Device and system for detecting abnormality
First Claim
1. An abnormality detection device that detects an occurrence of an abnormality in an event under observation, said abnormality detection device comprising:
- an input unit operable to acquire a sequence of an input pattern that is data depending upon the event;
a transition analyzing unit operable to analyze a characteristic of a transition in the sequence of the input pattern acquired by said input unit;
a comparing unit operable to compare the characteristic of the transition analyzed by said transition analyzing unit with a predetermined reference value, and to judge that an abnormality has occurred in the event when the characteristic and the reference value are not approximate to each other within a predetermined range; and
an output unit operable to output an occurrence of the abnormality when said comparing unit judges that the abnormality has occurred;
wherein said input unit includes a plurality of small motion detection sensors located in a plurality of places in a house, and said input unit is operable to acquire, as the input pattern, a sensor pattern that is a combination of data indicating whether or not there is a small motion outputted from a plurality of said plurality of small motion detection sensors; and
wherein said transition analyzing unit is operable to calculate a Markov chain in the sequence of the input pattern and to analyze a characteristic of the calculated Markov chain as the analysis.
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Abstract
An abnormality detection device includes small motion sensors that detect small motions of a person in a house; a data collecting unit that collects and stores sensor signals from the small motion sensors as sensor patterns, and a Markov chain operating unit 33 that transforms the sensor patterns into a cluster sequence by vector-quantizing input patterns which are obtained by averaging and normalizing the sensor patterns, and calculates a transition number matrix and a duration time distribution of a Markov and so on using a Markov chain model. The abnormality detection device also includes a comparing unit that calculates a characteristic amount (Euclid distance and average log likelihood in an appearance frequency of a Markov chain and an average log likelihood to the duration time distribution of a Markov chain) of a sample activity as against a daily activity based on the obtained transition number matrix and the duration time distribution and so on.
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43 Claims
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1. An abnormality detection device that detects an occurrence of an abnormality in an event under observation, said abnormality detection device comprising:
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an input unit operable to acquire a sequence of an input pattern that is data depending upon the event;
a transition analyzing unit operable to analyze a characteristic of a transition in the sequence of the input pattern acquired by said input unit;
a comparing unit operable to compare the characteristic of the transition analyzed by said transition analyzing unit with a predetermined reference value, and to judge that an abnormality has occurred in the event when the characteristic and the reference value are not approximate to each other within a predetermined range; and
an output unit operable to output an occurrence of the abnormality when said comparing unit judges that the abnormality has occurred;
wherein said input unit includes a plurality of small motion detection sensors located in a plurality of places in a house, and said input unit is operable to acquire, as the input pattern, a sensor pattern that is a combination of data indicating whether or not there is a small motion outputted from a plurality of said plurality of small motion detection sensors; and
wherein said transition analyzing unit is operable to calculate a Markov chain in the sequence of the input pattern and to analyze a characteristic of the calculated Markov chain as the analysis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An abnormality detection system comprising:
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an abnormality detection device is operable to be located in a place where an event for abnormality detection occurs;
a communication device operable to monitor an occurrence of an abnormality; and
a transmission channel operable to connect said abnormality detection device and said communication device;
wherein said abnormality detection device includes;
an input unit operable to acquire a sequence of an input pattern that is data depending upon the event;
a transition analyzing unit operable to analyze a characteristic of a transition in the sequence of the input pattern acquired by said input unit;
a comparing unit operable to compare the characteristic of the transition analyzed by said transition analyzing unit with a predetermined reference value, and to judge that an abnormality has occurred in the event when the characteristic and the reference value are not approximate to each other within a predetermined range; and
an output unit operable to output an occurrence of an abnormality when said comparing unit judges that the abnormality has occurred;
wherein said input unit includes a plurality of small motion detection sensors located in a plurality of places in a house, and said input unit is operable to acquire, as the input pattern, a sensor pattern that is a combination of data indicating whether or not there is a small motion outputted from a plurality of said plurality of small motion detection sensors;
wherein said transition analyzing unit is operable to calculate a Markov chain in the sequence of the input pattern and to analyze a characteristic of the calculated Markov chain as the analysis; and
wherein said communication device includes;
a receiving unit operable to receive a report from said abnormality detection device; and
a showing unit operable to show an operator that the report has been received when said receiving unit receives the report. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30)
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27. An abnormality detection system comprising:
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an abnormality detection device operable to be located in a place where an event for abnormality detection occurs;
a communication device operable to monitor an occurrence of an abnormality; and
a transmission channel operable to connect said abnormality detection device and said communication device;
wherein said abnormality detection device includes;
an input unit operable to acquire a sequence of an input pattern that is data depending upon the event; and
a sending unit operable to send the input pattern acquired by said input unit to said communication device via said transmission channel;
wherein said input unit includes a plurality of small motion detection sensors located in a plurality of places in a house, and said input unit is operable to acquire, as the input pattern, a sensor pattern that is a combination of data indicating whether or not there is a small motion outputted from a plurality of said plurality of small motion detection sensors; and
wherein said communication device includes;
a receiving unit operable to receive the input pattern sent from said sending unit of said abnormality detection device;
a transition analyzing unit operable to analyze a characteristic of a transition in the sequence of the input pattern received by said receiving unit by calculating a Markov chain in the sequence of the input pattern and analyzing a characteristic of the calculated Markov chain as the analysis;
a comparing unit operable to compare the characteristic of the transition analyzed by said transition analyzing unit with a predetermined reference value, and to judge that an abnormality has occurred in the event when the characteristic and the reference value are not approximate to each other within a predetermined range; and
a showing unit operable to show an operator the occurrence of the abnormality when said comparing unit judges that the abnormality has occurred. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43)
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31. An abnormality detection method for detecting an occurrence of an abnormality in an event under observation, said abnormality detection method comprising:
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acquiring a sequence of an input pattern that is data depending upon the event;
analyzing a characteristic of a transition in the sequence of the input pattern acquired in said acquiring of the sequence of the input pattern;
comparing the characteristic of the transition analyzed in said analyzing of the characteristic of the transition with a predetermined reference value, and judging that an abnormality has occurred in the event when the characteristic and the reference value are not approximate to each other within a predetermined range; and
outputting an occurrence of the abnormality when said judging that the abnormality has occurred judges that the abnormality has occurred;
wherein in said acquiring of the sequence of the input pattern, a plurality of small motion detection sensors located in a plurality of places in a house are utilized for acquiring the input pattern, and a sensor pattern that is a combination of data indicating whether or not there is a small motion outputted from a plurality of the small motion detection sensors is acquired as the input pattern; and
wherein in said analyzing of the characteristic of the transition, a Markov chain in the sequence of the input pattern is calculated, and a characteristic of the calculated Markov chain is analyzed as the analysis. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A program for detecting that an abnormality has occurred in an event under observation, said program causing a computer to execute:
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acquiring a sequence of an input pattern that is data depending upon the event;
analyzing a characteristic of a transition in the sequence of the input pattern acquired in said acquiring of the sequence of the input pattern;
comparing the characteristic of the transition analyzed in said analyzing of the characteristic of the transition with a predetermined reference value, and judging that an abnormality has occurred in the event when the characteristic and the reference value are not approximate to each other within a predetermined range; and
outputting an occurrence of the abnormality when said judging that the abnormality has occurred judges that the abnormality has occurred;
wherein in said acquiring of the sequence of the input pattern, a plurality of small motion detection sensors located in a plurality of places in a house are utilized for acquiring the input pattern, and a sensor pattern that is a combination of data indicating whether or not there is a small motion outputted from a plurality of the small motion detection sensors is acquired as the input pattern; and
wherein in said analyzing of the characteristic of the transition, a Markov chain in the sequence of the input pattern is calculated, and a characteristic of the calculated Markov chain is analyzed as the analysis.
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