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AUSTRALIA
Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION STANDARD PATENT Applicant(s): MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA Invention Title: EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND
DEVICE
The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me/us: 2 TITLE OF THE INVENTION EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND
DEVICE
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an emergency communication service providing method and device used for medical services, for example.
2. Description of the Related Art Fig. 6 shows a related system to the present invention which is disclosed in Japanese Patent No.
3,153,496, and the system comprises an artificial satellite 90, an ambulance 97, and an emergency medical center 98. Image data 99 concerning an emergency patient being carried by an ambulance 97, which have been achieved from an endoscope, echo, an electrocardiogram, a camera or the like, are transmitted through the artificial satellite 90 to the emergency medical center 98, and then a proper procedure for a patient can be transmitted from the emergency medical center 98 to the ambulance 97 as shown by the route 100.
However, in the above-described system, each emergency medical center serving as a fixed station side must be equipped with a satellite receiver and thus the system cost is increased. In addition, the range of applications is restricted to some extent.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been implemented to overcome the problem as described above, and has an object to provide emergency communication service method and device that can suppress the system cost and provide services having a broader range of applications.
In order to attain the above object, an emergency communication service providing method according to claim 1 of the invention is characterized in that a H.\Linda\Keep\spec\P50736 541796AV01.doc 17/09/03 3 communication device which is mounted in an ambulance equipped with a terminal device having a GPS receiver and transmits images is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to emergency medical centers and each emergency medical center is connected to plural neighboring hospitals to thereby form a service network, pickup images of a patient are transmitted from the ambulance through the quasi-zenith satellite, the gateway station and the earth network to an emergency medical center, and the emergency medical center makes a necessary instruction to the ambulance on the basis of the images thus transmitted.
An emergency communication service providing method according to claim 2 of this invention is characterized in that a communication device which is mounted in an ambulance having a GPS receiver and transmits images is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to emergency medical centers and each emergency medical center is connected to plural neighboring hospitals to thereby form a service network, pickup images of a patient are transmitted from the ambulance through the quasi-zenith satellite, the gateway station and the earth network to an emergency medical center, and the emergency medical center makes a necessary instruction to the ambulance on the basis of plural information containing the images thus transmitted, the current position of the ambulance and the residences, medical care sections, doctors in charge, acceptable numbers of patients of neighboring hospitals which the emergency medical center can grasp.
In the emergency communication service providing method according to claim 1 or 2, the emergency medical center indicates to the ambulance a hospital to which the patient should be carried.
H,\Linda\Keep\spec\P50736 541796AU01 .doc 17/09/03 4 In the emergency communication service method according to claim 1 or 2, the emergency medical center indicates the position of a hospital to which the patient should be carried, to a navigator of the ambulance through the service network.
In the emergency communication service providing method according to claim 1 or 2, at the emergency medical center, a resident doctor of the emergency medical center instructs an initial care method to an emergency life guard riding in the ambulance.
In the emergency communication service method according to claim 1 or 2, when achieving the images from the ambulance, the emergency medical center transmits a control signal so that the positioh, orientation or zoom of a camera for picking up the images can be controlled.
An emergency communication service providing method according to claim 7 of this invention is characterized in that a communication device mounted in an ambulance equipped with a terminal device having a GPS receiver is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to an emergency medical center and the emergency medical center is connected to plural neighboring hospitals to thereby form a service network, and upon reception of a message from a reporter, the emergency medical center indicates the current place of a patient through the service network to a navigator of the ambulance which is running to carry the patient.
In the emergency communication service providing method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, the emergency medical center records the locations, medical care sections and acceptable numbers of patients of the neighboring hospitals, and updates the recording content through the network at all times.
An emergency communication service providing method according to claim 9 of this invention is characterized in that a communication device mounted in a vehicle equipped H.\Linda\Keep\9pec\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 5 with a terminal device having a GPS receiver is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to a police head office and/or an emergency medical center to form a service network, and when receiving a report of an accident from the vehicle through the service network, the police head office and/or the emergency medical center instructs a patrol car and/or an ambulance to go to an accident place on the basis of position information from the accident vehicle.
An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite according to claim 10 of this invention, comprises: recording means for recording information on the locations, medical care sections and acceptable numbers of patients of neighboring hospitals; search means for searching patient-acceptable hospitals on the basis of the position of a patient reported from a reporter and patient information transmitted from the ambulance; image receiving means for receiving pickup images of the patient being carried by the ambulance; display means for displaying the images of the patient thus received; and voice communication means for allowing conversations between a doctor watching the images displayed on the display means and an emergency life guard riding with the patient in the ambulance, wherein the received images and the conversion content are transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the received images and the conversation content.
An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite according to claim 11 of this H\Linda\Keep\spec\PS736 541796A001.doc 17/09/03 6 invention comprises: recording means for recording information on the locations, medical care sections and acceptable numbers of patients of neighboring hospitals; search means for searching patient-acceptable hospitals on the basis of the position of a patient reported from a reporter and patient information transmitted from the ambulance; image receiving means for receiving images picked up by a portable terminal of the reporter; and display means for displaying the images of the patient thus receive, wherein a conversion content between the reporter and a doctor is transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the pickup images and the conversation content.
An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite according to claim 12 of this invention, comprises: image receiving means for receiving pickup images of the patient being carried by the ambulance; display means for displaying the images of the patient thus received; and voice communication means for allowing conversations between a doctor watching the images displayed on the display means and an emergency life guard riding with the patient in the ambulance, wherein the received images and the conversion content are transmitted to a communication terminal of a patientacceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the received images and the conversation content.
An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite according to claim 13 of this invention, comprises: image receiving means for receiving H\Linda\Keep\sPe\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 7 images picked up by a portable terminal of a reporter; and display means for displaying the images of the patient thus receive, wherein a conversion content between the reporter and a doctor is transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the pickup images and the conversation content.
An emergency communication service providing method according to claim 14 of this invention comprises the steps of: receiving pickup images of a patient from an image pickup device mounted in an ambulance through a quasi-zenith satellite and an earth network; displaying the pickup images thus received; transmitting a voice instruction from a first doctor watching the pickup images to a person riding with the patient in the ambulance; receiving voice from the person riding with the patient through the quasi-zenith satellite and the earth network; outputting voice thus received from the person riding with the patient; and transmitting the pickup images, the .voice instruction from the first doctor and the voice from the person riding with the patient to a communication device equipped to a patient-acceptable hospital in which a second doctor resides.
An emergency medical service providing method according to claim 15 of this invention comprises the steps of: receiving pickup images from a portable terminal of a reporter who reports occurrence of a patient; displaying the pickup images; transmitting a voice instruction from a first doctor watching the pickup images to the portable terminal of the reporter; receiving voice of the reporter from the portable terminal; outputting voice of the reporter thus received; and transmitting the pickup images, the voice instruction from the first doctor and the voice of the reporter to a communication device equipped to a patient-acceptable hospital in which a Hi\Lida\Keep\spec\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 8 second doctor resides, or a communication device mounted in the ambulance.
The other objects and features of the invention will become understood from the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a diagram showing emergency communication service method and device according to a first embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a terminal device of an ambulance according to the first embodiment; Fig. 3 shows a screen displaying the statuses of hospitals aggregated around an emergency medical center according to the first embodiment are aggregated; Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the inside of an ambulance of the first embodiment; Fig. 5 is a diagram showing emergency communication service providing method and device according to a second embodiment of the present invention; and Fig. 6 is a diagram showing a communication service providing method relating to the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described hereunder with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[First Embodiment] Emergency communication service providing method and device according to this invention use a quasi-zenith satellite, gateway stations *and earth networks (IP protocol networks). About ten service links are set up all over the Japanese country to link users and the quasizenith satellites. Furthermore, about three feeder links are set up all over the Japanese country to link the quasi-zenith satellites and the gateway stations.
Fig. 1 is a diagram showing emergency communication service providing method and device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
H.\Linda\Keep\apec\P50736 54.796AU01.doe 17/09/03 9 Each of the gateway stations 4 is equipped with a communication device for making communications with each quasi-zenith satellite 1, and the communication device connects a transmission/reception signal from the gateway station 4 to the earth network 3. The earth network 3 is connected to plural emergence medical centers 51, 52, and a system integrating center 7, and each emergency medical center 51, 52, 5x is connected to each of hospitals 511, 512, 51n, 521, 522, 52m, 5x1,..
which are located in the vicinity of the emergency medical center.
Each emergency medical center 51 (52, 5x have the same construction) is equipped with a communication device 51a, a recording device 51b, a search device 51c, an image display device 51d, a voice input/output device 51e, an image/voice recording device 51f, etc. as shown in Fig. 2. The recording device 51b collectively records information from each hospital, for example, information on the location of each hospital, special medical care sections, the acceptable number of emergency patients, resident doctors in charge, etc. in the form shown in Fig.
3. The information on the acceptable number of emergency patients, the resident doctors in charge, etc. are rewritten to the latest information through the network between the emergency medical centers 51, 52, 5x and hospitals at all times. Accordingly, the doctors at the emergency medical centers 51, 52, 5x can grasp these information.
The search device 51c is equipped with a keyboard input portion, and searches patient-acceptable hospitals from hospitals connected to the emergency medical center on the basis of the position information, etc. of a patient from an ambulance 2. The image display device 51d displays images of the patient transmitted from the ambulance 2 through the quasi-zenith satellite 1, a gateway station 4 and an earth network 3. With the voice input/output device 51e, a doctor of an emergency medical H,\Linda\Keep\apec\P50736 54179AU01.doc 17/09/03 10 center watches the display images of the patient and makes voice conversations on information exchange, instructions, etc. with an emergency life guard or the like of the ambulance 2. The image/voice recording device 51f records images transmitted from the ambulance 2 and conversations between the ambulance 2 or a reporter 10 and the doctor of the emergency medical center. The ambulance described in the specification of this invention covers emergency patient carrying means containing not only an emergency car, but also a heliambulance, etc.
Various kinds of moving pictures and still pictures which show medical conditions of a patient are transmitted from a terminal device mounted in an ambulance 2 to the quasi-zenith satellite 1, and received through the quasizenith satellite 1 at the gateway station 4. The reception signal at the gateway station 4 is fed to the earth network 3. In the emergency medical center 51, 52, a doctor of the emergency medical center 51, 52, watches the images of the patient transmitted through the earth network 3 on the image display device 51d, and gives an instruction of primary care to an emergency lift guard of the ambulance 2 with the voice input/output device 51e through the service network comprising the earth network 3, the gateway station 4 and the quasi-zenith satellite 1.
Furthermore, an instruction as to which hospital the patient should be carried to can be output to the ambulance 2 on the basis of the current position of the ambulance 2 and the display of Fig. 3. The instruction on a destination hospital to which the patient should be carried may be carried out from the emergency medical center to the ambulance 2 by using a portable terminal, or may be given to the navigator of the ambulance through the service network to lead the ambulance to a target hospital. In place of the supply of the instruction from the emergency medical center to the ambulance 2, the instruction as to which hospital the patient should be carried to may be made by connecting an emergency H.\Linda\Keep\apec\P5?736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 11 instruction center (not shown) to the service network in advance separately from the emergency medical center and giving the instruction from the emergency instruction center to the ambulance 2 on the basis of the current position of the ambulance 2 and the display of Fig. 3.
The conversation contents delivered between the doctor of the emergency medical center and the emergency lift guard of the ambulance 2 and the images of the patient are recorded in the image/voice recording device 51f, and transmitted to a patient-accepting hospital through communication means by the time when the ambulance 2 has carried the patient to the hospital concerned. The doctor of the hospital can watch/listen to the conversation contents and the images and grasp the contents in advance.
With respect to the data communications between the ambulance 2 and the emergency medical center 51, 52, there may be considered such a case that a family member of the patient reports to the emergency medical center as a reporter 10. In this case, the reporter transmits the condition of the patient together with the images of the patient to the emergency medical center by using his/her portable terminal. At the emergency medical center, a doctor listens to the condition of the patient from the reporter 10 and watches the images, and gives an instruction on the first aid to the reporter 10. The emergency medical center searches an acceptable hospital on the basis of the current position and symptom of the patient, and also makes an ambulance 2 go to the current position of the patient in a hurry. At this time, the emergency medical center indicates the current position of the patient to the navigator of the ambulance 2 through the service network comprising the search network 3, the gateway station 4 and the quasi-zenith satellite 1 to lead the ambulance 2 to the target place.
The treatment after the patient is carried on the ambulance 2 is the same as described above. However, in this embodiment, the images and the conversations between H.\Linda\Keep\9pec\P50736 541796AUO1.doc 17/09/03 12 the reporter 10 and the doctor of the emergency medical center are recorded in the image/voice recording device 51f, and the images and the conversions from the ambulance 2 are recorded after the patient is carried on the ambulance 2. These images and conversations are transmitted to the target hospital to allow the doctor of the hospital to watch/listen to these information until the ambulance 2 has carried the patient to the hospital.
Fig. 4 shows the ambulance 2 in which a communication antenna 20, a GPS navigator (not shown), a communication device 21, a voice input/output device 22, a display device 23, a controller 24 for an image pickup camera 25, etc. are mounted. The controller for the camera is controlled on the basis of a control signal transmitted from the emergency medical center side together with an ON/OFF switch 26 thereof. The camera is mounted so as to face a bed 28 for a patient 27, and it is designed so that the position thereof in the front-andrear direction and the up-and-down direction, the orientation thereof and the zooming operation thereof can be controlled on the basis of the control signal. Images picked up by the camera 25 are monitored on the display device 23, and also transmitted from the communication device 21 through the service network to the emergency medical center. The doctor of the emergency medical enter and the emergency life guard of the ambulance 2 can make voice conversations through the voice input/output device 22.
The condition of the patient 27 on the bed 28 is transmitted as images from the ambulance 2 through the quasi-zenith satellite 1 to the emergency medical center side. The doctor of the emergency medical center may directly transmit the control signal to the ambulance side in order to control the position, orientation and zoom of the camera 25 as occasion demands, and achieve necessary images of the patient to give more proper instructions to the ambulance side.
H.\Linda\Keep\Gpec\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 13 As described above, according to the emergency communication service providing method and device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, when an emergency patient occurs, the initial care and proper patient carrying can be quickly performed on the basis of a doctor's instruction. Furthermore, a patient-acceptable hospital can grasp the condition of the patient at all times in the course of the carrying to the hospital. Therefore, the emergency communication service providing method and device of this invention has a greater effect on the lift guard of the patient.
[Second Embodiment] Fig. 5 shows a second embodiment according to the present invention, and this embodiment provides a service providing method for emergency contact when a vehicle having a GPS navigator mounted therein suffers a traffic accident.
In Fig. 5, the vehicle 30 is equipped with a transmitter. When the vehicle suffers a traffic accident, the impact is detected, and an accident occurring signal and a current position signal based on GPS are transmitted through the quasi-zenith satellite 1 and the gateway station 4 to the earth network 3 automatically or by driver's voice or the like. The earth network 3 is connected to a police head office 61 and an emergency medical center 51. The police head office 61 is connected to many police offices 611 to 61n, and the emergency medical center 51 is connected to many hospitals 511 to 51n.
When the police head office 61 receives an accident occurring signal from an accident car, it specifies the position of the accident car 30 on the basis of the position information thereof, transmits the position information of the accident car 30 to a patrol car 8 and instructs the patrol car 8 to go to the accident place in a hurry. In addition, when receiving an accident signal, the emergency medical center 51 specifies the position of Hi\Linda\Keep\spec\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 14 the accident car 30 on the basis of the position information thereof, transmits the position information of the accident car 30 to an ambulance 2 and instructs the ambulance 2 to go to the accident place in a hurry.
The ambulance 2 transmits the condition of the accident as images to the emergency medical center 51 from the accident place, and the emergency medical center 51 searches an acceptable hospital on the basis of these images, etc. and communicates with the ambulance 2 in the same manner as the first embodiment. The police head office 61 communicates with each police office and instructs necessary deployment.
According to the second embodiment, when a traffic accident occurs, the police and the emergency medical center can instantaneously catch the accident, and instruct a patrol car and an ambulance to go to the accident place in a hurry. Therefore, the procedure for the accident can be quickly performed.
It has been hitherto general that an emergency life guard of an ambulance makes a call to various hospitals in accordance with the condition of a patient to determine a hospital to which the patient should be carried. However, according to this invention, an emergency medical center searches a patient-acceptable hospital on the basis of the information from an ambulance or reporter, and makes an instruction to the ambulance. Therefore, a troublesome task which has been hitherto needed can be omitted, and the medical care can be quickly performed.
Furthermore, the conventional system needs a satellite receiver every emergency medical center, and not only the system cost is increased, but also the advantage of the broad band service based on the satellite has not been sufficiently effectively utilized. On the other hand, according to this invention, the emergency medical car, the police head office, etc. may be merely connected to existing networks, so that the system cost can be reduced and also the same service can be provided even at h.\Linda\Keep\SPec\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 15 backcountries all over the Japanese country on the basis of the unified management.
While the presently preferred embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it is to be understood that these disclosures are for the purpose of illustration and that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
In the claims which follow and in the preceding description of the invention, except where the context requires otherwise due to express language or necessary implication, the word "comprise" or variations such as "comprises" or "comprising" is used in an inclusive sense, i.e. to specify the presence of the stated features but not to preclude the presence or addition of further features in various embodiments of the invention.
It is to be understood that, if any prior art publication is referred to herein, such reference does not constitute an admission that the publication forms a part of the common general knowledge in the art, in Australia or any other country.
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1. An emergency communication service providing method, characterized in that a communication device which is mounted in an ambulance equipped with a terminal device having a GPS receiver and transmits images is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to emergency medical centers and each emergency medical center is connected to plural neighboring hospitals to thereby form a service network, pickup images of a patient are transmitted from the ambulance through the quasi-zenith satellite, the gateway station and the earth network to an emergency medical center, and the emergency medical center makes a necessary instruction to the ambulance on the basis of the images thus transmitted.
2. An emergency communication service providing method, characterized in that a communication device which is mounted in an ambulance having a GPS receiver and transmits images is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to emergency medical centers and each emergency medical center is connected to plural neighboring hospitals to thereby form a service network, pickup images of a patient are transmitted from the ambulance through the quasi-zenith satellite, the gateway station and the earth network to an emergency medical center, and the emergency medical center makes a necessary instruction to the ambulance on the basis of plural information containing the images thus transmitted, the current position of the ambulance and the residences, medical care sections, doctors in charge, acceptable numbers of patients of neighboring hospitals which the emergency medical center can grasp.
3. The emergency communication service providing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the emergency medical center indicates to the ambulance a hospital to which the patient should be carried. Hi\Linda\Keep\9pec\P5736 541796A001.doc 17/09/03 17
4. The emergency communication service method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the emergency medical center indicates the position of a hospital to which the patient should be carried, to a navigator of the ambulance through the service network.
The emergency communication service providing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at the emergency medical center, a resident doctor of the emergency medical center instructs an initial care method to an emergency life guard riding in the ambulance.
6. The emergency communication service method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein when achieving the images from the ambulance, the emergency medical center transmits a control signal so that the position, orientation or zoom of a camera for picking up the images can be controlled.
7. An emergency communication service providing method, characterized in that a communication device mounted in an ambulance equipped with a terminal device having a GPS receiver is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to an emergency medical center and the emergency medical center is connected to plural neighboring hospitals to thereby form a service network, and upon reception of a message from a reporter, the emergency medical center indicates the current place of a patient through the service network to a navigator of the ambulance which is running to carry the patient.
8. The emergency communication service providing method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the emergency medical center records the locations, medical care sections and acceptable numbers of patients of the neighboring hospitals, and updates the recording content through the network at all times.
9. An emergency communication service providing method, characterized in that a communication device h-\Linda\Keep\Pepc\P5O736 S41796AUOI.doc 17/09/03 18 mounted in a vehicle equipped with a terminal device having a GPS receiver is connected through a quasi-zenith satellite to a gateway station connected to an earth network, the earth network is connected to a police head office and/or an emergency medical center to form a service network, and when receiving a report of an accident from the vehicle through the service network, the police head office and/or the emergency medical center instructs a patrol car and/or an ambulance to go to an accident place on the basis of position information from the accident vehicle.
An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite, comprising: recording means for recording information on the locations, medical care sections and acceptable numbers of patients of neighboring hospitals; search means for searching patient-acceptable hospitals on the basis of the position of a patient reported from a reporter and patient information transmitted from the ambulance; image receiving means for receiving pickup images of the patient being carried by the ambulance; display means for displaying the images of the patient thus received; and voice communication means for allowing conversations between a doctor watching the images displayed on the display means and an emergency life guard riding with the patient in the ambulance, wherein the received images and the conversion content are transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the received images and the conversation content.
11. An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a H \Linda\Keep\apec\PSO736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 19 communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite, comprising: recording means for recording information on the locations, medical care sections and acceptable numbers of patients of neighboring hospitals; search means for searching patient-acceptable hospitals on the basis of the position of a patient reported from a reporter and patient information transmitted from the ambulance; image receiving means for receiving images picked up by a portable terminal of the reporter; and display means for displaying the images of the patient thus receive, wherein a conversion content between the reporter and a doctor is transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the pickup images and the conversation content.
12. An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite, comprising: image receiving means for receiving pickup images of the patient being carried by the ambulance; display means for displaying the images of the patient thus received; and voice communication means for allowing conversations between a doctor watching the images displayed on the display means and an emergency life guard riding with the patient in the ambulance, wherein the received images and the conversion content are transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the received images and the conversation content.
13. An emergency communication service providing device for an emergency medical center connected to a H.\Linda\Keep\spec\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 20 communication device of an ambulance through an earth network, a gateway station connected to the earth network and a quasi-zenith satellite, comprising: image receiving means for receiving images picked up by a portable terminal of a reporter; and display means for displaying the images of the patient thus receive, wherein a conversion content between the reporter and a doctor is transmitted to a communication terminal of a patient-acceptable destination hospital to enable the doctor to watch/listen to the pickup images and the conversation content.
14. An emergency communication service providing method, comprising the steps of: receiving pickup images of a patient from an image pickup device mounted in an ambulance through a quasi- zenith satellite and an earth network; displaying the pickup images thus received; transmitting a voice instruction from a first doctor watching the pickup images to a person riding with the patient in the ambulance; receiving voice from the person riding with the patient through the quasi-zenith satellite and the earth network; outputting voice thus received from the person riding with the patient; and transmitting the pickup images, the voice instruction from the first doctor and the voice from the person riding with the patient to a communication device equipped to a patient-acceptable hospital in which a second doctor resides. An emergency medical service providing method, comprising the steps of: receiving pickup images from a portable terminal of a reporter who reports occurrence of a patient; displaying the pickup images; Hc\Linda\Keep\SPc\P50736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03 21 transmitting a voice instruction from a first doctor watching the pickup images to the portable terminal of the reporter; receiving voice of the reporter from the portable terminal; outputting voice of the reporter thus received; and transmitting the pickup images, the voice instruction from the first doctor and the voice of the reporter to a communication device equipped to a patient- acceptable hospital in which a second doctor resides, or a communication device mounted in the ambulance. Dated this 17th day of September 2003 MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA By their Patent Attorneys GRIFFITH HACK Fellows Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia H,\Lida\Keep\9peC\P5O736 541796AU01.doc 17/09/03
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