JP2022175680A - Physical condition management device, physical condition management method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

To measure biological information on a person to be measured without increasing a burden on the person to be measured.SOLUTION: A physical condition management device includes: a direction specification unit 11 for specifying a direction of a short-range wireless communication device mounted on a person to be measured, which is connected by pairing connection; a biological information measuring unit 12 for measuring biological information on the person to be measured; and a direction adjusting unit 13 for adjusting a direction of the biological information measuring unit 12 on the basis of the direction specified by the direction specification unit 11. The biological information measuring unit 12 measures the biological information in a state that the direction is adjusted by the direction adjusting unit 13.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a physical condition management device, physical condition management method and program, and more particularly to a physical condition management device, physical condition management method and program that perform short-range wireless communication in accordance with the Bluetooth (registered trademark) standard.

There are, for example, the following two types of methods for measuring the body surface temperature that are generally used.
・Method in which the measurer holds a handy-type measuring instrument in his/her hand and points the measuring instrument at the subject's forehead, etc., to measure the body surface temperature.
・A method in which a measuring device is fixedly installed at the entrance of a hospital or shop, etc., and the body surface temperature is measured by aligning the position of the subject's face to the measuring position.
With the handheld measuring instruments mentioned above, it is easy to change the direction of measurement. It takes

Patent Literature 1 discloses an automatic temperature measuring device that automatically measures the body temperature of a person to be measured without contact. In Patent Document 1, an imaging area is captured by an image input unit, and the captured image is image-recognized, thereby recognizing the facial region of the person to be measured. From this recognition result, the center position of the face is calculated, and from the relative position between the center position of the face and the center point of the image, the direction and amount of movement of the imaging field of view are obtained, and the face is positioned at the center of the imaging field of view. controls the orientation of the image input unit and the infrared detection unit.

JP-A-2005-237861

Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, an increasing number of companies are adopting telework-based work styles. With the increase in telework, communication terminals such as smartphones are also used at home in addition to personal computers. In addition, it is expected that communication terminals for telework will spread in the future.

Unlike the conventional style of going to work, telework greatly reduces opportunities to interact with people, making it difficult for companies to grasp the physical condition of employees. If employees are asked to measure their physical condition by themselves every day and report it to the company, the work load on the employees will increase, and physical condition management cannot be carried out efficiently.

Therefore, it is conceivable to provide a communication terminal, communication terminal, or the like used by an employee at home with a function of automatically measuring the biological information of the employee, including body temperature, which is used for managing the physical condition of the employee. However, there is a problem that it takes time and effort for employees to adjust their own positions according to the measurement positions of communication terminals and the like. Further, as in Patent Document 1, when controlling the orientation of the infrared detection unit based on the image recognition result of the captured image, additional processing such as processing for acquiring an image and calculating the movement direction and movement amount is performed. Configuration required.

In view of the problems described above, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a physical condition management device, a physical condition management method, and a program capable of measuring biological information of a measurement subject without increasing the burden on the measurement subject. It is in.

A physical condition management device according to one aspect includes a direction identifying unit that identifies the direction of a short-range wireless communication device worn by a person to be measured that is paired and connected, and a biological information measuring unit that measures the biological information of the person to be measured. and a direction adjusting unit that adjusts the direction of the biological information measuring unit based on the direction specified by the direction specifying unit, wherein the direction of the biological information measuring unit is adjusted by the direction adjusting unit. The biological information is measured in a state where

A physical condition management method according to one aspect identifies the direction of a paired short-range wireless communication device worn by a person to be measured, and adjusts the direction of a biological information measuring unit based on the identified direction. and measuring the biological information of the person to be measured by the biological information measuring unit in a state in which the direction of the biological information measuring unit is adjusted.

A program according to one aspect includes a process of identifying a direction of a paired short-range wireless communication device worn by a person to be measured, and adjusting the direction of a biological information measuring unit based on the identified direction. and a process of measuring the biometric information of the measurement subject by the biometric information measuring unit in a state where the direction of the biometric information measuring unit is adjusted.

According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a physical condition management device, a physical condition management method, and a program capable of measuring biological information of a measurement subject without increasing the burden on the measurement subject.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a physical condition management device according to an embodiment; FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system including a physical condition management device according to an embodiment; FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the communication terminal shown in FIG. 2; FIG. FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a physical condition management method according to an embodiment;

Hereinafter, specific embodiments to which the present invention is applied will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments. Also, for clarity of explanation, the following description and drawings have been simplified as appropriate. In each drawing, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted as appropriate.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the physical condition management device according to the embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1 , the physical condition management device 10 includes a direction identifying section 11 , a biological information measuring section 12 and a direction adjusting section 13 . The direction identifying unit 11 identifies the direction of the short-range wireless communication device paired and worn by the person to be measured. The biometric information measurement unit 12 measures biometric information of a measurement subject. The direction adjusting section 13 adjusts the direction of the biological information measuring section 12 based on the direction specified by the direction specifying section 11 .

The biological information measurement unit 12 measures biological information with the direction adjusted by the direction adjustment unit 13 . As a result, the measurement subject can measure the biological information of the measurement subject without adjusting his or her own position in accordance with the measurement position of the physical condition management device.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a physical condition management system 100 including a physical condition management device according to a specific embodiment. A physical condition management system 100 shown in FIG. 2 includes a communication terminal 101 and a headset 102 . A communication terminal 101 is connected to a network via a wireless LAN access point 103 .

In recent years, with the increasing number of companies that use telework, it has become difficult to manage the health of their employees. In the embodiment, by providing a communication terminal used for telework at home with a function to measure the biometric information of employees, it is possible to manage daily physical conditions without increasing the burden on telework employees. Communication terminals used at home include general-purpose communication terminals such as smartphones and tablets, as well as communication terminals for telework.

The communication terminal 101 includes, for example, a display device, a camera, a wireless LAN interface, etc., and can use Web conference system applications such as Zoom and Teams. Headset 102 is paired with communication terminal 101 for voice communication.

When holding a web conference using the communication terminal 101, the headset 102 can be used for voice communication. A communication terminal 101 used by a person to be measured wearing a headset 102 corresponds to the physical condition management apparatus shown in FIG. Also, the headset 102 worn on the head of the person to be measured corresponds to a short-range wireless communication device. The communication terminal 101 can be installed, for example, in the home of an employee (person to be measured) who performs telework, near a personal computer that performs work.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of communication terminal 101. As shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the communication terminal 101 includes a Bluetooth module 111, a controller 112, a body surface temperature measuring device 113, and a wireless LAN I/F 114.

The Bluetooth module 111 pairs and connects the communication terminal 101 and the headset 102 using a communication standard after the Bluetooth (registered trademark) 5.1 standard. With Bluetooth 5.1, direction detection using AoA (Angle of Arrival) and AoD (Angle of Departure) is possible.

By using the direction detection function of Bluetooth 5.1, the relative position of the headset 102 from the communication terminal 101 can be specified with an error of several centimeters. Note that Bluetooth 5.1 includes both the Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standards.

According to the Bluetooth 5.1 standard, either communication terminal 101 or headset 102 is provided with a plurality of antennas, and the receiving side of Bluetooth signals calculates the distance and direction of the transmitting side to identify the direction of headset 102. can be realized. Here, it is assumed that the control unit 112 of the communication terminal 101 identifies the direction of the paired headset 102 and the measurement subject wearing the headset 102 .

Since the headset 102 is worn on the head of the measurement subject, the face position of the measurement subject wearing the headset 102 can be estimated by specifying the direction and position of the headset 102 . This makes it possible to always measure the body surface temperature at the same point.

FIG. 3 shows a body surface temperature measuring device 113 as an example of the biological information measuring unit 12 . The body surface temperature measuring device 113 measures the body surface temperature (body temperature) of the measurement subject in a non-contact manner. The body surface temperature measuring device 113 includes a temperature sensor 115 and an orientation adjusting device 116 . It should be noted that the biological information measuring unit 12 may be any unit that can measure, without contact, biological information necessary for physical condition management of the person to be measured, such as body surface temperature, respiration, pulse wave, and the like.

Temperature sensor 115 may be, for example, an infrared temperature sensor. Here, it is assumed that the measurement direction of the temperature sensor 115 is directed toward the face of the measurement subject wearing the headset 102 and the measurement is performed. Note that the short-range wireless communication device is not particularly limited as long as it is a wearable device worn by the person to be measured. For example, a band-type device worn on the wrist may be used. In this case, biometric information can be measured at the wrist of the person to be measured.

Direction adjusting device 116 adjusts the measurement direction of temperature sensor 115 based on the position and direction of headset 102 specified by control unit 112 . The measurement direction of the temperature sensor 115 is adjusted to the direction of the headset 102, that is, the face of the person to be measured. The temperature sensor 115 measures the body surface temperature of the person to be measured with its measurement direction adjusted to the face of the person to be measured.

The wireless LAN I/F 114 is capable of wireless communication with the wireless LAN access point 103 based on the IEEE 802.11 standard such as Wi-Fi (registered trademark). The wireless LAN access point 103 can be connected to a physical condition management server (not shown) via a network. The measurement results obtained by the temperature sensor 115 are stored in the physical condition management server and managed on the network.

By daily accumulating the body surface temperature of the person to be measured measured by the temperature sensor 115 as data, it is possible to manage the physical condition of the person to be measured. For example, an application server on the network can use the data accumulated in the physical condition management server to analyze biological information and make proposals regarding the physical condition of the person to be measured.

Here, the physical condition management method according to the embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the physical condition management method according to the embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, first, the person to be measured starts a web conference using the communication terminal 101 connected to the network (step S10). Then, it is determined whether or not the headset 102 is paired with the communication terminal 101 according to the Bluetooth 5.1 standard (step S11).

If the communication terminal 101 is not paired with the headset 102 (step S11 NO), the communication terminal 101 and the headset 102 are paired again. When the headset 102 is paired with the communication terminal 101 (step S11 YES), the control unit 112 uses the Bluetooth 5.1 standard direction detection function to Direction and position are detected (step S12).

Then, based on the direction and position of the headset, the direction of the temperature sensor 115 is adjusted to measure the body surface temperature of the subject (step S13). After that, the measurement result obtained in step S13 is stored in the physical condition management server (step S14).

As described above, in the embodiment, when the communication terminal 101 measures the biological information of the person to be measured, by utilizing the direction detection function of Bluetooth 5.1, the short-range wireless device worn by the person to be measured can be detected. By specifying the direction of the measurement subject, the orientation of the face of the measurement subject can be easily specified, and the direction of the temperature sensor can be adjusted according to the orientation of the measurement subject. As a result, it is possible to eliminate the need to adjust the position of the person being measured or the person to be measured when the body surface temperature is measured.

In addition, even if the subject himself/herself does not take action to measure the body surface temperature on a daily basis, the body surface temperature can be automatically measured by using a headset compatible with the Bluetooth 5.1 standard during the web conference. It becomes possible to

It should be noted that each element described in the drawing as a functional block that performs the various processes described above can be configured by a CPU, a memory, and other lines in terms of hardware. In addition, the present invention can also realize arbitrary processing by causing a CPU (Central Processing Unit) to execute a computer program. Therefore, those skilled in the art will understand that these functional blocks can be implemented in various forms by hardware alone, software alone, or a combination thereof, and are not limited to either.

A program includes instructions (or software code) that, when read into a computer, cause the computer to perform one or more of the functions described in the embodiments. The program may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium or tangible storage medium. By way of example, and not limitation, computer readable media or tangible storage media may include random-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, solid-state drives (SSD) or other memory technology, CDs -ROM, digital versatile disc (DVD), Blu-ray disc or other optical disc storage, magnetic cassette, magnetic tape, magnetic disc storage or other magnetic storage device. The program may be transmitted on a transitory computer-readable medium or communication medium. By way of example, and not limitation, transitory computer readable media or communication media include electrical, optical, acoustic, or other forms of propagated signals.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and can be modified as appropriate without departing from the scope of the invention. It is also possible to detect the position of the headset 102 using Bluetooth. In position detection using Bluetooth, the TDOA method that performs positioning by triangulation based on the arrival time difference of signals to multiple wireless access points, and the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) of beacon signals transmitted from multiple wireless access points. is acquired, and a statistical model is created and used to perform positioning by trilateration. It is also possible to automatically adjust the focal position of the temperature sensor 115 based on the detected position information of the person to be measured.

10 physical condition management device 11 direction identification unit 12 biological information measurement unit 13 direction adjustment unit 100 physical condition management system 101 communication terminal 102 headset 103 wireless LAN access point 111 Bluetooth module 112 control unit 113 body surface temperature measuring device 114 wireless LAN I/F
115 Temperature sensor 116 Orientation device

Claims (8)

a direction identifying unit that identifies the direction of the paired short-range wireless communication device worn by the person to be measured;
a biological information measurement unit that measures the biological information of the measurement subject;
a direction adjusting unit that adjusts the direction of the biological information measuring unit based on the direction specified by the direction specifying unit;
The biological information measuring unit measures the biological information while the direction is adjusted by the direction adjusting unit.
Physical condition management device. The physical condition management device and the short-range wireless communication device are compatible with communication standards after Bluetooth (registered trademark) 5.1,
The direction identification unit identifies the direction of the short-range wireless communication device using a direction detection function included in the communication standard.
The physical condition management device according to claim 1. The near field communication device is a headset,
The physical condition management device according to claim 2. The physical condition management device is a communication terminal connected to a network used by the person to be measured,
The biological information measurement unit measures the biological information of the measurement subject wearing the Bluetooth headset and transmits the biological information via the network.
The physical condition management device according to claim 3. The biological information measurement unit measures the biological information of the measurement subject in a non-contact manner,
The physical condition management device according to any one of claims 1 to 3. The biological information measuring unit measures the body surface temperature of the measurement subject,
The physical condition management device according to claim 5. Identify the direction of the paired short-range wireless communication device worn by the person to be measured,
Adjusting the direction of the biological information measuring unit based on the specified direction,
measuring the biometric information of the measurement subject by the biometric information measuring unit in a state in which the direction of the biometric information measuring unit is adjusted;
physical condition management method. a process of identifying the direction of the paired short-range wireless communication device worn by the person to be measured;
a process of adjusting the direction of the biological information measuring unit based on the specified direction;
a process of measuring the biometric information of the measurement subject by the biometric information measuring unit in a state where the direction of the biometric information measuring unit is adjusted;
cause the computer to run
program.

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