System, method and recording medium for determining a remediation action

• US 10,219,750 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Duan, Ning, Gao, Peng, Huang, He Yuan, Huang, Jingchang
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Duane
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham, Minh Chau T
• Application Number:
  US15/282,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20180092603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 553851, 55472, 55473, 55DIG 34, 96424, 96397, 96417, 96422, 95 25, 95 26
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/22 Motor vehicles operators, e.g. drivers, pilots, captains
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0252 using ambient temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0204 Acoustic sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0271 Thermal or temperature sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/029 Humidity sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0823 Detecting or evaluating cough events
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4803 Speech analysis specially adapted for diagnostic purposes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6893 Cars
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7246 using correlation, e.g. template matching or determination of similarity
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• 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 7/003 Detecting lung or respiration noise
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00742 by detection of the vehicle occupants' presence; by detection of conditions relating to the body of occupants, e.g. using radiant heat detectors
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/008 the input being air quality
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 3/02 Moistening ; Devices influencing humidity levels, i.e. humidity control B60H1/3202, B60H1/3207 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 3/06 Filtering B60H3/0078 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2614 HVAC, heating, ventillation, climate control
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2637 Vehicle, car, auto, wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 : for remote operation

Abstract

A method of determining a remediation action includes detecting an acoustic event in a vehicle, detecting an environmental condition in the vehicle, detecting a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on the detected acoustic event, correlating the detected respiratory disease symptom with the environmental condition in the vehicle, and determining a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of determining a remediation action, the method comprising:

detecting an acoustic event in a vehicle;

detecting an environmental condition in the vehicle;

detecting a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on the detected acoustic event;

correlating the detected respiratory disease symptom with the detected environmental condition in the vehicle; and

determining a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the environmental condition is performed in response to the acoustic event detector detecting the acoustic event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the acoustic event is performed by an acoustic event detector comprising an audio sensor.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the environmental condition comprises detecting in the vehicle an amount of particulate matter (PM), an amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a humidity and a temperature.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the detecting of the environmental condition is performed by an environmental condition detector comprising one of a PM sensor, a VOC sensor, a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the acoustic event comprises at least one of the passenger coughing, the passenger sneezing, the passenger wheezing, the passenger sniffing and the passenger clearing his throat, the passenger using a nasally voice, the passenger taking shallow breaths, and the passenger taking deep breaths.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking an effect of the remediation action on acoustic events detected.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

refining a remediation action determination based on the tracking of the effect of the remediation action.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

managing an air quality in the vehicle based on the determined remediation action.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the managing of the air quality comprises managing the air quality in the vehicle by at least one of adjusting an amount of particulate matter (PM) in air in the vehicle, adjusting an amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air, adjusting a humidity in the air, and adjusting a temperature of the air.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the managing of the air quality is performed by an air quality manager which is formed in a heating and cooling system of the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

storing a passenger profile which relates the determined remediation action with passenger information of the passenger,

wherein the managing of the air quality comprises managing the air quality in the vehicle based on the passenger profile.

13. A system for determining a remediation action, the system comprising:

an acoustic event detector for detecting an acoustic event in a vehicle;

an environmental condition detector for detecting an environmental condition; and

a remediation action determining device for;

detecting a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on a detected acoustic event;

correlating a detected respiratory disease symptom with the detected environmental condition in the vehicle; and

determining a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the environmental condition detector detects the environmental condition in response to the acoustic event detector detecting the acoustic event.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the acoustic event detector comprises an audio sensor.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the environmental condition comprises an amount of particulate matter (PM), an amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a humidity and a temperature.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the environmental condition detector comprises one of a PM sensor, a VOC sensor, a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the remediation action determining device:

recommends the determined remediation action to the passenger;

tracks an effect of the remediation action based on the detected acoustic event; and

refines a remediation action determination based on the tracking of the effect of the remediation action.

19. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

an air quality manager for managing an air quality in the vehicle based on the recommended remediation action.

20. A computer program product for determining a remediation action, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause a method of, the computer to:

detect an acoustic event in a vehicle;

detect an environmental condition in the vehicle;

detect a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on a detected acoustic event;

correlate the detected respiratory disease symptom with the detected environmental condition in the vehicle; and

determine a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.