Electronic apparatus, thermometer, body temperature management system, alarm control method, and program

• US 9,445,726 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2013
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Toriumi, Satoko, Suzuki, Fumie
• Primary Examiner(s): Alizada, Omeed
• Application Number:
  US14/370,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20150289768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• 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: G01K 1/022 for recording
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 13/20 Clinical contact thermometers for use with humans or animals

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes an alarm unit, a reception unit, and a control unit. The alarm unit is capable of outputting an alarm. The reception unit receives an alarm stop signal from a thermometer. The control unit causes the alarm unit to output the alarm at a set time and stop the alarm on the basis of the alarm stop signal.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

an alarm circuit capable of outputting an alarm;

a reception circuit that receives an alarm stop signal by a wireless communication or wired communication from a thermometer which is an external device; and

a control circuit that causes the alarm circuit to output the alarm at a set time and stop the alarm on the basis of the alarm stop signal,

wherein

the alarm stop signal received by reception circuit comprises a first alarm stop signal and a second alarm stop signal, and

when the reception circuit receives the first alarm stop signal, the control circuit causes the alarm of the alarm circuit to be completely stopped, and when the reception circuit receives the second alarm stop signal, the control circuit causes the alarm to be temporarily stopped in such a manner that the alarm of the alarm circuit is caused to be output again after a lapse of a predetermined time period.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the reception circuit has a first state in which the alarm stop signal is capable of being received and a second state in which a reception of the alarm stop signal is rejected, and

the control circuit causes the reception circuit to shift from the second state to the first state at the set time.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein after receiving the alarm stop signal, the reception circuit receives basal body temperature data output from the thermometer when a predetermined measurement time period of the thermometer elapses.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

in the case where the control circuit determines that the basal body temperature data is not received when the predetermined measurement time period elapses after receiving the alarm stop signal, the control circuit causes the alarm to be output again.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising

a storage circuit that stores a plurality of presentation patterns of a predetermined content, wherein

the control circuit selects and reproduces the presentation pattern corresponding to the received basal body temperature data from among the plurality of presentation patterns of the predetermined content.

6. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

an alarm circuit capable of outputting an alarm;

a reception circuit that receives an alarm stop signal by a wireless communication or wired communication from a thermometer which is an external device; and

a control circuit that causes the alarm circuit to output the alarm at a set time and stop the alarm on the basis of the alarm stop signal,

wherein

the reception circuit is capable of receiving data relating to a change over time in body temperature measurement value from the thermometer, and

the control circuit determines whether a user falls asleep or not during a body temperature measurement on the basis of the change over time in the body temperature measurement value received, and in the case where the control circuit determines that the user falls asleep, the control circuit causes the alarm to be output.

7. A thermometer, comprising

a communication circuit that transmits a signal by a wireless communication or wired communication to an electronic apparatus which is an external device for stopping an alarm of the electronic apparatus having an alarm function;

and

a control circuit that generates a first alarm stop signal for completely stopping the alarm on a basis of a first input operation and that generates a second alarm stop signal for temporarily stopping the alarm in such a manner that the alarm is generated again after a lapse of a predetermined time period on a basis of a second input operation.

8. The thermometer according to claim 7, further comprising:

an operation reception circuit that receives the first and the second input operations.

9. The thermometer according to claim 8, wherein when the signal is generated, a measurement of a body temperature is started.

10. The thermometer according to claim 8, further comprising

a casing having a front surface, a back surface, and a side surface, the front surface including a display circuit on which a body temperature value measured is displayed, the back surface being opposed to the front surface, the side surface being continuously connected with the front surface and the back surface and capable of being held by the user during the measurement of the body temperature, wherein

the operation reception circuit is disposed on the side surface.

11. The thermometer according to claim 7, wherein the communication circuit is capable of outputting measured basal body temperature data when a predetermined measurement time period elapses.

12. A body temperature management system, comprising:

a thermometer capable outputting an alarm stop signal; and

an electronic apparatus, which is external to the thermometer, including an alarm circuit capable of outputting an alarm, a reception circuit that receives the alarm stop signal from the thermometer by a wireless communication or wired communication, and a control circuit that causes the alarm circuit to output the alarm at a set time and stop the alarm on the basis of the alarm stop signal,

wherein

the alarm stop signal received by reception circuit comprises a first alarm stop signal and a second alarm stop signal, and

when the reception circuit receives the first alarm stop signal, the control circuit causes the alarm of the alarm circuit to be completely stopped, and when the reception circuit receives the second alarm stop signal, the control circuit causes the alarm to be temporarily stopped in such a manner that the alarm of the alarm circuit is caused to be output again after a lapse of a predetermined time period.

13. An alarm control method, comprising:

causing an alarm for urging a user to wake up to be output at a set time;

receiving an alarm stop signal by a wireless communication or wired communication from a thermometer, which is an external device, that measures a body temperature of the user and is capable of outputting the alarm stop signal; and

causing the alarm to be stopped on the basis of the alarm stop signal received from the thermometer,

wherein

the alarm stop signal received by reception circuit comprises a first alarm stop signal and a second alarm stop signal, and

when the first alarm stop signal is received, causing the alarm to be completely stopped, and when the second alarm stop signal is received, causing the alarm to be temporarily stopped in such a manner that the alarm is caused to be output again after a lapse of a predetermined time period.