KR101434760B1 - Sysetm and mehtod for enhanceing bone mineral density using led light - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention proposes a method for treating bone mineral density using an LED light source, and a method and system for enhancing bone mineral density using an LED light beam that minimizes space and time constraints that may occur in the treatment of bone mineral density and can be linked to various external medical information systems With regard to provision,
The bone mineral density enhancing system includes: an illumination device for bone mineral density enhancement, which is implemented in a portable form, irradiating the patient's skin with LED light for enhancing bone density; And a mobile terminal connected to the illumination device for enhancing a bone density, for controlling operation of the illumination device for enhancing a bone density.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and a method for enhancing a bone mineral density using LED light,

The present invention relates to a bone mineral density enhancement technique, and more particularly, to a bone mineral density enhancement technique using an LED light, which comprises an illumination device for enhancing a bone density through an LED light source and controlling a bone density treatment operation through a mobile terminal System and method.

In diseases commonly known as osteoporosis, bone mineral density is abnormally lowered by excretion of minerals from the bone. The bone contains not only the organic components of the cells and the matrix but also the inorganic or mineral components.

Cells and substrates include the outer structure of collagen fibers in which calcium phosphate (85%) and calcium carbonate (10%) are deposited, which are minerals that impart rigidity to the bone. While osteoporosis is generally considered to agonize the elderly, certain types of osteoporosis can occur in people of all ages who do not experience bone functional stress. In this case, patients may be significantly lost cortical and cancellous bone during longer immobilization.

Elderly patients are known to experience bone loss because they do not use bone during immobilization after fracture, and this can eventually lead to secondary fractures in the skeleton that already has osteoporosis.

Decreased bone density can cause not only spinal collapse, buttocks, lower arms, wrists, and ankle fractures, but also enough pain to be powerless.

A therapeutic method for increasing bone density by directly administering an osteogenesis agent and a bone resorption inhibitor into a local bone or generating a magnetic field for promoting bone density growth has been proposed.

However, since the treatment method of directly administering the osteogenesis agent and the bone resorption inhibitor in the local bone must be performed by the apparatus and procedures prescribed under the guidance of the medical staff, since the special medicine should be injected into the user's body, (Refer to Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2012-0034604 and Korean Patent No. 10-12069080000).

On the other hand, the decrease in bone density can be improved sufficiently by sufficiently exercising the proper amount of exercise, and enough sunscreen for about 15 minutes twice a week to sufficiently synthesize vitamin D required for bone. However, modern people, especially young adolescents, have a problem of lack of outdoor activities and lack of time for sunshine, making it difficult to naturally receive sunlight for bone mineral density enhancement.

Accordingly, the LED light source can be used to artificially provide the patient with the light for enhancing the bone density, thereby enhancing the bone mineral density using the LED light beam, which enables the patient's bone density to be easily enhanced without instruction of the medical staff or expensive hardware devices. System and method.

In addition, by connecting an illumination device to a mobile terminal such as a smart phone and performing an LED light control operation for enhancing the bone density through the mobile terminal, space and time constraints of the illumination device for enhancing a bone density can be minimized And to provide a system and method for enhancing bone mineral density using LED light.

In addition to this, it is possible to connect various medical information systems with outside by using the communication characteristics of mobile terminals supporting interworking with heterogeneous devices, thereby providing a variety of new medical services to patients and medical staff And to provide a system and method for enhancing bone mineral density using light rays.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a means for solving the above problems, comprising: an illumination device for strengthening a bone mineral density, which is embodied in a portable form by irradiating a patient's skin with LED light for strengthening a bone density; And a mobile terminal connected to the illumination device for strengthening a bone mineral density and controlling the operation of the illumination device for strengthening a bone mineral density.

The illumination device for bone mineral density strengthening includes an LED light source for emitting LED light; An LED light source driver for determining intensity, wavelength, pulse shape, and irradiation time of the LED light under the control of the mobile terminal; And a local communication unit for supporting a connection with the mobile terminal. The present invention also provides a system for enhancing a bone mineral density using an LED light.

Wherein the illumination device for enhancing a bone density comprises a bone density test part for testing a bone density status of the patient and providing a BMD test result to the mobile terminal; And a monitoring unit for monitoring the BMD treatment status and providing the monitoring result to the mobile terminal.

The mobile terminal includes a short range communication unit for supporting connection with the illumination device for strengthening bone mineral density; And a control interface for controlling operation of the illumination device for strengthening a bone mineral density or displaying information transmitted from the illumination device for enhancing a bone mineral density and transmitting an optical device control value inputted through the control interface to the illumination device for bone mineral density A treatment control unit; And a user interface for displaying the control interface on the screen, acquiring an optical device control value input by a medical staff operating the control interface, and providing the optical device control value to the treatment control unit.

And the treatment control unit may automatically calculate a device control value according to a result of the bone density test provided by the illumination device for increasing bone density.

As a means for solving the above problems, according to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for irradiating an LED light for bone mineral density enhancement to a patient's skin, displaying a control interface on a screen, A touch screen for obtaining a device control value; And a control interface configured to control the operation of the touch screen or display the operation result of the touch screen and to display the control interface on the touch screen or to operate the touch screen according to the optical device control value, And a treatment control unit for allowing the user to be irradiated to the mobile terminal.

The touch screen generates the LED light by utilizing light generated in the backlight unit of the display device or light generated in each pixel of the display device.

In the present invention, the LED light source, which is mainly used for skin treatment, can be used to perform bone mineral density treatment of a patient.

It is also possible to perform only minimal functions with a minimum number of devices of the lighting device and to perform the remaining functions of the lighting device for strengthening the bone density through a mobile terminal such as a smart phone so that the space and time constraints And to provide a system and method for enhancing a bone mineral density using an LED light beam.

It is also possible to link with various external medical information systems through mobile terminals supporting interoperability with heterogeneous devices, thereby strengthening the bone mineral density using LED rays, which enables a variety of new medical services to be provided to patients and medical staff. System and method.

It is possible to perform only the light irradiation function with the minimum device of the illumination device for strengthening the bone density and perform the control function and the monitoring function of the illumination device for strengthening the bone density through a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, . As a result, space and time constraints caused by the use of a conventional illumination device for enhancing a bone mineral density are solved, thereby providing an effect that the illumination device for enhancing a bone mineral density can be used in more places at various times. In addition, a hardware device necessary for implementing a lighting device for strengthening a bone mineral density is minimized, and the device implementation cost and time can be drastically reduced.

In addition, it is possible to provide a variety of new medical services by linking with various medical information systems through a mobile terminal supporting interworking with heterogeneous devices, so that a new hospital diagnosis service model can be presented .

1 is a diagram illustrating a system for enhancing a bone mineral density using an LED light according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view showing a detailed configuration of a lighting device for strengthening a bone mineral density according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a detailed block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a control interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a view for explaining a method of enhancing a bone density using an LED light according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a view for explaining a method of enhancing a bone density using an LED light according to another embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. Even if the terms are the same, it is to be noted that when the portions to be displayed differ, the reference signs do not coincide.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.

The terms first, second, etc. in this specification may be used to describe various elements, but the elements should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component. And / or < / RTI > includes any combination of a plurality of related listed items or any of a plurality of related listed items.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

All terms used herein, including but not limited to technical, technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and are to be interpreted in an ideal or overly formal sense unless explicitly defined in the present application Do not.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In order to facilitate the understanding of the present invention, the same reference numerals are used for the same constituent elements in the drawings and redundant explanations for the same constituent elements are omitted.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system for enhancing a bone mineral density using an LED light according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the bone mineral density enhancing system of the present invention includes an illumination device 100 for illuminating a patient's skin with LED light for enhancing a bone density and embodied in a portable form, a lighting device for enhancing a bone mineral density 200), monitors the details of the bone mineral density enhanced illumination, and stores the results of monitoring in a database. At this time, the mobile terminal 200 may be implemented as a communication device carried by a user such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, or the like.

Considering that the light near 380 nm in the ultraviolet band is necessary for the activity of vitamin D essential for bone metabolism in the human body, the LED light for strengthening bone density of the present invention has a shorter wavelength (around 380 nm in the UV band) of the blue color of the LED Have them.

That is, in the present invention, the illumination device 100 for enhancing a bone density is implemented as a small portable device, and its control operation is performed through the mobile terminal 200, so that the space occupied by the illumination device for enhancing the bone density and the implementation cost So that it can be minimized. Further, the medical staff can control the operation of the illumination device 100 for strengthening the bone mineral density through the mobile terminal 200 provided therein, thereby maximizing ease of use and accessibility.

In addition, the mobile terminal 200 of the present invention may be connected to a medical system 310 installed in a hospital or an external medical service server 320 connected via a network, and may be connected to the medical system 310 and the medical service server 320 And allows the medical system 310 and the medical service server 320 to operate and control the osteopenic lighting apparatus 100 via the mobile terminal 200. [

For example, if the mobile terminal 200 is connected to the medical system 310 and the medical system 310 is implemented in a variety of devices, such as a display device, a medical staff computer, The display of the mobile terminal 200 may be enlarged or displayed, or the patient's bone mineral density enhanced illumination history may be stored in a database (not shown) of the medical system 310 in a database. The history of bone mineral density enhancement stored in the medical staff computer of the medical system 310 may also be uploaded to the mobile terminal 200 so that the medical staff can refer to it to design or modify the patient treatment plan.

In addition, when the mobile terminal 200 is connected to the medical service server 320, the bone strength-enhanced illumination details of the mobile terminal 200 are uploaded in real time, so that not only the medical staff currently performing the treatment, And to monitor the history of the corresponding bone mineral density enhancement illumination. Of course, the medical service server 320 at this time may also store and store the bone mineral density enhanced illumination details provided by the mobile terminal 200, and may retransmit the data to the mobile terminal 200 in the future.

As a result, the bone mineral density enhancement system of the present invention is capable of performing a bone mineral density enhanced illumination operation with only a minimum of hardware devices, and it is also possible to perform an association operation with an external device such as the medical system 310 and the medical service server 320 So that the utilization field can be utilized more variously.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a detailed configuration of a lighting device for strengthening a bone mineral density according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the illumination device 100 for strengthening a bone mineral density of the present invention includes components necessary for an LED light irradiation operation such as an LED light source 110 and an LED light source driving unit 120, And may include only components necessary for communication of the mobile terminal 200 as well.

The LED light source 110 generates an LED light and irradiates the light toward the patient's skin.

The LED light source driving unit 120 determines the intensity, wavelength, pulse shape, and irradiation time of the LED light under the control of the mobile terminal 200, and drives the LED light source 110 accordingly.

The short range communication unit 130 is connected to the mobile terminal 200 to support communication between the mobile terminal 200 and the illumination device 100 for bone mineral density enhancement. At this time, the short range communication unit 130 may communicate with the mobile terminal 200 in a wired manner using a USB cable, or may communicate with the mobile terminal 200 in a wireless manner using Bluetooth or the like.

In addition, the illumination device 100 for strengthening a bone mineral density of the present invention includes a bone density testing unit 140 for monitoring a patient condition and a bone density treatment situation, providing a monitoring result to the mobile terminal 200, and a monitoring unit 150 Further, the medical staff can more quickly and accurately judge the current situation, and accordingly, can perform the most appropriate skin care operation in the present situation.

The bone density testing unit 140 tests the patient's bone density and then provides a test result to the mobile terminal 200. The bone mineral density testing unit 140 may be implemented through a bone mineral density testing apparatus according to a known technique. For example, an ultrasound method capable of examining not only bone mass but also bone mass by inspecting the calcaneus using a dedicated ultrasonic measuring apparatus And a bone density measuring apparatus capable of measuring a bone density of a patient using the bone density measuring apparatus.

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The monitoring unit 150 grasps the bone mineral density treatment status (for example, intensity of the LED light, wavelength, pulse shape, and irradiation time) of the illumination device 100 for bone mineral density enhancement and provides the same to the mobile terminal 200 .

3 is a detailed block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the mobile terminal 200 of the present invention includes a short range communication unit 210, a terminal control unit 220, a treatment control unit 230, a user interface 240, a storage unit 250, And an operation unit 260 for operating and controlling the operation of the illumination device 100 for strengthening a bone mineral density.

The short-range communication unit 210 allows the connection of the illumination device 100 for strengthening the bone mineral density and supports the communication with the illumination device 100 for strengthening the bone mineral density. Of course, the local area communication unit 210 at this time can also communicate with the mobile terminal 200 in a wired manner using a USB cable or in a wireless manner using Bluetooth or the like .

The terminal control unit 220 is a control unit for supporting the primary function of the mobile terminal 200 such as a telephone call, an SMS, a camera and an Internet surfing. In the present invention, an application for implementing the treatment control unit 230 From the medical service server 320, and further performs the operation of downloading.

4, the treatment control unit 230 may provide various menus and keypads for controlling the operation of the illumination device 100 for enhancing a bone density, or may be provided with information transmitted from the illumination device 100 for enhancing a bone density (a result of a bone density test, And a control interface that displays the status of the system. And obtains device control values (e.g., intensity of LED light, wavelength, pulse shape, and irradiation time) input through a menu or a keypad of the control interface, and transmits the acquired device control values to the illumination device 200 for strengthening bone mineral density .

In the present invention, the medical staff may manually input the device control value through the control interface, but the device control value may be automatically calculated according to the BMD test result or the monitoring result of the BMD enhancer 220. That is, the treatment control unit 230 collects and analyzes the information provided through the bone density testing unit 140 and the monitoring unit 150 of the illumination device 220 for enhancing a bone density, identifies the patient condition and the BMD treatment status , And automatically calculates the device control value based on the calculated device control value, and then transmits the device control value to the BMD enhancing illumination device 200 with the consent of the medical staff.

In addition, the treatment control unit 230 collects and analyzes the information provided through the BMD testing unit 140 and the monitoring unit 150 of the illumination device 220 for enhancing a BMD to identify the patient condition and the BMD treatment status And stores it in the storage unit 250 or share it with the medical system 310 and / or the medical service server 320.

In addition, the treatment control unit 230 may enlarge and display the patient condition and the BMD treatment status through the screen area of the control interface, so that the medical staff can be provided with the patient condition and the BMD treatment situation in a more detailed and comfortable manner.

The user interface 240 includes various devices necessary for a user input / output operation such as a touch screen 241, a button 242, a speaker 243, and the like. In particular, the touch screen 241 displays a control interface of the treatment control unit 230 on the screen so that the medical staff can input a control value for controlling the operation of the illumination device 100 for strengthening the bone density, (Bone density test result, bone density treatment status) transmitted from the mobile terminal 100.

Finally, the remote communication unit 260 accesses the medical service server 320 through the network, downloads the application installation file provided by the medical service server 320, and allows the terminal control unit 220 to install the application installation file, And allows the terminal 200 to upload information to be shared with the medical service server 320.

4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a control interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4, the control interface 400 of the present invention includes a monitoring window 410 for displaying a BMD test result, a control menu 420 for determining an optical wavelength, an intensity, a pulse shape, And a key pad 430. [0050] As shown in FIG.

Particularly, when the operation mode of the mobile terminal is the manual mode, the control menu is initialized when the BMD-enhanced illumination operation is requested, so that the medical staff can directly set the desired optical wavelength, intensity, pulse shape, .

On the other hand, when the operation mode of the mobile terminal is the automatic mode, the light wavelength, intensity, pulse shape, and light irradiation time optimized for the patient state are automatically calculated according to the patient's bone density state, and then displayed through the control menu. If the medical staff agrees with the control value displayed in the control menu, the controller performs the light irradiation operation for enhancing the bone density according to the control value. Otherwise, the controller adjusts the control value as desired by the medical staff, .

In addition, if necessary, a menu for receiving personal information of a patient may be additionally provided so that the current treatment can be given to a patient.

Hereinafter, FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an operation of a system for enhancing a bone mineral density using an LED light according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, the present invention includes a lighting device 100 for strengthening bone mineral density having components necessary for LED light irradiation operation, a mobile terminal 200 for controlling operation of the illumination device 100 for strengthening bone mineral density, (S1).

If the mobile terminal 200 is able to control the operation of the osteopenic-illuminating illumination device 100, the mobile terminal 200 can display the control interface on the screen So that the medical staff inputs various control values for strengthening the bone density of the patient (S2).

When the control value set by the medical staff is obtained through the control interface (S3), the mobile terminal 200 transmits the control value to the illumination device 100 for bone mineral density (S4).

The lighting apparatus 100 for enhancing a bone mineral density may perform a light irradiation operation while controlling the light wavelength, intensity, pulse shape, light irradiation time, etc. of the LED light source 110 according to a control value provided by the mobile terminal 200 (S5).

In addition, the illumination device 100 for strengthening bone mineral density monitors the patient condition and the BMD treatment status and informs the mobile terminal 200 (S6), while the mobile terminal 200 performs a light irradiation operation of S5 The monitoring result is displayed so that the medical staff can visually recognize the monitoring result (S7). When an external device (for example, the medical system 310) such as the medical system 310 or the medical service server 320 is connected, the monitoring result is shared with the external device (S8) So that the monitoring result can be displayed (S9).

When a predetermined time has elapsed and the light irradiation operation of S5 is completed (S10), the patient treatment history is stored in the database and stored in the mobile terminal 200 so that it can be searched and read by the next medical staff as needed (S11 ). Then, the mobile terminal 200 may share the patient treatment history with the external device (S12), so that the contents may be stored in the database as well as the mobile terminal 200 (S13).

In addition, the mobile terminal 200 of the present invention may select only one of itself and external devices to store patient treatment history, thereby minimizing unnecessary memory usage.

In addition, while the above description has described only the operation of the mobile terminal 200 for sharing information with various external medical information systems, such as the medical system 310 and the medical service server 320, for convenience of explanation, It will also be appreciated that the mobile terminal 200 may have various control over the BMD 100 according to the request of the medical system 310 and the medical service server 320.

That is, the mobile terminal 200 of the present invention acts as an intermediary between the illumination device 100 for strengthening a bone mineral density and the external medical information system, transmits various kinds of information related to the bone mineral density enhanced illumination to the external medical information system, It is possible to control the operation of the osteo-densification-enhancing illumination device 100 according to various control commands inputted through the information system.

In the above description, description has been made only in connection with the mobile terminal 200 and the illumination device 100 for strengthening bone mineral density to perform the bone mineral density enhanced illumination.

However, since the mobile terminal 200 also includes means for generating various wavelengths or combined wavelengths such as a touch screen, the mobile terminal 200 can be connected to the mobile terminal 200 ) May itself cause the LED light, i. E. Light needed for bone density enhanced illumination.

At this time, the light generated through the touch screen may be light generated in a backlight unit of a display device implementing a touch screen (for example, an LED device having a backlight), a display device implementing a touch screen (E.g., an OLED device that does not have an OLED device backlight) that is generated at each pixel.

Hereinafter, FIG. 6 is a view for explaining the operation of the BMD strengthening system using the LED light according to another embodiment of the present invention. The mobile terminal 200 at this time performs the coupling with the illumination device 100 for strengthening the BMD And the LED light is generated through the touch screen provided in itself.

First, when a user requests a bone mineral density enhanced illumination operation, the mobile terminal 200 displays a control interface on the screen so that the medical staff inputs various control values for the patient's bone mineral density enhanced illumination (S21).

When the control value set by the medical staff is obtained through the control interface (S22), the mobile terminal 200 controls the light wavelength, intensity, pulse shape, and light irradiation time generated by the touch screen according to the obtained control value , And the light irradiation operation is performed (S23).

At the same time as performing the light irradiation operation in S23, the mobile terminal 200 grasps the patient condition and the bone mineral density treatment status from the light irradiation operation result and the image photographed through the built-in camera of the mobile terminal 200 (S24) The monitoring result is displayed through the interface so that the medical staff can visually recognize the monitoring result (S25). When an external device (e.g., the medical system 310) such as the medical system 310 or the medical service server 320 is connected, the patient status and the BMD treatment status are shared with the external device (S26) , And the monitoring result is also displayed through the external device (S26).

When a predetermined time has elapsed and the light irradiation operation in S23 is finished (S27), the patient treatment history is stored in the database in the mobile terminal 200 so that it can be searched and read by the next medical staff as needed (S28 ). Then, the mobile terminal 200 may share the patient treatment history with the external device (S29), so that the contents may be stored in the database as well as the mobile terminal 200 (S30).

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the same shall be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

In addition, the method of enhancing bone mineral density according to the present invention can be implemented as a computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, a hard disk, a flash drive and the like, and also a carrier wave . The computer-readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

Claims (7)

A lighting device for bone mineral density enhancement which is implemented in a portable form by irradiating the LED light for strengthening the bone density to the patient's skin; And
And a mobile terminal connected to the illumination device for enhancing a bone mineral density to control the operation of the illumination device for strengthening a bone mineral density,
The above-mentioned illumination device for strengthening bone mineral density
An LED light source for emitting LED light;
An LED light source driver for determining intensity, wavelength, pulse shape, and irradiation time of the LED light under the control of the mobile terminal;
A short range communication unit for supporting connection with the mobile terminal;
A bone density testing unit for testing the bone density status of the patient and providing the BMD test result to the mobile terminal; And
And a monitoring unit for monitoring the treatment status of the bone mineral density and providing the monitoring result to the mobile terminal.
delete delete The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal
A short range communication unit for supporting connection with the illumination device for strengthening bone mineral density;
And a control interface for controlling operation of the illumination device for strengthening a bone mineral density or displaying information transmitted from the illumination device for enhancing a bone mineral density and transmitting an optical device control value inputted through the control interface to the illumination device for bone mineral density A treatment control unit; And
And a user interface for displaying the control interface on the screen and acquiring an optical device control value input by a medical staff operating the control interface and providing the optical device control value to the treatment control unit.
5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the treatment control unit
Wherein the device control value is automatically calculated according to a result of the bone density test provided by the illumination device for enhancing a bone mineral density.
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