JP2010140119A - User health maintenance activation support and watching system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user health maintenance activation support and watching system for enabling a user to achieve a preventive care by independently performing the maintenance of a motion function or the activation of mental and physical actions, and to make a quick report when an accident in residence occurs. <P>SOLUTION: The user health maintenance activation support and watching system includes: a user information input part 2 for acquiring the physical information of a user; a user recognition part 10 for analyzing the intention or condition of the user from the obtained physical information; an authorization part 11 for discriminating the intention or condition of the user; a comprehensive control part 15 having a server side operation part 13 for determining an operation pattern corresponding to the grasped intention or condition of the user; and a robot (expression part) 5 for expressing an operation based on the determined operation pattern to the user through movement. The user information input part 2 includes a camera 6 for acquiring the image of the user, and the user recognition part 10 includes a gesture recognition part 16 for calculating the direction of the face and the pointing direction of the user from the image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a user health maintenance activation support and watching system.

  In recent years, various measures have been proposed along with an increase in the number of care recipients, particularly elderly people. Under such circumstances, it is made from the viewpoints of insurance, medical care, welfare, etc., based on self-help efforts, in order not to cause a need for nursing care, and to prevent and reduce the progress of the need for nursing care. The concept of preventive care, which is a multifaceted approach, is spreading.

  As the flow of care prevention, (1) health promotion / lifestyle improvement, (2) lifestyle-related disease prevention / health checkup (examination), (3) early detection / early medical care of disease, (4) early rehabilitation / self-help independence, There is a view that (5) prevention of disuse symptoms and bedridden prevention are performed in this order. According to this, in order to prevent long-term care, it is necessary to maintain correct life rhythm, awareness of one's own health, and rehabilitation to maintain motor function and its sustainability. And when an accident such as a fall occurs, it is necessary to watch over so that a quick response can be made.

In order to realize such care prevention and watching without human intervention as much as possible, various methods have been proposed. For example, as shown in Patent Document 1, it has been proposed to perform user home health management via a robot capable of voice recognition and voice synthesis.
JP 2004-337556 A

  However, with the above conventional technology, it is only possible to obtain and grasp the user's health condition and provide information to hospitals and the like, so unless the user himself has a strong will, it does not lead to improvement of the health condition or bedridden prevention. .

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and allows a user to voluntarily maintain motor functions and activate mental and physical activities to prevent care, and in the event of an accident in a residence, The purpose is to provide a user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system capable of making various reports.

The present invention employs the following means in order to solve the above problems.
The user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to the present invention includes a user information input unit that acquires user's physical information, a user recognition unit that analyzes the user's intention or state from the acquired physical information, the intention or state And a general control unit having an operation processing unit for determining an operation pattern to be associated with the user's intention or state, and an action based on the determined operation pattern for the user. A recognition unit that expresses the user's face, and the user information input unit includes a camera that acquires a user's image, and the user recognition unit calculates a user's face orientation and pointing direction from the image. It has the part.

  Also, the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to the present invention is the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system, wherein the user information input unit detects a biological information measurement unit that detects a user's biological information. The user recognition unit includes a health evaluation unit that evaluates a user's health state based on the biological information, and the operation processing unit performs an operation process for proposing an activity according to the user's health state to the user. It is characterized by performing.

  Further, the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to the present invention is the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system, wherein the user information input unit detects information specifying an individual. The user recognition unit includes a personal identification unit that performs personal authentication of the user based on the personal information and identifies a personal attribute of the user stored in advance, and the operation processing unit In response, an operation process for proposing an activity in accordance with the personal attribute to the user is performed.

  Further, the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to the present invention is the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system, wherein the user information input unit includes presence / absence of movement in the user's residence and in the residence. A sensor unit for detecting an on / off state of the control device is provided.

  Further, the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to the present invention is the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system, wherein the general control unit grasps the intention or It is characterized by comprising a determination unit for determining whether the state is normal or abnormal, and a notification unit for notifying a third party authorized in advance when it is determined to be abnormal.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, while a user can voluntarily maintain a motor function and perform mental and physical activity activity and can prevent care, a quick report can be made in the case of an accident in a residence. .

A first embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 1, a user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system 1 according to the present embodiment includes a user information input unit 2 that acquires the physical information of the user U, and a room server installed in the residence of the user U. 3 and a robot (expression unit) 5 serving as an interface with the user U.

  The user information input unit 2 is embedded in a camera 6 that acquires an image including the face of the user U, a biological information measurement unit 7 that detects information such as blood pressure, body temperature, and pulse wave, and an IC tag that identifies an individual. A personal data acquisition unit 8 for detecting the received information.

  The room server 3 stores a ROM (Read Only Memory) in which programs and data for performing necessary processing are stored, a RAM (Random Access Memory) for temporarily storing necessary data, a ROM, and the like. A CPU (Central Processing Unit) that performs processing according to the programmed program is incorporated.

  The room server 3 includes, as functional means (program modules), a user recognition unit 10, a certification unit 11, a schedule unit 12 that performs time management, a server-side operation processing unit (operation processing unit) 13, and an application storage unit 14 is provided.

  The user recognition unit 10 includes a gesture recognition unit 16, a health evaluation unit 17, and a personal identification unit 18, and analyzes the intention or state of the user U from the acquired body information of the user U.

  The authorization unit 11 acquires the presence / absence of a user, whether or not a gesture is performed, and the amount of movement of the recognized user based on information acquired from a gesture recognition unit 16 described later or a microphone 21 described later of the robot 5. In the case of a gesture, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-201447, it is determined whether the user U understands / rejects / waits / unknowns based on the face orientation and pointing direction of the user U.

  The schedule part 12 memorize | stores the time of each event which the user U performed in the residence, and manages time.

  The server-side operation processing unit 13 transmits information to be presented to the user U through the operation of the robot 5 based on the intention and movement of the user U, the health condition, personal attribute information, and the life time of the user U. The operation pattern to be determined is determined.

  The application storage unit 14 stores a predetermined operation pattern determined in advance as an operation pattern determined by the server-side operation processing unit 13, such as an exercise program.

  For example, as described in Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-201447, the gesture recognition unit 16 calculates the orientation and pointing direction of the user U's face by analyzing the images of the user's U face and hand captured by the camera 6. .

  The health evaluation unit 17 performs pathological diagnosis or stress evaluation as described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-073520 or Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-234725, from the biological information of the user U detected by the biological information measurement unit 7. .

  The personal identification unit 18 performs personal authentication of the user U by a known technique based on the personal information obtained from the personal data acquisition unit 8 and identifies personal attributes of the user stored in advance.

  The robot 5 includes a robot-side motion processing unit 20 to which the motion processing determined by the server-side motion processing unit 13 is transmitted, a microphone 21 to which the voice of the user U is input, and a voice output for outputting the voice of the robot 5. A unit 22 and an operation unit 23 that performs a gesture operation through an intuitive movement with respect to the user U. Note that the camera 6 and the gesture recognition unit 16 may also be arranged on the robot 5 side. The robot 5 is connected to the room server 3 via the home LAN 24, and performs a predetermined operation on the user U by a known technique based on an operation instruction from the room server 3.

  Next, the operation of the user health maintenance activation support and the monitoring system 1 according to the present embodiment will be described for each scene.

  For example, when performing a health evaluation, the above operation pattern based on the processing of the server side operation processing unit 13 is performed on the robot side in order to prompt the user U to acquire biometric information such as heartbeat and pulsation at a predetermined time. This is transmitted to the operation processing unit 20. The robot 5 side prompts the user U to measure biological information by a predetermined gesture by the operation unit 23 or a voice by the voice output unit 22.

  When the user U inputs his / her biological information from the biological information measuring unit 7, based on this, the health evaluation unit 17 performs a predetermined health evaluation, and analyzes whether the user U is in a healthy state or a stressed state. In order to transmit the obtained health evaluation result to the user U, an operation pattern based on the processing of the server side operation processing unit 13 is transmitted to the robot side operation processing unit 20 and is reported to the user U by the operation of the robot 5 or the like. .

  Next, a case where health maintenance and activation are supported based on the health evaluation result will be described. In this case, as a preliminary preparation, in order to ensure the safety of the user U and to give an accurate instruction by gesture, the person who installs the system stores the name and position of the in-house control device in a device information storage unit (not shown). Record in advance. At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, the installer utters and illuminates the robot 5 with pointing and voice, and points to the area where the illumination is arranged. The voice is input to the microphone 21 of the robot 5. Further, the pointing is imaged by the camera 6, and the arrangement direction is confirmed by the certification unit 11 via the gesture recognition unit 10. If it is not registered in the device information storage unit, an operation pattern for confirmation of registration is determined by the server side operation processing unit 13, and confirmation work is performed via the robot side operation processing unit 20 and the operation unit 23. .

When the user U subsequently changes the arrangement, as shown in FIG. 3, the user U points to and speaks to the robot 5, so that the confirmation work similar to the above is performed, and the lighting is a new area. As a result, the record in the device information storage unit is updated.

  If the long-term activity cannot be confirmed even though the user U is healthy based on the evaluation result of the health level and the activity state of the user U, the user U is provided with some activity, for example, a predetermined exercise program and exercise. To encourage At this time, as shown in FIG. 4, an operation pattern for urging exercise is determined from the application storage unit 14 by the server-side operation processing unit 13, and is transmitted to the robot-side operation processing unit 20. Realize the operation.

  The health evaluation described above is performed as necessary, and if there is no problem, an operation pattern according to the exercise program stored in the application storage unit 14 is determined, and the robot 5 performs a predetermined operation.

When the user U exercises based on this movement, the user U is imaged by the camera 6, and the movement of the user U is determined by the gesture recognition unit 16 and the recognition unit 11. When a predetermined movement is made, an operation pattern that provides a sense of achievement to the user U is transmitted from the server-side operation processing unit 13 to the robot-side operation processing unit 20 and executed by the operation unit 23. Here, the program to be provided is not limited to exercise, but may be encouraged to take a walk according to the weather.

  After the exercise, the above-described health evaluation is performed as necessary, and the result is notified to the user U.

  On the other hand, after personal information of the user U is acquired by the personal data acquisition unit 8 and personal attributes are specified by the personal specification unit 18, a TV program, a stadium, a concert hall, and the like that meet the user U's hobbies and preferences are displayed on the web. The user U may be notified of this. In this case, the server-side operation processing unit 13 determines an operation pattern for transmitting a program to be proposed by combining time information from the schedule unit 12 and information from the WEB. This is transmitted to the robot 5 and proposed to the user U via the robot 5.

  According to this user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system 1, based on the user's physical information acquired from the user information input unit 2, the user recognition unit 10 analyzes and recognizes the intention or state of the user U recognized by the certification unit 11. On the other hand, the robot 5 can be caused to perform a predetermined operation via the server-side operation processing unit 13 and the robot-side operation processing unit 20. For this reason, the user U can voluntarily maintain the motor function and activate the mental and physical activities in accordance with the operation of the robot 5 to prevent care. At this time, by determining a suitable operation pattern, it is possible to relieve the feeling that the robot 5 is forcibly performed by the robot 5 performing an operation that supports the activity of the user U, for example.

  At this time, the intention of the user U can be suitably determined from the gesture of the user U as the physical information of the user U. Moreover, by acquiring and analyzing biological information as physical information, it is possible to grasp the individual's health condition and feed it back to the user U. Furthermore, personal attributes can be specified by personal authentication, and a service tailored to the user can be provided.

Next, a second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the component similar to 1st Embodiment mentioned above, and description is abbreviate | omitted.
The difference between the second embodiment and the first embodiment is that the user information input unit 31 of the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system 30 according to the present embodiment is the presence or absence of movement in the residence of the user U and A determination unit that includes a sensor unit 32 that detects an on / off state of the control device in the house, and that determines whether the general control unit 33 grasps the user U's intention or state with respect to a previously input reference is normal or abnormal. 34, and a notification unit 35 for notifying a third party authorized in advance when it is determined to be abnormal.

  The sensor unit 32 includes, for example, a bathroom door open / close sensor 36, an illumination device on / off sensor 37, an electric water heater on / off sensor 38, a television on / off sensor 39, and an entrance door open / close sensor 40. And.

The operation of this user health maintenance activation support and watch system 30 will be described.
For example, the determination unit 34 determines that the user U is taking a bath from the information from the open / close sensor 36 of the bathroom door and the action information of the user U by the camera 6.

  Here, in conjunction with the schedule unit 12, if there is no change in the door opening / closing sensor 36 after 30 minutes, the server side operation processing unit 13 determines an operation pattern for calling the user U, and the robot 5 A call is made to the user U via Here, when there is no reaction from the user U, the determination unit 34 determines that the user U is in an abnormal situation. Then, the notification unit 35 notifies the fact by e-mail or the like.

  For example, the case where the determination unit 34 determines that the user is in the home state based on the opening / closing information of the door opening / closing sensor 40 and the movement amount of the user U by the authentication unit 11 will be described. In this case, if the movement of the user U stops suddenly, does not move during the meal time, does not turn on even at night, or does not finish exercising, the movement stops. A call is made to the user U. If you do not respond to the call, report that there is a possibility of an abnormal condition (sudden illness, fall, fall).

  This user health maintenance activation support and watching system 30 can also provide the same effects as those of the first embodiment. In particular, the state of the user U in the residence can be grasped more accurately together with the sensor unit 32. Further, the authorization unit 11 and the determination unit 34 can determine whether or not the state of the user U is normal, and the user U can be preferably watched. Furthermore, since the notification unit 35 contacts not a user U's personal information but a predetermined third party as to whether it is normal or abnormal, it is possible to watch over the user U while paying attention to protecting the privacy of the user U. it can.

The technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
For example, in the above-described embodiment, the room server 3 and the robot 5 are separate, but a configuration in which both are integrated may be used.

It is a schematic diagram showing a user health maintenance activation support and watch system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the state which registers the control apparatus in a house in the user health maintenance activation support and the monitoring system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the state which changes the registration information of the control apparatus in a house in the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system which concern on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the state which proposes an exercise to the user in the user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the user health maintenance activation support and watch system which concern on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1,30 User health maintenance activation support and watching system 2,31 User information input unit 5 Robot (expression unit)
6 Camera 7 Biometric information measurement unit 8 Personal data acquisition unit 10 User recognition unit 11 Authorization unit 13 Server side operation processing unit (operation processing unit)
15, 33 General control unit 16 Gesture recognition unit 17 Health evaluation unit 18 Individual identification unit 32 Sensor unit 34 Determination unit 35 Notification unit

Claims (5)

A user information input unit for obtaining physical information of the user;
A user recognition unit that analyzes a user's intention or state from the acquired physical information, a recognition unit that discriminates the intention or state, and an operation processing unit that determines an operation pattern that should correspond to the grasped user's intention or state A general control unit having
An expression unit for expressing an action based on the determined action pattern to a user through a movement;
With
The user information input unit includes a camera that acquires an image of the user,
A user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system, wherein the user recognition unit includes a gesture recognition unit that calculates a face direction and a pointing direction of the user from the image. The user information input unit includes a biological information measurement unit that detects the biological information of the user,
The user recognition unit includes a health evaluation unit that evaluates a user's health based on the biological information,
The user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the operation processing unit performs an operation process for proposing an activity in accordance with the health state of the user to the user. The user information input unit includes a personal data acquisition unit that detects information for identifying an individual,
The user recognizing unit performs personal authentication of the user based on the personal information, and includes a personal identification unit that identifies a personal attribute of the user stored in advance.
3. The user health maintenance activation support and monitoring according to claim 1, wherein the operation processing unit performs an operation process of proposing an activity according to the personal attribute to the user according to a user's life time. system. The said user information input part is provided with the sensor part which detects the presence or absence of the movement in a user's residence, and the on-off state of the said control apparatus in a residence, The any one of Claim 1 to 3 characterized by the above-mentioned. User health maintenance activation support and watching system. The comprehensive control unit
A determination unit for determining whether the intention or the state grasped with respect to a previously input standard is normal or abnormal;
If it is determined to be abnormal, a notification unit that notifies a third party authorized in advance, and
The user health maintenance activation support and monitoring system according to claim 4, comprising:

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