JP2018022203A - Safety confirmation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a safety confirmation system capable of simply transmitting/receiving safety information and capable of quickly confirming safety situations of a target member.SOLUTION: A safety confirmation system includes: a portable terminal 1 including a camera function and a communication function capable of transmitting a captured image; a computer 2 including a communication function capable of communicating with the terminal; and a database 3 connected to the computer 2. In the database 3, a previously captured face image of a target member and its name are registered. The computer 2 has an image collation function for collating the image transmitted from the terminal 1 with the face image registered in the database by image recognition technology and extracting the name corresponding to the face image and display means 4 for displaying the extracted name and names which are not extracted yet so as to be distinguished from each other.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to a safety confirmation system for confirming the safety of a member such as an employee in an organization such as a company registered in advance in a disaster.

  With the recent development of mobile phone functions, various methods for confirming safety using the communication function of the mobile phone in the event of a disaster have been developed.

  When confirming the safety of several employees (members) who are out in a company or other organization in such a safety confirmation at the time of a disaster, as shown in FIG. 3, for example, A method in which a member of the company sends an email in which safety is input using a mobile phone to a company and a person in charge in the company manually counts the number is widely adopted (similar technology, for example, Patent Document 1 below).

  As another safety confirmation method, as shown in FIG. 4, employees outside the office, etc., connect to the Internet with the mobile phone, enter safety information on the company's homepage and register, and then automatically count The method to do is also adopted.

JP 2007-188441 A

  However, all of the above conventional safety confirmation methods require several tens of touch operations on the screen to select an entry location, enter characters, and operate a send button after the application is started by a mobile phone. There is a problem that it is difficult to perform the operation quickly in an urgent environmental atmosphere at the time of a disaster.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and can easily transmit / receive safety information by greatly reducing the number of manual input operations of the terminal, thereby quickly confirming the safety status of the target member. It is an object of the present invention to provide a safety confirmation system that can be used.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention described in claim 1 is a safety confirmation system for confirming the safety of a plurality of target members set in advance when a disaster occurs, and is photographed with the camera function and the camera. A terminal having a communication function capable of transmitting an image and capable of being carried by the target member; a computer having a communication function capable of communicating with the terminal; and a database connected to the computer. In the database, the face image of the target member photographed in advance and the name thereof are registered, and the computer collates the image transmitted from the terminal with the face image in the database by an image recognition technique. Then, the image collation function for extracting the name corresponding to the face image is distinguished from the extracted name and the name that has not yet been extracted. And it is characterized in that it has a display function of displaying on the display means with.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the terminal has a GPS function, and the communication function transmits position information of a shooting location to the computer together with the image. It has a function.

  In the first or second aspect of the invention, in the event of a disaster, the target member takes a picture of himself or the surrounding target member with a terminal and transmits it to the computer with a communication function. The name of the matching face image can be extracted by image recognition by collating with the face image.

  At this time, the target members do not need to perform complicated operations such as inputting characters, and the target members whose safety has been automatically confirmed by the computer and those whose safety has not yet been confirmed. Can be displayed separately on the display means, so that the safety status of the target member can be quickly confirmed even under an imminent situation such as a disaster.

  In this case, according to the second aspect of the invention, it is possible to obtain more accurate safety information by using the GPS function of the terminal to transmit the location information of the shooting location to the computer. Become.

It is a schematic diagram which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart at the time of implementing the said one Embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the method of the conventional safety confirmation. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the other method of the conventional safety confirmation.

In the following, an embodiment in which the safety confirmation system according to the present invention is applied to a system for confirming the safety of a target member such as an employee of a specific company at the time of a disaster will be described with reference to FIGS.
This safety confirmation system is generally configured by a mobile terminal 1 such as a smartphone carried by a target member who goes out of the company, and a computer 2 installed in the company.

  Here, the portable terminal device 1 includes a camera function, a communication function capable of transmitting an image captured by the camera function, and a GPS function, and stores an application exclusively for safety confirmation. The application has a function of activating the camera function and transmitting the image data and GPS data of the shooting position to the computer 2 collectively as safety information after shooting.

  On the other hand, the computer 2 displays a storage device such as a RAM and a hard disk, an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, and input / output data via an input / output control unit on a CPU (main control unit) that performs overall control. A monitor (display unit) 4 is connected and is well known. In addition, the computer 2 has a communication function for performing transmission / reception via the Internet.

  Then, in the storage device, a database 3 in which the face images of the target members photographed in advance and their names are registered is constructed, and when the safety information is transmitted from the mobile terminal 1, the safety information is stored. Stores a program for analyzing.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the program stores the names (for example, A to E) of target members in the database 3 registered in advance in the monitor 4 and the status (“unconfirmed” before receiving safety information mail). A function of displaying image information, a function of extracting image information from the received safety information mail, extracting the corresponding face image by collating with the face image in the database 3 by image recognition technology, and extracting the image by referring to the database 3 The name and position information corresponding to the face image thus identified are specified and displayed in the corresponding column of the target members (A to E) of the monitor 4.

Next, the operation of the safety information confirmation system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
First, when a disaster occurs, a target member who is particularly away from the company operates the mobile terminal 1 to start up a safety confirmation-dedicated application installed in advance.

  Then, the target member (A and B in the figure) takes a picture of his / her face (or a picture of himself and other target members). Also, from the items displayed on the screen, enter the number of target members in the image and select a safety confirmation flag (for example, safe, injured (slightly injured), injured (rescue required)) After that, press the send button displayed on the above screen.

  Accordingly, the captured images, the safety information, and the position information (latitude and longitude) acquired from the GPS function of the mobile terminal 1 are transmitted to the computer 2 from the mobile terminals 1 of the target members A and B. Registered in the storage device.

  Then, in the computer 2, the face image captured in the image transmitted when the program is activated is collated with the face image of the target member registered in advance in the database 3 by the image recognition technique.

  And about the target members A, B, and D whose images have been confirmed by the above collation, the corresponding names registered in the database 3 are extracted, and as shown in FIG. It is displayed in a list on the monitor 4.

  At this time, as shown in FIG. 1, when a plurality of target members B and D are photographed in the transmitted image, the above collation is performed on each face image, and each target member B , D is displayed in the display column which target member D, B was taken together. In addition to these, position information (latitude and longitude) acquired from the GPS function of the portable terminal 1, a photographing time (not shown), and the like are also displayed.

  As described above, according to the safety confirmation system configured as described above, in the event of a disaster, the target member takes a picture of himself or her and surrounding target members with the mobile terminal 1 and transmits them to the computer 2 with the communication function. 2 and the face image in the database 3 can be collated and the name of the matching face image can be extracted by image recognition.

  As a result, the target members do not need to perform complicated operations such as inputting characters when there is no room during a disaster or the like, and the target members A, B, and D that have been automatically checked for safety by the computer 2 Since the target members C and E that have not yet been confirmed for safety can be displayed separately on the monitor 4, the safety status of the target members can be quickly confirmed.

  In addition, since the location information of the shooting location is also transmitted to the computer 2 using the GPS function of the portable terminal 1, the location where the target member is present can be grasped, so accurate safety information can be obtained. Can be obtained.

1 mobile terminal 2 computer 3 database 4 monitor (display means)
A to E Target members

Claims (2)

A safety confirmation system for confirming the safety of a plurality of preset target members when a disaster occurs,
A terminal having a camera function and a communication function capable of transmitting an image captured by the camera and capable of being carried by the target member; a computer having a communication function capable of communicating with the terminal; and a computer connected to the computer With a database,
In the database, face images and names of the target members taken in advance are registered,
The computer collates the image transmitted from the terminal with the face image in the database by image recognition technology to extract the name corresponding to the face image, and the extracted name A safety confirmation system characterized by having a display function for distinguishing from a name that has not yet been extracted and displaying it on the display means. The terminal has a GPS function,
The safety confirmation system according to claim 1, wherein the communication function has a function of transmitting positional information of a shooting location together with the image to the computer.

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