KR20160107452A - Health diagnostic devices in the network system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a health status checking device of network type. Particularly, the present invention relates to technology for checking and identifying frequently a health status by integrating a measurement unit for measuring the blood pressure, blood sugar, pulse, and temperature of a body with a widely used portable communications terminal. And, the present invention relates to a technology for automatically inputting and storing the health status information of a checked user to the portable communications terminal, automatically transmitting corresponding information to the data base of a remote place where a doctor exists as needed. Thereby, the accurate writing and quick transmission of the health status information can be carried out.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001]

The present invention relates to a network type health state check apparatus, which detects and checks health state information such as blood pressure, blood sugar level, pulse and body temperature of a body through a portable terminal, So that they can check and check their health status from time to time.

Generally, patients with hypertension requiring long-term treatment are required to be checked regularly and periodically because the health condition of diabetic patients etc. changes frequently due to living environment or food. If the symptoms are worsened by check, rapid medical treatment and prescription are performed .

For this reason, patients suffering from blood pressure disorders or diabetics have inconvenience that a blood pressure monitor or a blood pressure monitor should always be provided within the living range of the user.

In particular, there is a problem in that it is difficult to check the health condition at the time of going out.

Recently, in order to solve such a problem, a small and lightweight blood pressure meter, a blood glucose meter, a blood pressure monitor, and a blood pressure monitor are provided so that the user can check his or her own health as well as the health state of the patient's body such as pulse, respiration, blood pressure, And so on.

However, it is inconvenient for the patient to use the blood pressure or the glucose meter separately during the movement.

In order to obtain data on the checked health condition of the patient, it is troublesome that the patient directly records measurement results of blood pressure and blood sugar, and then directly transmits the recorded data to the doctor.

In particular, in this case, it is not only likely that the patient mis-records the measurement data or that the measurement result is misdirected to the primary care physician during the direct delivery process. In this case, the primary care physician can not accurately grasp the patient's health condition, There is a high possibility that wrong treatment and prescription will be made.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a portable communication terminal, which is generally used, by integrating a measurement unit capable of measuring blood pressure, blood glucose, pulse, To be able to do so.

In addition, the health status information of the checked user is automatically stored in the portable communication terminal, and if necessary, the information can be automatically transmitted to the database of the remote place where the doctor or the like is located, And to make it possible to deliver.

The present invention, which is provided for this purpose,

A displacement measuring sensor for detecting a displacement amount of a specific part of a patient's body and outputting the detection signal; a waveform shaping unit for shaping the detected waveform of the displacement detection signal and outputting the waveform as a pulse-shaped signal; A signal processing unit for selecting one of a plurality of filters corresponding to the measurement command to filter input the output of the waveform shaping unit, A measurement unit comprising a processor; And a control unit having a display and providing a measurement command corresponding to the measurement menu selection signal to the signal processor and displaying health status information supplied from the signal processor through the display in a form corresponding to the selected measurement menu .

At this time, each of the measurement unit and the control unit may be integrated as one portable communication terminal.

The displacement measurement sensor may be installed in a portable communication terminal and may have a contact path for easily transmitting a displacement amount between the displacement measurement sensor and the outside of the housing of the portable communication terminal.

The signal processor may be a signal processor integrated in a one chip form.

In the signal processor, a plurality of filters having different filtering coefficients may be provided, and the plurality of filters may include only a frequency band corresponding to a gait measurement, a blood pressure measurement, a pulse measurement, a body temperature measurement, and an actual displacement measurement, And high pass filtering.

The control unit analyzes the measurement menu selection signal input from the outside and provides a measurement command corresponding to the measurement command to the signal processor. The control unit converts the health state information supplied from the signal processor into display data corresponding to the selected measurement menu selection signal A display controller connected to the main controller and displaying display data outputted therefrom, a display memory for storing graphic data and various information data, a memory for accessing data by the control of the main controller, . ≪ / RTI >

According to the present invention,

It is possible to collect various kinds of health information of the body by combining the measurement unit having one displacement measurement sensor and the control unit for performing various controls of the portable communication terminal, and thus it is possible to easily record the abnormal state of the body.

The health status information can be transmitted to a hospital server that manages a database of a hospital connected to a network of a mobile communication system or a mobile communication terminal carried by a doctor of a remote location by using the mobile communication terminal, .

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an entire health state check apparatus
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a structure of a check and transfer of a good state using a network

1 is a schematic view showing a configuration of a network type health state check apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1, a measurement unit 10 is connected to a contact path 23 connected to a body part of a patient, and a plurality of pulse trains having intervals corresponding to the amounts of displacement of the body through the contact path 23 as displacement detection signals A waveform shaping unit 24 for shaping and outputting the waveforms of the sensed pulse sequences, and a plurality of filters, which are connected to the waveform shaping unit 24 and are set in correspondence with input measurement commands, And a signal processor 26 for filtering input of the output of the waveform shaping device 24 and signal processing the filtered input detection signal in a predetermined form according to the inputted measurement command to generate health state information.

The control unit 20 provides a measurement command corresponding to a measurement menu selection signal generated by a user's selection to the signal processor and outputs health state information supplied from the signal processor to display data corresponding to the selected measurement menu A main controller 28, an LCD type display device 30 for visually displaying display data supplied from the main controller 28, a memory 32 for storing various graphic data and processing data, and the like.

In the above configuration, the control unit 20 includes a function of controlling wireless channel setting of the portable communication terminal and transmission and reception of data and voice through the forward and reverse directions.

[Fig. 2] is a view showing a flow chart of operation control of the health check device,

This is an illustration of the operation flow of the signal processing unit 26 of the measurement unit 10 and the main controller 28 in the control unit 20 shown in FIG. 1, and is a masked program in each memory area.

First, an operation of measuring and monitoring a health condition of a patient using a mobile communication device configured as shown in FIG. 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

In order to measure the number of walking, pulse, respiration, body temperature, blood pressure, or actual displacement using the network-type health check device having the configuration as shown in FIG. 1, And inputs the item to be measured.

For example, when the operation mode is switched from the call waiting mode to the health measurement mode by using the mode change key provided in the terminal, the main controller 28 changes the operation mode and then calculates the walking mode, pulse rate, breathing rate, body temperature, And displays a selection menu of the graphic representing the measurement on the display device 30 as a graphic user interface (GUI).

At this time, when the user who wants to measure the health state of the body selects the measurement menu, the main controller 28 provides the measurement command corresponding to the selected measurement menu selection signal to the signal processor 26 in the measurement unit 10. The signal processor 26 analyzes the measurement command supplied from the main controller 28 to determine whether the sensing object is selected in step 32 of FIG.

If the gait number measurement command is input from the main controller 28 in step 32, the signal processor 26 selects a low-pass filter having a very low pass characteristic among a plurality of filters preset in the signal processor 26, do.

At this time, the filter may be a filter created by programming in the signal processor 26, or may be made in hardware.

In this state, when a user such as a patient carrying a portable communication terminal starts walking, pulse strings corresponding to displacements caused by the walking are outputted from the displacement measurement sensor 22. The pulse strings output from the displacement measurement sensor 22 are waveform-shaped by the waveform shaping unit 24 and supplied to the signal processor 26.

The signal processor 26 low-pass-filters a displacement detection signal, which is waveform-shaped by a filter set in step 34 of FIG. 2 and is input in a pulse form, and counts pulses corresponding to one step, To the main controller 28 in the control unit 20 in step 36 of FIG.

In step 38 of FIG. 2, the main controller 28 calculates the number of steps in response to the input of the step measurement result information and transmits the calculated number of steps to the display device 30 as display data. At this time, the display device 30 displays the inputted display data so that the user can know the number of walking steps of the user.

In addition, the main controller 28 statistically processes step measurement progress information input by the user's selection of an optional menu to graphically display information such as the stepping speed, the average number of steps, and the total number of steps.

If the patient selects a measurement menu for checking one of the measurement menu, such as pulse, blood pressure, respiration rate, and body temperature, the main controller 28 transmits the measurement menu selection signal to the signal processor 26. In step 32, the signal processor 26 determines that the sensing target selection is pulsation, respiration, body temperature, and blood pressure measurement. In step 46, the signal processor 26 selects a suitable filter for the measurement target.

As an example, if the user selects a menu for pulse measurement, the main controller 28 selects a filter that is suitable for pulse measurement.

At this time, the filter or filter coefficient corresponding to the selection menu is memory-tabulated.

When the patient himself or the user touches the contact path 23 protruding out of the housing of the portable communication terminal to a body part such as a vein of the wrist where the user can sense the vascular membrane of the body, The displacement amount is transmitted to the displacement measurement sensor 22.

The displacement measurement sensor 22 senses the amount of displacement of the body part connected to the contact path 23, and provides the pulse sequence corresponding thereto to the signal processor 26 through the waveform shaping device 24. At this time, the signal processor 26 filters the waveform-shaped displacement detection signal as a filter selected according to the measurement menu selection signal in step 46 of FIG. 2 to remove unnecessary noise and pre-process it.

The signal processor 26 that has performed the preprocessing process counts the pulse rate in step 48 of FIG. Such a pulse rate can be obtained through a detector such as a zero crossing, and counted, so that the pulse rate per unit time, for example, per minute can be easily detected.

In step 50, the signal processor 26 determines whether the pulse rate per unit time counted in step 48 is an appropriate value.

This is for treating a patient or a user as an error value when a reasonable result can not be obtained for the reason that the contact path 23, which is the protrusion of the displacement measuring sensor 22, is not brought into contact with the correct body part.

For example, the pulse rate per minute is hardly detected, the signal processor 26 transmits an error message to the main controller 28 in step 58. [

Upon receipt of the error message from the signal processor 26, the main controller 28 displays the error display data for informing the user of the error status through the display device 30, and displays the content requesting the inspection again. Thereafter, when a re-measurement request is generated through the keyboard, the main controller 28 transmits the re-measurement request to the signal processing unit 26 in the measurement unit 10.

The signal processor 26 repeats the above-described process from the above-described process 46 in response to the re-measurement request to re-execute the pulse measurement.

If it is determined that the counted number of pulses is an appropriate result, the signal processor 26 transmits pulse measurement result information to the main controller 28 in the control unit 20, which is a portable communication apparatus,

The main controller 28 in the control unit 20 searches in step 54 of FIG. 2 whether the pulse measurement result information is an appropriate value. For example, when the value of the pulse count per minute is counted as 50 or less or 160 or more, it is determined that the value is not an appropriate value, and the re-execute command is transmitted to the signal processor 26 so as to be re-executed from the above- At this time, the signal processor 26 receiving the re-execution command performs the repetition operation from the above-mentioned step 46. If it is determined that the received pulse measurement result information is an appropriate value, the main controller 28 displays the measurement result through the LCD display 30 in step 56. [ At this time, the display method can be displayed simply as a letter or as a graphic image, and the display method is set by the user.

If it is determined in step 32 of FIG. 2 that the measurement command transmitted from the main controller 28 indicates an actual displacement value, the signal processor 26 in the measurement unit 10 performs noise removal in step 40 of FIG. 2 Select a filter.

When the user of the patient or the like places the apparatus of FIG. 1 on a specific part of the body, for example, a heart of the heart, the displacement amount according to the heartbeat is sensed and measured by the displacement measuring sensor 22, Are provided to the waveform shaping machine 24.

The waveform shaping device 24 waveform-shapes the input pulse strings and provides them to the signal processor 26.

At this time, the signal processor 26 eliminates the noise through the selected noise removal filter and transmits it to the main controller 28 in the control unit 20, in step 42 of FIG.

In step 44, the main controller 28 analyzes the displacement detection measurement signal input in the actual displacement measurement menu selection mode and accesses the display data of the graphic form from the memory 32 and supplies the display data to the LCD display 30.

Here, the graphical display data may be an image of a heartbeat or a numerical graph.

In the above-described operation, the case of measuring the pulse is described, but the measurement of the respiratory rate, body temperature, blood pressure, and the like is also applied.

For example, only the filtering and signal processing methods according to the selection of the filtering coefficients are different from each other and do not depart from the scope of the operation description.

The information on the number of steps, the pulse rate and the actual displacement values measured by the above operation is stored in the memory 32 together with the date related information such as the date of month and month, and if necessary, All information can be transferred to a computer.

For example, it may be automatically transmitted to a doctor's cellular phone device. Thus, the physician can monitor the patient's condition remotely.

In the case of blood pressure measurement, the upper and lower width of the blood pressure is important. However, since it is difficult to obtain an absolute value by the state of the human body fat or the body tissue, Program.

The zero point adjustment according to the present invention measures the blood pressure of the user as an actual blood pressure monitor and obtains the value of the vertical width of the actual blood pressure.

Then, the upper and lower values of the actually measured blood pressure are stored in the memory 32 through the main controller 28 of FIG. 1, the blood pressure is checked as a procedure as shown in FIG. 2, 32, and a method of correcting the blood pressure measurement result information every time the blood pressure is measured is applied.

When the user sets the blood pressure zero point adjustment mode using the mode change key provided in the housing of the portable terminal, the main controller 28 shown in FIG. 1 provides a zero point adjustment command to the signal processor 26.

At this time, the signal processor 26 selects a filter suitable for the blood pressure measurement and detects the displacement by the displacement measurement sensor 22 and filters and inputs the waveform-shaped signals by the waveform shaping device 24. In step 64, the maximum and minimum values of the filtering values input to the signal processor are measured.

This is for treating a patient or a user as an error value when a reasonable result can not be obtained for the reason that the contact path 23, which is the protrusion of the displacement measuring sensor 22, is not brought into contact with the correct body part.

For example, if the displacement signal for measuring the blood pressure is not correctly input or counted, the signal processor 26 sends an error message to the main controller 28 in step 68. [ Upon receipt of the error message from the signal processor 26, the main controller 28 displays the error display data for informing the user of the error status through the display device 30, and displays the content requesting the inspection again.

Then, the main controller 28 transmits a remeasurement request to the signal processing unit 26 in the measurement unit 10 through a keyboard (not shown). The signal processor 26 repeats the above-described process 62 according to the re-measurement request to re-execute the blood pressure zero point adjustment.

If it is determined that the measured result of the search in step 66 is an appropriate result, the signal processor 26 transmits blood pressure measurement result information to the main controller 28 in the control unit 20, which is a portable communication terminal, The main controller 28 in the control unit 20 searches whether the blood pressure measurement result information is an appropriate value.

For example, if the measured maximum and minimum values of blood pressure are out of the range of 50/300, it is determined that the value is not an appropriate value, and a re-execute command is transmitted to the signal processor 26 to be performed again from the above-described process 62. At this time, the signal processor 26 receiving the re-execution command performs the repetition operation starting from the above-mentioned 62 process.

If it is determined that the received blood pressure measurement result information is an appropriate value, the main controller 28 receives the maximum / minimum blood pressure value measured by the standard blood pressure monitor in step 74 and receives the measured maximum / The maximum / minimum blood pressure value of the blood pressure and the maximum / minimum value of the standard measurement inputted by the user are compared with each other, and the correction value is calculated and stored in the memory 32.

Then, at the time of blood pressure measurement, the blood pressure measurement result information is corrected and displayed by the correction value.

Therefore, it is possible to obtain a more accurate result by correcting the measurement result information by using the measurement value measured by an actual standard blood pressure monitor or the like, in case the measurement value is different according to the personalized constitution of the individual.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. Should be considered to fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.

10: Measuring unit 20: Control unit,
22: displacement measuring sensor 24: waveform shaping device,
26: signal processor 28: controller,
30: Indicator 32: Memory.

Claims (3)

A displacement measuring sensor for detecting a displacement amount of a specific part of the patient's body and outputting the detection signal, a waveform shaping unit for shaping the detected waveform of the displacement detection signal and outputting the waveform as a pulse-shaped signal, A measurement unit configured by a signal processor for selecting one of a plurality of filters to filter input the output of the waveform shaping unit and to generate health state information by signal processing the filtered input detection signal in a predetermined form according to a measurement command, ,
A control unit having an indicator and providing a measurement command corresponding to the measurement menu selection signal to the signal processor and displaying health status information supplied from the signal processor through the display in a form corresponding to the selected measurement menu,
Containing
Network type health check device. The method of claim 1,
The displacement measurement sensor may be built in a portable communication device and may further include a contact path for easily transmitting a displacement amount between the displacement measurement sensor and the outside of the housing of the portable communication device
Network type health check device. The method of claim 1,
The control unit analyzes a measurement menu selection signal input from the outside and provides a measurement command corresponding to the measurement command to the signal processor and converts health state information supplied from the signal processor into display data corresponding to the selected measurement menu selection signal A display connected to the main controller and displaying display data outputted therefrom, a memory for storing graphic data and various kinds of information data, and for accessing data by the control of the main controller, Included
Network type health check device.

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