JP4742608B2 - Mobile phone terminal with TV phone function and remote monitoring system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone terminal with a TV function and a system for monitoring a remote location using the same, and more particularly to a mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function and a remote monitoring system that can easily and repeatedly perform remote monitoring.

  In recent years, mobile phone terminals have become highly functional, and it is natural to install camera modules and schedule management functions.

  In addition, third-generation mobile phones (3G) that employ communication systems such as W-CDMA are becoming mainstream, and a large amount of data can be transmitted and received from mobile phone terminals in a short time. For this reason, communication using a camera module of a mobile phone terminal has become widespread.

  One type of communication using a camera module is a TV phone. In the video phone, not only voice but also moving images can be exchanged with the communication partner, so that the state of the communication partner can be grasped more accurately.

  Videophones are beginning to be applied to the medical field. For example, TV telephones are used for remote monitoring for the purpose of nursing elderly people.

  In many cases, remote monitoring is performed continuously (in many cases regularly), not only for elderly care. Therefore, when the TV phone function is used for remote monitoring, if the operation can be automated and periodically monitored, operations such as phone book search and outgoing calls are not required, and further spread to medical sites can be achieved.

As conventional techniques related to remote monitoring using the TV phone function of a mobile phone terminal, there are “at-home care system” disclosed in Patent Document 1 and “reservation management method of communication system” disclosed in Patent Document 2.
JP 2000-57216 A JP-A-4-291860

  However, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, the terminal of the monitored person (home care terminal) does not authenticate the terminal of the supervisor (home care center) at the start of communication. For this reason, the monitored person may be monitored by a person who is different from a legitimate administrator.

  Further, the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2 holds a reservation management table including a telephone number of a communication partner, thereby disconnecting communication and releasing a line when communication is in progress at the reservation start time. Thus, it is possible to reliably perform the communication performed. That is, the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2 is intended to ensure that reserved communication can be performed, and does not allow remote monitoring to be easily and repeatedly executed.

  Thus, conventionally, a remote monitoring system capable of easily and repeatedly performing remote monitoring and a mobile phone terminal used for the remote monitoring system have not been provided.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a remote monitoring system capable of easily and repeatedly performing remote monitoring and a mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function used therefor.

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides, in a first aspect, transmits the first transmission moving image data generated by imaging a subject to the communication partner by the wireless communication, transmitted from the communication party A mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function, comprising: a TV phone communication means for receiving and displaying received moving image data; and a schedule setting means for operating a predetermined function at a preset arbitrary time. communication means is operable at any time by the scheduling means, the scheduling means, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means, a telephone number of the communication partner, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means , spacing repeated operation of the TV telephone communication means, and can be set a pattern that repeats the operation of the TV telephone communication means, further A moving image data storage means for storing a second transmission moving image data, when obtained by operating the TV telephone communication means by said scheduling means, wherein are stored in the moving image data storage means the the second transmit moving image data transmitted to the communication partner after the communication partner has completed the reproduction of the second transmission video data, to receive the reception moving image data transmitted from the communication partner The present invention provides a mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function characterized by displaying.

In a first aspect of the present invention, schedule setting means preferably repetitive pattern of operation of the TV telephone communication means so as to periodically operate the TV telephone communication means can be set. In addition, there is a supervisor telephone number storage means for storing a telephone number set by the user, and a call from a telephone number stored in the supervisor telephone number storage means is caused by a user's off-hook operation. It is preferable to establish a communication by receiving an incoming call.

In order to achieve the above object, as a second aspect, the present invention provides a second mobile phone with a videophone function as a second mode by transmitting first transmission moving image data generated by photographing a subject via a mobile communication network. working together to the terminal, the second TV telephone function phones TV phone communication means receives and displays the received moving image data transmitted from the terminal and, a predetermined function at any time preset A first mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function provided with a schedule setting means and a second mobile phone terminal with a TV phone communication means provided with a TV phone communication means connected via a mobile communication network In the monitoring system, the mobile phone terminal with the first TV phone function can operate the TV phone communication unit at an arbitrary time by the schedule setting unit. Constant means, operation of the TV time to operate the telephone communication means, a telephone number of the communication partner, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means, intervals repeats the operation of the TV telephone communication means, and the TV telephone communication means The second mobile phone terminal with the TV phone function can receive an incoming call from the mobile phone terminal with the first TV phone function regardless of the user's off-hook operation. Then, the communication is established, and the mobile phone terminal with the first TV phone function has moving image data storage means for storing the second transmission moving image data, and the TV phone is set by the schedule setting means . when actuating the communication means, the mobile phone terminal with the second transmission moving image data stored in the moving image data storage means and the second TV telephone function Submitted, after the second mobile phone terminal with a TV telephone function is terminated playback of the second transmission moving image data, the receiving moving image transmitted from the second mobile phone terminal with a TV telephone function A remote monitoring system characterized by receiving and displaying data is provided.

In a second aspect of the present invention, schedule setting means preferably repetitive pattern of operation of the TV telephone communication means so as to periodically operate the TV telephone communication means can be set.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the remote monitoring system which can perform remote monitoring easily and repeatedly, and the mobile telephone terminal with a TV telephone function used for this can be provided.

  In the present invention, the schedule function of the mobile phone terminal is used to determine the time to start remote monitoring using the TV phone function, the telephone number of the other party set for TV phone remote monitoring, and how long the remote monitoring is to be performed. Set. When the time set as the schedule is reached, the TV phone communication is automatically executed for the set partner, and the TV phone communication is continued for the set time. When the set time has elapsed, the TV phone communication is automatically disconnected.

  In this case, the partner terminal to be set for automatic remote monitoring needs to have a “remote monitoring function” and the setting must be valid. Here, the “remote monitoring function” is a function that automatically responds even when there is no off-hook operation (such as pressing an incoming call button) when receiving a call by a videophone. Since there is a possibility of receiving a videophone call from a person other than the supervisor, the telephone number of the supervisor's mobile phone terminal can be registered, and a videophone call from the registered telephone number can be registered. It is better to respond automatically only to.

  The present invention can be used not only for medical (elderly care) applications, but also for remotely monitoring homes automatically when leaving family and pets at home. By using it for such an application, the user of the present invention can go out in peace even if the monitoring target remains at home.

[First Embodiment]
A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a mobile phone terminal according to the present embodiment. This mobile phone terminal includes an antenna 1, a wireless unit 2, a display unit 3, a CPU 4, a camera unit 5, an operation unit 6, and a memory 7.
The antenna 1 and the wireless unit 2 transmit and receive radio waves including a call signal so that the mobile phone terminal communicates with the wireless base station. In videophone communication during remote monitoring, moving image data from a remote monitoring partner is received via the antenna 1 and the wireless unit 2. The CPU 4 performs communication signal processing with the wireless unit 2, storage of data in the memory 7, control of the camera unit 5, display processing control of the display unit 3, and processing of input data from the operation unit 6.

  FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the remote monitoring system. The mobile phone terminal according to the present embodiment is applied as a monitoring terminal in remote monitoring. The monitoring terminal and the monitored terminal are connected via a mobile communication network.

  FIG. 3 shows a screen image of automatic remote monitoring setting linked with the schedule. This is a screen that the CPU 4 displays on the display unit 3. The time setting area 8 is a GUI for setting the time for starting remote monitoring. The telephone number setting area 9 is a GUI for setting the telephone number of the other party who sends the videophone. Note that the telephone number input in the telephone number setting area 9 needs to be capable of videophone communication and set to be remotely monitored by videophone. The monitoring time setting area 10 is a GUI for setting the remote monitoring time. The CPU 4 ends the communication after performing the communication by the time TV phone function input to the monitoring time setting area 10. The repeat time setting area 11 is a GUI for performing settings for repeatedly executing the automatic remote monitoring function. The CPU 4 sends a videophone call to the telephone number set in the telephone number setting area 9 after the time set in the repetition time setting area 11 has elapsed from the time set in the time setting area 8. The repeat count setting area 12 is a GUI for setting the repeat count of remote automatic monitoring. As the repeat setting of the remote monitoring, it is possible to set how many times the remote monitoring is repeated and on what day of the week. If “everyday” is selected as the repeat setting, the day of the week cannot be specified. On the other hand, when “everyday” is not set as the repetitive setting, remote monitoring can be executed by designating the day of the week.

Here, the automatic remote monitoring function of the mobile phone terminal
Setting value in time setting area 8: 10:00 on December 24, 2004 Setting value in telephone number setting area 9: XXX-XXXXXX
Set value in monitoring time setting area 10: 10 minutes Set value in repeat time setting area 11: 10 minutes Set value in repeat count setting area 12: 2 times daily, as an example of operation of mobile phone terminal Will be explained.

In the case where the above conditions are set, the CPU 4 makes the first videophone call to the telephone number of XXX-XXXXX-ΔΔΔΔ at 10:00 on December 24, 2004. After performing remote monitoring by TV phone communication for 10 minutes, the CPU 4 disconnects the TV phone communication. 10 minutes after disconnecting the TV phone communication, the CPU 4 again sends a TV phone to XXX-XXX.
The CPU 4 executes the above operation every day at 10 o'clock.

  Thus, according to the mobile phone terminal according to the present embodiment, it is possible to periodically execute remote monitoring using the TV phone function by using the schedule function provided in the mobile phone terminal. In addition, after the schedule is set, no user operation is required, so remote monitoring can be easily and repeatedly executed.

[Second Embodiment]
A second embodiment in which the present invention is suitably implemented will be described. The configuration of the mobile phone terminal according to the present embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of an automatic remote monitoring setting screen in the mobile phone terminal according to the present embodiment. In addition to the setting screen in the mobile phone terminal of the first embodiment, a moving image selection area 13 is further provided. The moving image selection area 13 is a GUI for setting whether or not to transmit the moving image data stored in the memory 7 to the communication partner when performing remote monitoring.

When a moving image data file name is specified in the moving image selection area 13, the CPU 4 reads the specified moving image file at the start of remote monitoring, and transmits it to the communication partner after communication is established.
Thus, at the start remote monitoring, thereby displaying a predetermined video image in the portable telephone terminal of the person being monitored (e.g., a message that reports the start of the remote monitoring).

  On the monitored person's terminal, after the reproduction of the moving image file is finished, an image taken on the monitoring person's mobile phone terminal is displayed in real time.

  As the moving image data, in addition to the moving image file stored in the memory 7 in advance, it is also possible to transmit a moving image that is captured at the time of schedule setting and stored in the memory 7.

  Thus, according to the mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function according to the present embodiment, remote monitoring using the TV phone function can be executed periodically by using the schedule function provided in the mobile phone terminal. In addition, after the schedule is set, no user operation is required, so remote monitoring can be easily and repeatedly executed.

Each of the above embodiments is an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, in each of the embodiments described above, an example has been described in which a call is made again by a videophone after a predetermined time has elapsed after disconnection of communication. Also good.
As described above, the present invention can be variously modified.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the mobile telephone terminal concerning 1st Embodiment which implemented this invention suitably. It is a figure which shows the structure of a remote monitoring system. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the setting screen of a remote monitoring function. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the setting screen of the remote monitoring function in the mobile telephone terminal concerning 2nd Embodiment which implemented this invention suitably.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Antenna 2 Radio | wireless part 3 Display part 4 CPU
5 Camera section 6 Operation section 7 Memory 8 Time setting area 9 Telephone number setting area 10 Monitoring time setting area 11 Repeat time setting area 12 Repeat count setting area 13 Movie selection area

Claims (5)

It transmits the first transmission moving image data generated by photographing an object to a communication partner via wireless communication, a TV telephone communication means for receiving and displaying reception moving image data transmitted from the communication partner,
A mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function, comprising schedule setting means for operating a predetermined function at an arbitrary time set in advance;
The TV phone communication means can be operated at any time by the schedule setting means,
The scheduling means, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means, a telephone number of the communication partner, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means, intervals repeats the operation of the TV telephone communication means, and the TV telephone communication means It is possible to set a pattern that repeats the operation of
Furthermore, it has moving image data storage means for storing the second transmission moving image data,
When said TV was operated telephone communication means transmits the second transmission moving image data stored in the moving image data storage means to said communication partner by said scheduling means,
After the communication partner has completed the reproduction of the second transmission moving image data, the mobile phone terminal with a TV telephone function, characterized in that receiving and displaying the received moving image data transmitted from the communication partner . The scheduling means, the TV telephone communication means periodically actuated to as the TV telephone characterized by a repeating pattern of operation of the communication means can be set according to claim 1, wherein the TV telephone function phones Terminal.   It has a supervisor telephone number storage means for storing a telephone number set by the user, and a call from the telephone number stored in the supervisor telephone number storage means is received regardless of the user's off-hook operation. The mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function according to claim 1, wherein communication is established. Transmits the first transmission moving image data generated by imaging a subject on the second mobile phone terminal with a TV telephone function through a mobile communication network, transmitting from said second mobile phone terminal with a TV telephone function A mobile phone terminal with a first TV phone function, comprising a TV phone communication means for receiving and displaying the received moving image data, and a schedule setting means for operating a predetermined function at an arbitrary preset time; A remote monitoring system in which the second mobile phone terminal with a TV phone function provided with a TV phone communication means is connected via a mobile communication network,
The mobile phone terminal with the first TV phone function is:
The TV phone communication means can be operated at an arbitrary time by the schedule setting means,
The scheduling means, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means, a telephone number of the communication partner, the time for operating the TV telephone communication means, intervals repeats the operation of the TV telephone communication means, and the TV telephone communication means It is possible to set a pattern that repeats the operation of
The mobile phone terminal with the second TV phone function receives a call from the mobile phone terminal with the first TV phone function, regardless of a user's off-hook operation, and establishes communication.
Further, the mobile phone terminal with the first TV phone function has moving image data storage means for storing second transmission moving image data, and when the TV phone communication means is operated by the schedule setting means . Transmits the second transmission moving image data stored in the moving image data storage means to the second mobile phone terminal with the TV phone function, and the second mobile phone terminal with the TV phone function remote monitoring system, characterized in that the second after completion of the reproduction of the transmission video data, receiving and displaying the received moving image data transmitted from the second mobile phone terminal with a TV telephone function. The schedule setting unit, remote monitoring system according to claim 4, wherein the said TV telephone communication means can be set to repeat the pattern of operation of the TV telephone communication means to actuate regularly.

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