System and method for providing assistance during medical emergency

• US 9,883,369 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2015
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ulmansky, Asaf, Goren, Adi
• Primary Examiner(s): Batista, Marcos
• Application Number:
  US14/881,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20170105104A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 4554042, 370338
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• 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 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4306 for evaluating the female reproductive systems, e.g. gynaecological evaluations
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• 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: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/42 for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Various aspects of a system and method to provide assistance during a medical emergency are disclosed herein. The system comprises one or more circuits in an electronic device configured to receive sensor data associated with a user from one or more sensing devices. A change in health condition of the user is detected based on the received sensor data. Alert information that corresponds to the detected change is communicated to one or more other electronic devices associated with one or more other users. The one or more other users are selected based on profiles of the one or more other users.

Claims

1. A first vehicle, comprising:

an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) device that comprises one or more circuits configured to;

receive alert information corresponding to a detected change in health condition of a second user associated with a second vehicle;

generate instruction information based on said received alert information, a profile of a first user associated with at least one of said first vehicle or said IVI device, and a health profile of said second user, wherein said health profile includes information related to a medical history of said second user; and

communicate said instruction information to said second user.

2. The first vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said one or more circuits are further configured to receive said alert information from at least one of a server or said second vehicle.

3. The first vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said alert information is received by a mobile device, wherein said mobile device is configured to customize said received alert information to generate said instruction information, wherein said generated instruction information is transmitted to said IVI device.

4. The first vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said one or more circuits are further configured to communicate said instruction information to said second user associated with said second vehicle, based on said detected change in said health condition of said second user, via vehicle-to-vehicle communication, wherein said communicated instruction information is output at said second vehicle as at least one of audio, text, or video instructions.