JP2014031655A - Organism information measurement device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an organism information measurement device, which does not require users to perform complicated operations at each excretion, resolves inconvenience of cutting movements of medial care participants into segments, and materializes user-friendly excreta observations.SOLUTION: An organic information measurement device comprises: a bawl into which a user excretes; a feed-water valve which feeds or cuts off wash water to the aforesaid bawl; personal authentication means which identifies the aforesaid user; excreta photographing means which takes pictures of excreta of the aforesaid user and creates excreta image data; detection means which determines a photographing timing of the aforesaid excreta photographing means; communication means which transmits outwards the aforesaid excreta image data; and control means, which causes the aforesaid excreta photographing means to start taking pictures at a photographing-start timing determined by the aforesaid detection means and to stop taking pictures before the aforesaid feed-water valve starts feeding water, integrates personal authentication data obtained by the aforesaid personal authentication means and image data photographed by the aforesaid excreta photographing means, and transmit the integrated data by the aforesaid communication means.

Description

  The present invention relates to a biological information measuring apparatus capable of photographing excrement image information as electronic information, and enabling a user and medical personnel to observe excrement comfortably and efficiently.

  The state of excrement, particularly stool, is important for grasping the health of the digestive tract, and the concept of stool is established. In order to carry out the viewing, there is one that uses a CCD camera and the user himself / herself observes excrement and discloses information obtained from the properties to the user (for example, see Patent Document 1).

In addition, there are some that operate various photographing functions to project excrement images on a monitor to enable viewing (for example, see Patent Document 2).
However, even in such a case, it is the user himself / herself who observes the recorded excreta. Since excrement is a variety of things, such as drop position, size, color, specific gravity, and properties, medical knowledge is necessary for accurate discrimination. Therefore, it is desirable for general users to have a doctor judge as much as possible.

  As described above, it has been considered that the excrement is photographed and used as image data. However, the user himself / herself operates the photographing apparatus and is forced to view it. After all, there are many elderly people in the user, and it is difficult to leave the operation to the user and take pictures accurately. In addition, it is not possible to ask a medical person to take a flight at home. Even in the hospital, medical personnel such as doctors stopped their feet at the timing of stool and required an inefficient movement to repeatedly enter and exit the toilet for the purpose of viewing.

Japanese Patent No. 3204400 JP 2006-061296 A

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and the problem of the present invention is that the user must perform a complicated operation every time he or she excretes, and in addition, he asks for viewing at home. Even if it is in the hospital, it eliminates the inconvenience that it has been necessary to request inefficient movements by cutting the movement of medical personnel, and it is easy to use without stress An object of the present invention is to provide a biological information measuring device for realizing feces.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a bowl for excretion by a user, a water supply valve for stopping washing water for discharging excrement in the bowl to a drainage pipe of a building, and the user Personal identification means for identifying, excrement photographing means for photographing excrement of the user to generate excrement image data, detection means for determining the photographing start timing of the excrement photographing means, and the excrement The communication means for transmitting image data to the outside, and the excretion photographing means start the photographing from the photographing start timing determined by the detection means, and the excrement photographing means before the water supply valve starts water supply. Control means for ending the photographing and integrating the personal authentication data obtained by the personal authentication means and the image data photographed by the excrement photographing means and transmitting by the communication means; It is characterized by having a.

  As a result, the user can take data necessary for viewing without requiring a complicated operation. In addition, it is possible to request a stool even at home, and even in the hospital, the medical staff can collect the data necessary for the stool without disturbing the hands of medical staff. It is possible to perform efficient viewing processing without being interrupted.

  In the present invention, preferably, the detection means is a stool detection means for detecting stool defecation of a user.

  Thereby, a stool can be image | photographed reliably and efficiently by starting imaging | photography from the time of detecting the excretion of a stool.

  In the present invention, preferably, the excrement photographing means performs interval photographing every predetermined time from the time point detected by the detecting means.

  Thereby, the amount of data sent to the image management apparatus can be suppressed while the reliability of photographing the excrement is high.

  In the present invention, it is preferable that the control unit supplies cleaning water after taking the last one.

  Thereby, even when excretion occurs just before the supply of the washing water, an image of the excrement can be reliably taken.

In the present invention, it is preferable that the control means transmits the excrement image data with the standard color image of the excrement attached thereto.

  Accordingly, by presenting the comparison target, the judgment is less likely to be influenced by the individual difference of the video display devices used by the medical staff, and it is possible to prevent an erroneous judgment from being made.

  According to the present invention, a user can take data necessary for viewing without requiring a complicated operation. In addition, it is possible to request a stool even at home, and even in the hospital, the medical staff can collect the data necessary for the stool without disturbing the hands of medical staff. It is possible to perform efficient viewing processing without being interrupted.

It is a perspective view which shows the 1st Example of the biometric information measuring apparatus of this invention. It is a system block diagram of the biological information measuring device of the present invention. It is a flowchart of the biological information measuring device of the present invention.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of the biological information measuring apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of the biological information measuring apparatus according to the present invention. Hereinafter, the biological information measuring apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

  The toilet 20 is provided above the rear part of the bowl 21, a bowl 21 for excretion by a patient as a user, a trap 22 for forming a pool of water to prevent the odor in the drainage pipe from diffusing into the toilet, and the bowl 21. And a water supply valve 23 for stopping and supplying cleaning water in order to discharge the accumulated water mixed with excrement to the drainage pipe of the building.

  In addition, the toilet 20 has a seating sensor 71 for detecting that the user is sitting on the toilet seat, a gas sensor 81 as a stool detection means for detecting the stool of the user, and for taking excrement. A camera 51 which is excrement photographing means is attached. In addition, a control unit 10 serving as a control unit is provided above the toilet 20, and the control unit 10 includes a CPU 11 serving as a processing device, a timer 12 serving as a time measuring unit, and a memory for storing data. 14 and a communication device 13 for communicating with the LAN by wireless communication.

  On the wall surface of the toilet, a washing button 61 as a washing operation means for instructing the operation of the water supply valve to wash the toilet 20, and a barcode reader as a personal authentication means for reading and identifying a barcode tag held by the user 41 is provided. Even when the washing button 61 is not operated, the water supply valve is automatically opened to start washing when the seating sensor 71 detects that the user is away.

  The operation of the control unit 10 in the biological information measuring apparatus 1 configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  When the user enters the toilet room and causes the barcode reader 41 installed on the wall to read the barcode tag wound around the arm, the barcode reader 41 identifies the personal authentication data, and identifies the identified personal authentication data. It transmits to the control part 10. Thereby, the control unit 10 receives the personal authentication data (S101).

  Next, when the seating sensor 71 provided behind the toilet seat detects the seating of the user, a seating detection signal is transmitted to the control unit 10. When the control unit receives the seating signal sent from the seating sensor 71 (S102), it next activates the gas sensor 81. When the seating detection signal is not received, the control unit 10 stands by until the seating detection signal is received.

  When the gas sensor 81 detects stool gas emitted from the excrement, a stool detection signal is transmitted to the control unit 10. When receiving the stool detection signal (S104), the control unit 10 sends a signal to start excretion imaging to the camera 51 using this reception as a trigger (S106). When the stool detection signal is not received, the control unit 10 stands by until the stool detection signal is received.

  The camera 51 that has received this excrement imaging start signal sent from the control unit 10 starts imaging excrement toward the surface of the accumulated water. The shooting method of the camera 51 can be set to interval shooting such as shooting every 10 seconds by the timer 12 of the control unit 10. The amount of data used for excrement images by reducing wasteful image capture while reliably capturing from the time when excretion is performed by starting interval shooting from the time when a stool gas detection signal is received Can be suppressed.

  When the user finishes using the seating sensor 71 and leaves the toilet seat, the seating sensor 71 detects seating and transmits a seating detection signal to the control unit. When the control unit 10 receives the separation detection signal (S108), the control unit 10 sends an instruction to the camera 51 to forcibly shoot the last one to be shot even if the shooting timing is not every 10 seconds (S108). S112). When the camera 51 is instructed by the control unit 10 to transmit the last piece of data taken to the control unit 10, and when the control unit 10 receives the data, the control unit 10 transmits a shooting end signal to the camera 51. (S114), the camera 51 ends photographing.

  Alternatively, when the control unit 10 receives a cleaning operation signal from the cleaning operation means in a state where it does not receive the separation detection signal (YES in S110), the camera 51 receives the last detection signal in the same manner as when the separation detection signal is received. An instruction is transmitted so as to take a picture (S112). When the camera 51 is instructed by the control unit 10 to transmit the last piece of data taken to the control unit 10, and when the control unit 10 receives the data, the control unit 10 transmits a shooting end signal to the camera 51. (S114), the camera 51 ends photographing.

When the control unit 10 finishes the photographing of the camera 51, the controller 10 transmits a toilet flushing start signal for opening the water supply valve of the toilet 20 (S126). The toilet bowl 20 with the water supply valve opened cleans the bowl with cleaning water.
After starting toilet flushing by sending a toilet flush start signal, the control unit 10 receives personal authentication data received from the barcode reader 71, excrement image data received from the camera 51, and the memory 14 of the control unit 10. And the standard color image of the excrement stored in (1) are integrated (S118) to create a single viewing file.

  The control means 10 uses the communication device 13 to transmit the viewing file to the information management terminal 30 via the home LAN or hospital LAN (S120).

  In the present embodiment, personal identification is initially performed by the personal authentication means, but control may be performed so that personal authentication is performed at the timing until data integration.

  In addition, the communication of the devices centering on the control means is preferably wireless communication in terms of cleanability, but may be wired communication.

  Even if the seating detection by the seating sensor 71 is used as a trigger for starting photographing without installing the gas sensor 81, the amount of use data increases, but it is effective in terms of cost.

  According to the present invention described above, since the user can take a picture of excrement without complicated operations, the stress on the user is reduced. In addition, since the biological information measuring device has a means for transmitting to the Internet, a user who has not been able to request a flight from a medical staff at home can also request a flight from a remote medical staff. And in hospitals, it is no longer necessary for healthcare professionals to make inefficient moves to stop work each time they visit, so that they can move efficiently to check the data at their preferred time. Become.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ...... Biological information measuring device 10 ... Control means 11 ... CPU
12 ... Timer 13 ... Communication device 14 ... Memory 20 ... Toilet bowl 21 ... Bowl 22 ... Trap 30 ... Information management terminal 31 ... Facility file 41 ...・ Barcode reader 51 ... Camera 61 ... Cleaning button 71 ... Seating sensor 81 ... Gas sensor

Claims (5)

A bowl where the user excretes;
A water supply valve for stopping the cleaning water for discharging the waste in the bowl to the drainage pipe of the building;
Personal authentication means for identifying the user;
Excrement photographing means for photographing excrement of the user and generating excrement image data;
Detection means for determining the imaging start timing of the excrement imaging means;
Communication means for transmitting the excrement image data to the outside;
The excretion photographing means starts photographing from the photographing start timing determined by the detecting means, and the photographing of the excrement photographing means is finished before the water supply valve starts water supply, and is obtained by the personal authentication means. Control means for integrating and transmitting the personal authentication data and the image data photographed by the excreta photographing means by the communication means;
A biological information measuring device comprising:   2. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection means is a stool detection means for detecting a stool of a user.   The biological information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the excrement photographing unit performs interval photographing every predetermined time from the time point detected by the detecting unit.   The biological information measuring device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the control unit supplies cleaning water after photographing the last one.   5. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit transmits the excrement image data with a standard color image of the excrement attached thereto.