KR102443813B1 - detection apparatus of medical examination the pet - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a companion animal testing apparatus, and more particularly, a companion animal in which a general user can easily check the eye, teeth, skin, and ear diseases of the companion animal, abnormal conditions and obesity through urine test, even without going to the hospital. It is about the inspection device.
The present invention for achieving the above object includes a photographing apparatus for photographing a body part of a companion animal, a terminal connected to the photographing apparatus by wire or wireless, and an image or image captured by the photographing apparatus installed in the terminal and analyzed. Consists of an app for examining a disease of a companion animal, wherein the app consists of a companion animal DB in which information of the companion animal is stored, and a reading module that transmits the screened video or image to the server and receives and outputs the analysis result from the server characterized in that
In addition, the server includes a user DB for storing each user's registered companion animal information, a disease DB for storing information on diseases classified by types and body parts of companion animals, and preprocessing after preprocessing the information of the disease DB. It is characterized in that it is provided with an analysis module learned from the information.

Description

Companion animal examination apparatus {detection apparatus of medical examination the pet}

The present invention relates to a companion animal testing apparatus, and more particularly, a companion animal in which a general user can easily check the eye, teeth, skin, and ear diseases of the companion animal, abnormal conditions and obesity through urine test, even without going to the hospital. It is about the inspection device.

While society is highly developed and material abounds, human beings are increasingly self-centered, and their minds are exhausted. In contrast, the animal world is always intact and pure. Human beings try to recover the original human nature that is lost by coming into contact with these animals. This is the act of petting animals, and the target animal is called a pet.

On October 27-28, 1983 in Vienna, Austria, an international symposium on the subject of the human-pet relationship was held to commemorate the 80th birthday of Nobel Prize winner K. Lorenz, ethologist and scientist in Austria. At a meeting hosted by the Academy, it was suggested that pets such as dogs, cats, and birds be called companion animals by re-recognizing the conventional value, and horses for horse riding were also included.

So, respecting the various benefits that animals give to humans, pets were renamed as co-living animals in the sense that they are not human toys.

Recently, in the age of 10 million companion animals, more and more people are paying particular attention to the health care of their pets, and the recognition that companion animals are not simply pets but members of the family is spreading.

In general, when an abnormal symptom occurs in a companion animal that is not normally seen, the companion animal goes to a veterinary hospital in parallel to receive treatment, or obtain information from a person nearby or the Internet or the phone. Problems that have occurred have been resolved.

In addition, if there are medications and items needed for companion animals, they have been purchased at random from hospitals, stores, or the Internet.

Due to this, it was difficult for the owner to respond quickly or accurately depending on the situation of the owner for a quick and accurate response to the abnormal symptoms of the companion animal, and therefore the life and hygiene of the companion animal cannot be systematically and safely guaranteed.

So, in order to solve this problem, the technology described in Korean Patent No. 10-1817241 as shown in FIG. 1 has been proposed, and its technical features include a guardian terminal 10 possessed by a guardian of a companion animal; a health state and exercise amount meter 11 attached to the companion animal's body to measure the companion animal's health state and exercise amount in real time; and an induction observer 12 for inducing play or exercise to the companion animal or observing play or movement, wherein the guardian terminal 10, the health state and momentum meter 11 and the induction observer 12 ) is capable of mutual wireless communication, and the "PetView" app provided from the server is installed in the guardian terminal 10.

However, the technology described in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1817241 has the advantage of easily managing the health state of the reaction force animal by checking the guardian terminal 11 such as a smartphone for the exercise state of the companion animal, but this is a common Only the health status can be managed, but there is a problem that cannot be confirmed when specific diseases of companion animals, that is, diseases such as teeth, skin, and ears occur.

Korean Patent No. 10-1817241

The present invention has been devised to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to photograph the eyes, skin, teeth, and ears of a companion animal with a photographing device that is connected to a terminal possessed by a user by wire or wireless, and to use the app installed in the terminal. The goal is to provide a companion animal testing device that allows you to quickly check the disease without going to the hospital by analyzing the video or image taken with the imaging device to check if there is a disease in the eyes, skin, teeth, and ears of the companion animal.

Another object of the present invention is to diagnose not only diseases of the eyes, skin, teeth, and ears of companion animals, but also additional abnormal conditions through urine, and when photographing eyes, skin, teeth, and ears, only simple visible light Rather, it is to provide a companion animal inspection device that allows to photograph infrared and ultraviolet rays, and in particular, to irradiate wood, etc. during ultraviolet photographing, so that diseases can be more accurately identified.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to capture the companion animal through the camera of the terminal possessed by the user, and analyze the captured image or image through an app installed in the terminal, thereby capturing characteristics and images according to the species of the companion animal. It is to provide a companion animal testing device that can calculate the degree of obesity of companion animals and manage the obesity level of reaction force animals.

The present invention for solving these problems;

It is characterized in that it consists of a photographing device for photographing a body part of a companion animal, a terminal connected to the photographing device by wire or wireless, and an app installed on the terminal.

Here, the app consists of a companion animal DB in which information of companion animals is stored, a UI module forming a user interface, and a reading module that transmits the screened video or image to the server and receives and outputs the analysis result from the server characterized.

In addition, the screen output when the registered companion animal is selected in the terminal is characterized in that the total number of times tested so far, the final test date, and the test results are output for each test item.

In this case, the test result is classified into normal, suspicious, and warning, and the final number of times diagnosed by each classification is output.

On the other hand, the photographing device is characterized in that it consists of a camera for photographing a body part of the companion animal, a communication module for transmitting the photographed image or image to the terminal, and an operation button for controlling the operation.

Here, the camera captures all visible light, infrared light, and ultraviolet light, and the server analyzes all images or images captured with visible light, infrared light, and ultraviolet light to determine the disease.

At this time, the photographing device is further provided with a lighting lamp for irradiating light to the body part of the companion animal, wherein the lighting lamp is characterized in that it is composed of a visible ray part irradiating visible ray and a wood lamp irradiating a special ultraviolet ray.

In addition, the server includes a user DB for storing each user's registered companion animal information, a disease DB for storing information on diseases classified by types and body parts of companion animals, and preprocessing after preprocessing the information of the disease DB. It is characterized in that it is provided with an analysis module learned from the information.

Here, the server is further provided with a bulletin board, and when the analysis module cannot determine it, it is characterized in that the captured image and image are registered on the bulletin board to receive an expert's opinion.

On the other hand, the app further examines the urine of the companion animal, but using the photographing device, a strip in which an inspection unit discolored by urine is formed, and a colorimetric table printed with a colorimetric table that is a reference color of the changing color of the inspection unit It is characterized in that the reading module transmits an image taken simultaneously with the kit to the server, and receives and outputs the analysis result from the server.

Here, the colorimetric kit includes a bottom sheet forming a lower portion, a top sheet provided on the bottom sheet, a strip receiving groove formed to insert the strip into the center of the top sheet, and the strip receiving groove and a colorimetric output unit on both sides of which the color of the colorimetric table is printed.

At this time, it is characterized in that the strip fixing piece for fixing the strip is formed at both ends of the strip receiving groove.

According to the present invention having the above configuration, the eyes, skin, teeth, and ears of the companion animal are photographed with a photographing device that is connected to the terminal possessed by the user by wire or wireless, and an image or image captured by the photographing device is captured through an app installed in the terminal. By analyzing it, it is possible to check whether there is a disease in the eyes, skin, teeth, and ears of a companion animal, so it is effective to quickly check the disease without going to the hospital.

Another object of the present invention is to diagnose not only diseases of the eyes, skin, teeth, and ears of companion animals, but also additional abnormal conditions through urine, and when photographing eyes, skin, teeth, and ears, only simple visible light Rather, infrared and ultraviolet are photographed, and in particular, it has the effect of irradiating wood, etc. during ultraviolet photographing, so that the disease can be identified more accurately.

In addition, the present invention captures a companion animal through the camera of the terminal possessed by the user, and analyzes the captured image or image through an app installed in the terminal, so that the characteristics and images according to the species of the companion animal can be obtained. It is possible to calculate the degree of obesity, so it has the effect of managing the degree of obesity of the reaction force animal.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a conventional health management system for companion animals.
2 is a conceptual diagram of a companion animal testing apparatus according to the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of a companion animal testing apparatus according to the present invention.
Figure 4 (a) is a perspective view of a state in which the lid of the photographing apparatus of the companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention is separated, and (b) is a state in which the lid of the photographing apparatus of the companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention is separated. It is a front view.
5 is a state diagram illustrating an example of an output screen of the companion animal testing apparatus according to the present invention.
6 is an exploded perspective view of the colorimetric kit of the companion animal testing apparatus according to the present invention.
7 is an exploded perspective view of a colorimetric kit of a companion animal testing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the end of the strip is fixed in the state in which the strip is inserted in the embodiment of FIG. 7 .
9 is a state diagram showing an embodiment of an output screen of the companion animal testing apparatus according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numerals are used for the same components in the drawings, and repeated descriptions of the same components are omitted. And, it should be understood that the present invention may be implemented in many different forms and is not limited to the described embodiments.

2 is a conceptual diagram of a companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 (a) is a photographing apparatus of the companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention. It is a perspective view of a state in which the lid is separated, (b) is a front view of a state in which the lid of the photographing apparatus of the companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention is removed, and FIG. 5 is an output screen of the companion animal inspection apparatus according to the present invention. It is a state diagram showing an embodiment, FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of a colorimetric kit for a companion animal testing device according to the present invention, and FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of a colorimetric kit for a companion animal testing device according to another embodiment of the present invention. , FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the end of the strip is fixed in a state in which the strip is inserted in the embodiment of FIG. 7, and FIG. 9 is a state diagram showing an embodiment of an output screen of the companion animal testing apparatus according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a companion animal inspection apparatus, and as shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, the configuration includes a photographing apparatus 100 for photographing a body part of a companion animal, and a terminal connected to the photographing apparatus 100 by wire or wireless. 200) and an app 300 installed in the terminal 200.

Here, the terminal 200 may be separately manufactured and used, or the app 300 may be installed and used on a smartphone or a smart pad. By analyzing the captured video or images, it is possible to easily and quickly check whether a companion animal is ill without going to the hospital.

In addition, the app 300 installed in the terminal 200 includes a companion animal DB 310 in which information of companion animals is stored, a reading module 330 for checking diseases of companion animals, and a UI module forming a user interface ( 320).

Here, the reading module 330 transmits the image or image captured through the photographing device 100 to the server 400 at a remote location connected by communication, and the server 400 analyzes the received image or image. The disease is checked and transmitted to the terminal 200 .

At this time, the terminal 200 is provided with a communication module 210 and is connected to the server 400 by communication, and the reading module 330 is connected to the server ( ) through the display 220 provided in the terminal 200 . 400) to output the disease analysis information received from the user so that the user can check it.

Thus, the user can check the disease state of the companion animal through the display 220 of the terminal 200 , and the reading module 330 determines the appropriate method to be performed in the current situation according to the diagnosis result received from the server 400 . It is possible to prevent the situation of the companion animal from worsening by guiding the countermeasures.

On the other hand, the companion animal DB 310 is provided in the app 300 installed in the terminal 200 to register a plurality of companion animals. When any one of the registered companion animals is selected, the display of the terminal 200 is provided. Through 220 , inspection information of the corresponding companion animal is output.

Here, as shown in FIG. 5 , on the screen output through the display 220 , the total number of inspections up to now, the final inspection date, and the inspection result are output for each inspection item.

At this time, the test result output to the screen is classified as normal in which no abnormality is found, a warning that a specific disease is confirmed, and suspicion that does not seem to be in a normal state but cannot specify the exact disease, and is determined as one of three classifications during the examination In the test result, the number of times diagnosed for each classification is output.

Therefore, the user can check the diagnosis status of each companion animal even without checking the detailed items, and when each detailed item (test item) is touched, the results of the previous examination are output in chronological order to determine which disease is diagnosed. You can check if it has been done.

Of course, information such as the user's response to the diagnosis derived from each test result and the result of the response can be stored in the companion animal DB 310, and the stored information is transmitted through the communication of the terminal 200. It is transmitted to the server 400 through the module 210 and stored in the user DB 410 of the server 400 to be utilized as big data.

In addition, the server 400 includes a user DB 410 storing information on each user's registered companion animal, a disease DB 420 storing information on diseases classified by types of companion animals and body parts, and a disease DB ( After pre-processing the information of 420), an analysis module 430 that learns from the pre-processed information is provided.

Here, the disease information stored in the disease DB 420 is classified for each part of each animal, and various photos from the beginning to the end of the disease that may occur for each part and information on the characteristics of each disease are stored.

At this time, the analysis module 430 analyzes the captured image or image to diagnose whether the disease is present, and transmits the diagnosed information to the terminal 200 so that the user can check it.

On the other hand, although considerable data is collected in the disease DB 420 , the analysis module 430 may not be able to determine it because information on all situations is not stored.

Here, the server 400 is further provided with a bulletin board 440, and as described above, when the analysis module 430 determines that it is suspicious, the corresponding video or image is uploaded to the bulletin board 440, A brief comment on the

At this time, not only simple users are registered in the server 400, but also experts on animals are registered, so that a more accurate diagnosis can be made by receiving an additional opinion from an expert on the doubts uploaded to the bulletin board 440, and general users However, if you have experience with the situation, you can write a comment about it, so you can analyze the disease from a more diverse perspective.

So, when it is finally determined that the suspicious matter uploaded to the bulletin board 440 is disease or normal, such information is stored in the disease DB 420 so that when diagnosing a disease later, it is possible to diagnose the disease more accurately. be able to

In addition, the analysis module 430 uses the artificial intelligence of a machine learning technique to learn from the above-described data, so that it is possible to analyze the disease more accurately.

Here, as shown in FIG. 9, the fields that can be determined by the analysis module 430 include not only diseases through skin, eyes, teeth, ears, and urine, but also the degree of obesity, examples of each disease. For example, in the case of the skin, as will be described later, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic skin diseases can be identified; in the case of the eye, diseases such as cataract, conjunctivitis, and corneal ulcer can be confirmed; and in the case of teeth, diseases such as gingivitis and periodontitis can be confirmed. In the case of the ear, various diseases including otitis externa can be identified, and the case of urine will be described later.

At this time, in order to measure the degree of obesity, the companion animal is photographed through a camera (not shown) provided in the terminal 200 without using the photographing device 100 , and the photographed image is the companion animal DB 310 . It is sent to the server together with the companion animal information stored in the server, and the analysis module 430 of the server 400 calculates the degree of obesity by comparing the characteristics according to the species of the companion animal and the proportion of the companion animal analyzed through the image. In this way, the derived information is transmitted to the terminal 200 .

In addition, the photographing device 100 includes a camera 120 for photographing a body part of a companion animal, a communication module 110 for transmitting the photographed image or image to the terminal 200, and an operation button 130 for controlling the operation. ), the camera 120 is installed inside the end of the protruding bar 125 so as to photograph the companion animal's ear.

Here, the camera 120 not only shoots visible light, but is provided with a plurality of sensors to capture both visible light and infrared light. The analysis module 430 of 400 checks this and analyzes both visible and infrared images or images to determine the disease.

At this time, the analysis module 430 checks the color and shape of the affected part in the image or image taken with visible light, and checks the temperature and heat spread of each part in the image or image taken with infrared light to determine the disease to diagnose

On the other hand, the photographing device 100 is further provided with a lighting lamp 150 for irradiating light to the body part of the companion animal, and the lighting lamp 150 includes a visible ray part irradiating visible ray and a wood lamp irradiating a special ultraviolet ray. is done

Here, the wood lamp constituting the lighting lamp 150 is equipped with a special filter to irradiate ultraviolet rays with a wavelength of up to 365 nm. If there is, it will have a specific color.

At this time, the photographing device 100 is further provided with a lighting button 140, and if necessary, by operating the lighting button 140 to irradiate general visible light, irradiate a wood light, or control not to irradiate the light. .

So, in the case of shooting by irradiating wood, etc., a code of the photographed image or the image photographed with wood is given to the tag of the image, so that when the analysis module 430 of the server 400 analyzes it, it is considered to diagnose This makes it possible to diagnose the disease more accurately.

In addition, a lid 180 is provided on the front of the photographing apparatus 100 to prevent damage to the protruding bar 125 , and a first stepped portion 160 is formed at the front end of the photographing apparatus 100 , and the second The one-step portion 160 has an end of the lid 180 coupled to it by force fit and is easily detachable.

At this time, a second stepped portion 170 is formed at the rear end of the photographing device 100 , and when photographing, by connecting the lid 180 with the second stepped portion 170 , loss can be prevented.

On the other hand, in the present invention, a function for checking the health condition by examining the urine of a companion animal is further provided. The strip 530 and the colorimetric kit 500 printed with the colorimetric table, which is the reference color of the changing color of the inspection unit 532 , are photographed using the imaging device 100 , and then through the reading module 330 . Analyze the condition of your urine.

Here, the test unit 532 formed on the strip 530 contains a reagent, and when it comes into contact with urine, the color changes due to a reaction peculiar to the reagent, so that the health status of the examiner can be confirmed by the changed color.

At this time, only one inspection unit 532 may be formed on the strip 530 or a plurality of inspection units 532 may be formed, so that only one health condition may be inspected or various health states may be inspected depending on the situation. .

In addition, the colorimetric kit 500 includes a bottom sheet 510 forming a bottom portion and a top sheet 520 provided on the bottom sheet 510, and the center of the top sheet 520 has a length. A strip receiving groove 522 is formed along the direction so that the strip 530 is inserted.

Here, colorimetric output units are formed on both sides of the strip receiving groove 522 on the front surface of the topsheet 520 to print each color constituting the colorimetric table.

So, the colorimetric kit 500 and the strip are inserted into the terminal 300 by soaking urine in the strip receiving groove 522 of the colorimetric kit 500 and inserting the strip 530 with the color of the test unit 532 changed. (530) is taken and analyzed at the same time.

On the other hand, the colorimetric kit 500 is made of a rectangular sheet, the size of which is 2.5 to 4 cm in width and 8.5 to 10 cm in length. You can easily take pictures using your smartphone's camera.

Here, when the colorimetric kit 500 is made larger in size, the colors printed on the surface of the colorimetric kit 500 and the inspection unit 532 formed on the surface of the strip 530 by light acting from the outside ), there is a problem in that it is difficult to detect an accurate color because the degree of color distortion is large.

On the other hand, when the colorimetric kit 500 is made smaller in size, the size of the colorimetric printed on the surface of the colorimetric kit 500 is too small to extract an accurate color from the image photographed by the photographing device 100 . has a difficult problem.

Therefore, by forming the colorimetric kit 500 to have a size of 2.5 to 4 cm in width and 8.5 to 10 cm in height, colors can be accurately derived while minimizing the influence of light, so that the health status of the examiner can be measured more accurately. .

In another embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 , strip fixing pieces 524 for fixing the strip 530 are formed at both ends of the strip receiving groove 522 in the longitudinal direction, respectively.

Here, the strip fixing piece 524 can be easily formed by cutting both ends of the strip receiving groove 522 from the top sheet 520 forming the colorimetric kit 500 .

At this time, the strip fixing piece 524 may be bent upward as shown in FIG. 8 so that both sides of the strip 530 may not be shaken, and although not shown in the drawing, cover the upper portion of both sides of the strip 530 . It can be fixed more firmly by doing so.

Therefore, when the strip 530 is inserted into the strip receiving groove 522, the strip fixing piece 524 fixes both ends of the strip 530, respectively, thereby preventing the position of the strip 530 from being changed. Therefore, it is possible to shoot more stably when shooting with the imaging device 100 .

Meanwhile, the server 400 is further provided with a colorimetric DB 450 in which colorimetric information is stored. Instead of only one colorimetric information, a plurality of colorimetric information is included, so that a user can use various colorimetric kits. (500) can be used to proceed with the inspection.

Here, an identification code 528 is further printed on one side of the front side of the surface sheet 520 constituting the colorimetric kit 500, and the identification code 528 includes a unique number of each colorimetric table, and the colorimetric In the table DB 450, a unique number of each colorimetric table is stored together.

At this time, the analysis module 430 detects the colorimetric table applied to the colorimetric kit 500 through the recognition code 528 of the photographed image, and refers to the colorimetric table information in the colorimetric table DB 450. .

Therefore, even if the user does not separately set information on the colorimetric kit 500, only by photographing the colorimetric kit 500 with the imaging device 100, the corresponding colorimetric table is detected and urine analysis is carried out. A variety of kits will be available.

Although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and the scope of the present invention extends to those substantially equivalent to the embodiments of the present invention. Various modifications are possible by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains without departing from the scope of the invention.

The present invention relates to a companion animal testing apparatus, and more particularly, a companion animal in which a general user can easily check the eye, teeth, skin, and ear diseases of the companion animal, abnormal conditions and obesity through urine test, even without going to the hospital. It is about the inspection device.

100: photographing device 110, 210: communication module
120: camera 130: operation button
140: light button 150: light
200: terminal 300: app
310: companion animal DB 320: UI module
330: read module 400: server
410: user DB 420: disease DB
430: analysis module 440: bulletin board
450: colorimetric DB 500: colorimetric kit
510: bottom sheet 520: surface sheet
530: strip

Claims (12)

Consists of a photographing device for photographing a body part of a companion animal, a terminal connected to the photographing device by wire or wireless, and an app installed on the terminal,
The app consists of a companion animal DB in which information of companion animals is stored, a UI module forming a user interface, and a reading module that transmits the screened video or image to the server and receives and outputs the analysis result from the server,
The server includes a user DB in which information on each user's registered companion animal is stored, a disease DB in which information on diseases classified by types and body parts of companion animals is stored, and information preprocessed after preprocessing the information in the disease DB. An analysis module trained with
The server is further provided with a bulletin board, and when the analysis module fails to determine, the recorded video and image are registered on the bulletin board so that an expert's opinion can be received.
delete According to claim 1,
Companion animal testing apparatus, characterized in that the screen output when the registered companion animal is selected by the terminal outputs the total number of times tested so far, the final test date, and test results for each test item.
4. The method of claim 3,
The test result is classified into normal, suspicious, and warning, and the final number of times diagnosed by each classification is output.
According to claim 1,
The photographing device includes a camera for photographing a body part of a companion animal,
A communication module for transmitting the captured video or image to the terminal;
Companion animal testing apparatus, characterized in that it consists of an operation button for controlling the operation.
6. The method of claim 5,
The camera captures both visible light and infrared light,
The server is a companion animal testing apparatus, characterized in that the analysis of all images or images taken with visible light and infrared light to determine the disease.
7. The method of claim 6,
The photographing device is further provided with a lighting lamp for irradiating light to the body part of the companion animal,
The lighting lamp is a companion animal inspection device, characterized in that it consists of a visible light portion for irradiating visible light and a wood light for irradiating a special ultraviolet light.
delete delete According to claim 1,
The app further tests the pet's urine,
The reading module transmits an image obtained by simultaneously photographing a strip in which an inspection unit discolored by urine is formed using the photographing device and a colorimetric kit printed with a colorimetric table, which is a reference color of the changing color of the inspection unit, to the server. and receiving and outputting the analysis result from the server.
11. The method of claim 10,
The colorimetric kit includes a bottom sheet forming a lower portion;
a top sheet provided on the bottom sheet;
a strip receiving groove formed to insert the strip into the center of the top sheet;
and a colorimetric output unit for printing the color of the colorimetric table on both sides of the strip receiving groove.
12. The method of claim 11,
A companion animal testing device, characterized in that strip fixing pieces for fixing the strip are formed at both ends of the strip receiving groove.

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