Using IPTV as health monitor

• US 8,648,725 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2012
• Issued: 02/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakada, Lino Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): OTT, FREDERICK R
• Application Number:
  US13/644,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20130036437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• Field of Search: 348/77
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0024 for multiple sensor units attached to the patient, e.g. using a body or personal area network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse, heart rate, blood pressure or blood flow; Combined pulse/heart-rate/blood pressure determination; Evaluating a cardiovascular condition not otherwise provided for, e.g. using combinations of techniques provided for in this group with electrocardiography or electroauscultation; Heart catheters for measuring blood pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 : for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 : Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71

Abstract

An IPTV can receive a user name and present a screen enabling a user by means of a remote control to select health information categories, inputting numeric parameters into the selected categories which can be uploaded to an Internet server for analysis and viewed by the user for subsequent monitoring/charting.

Claims

1. Method, comprising:

receiving from a user, at a TV, user input indicating an identity of the user;

receiving from the user including from direct user input and/or from a biological sensor engaged with the user, at the TV, numeric input representing a measurable physical parameter of the user;

storing a time associated with the numeric input along with the numeric input;

presenting on the TV a visualization of the user'"'"'s history of the measurable physical parameter; and

presenting on the TV at least one selectable parameter selectable by the user to input numbers representative thereof, the at least one selectable parameter including “

blood pressure” and

/or “

blood glucose”

, wherein the visualization includes a graph of time versus parameter value and upper and/or lower limit lines established per guidance as to what upper and/or lower “

safe”

limits of the parameter being displayed are.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising presenting a message automatically on the display after a predetermined period of time during which the visualization appears on the display advising the user that the numeric input is not within guidelines.

3. The method of claim 2, comprising automatically contacting a medical caregiver responsive to the numeric input not being within guidelines.

4. The method of claim 3, comprising enabling a user to disable and enable automatically contacting a medical caregiver.

5. Apparatus comprising:

network interface;

processor configured for controlling a video display and for communicating with the Internet through the network interface;

input device configured for communicating with the processor;

the processor configured for accessing instructions on a computer readable storage medium for configuring the processor for executing logic including;

receiving user input indicating an identity of a user;

receiving numeric input representing a measurable physical parameter of the user;

storing a time associated with the numeric input along with the input;

presenting on the display a visualization of the user'"'"'s history of the measurable physical parameter; and

presenting on the display at least one selectable parameter selectable by the user to input numbers representative thereof, the at least one selectable parameter including “

blood pressure” and

/or “

blood glucose”

, wherein the visualization includes a graph of time versus parameter value and upper and/or lower limit lines established per guidance as to what upper and/or lower “

safe”

limits of the parameter being displayed are.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the visualization includes a graph of time on an x-axis versus parameter value on a y-axis.

7. Apparatus comprising:

display;

network interface;

processor in the housing configured for controlling the display and communicating with the Internet through the network interface;

the processor configured for accessing instructions on a computer readable storage medium for executing the instructions for configuring the processor for;

presenting a first user interface (UI) on the display enabling a person to log in to a health monitoring feature with a user name and password and/or to create a new account, such that the apparatus maintains health records by user name, so that it may monitor plural people;

presenting a second UI on the display listing multiple parameters from which a person may select one or more to monitor by means of the input device;

presenting a third UI on the display responsive to a person selecting a parameter from the second UI allowing a person to enter by means of the input device numbers associated with a measurement of the parameter;

recording at least a time of receipt of the numbers;

presenting a fourth UI on the display presenting a history of measurements of the parameter associated with the person;

wherein the fourth UI presents upper and/or lower limit lines established per standard of care guidance as to what upper and/or lower “

safe”

limits of the parameter being displayed are, and the processor presents a fifth UI on the display responsive to the numbers associated with a measurement of the parameter being within guidelines, the fifth UI being presented automatically on the display after a predetermined period of time during which the fourth UI appears on the display.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the parameters on the second UI include “

blood pressure” and

“

blood glucose”

.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein numbers representing a parameter are received automatically from a parameter monitor.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the fourth UI includes a graph of time on an x-axis versus parameter value on a y-axis.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor when executing the instructions presents a sixth UI on the display when the numbers associated with a measurement of the parameter are not within guidelines, advising the user of such.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor when executing the instructions automatically contacts a medical caregiver responsive to the numbers associated with a measurement of the parameter not being within guidelines.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein a user can disable and enable the processor automatically contacting a medical caregiver responsive to the numbers associated with a measurement of the parameter not being within guidelines.