different from the first manipulation and the second manipulation is performed on the manual input, to (a) delete, from the display, the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display, and (b) erase the monitoring information screen deleted from the display, among the plurality of monitoring information screens stored in the storage section.

4. The monitoring information screen display device as recited in claim 1, wherein the to-be-observed person monitoring system includes a plurality of the sensor devices assigned, respectively, to a plurality of the to-be-observed persons,

wherein each of the plurality of sensor devices is capable of discriminatingly judging two or more types of actions as the given action,

and wherein, in a state in which the display processing section causes the display to display thereon the monitoring information screen generated based on the monitoring information including the judgment result indicating that a first to-be-observed person among the plurality of to-be-observed persons has performed a predetermined action among the two or more types of actions, the display processing section is operable, when the communication section receives new monitoring information including the judgment result indicating that a second to-be-observed person different from the first to-be-observed person has performed an action other than the predetermined action, to cause the display to continue to display thereon the monitoring information screen currently displayed thereon without switching.

5. The monitoring information screen display device as recited in claim 4, wherein in a state in which the display processing section causes the display to display thereon the monitoring information screen generated based on the monitoring information including the judgment result indicating that the first to-be-observed person has performed the predetermined action, the display processing section is operable, when the communication section receives new monitoring information including the judgment result indicating that the second to-be-observed person has performed the predetermined action, to cause the display to display thereon the monitoring information screen generated based on the new monitoring information, in place of the monitoring information screen displayed on the display.

6. The monitoring information screen display device as recited in claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of sensor device is operable to judge, as the predetermined action, fall-over or fall-off of a respective one of the to-be-observed persons.

7. The monitoring information screen display device as recited in-claim 1, wherein the sensor device has a function of taking a still image about the to-be-observed person, wherein the sensor device is operable, when it judges that the to-be-observed person has performed the given action, to transmit the monitoring information including the still image taken at a time when the judgment about the given action was made, and a result of the judgment, and wherein the display processing section is operable to generate the monitoring information screen including the still picture and an icon representing the judgment result, and cause the display to display the monitoring information screen thereon.

8. A to-be-observed person monitoring system comprising:

a sensor device which transmits monitoring information including a result of judgment when it judges that a to-be-observed person has performed a given action; and

the monitoring information screen display device as recited in claim 1.

9. The to-be-observed person monitoring system as recited in claim 8, which comprises a plurality of the monitoring information screen display devices as recited in claim 3, wherein, in a state in which, in each of the plurality of monitoring information screen display devices, the communication section receives the monitoring information notified concurrently to the plurality of monitoring information screen display devices, and the display processing section causes the display to display the monitoring information screen generated based on the new monitoring information received by the communication section, in place of the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display, when the input based on the third manipulation is performed in one of the plurality of monitoring information screen display devices, the display processing section in each of the remaining monitoring information screen display devices is operable to perform the operation (a) and the operation (b).

10. A monitoring information screen display method for use in a to-be-observed person monitoring system equipped with a sensor device which transmits monitoring information including a result of judgment when it judges that a to-be-observed person has performed a given action, the monitoring information screen display method comprising:

(1) receiving the monitoring information via a network;

(2) generating a monitoring information screen including the judgment result, based on the monitoring information received in (1), and causing a display to display the monitoring information screen thereon;

(3) determining whether or not new monitoring information has been received, in a state in which the monitoring information screen generated in the (2) is displayed on the display; and

(4), when it is determined, in the (3), that new monitoring information has been received, causing the display section to display another monitoring information screen generated based on the new monitoring information received in the (3), in place of the monitoring information screen currently displayed on the display.