KR20170008042A

KR20170008042A - A method of providing an emergency alert function using smartphone and earphone

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Publication number: KR20170008042A
Application number: KR1020150099272A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 이장춘
Original assignee: 이장춘
Priority date: 2015-07-13
Filing date: 2015-07-13
Publication date: 2017-01-23
Also published as: KR101792047B1

Abstract

The method for providing an emergency alerting function using a smartphone and an earphone is performed by interlocking a user terminal (100) with an ear socket wherein the earphone (300) is connected where a user application (110) is installed and a protector terminal (200) wherein a protector application (210) is installed. The method for providing the emergency alerting function using the smartphone and the earphone includes: a connection recognizing step (S111) recognizing that the earphone (300) is normally connected to the ear socket by performing the user application (110); a disconnection recognizing step (S112) of recognizing a timing that the earphone (300) is disconnected from the ear socket; a first distinguishing step (S113) checking whether or not the disconnected earphone is returned to the normal connection state within a predetermined time period; a second distinguishing step (S115) of checking whether or not preset passwords or patterns are accurately inputted within a predetermined time period; an emergency recognizing step (S117) recognizing that a user is in an emergency situation; a coordinate transmitting step (S118) of generating latitude and longitude values and transmitting an SMS to the protector terminal (200); a protector application performing step (S211) of performing the protector application (210); a location information displaying step (S212) extracting information of a users location and displaying a map wherein the users location and address are displayed on a screen; and a reporting step (S213) of transmitting the location information and a reporting message to appropriate authorities. Accordingly, an effect of rapidly ensuring the safety of the user by conveniently determining the emergency situation of the user is obtained.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a method for providing an emergency alert using a smartphone and an earphone,

The present invention relates to a method for providing an emergency alert function using a smartphone and an earphone, and more particularly, to an emergency alert function using a smartphone and an earphone, and more particularly, And a protector app for displaying the location information of the user on the map to inform the protector of the user, so that the user can promptly respond to and take measures when an emergency is encountered .

In the world, smart phones are already widely used as a means of mass communication. Among them, Korea's smartphone penetration rate is overwhelming.

The smart phone has built-in functions such as wireless Internet access using data communication network and various multimedia content functions as well as the most basic call and message transmission (SMS) functions, so it plays a role of various kinds of digital devices including existing PCs, notebooks and MP3 players And is rapidly replacing its place.

Due to the generalization of the use of smartphones with such various functions, the average time for smartphone users to use the smartphone per day is not less than a few hours, except for the talk time, and the smartphone is closely related to our lives. It has become a necessity of digital life everyday in everyday life regardless of age.

While the behavior of using the smartphone continuously or using it for a long time causes side effects such as various smartphone games and chat addiction, it is perceived as a serious social problem, but on the other hand, The technologies related to the provision of various services for securing the security of the phone users are representative examples.

For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-2011-0096617 discloses a technique for providing a device and a service for a personal security service using a smartphone, and a description will be made as follows.

A communication control unit for requesting, accepting and maintaining communication with a smartphone; a government alarm unit for receiving an information alarm of the smartphone while maintaining communication and displaying the alarm to a user; a power equipment unit for controlling the power supply state and power supply state of the device; An emergency call control unit for allowing a user to easily perform an emergency call operation, and a status display unit for displaying a power status and an operation status of the apparatus;

Switching the mode to the sexual harassment prevention mode through the application when the user who has received the emergency call device uses the public transportation, switching to the sexual harassment prevention mode automatically through the location information or device recognition in connection with the equipment of public transportation, And notifying the dispatcher or subway crime scene when the emergency call button is pressed in the mode.

The above-mentioned patent discloses a function of notifying the investigation desk when a user presses a button of a separate emergency call device when the user faces an urgent situation while switching the smartphone app to a specific mode.

Therefore, the user must have a separate emergency call device connected to the application while the smartphone application is switched to the specific mode, and in case of an emergency, the user must press the button to activate the call function Resulting in inconvenience.

Therefore, in order to overcome the above-mentioned problems, a new type of technology linking a user and a caregiver has been developed and provided. For example, a method and system for providing a security home service are known in Japanese Patent No. 10-1358190.

A mobile communication terminal of a protected person having a camera when the protected person returns home includes a step of photographing a moving picture by operating a camera, a step of transmitting the photographed moving picture to a server in real time, The mobile communication terminal of the protector displays the real-time moving image, and when the protector determines that the protected person is in a dangerous state from the real-time moving image, And notifying the server of the dangerous situation.

Published Patent No. 10 - 2011 - 0096617 Patent No. 10 - 1358190 - 0000

A method and system for providing a safe return home service of the registered patent to which the conventional technology as described above is applied is a system in which a guardian picks up a video of himself / herself or his / her surroundings via his / her terminal at home and transmits it to the terminal of a guardian in real time, In real-time, to cope with a dangerous situation.

Accordingly, there is an improvement in that the guardian can take action even if the protected person does not take a specific action such as pressing the emergency call button directly as in the above-described patent, but the registered patent is basically a situation in which the return of the protected person Since the main feature of the invention is that the guardian monitors, the guardian inconveniences the user to constantly watch the video of the guardian in real time.

In particular, the guardian can visually confirm the situation of the protected person by visually relying only on the image captured by the protected person's terminal. However, since it is virtually impossible for the person under protection to carry out the normal shooting action in the emergency situation, There is a problem that can not be solved.

In addition, since the large-capacity moving image data must be transmitted between the protected person and the protector in real time using the data communication network, various servers and DBs are required to encode or transmit the captured moving images, thereby increasing the complexity of the system. And various costs for maintenance and management are increased.

In addition, even if the guardian acknowledges that the guardian is in danger and reports it to the police, there is no separate plan for identifying the most essential information in the emergency situation, such as the current position of the guardian. .

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems,

A user side terminal 100 provided with a user app 110 and a protector side terminal 200 installed with a protector app 210 are interlocked with each other with an ear jack to which an earphone 300 is grounded;

A ground recognizing step (S111) of recognizing that the earphone (300) is normally grounded to the ear jack by executing the user application (110);

A ground release recognition step (S112) of recognizing when the earphone 300 is disconnected from the ear jack during execution of the ground recognition step (S111);

A first discriminating step (S113) of confirming whether the earphone (300) returns to the earthing jack to a normal earthing state within a predetermined time after the earthing release recognition step (S112);

A second discriminating step (S115) of confirming whether or not a predetermined password or pattern is correctly inputted within a predetermined time after confirming return to the normal ground state in the first discriminating step (S113);

If the user is returned to the normal ground state in the first discrimination step S113 or an error occurs in the input of the password or pattern in the second discrimination step S115, Step S117;

A coordinate transmitting step (S118) in which the user application (110) generates a position / hardness value in association with the GPS module of the user-side terminal (100) and transmits an SMS to the guardian-side terminal (200);

A guardian application execution step (S211) in which the guardian app (210) is executed in the guardian terminal (200) receiving the SMS;

A location information display step (S212) of taking out the location information of the user taking the top and longitude values included in the SMS and displaying the map on which the user location and the address are displayed on the screen, ;

And a reporting step (S213) of transmitting a notification message together with the location information to the notification institution set in the parental supervisor application 210. Accordingly, the user can easily identify the emergency situation and achieve the purpose of securing safety quickly Do.

The present invention provides an emergency notification function by simply connecting an earphone, a user terminal installed with a user app, and a protector terminal installed with a protector app, so that it is relatively easy to develop, . &Lt; / RTI >

In addition, since it is unnecessary to transmit a large amount of data through a data communication network as in the related art and the current location information of the user can be easily notified to the guardian only by transmitting SMS between the user terminal and the guardian terminal, It is expected to have various crime prevention effect as well as securing.

In particular, it is possible to completely eliminate the inconvenience of having a separate device through a configuration using a device that can be grounded to a general earphone or ear jack, which is possessed by most smartphone users, and in case of emergency, It is possible to omit most unnecessary processes such as taking out and taking a separate operation, and it has various advantages such as excellent usability.

Brief Description of the Drawings Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a method for providing an emergency alert function using a smartphone and an earphone of the present invention. Fig.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a flow according to an embodiment of a method for providing an emergency notification function using a smartphone and an earphone of the present invention. FIG.

Hereinafter, a configuration and an operation of a method for providing an emergency alert function using a smartphone and an earphone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a method for providing an emergency alert function using a smartphone and an earphone according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method for providing an emergency alert function using a smartphone and an earphone according to the present invention. Will be described together with a flow chart shown in Fig.

A method for providing emergency alert using a smartphone and an earphone to which the technology of the present invention is applied includes a user terminal 100 provided with an ear jack to which earphone 300 is connected and a user app 110, Side terminal 200 installed therein, and includes the following steps.

First, in the user application 110, a ground recognizing step S111 recognizing that the earphone 300 is normally grounded by the earphone 300 through the execution of the user application 110, the earphone recognizing step S111 during the earthing recognition step S111, The earphone 300 recognizes whether or not the earphone 300 returns to the normal earthing state within a predetermined time after the earthing release recognition step S112, A second discriminating step S115 for confirming whether or not the preset password or pattern is correctly inputted within a predetermined time after confirming that the normal grounding state is restored in the first discriminating step S113, If it is determined in step S113 that the normal grounding state has been exited or if an error occurs in the input of the password or pattern in the second identification step S115, The situation recognition step S117, And a coordinate transmitting step (S118) in which the base user application (110) creates a top / longitude value in association with the GPS module of the user side terminal (100) and transmits the SMS to the side of the protector side terminal (200).

In the protector app 210, the protector app execution step S211 in which the protector app 210 is executed in the protector terminal 200 receiving the SMS, the map module built in the protector app 210 is executed in the SMS A position information display step (S212) of extracting position information of the user taking over the included stiffness and hardness values and displaying a map on which the user's position and address are displayed on the screen, And a reporting step (S213) of transmitting a report message together with the information.

The user-side terminal 100 and the protector-side terminal 200 collectively refer to various smart devices such as a smart phone and a tablet PC, and generally include a ear jack to which the earphone 300 is grounded.

The earphone 300 is a general earphone typically used as a general earphone terminal having three poles of left, right, and ground, or a connector having an earphone terminal for a smart phone composed of four poles including a microphone. The user terminal 100 can listen to the sound reproduced from the user terminal 100. FIG. Since the three-pole and four-pole terminals are mostly interchangeable, they can be recognized when the earphone is connected to the earphone of the terminal.

Meanwhile, various ear jack accessory products which are operated by being grounded to an ear jack have been developed and provided, and the present invention can be applied to an ear jack 300 of a user side terminal 100, It is preferable to be constructed so as to be able to recognize all kinds of products that can be grounded.

The user application 110 is an application installed in the user-side terminal 100. The user application 110 senses an electrical signal generated in the earphone 300 that is grounded to the ear jack and executes a ground recognizing step S111 and a ground release recognizing step S112 do.

The protector app 210 is automatically installed when the SMS transmitted from the user application 110 is received as an application installed in the protector-side terminal 200. The protector app 210 basically includes a map module to display the location information and the address of the user on the map.

In general, a map module is a technology implemented to generate and display a map of a surrounding area based on the upper and lower values, and various map services or navigation services provided in the form of a web application are technologies using a representative map module. The technical contents of the map module are known through various well-known techniques, so a detailed description will be omitted.

The map module included in the protector app 210 of the present invention preferably includes an address module so as to be able to derive accurate location information of the user in an emergency. The map module may be embedded in the caregiver app 210 through its own development, or may be reconfigured and applied to an open map module of an open API format according to the characteristics of the present invention.

The execution state of the user application 110 installed in the user-side terminal 100 will be described in more detail below.

The ground recognizing step S111 is a step in which the user executes the user application 110 while the earphone 300 is grounded to the earphone jack of the user terminal 100, 300 are grounded, the grounding recognition step S111 is executed by sensing an electrical signal generated in the earphone 300. [

That is, the user application 110 allows the user to preset whether the earphone 300 is automatically operated at the time when the earphone 300 is grounded to the ear jack, so that the user application 110 maintains the execution state even during the idle state to provide an emergency notification function .

If the earphone 300 is disconnected from the ear jack due to an emergency, or if an emergency occurs to the user in the state where the earthing recognition step S111 is executed, the earthing release recognition step S112 recognizes it as the earthing release time And is set as a reference time point of a predetermined time elapsed check at a subsequent step.

The first discrimination step S113 and the second discrimination step S115 are the same as the first discrimination step S113 and the second discrimination step S115 in the case where the cause of the de-earthing recognition step S112 is that the user is caused by an emergency situation, This is a two-step identification procedure that is carried out in order to more accurately identify whether or not it is caused by a failure.

In the first discrimination step S113, whether or not the earphone 300 is returned to the normal earthing state in the ear jack within a predetermined time from the earthing release time set in the earthing release recognition step S112 is discriminated .

The first discrimination step S113 includes a first releasing condition S114 in which the earphone 300 returns to a normal ground state in a predetermined time within a predetermined time and if the first releasing condition S114 is not satisfied, The state recognition step S117 is executed.

In the second discrimination step S115, after the normal grounding state is restored within a predetermined time in the first discrimination step S113, it is checked whether the password or pattern previously set by the user is inputted correctly within a predetermined time, Identify the situation again.

The second identification step S115 includes a second release condition S116 in which an accurate input of a password or a pattern previously set by the user is made.

Therefore, after the ground releasing time of the ground releasing recognition step S112, the first releasing condition S114 or the second releasing condition S116 in the first and second discriminating steps S113 and S115 is If it is not satisfied, the emergency situation recognition step S117 is executed. If all are satisfied, the user is recognized that the emergency situation has been canceled, and the process is stopped from proceeding to the subsequent stage and re-entered into the ground recognition step S111.

The identification process over the two stages of the present invention is intended to block the unexpected situations such as the cancellation of the emergency situation by the third person or prevent the occurrence of erroneous notification due to the user's operation error of the earphone 300, It is effective in heightening.

The emergency recognition step S117 does not satisfy the first release condition S114 in the first identification step S113 or the second release condition S116 in the second identification step S115, ) Is satisfied, it is determined that the emergency situation has occurred to the user.

In order to inform the guardian of the emergency situation, the coordinate transmitting step S118 generates the upper and lower ordinal numbers of the user's current position through the GPS module installed in the user's terminal 100 by the user application 110, To the terminal (200).

The execution state of the caregiver app 210 installed in the guardian terminal 200 receiving the SMS according to the execution state of the user app 110 as described above will be described in detail in step-by-step.

The protector app execution step S211 is a step in which the protector app 210 is automatically executed when the SMS transmitted from the user application 110 is received.

That is, the SMS transmitted to the protector-side terminal 200 in the coordinate transmitting step S118 of the user app 110 includes a unique code identifying the SMS transmitted from the user app 110, Is set such that the parental app execution step (S211) is automatically executed when an SMS containing the inherent code is received.

Accordingly, since only the guardian who receives the SMS including the unique code can confirm the location information of the user, it is possible to eliminate the possibility that the location information of the user is exposed to the third party, thereby eliminating the concern of privacy invasion. There is an advantage in that it is possible to omit a separate operation or setting procedure for executing the program 210.

In the position information display step S212, the map module built in the caregiver app 210 takes over the upper and lower latitude values included in the SMS, extracts the current location information of the user, displays the location and address on the map, do.

In addition, considering the case that the user is moving in an emergency, the coordinate transmitting step S118 repeatedly generates the upper and lower values at regular intervals to transmit the SMS to the guardian terminal 200 in real time, In step S212, the map module, which takes over the values of the stiffness and latitude transmitted in real time, updates the position of the user at regular intervals and displays it on the map.

Accordingly, since the user's movement path is displayed on the map displayed through the protector app 210 at a predetermined interval in real time, it is easy to grasp the position and route even while moving, have.

The reporting step (S213) is a step of allowing the guardian to immediately transmit the location information of the user displayed on the map to the reporting agency such as the police through the guardian app 210, so that appropriate measures can be promptly performed.

Ultimately, the method for providing the emergency alert function using the smartphone and the earphone according to the present invention having the above-described configuration can eliminate the complicated structure request procedure when the user faces an urgent situation, Since the location information can be quickly identified by the guardian, there is an advantage of having anticipation effect on various crime prevention.

In particular, since it is possible to provide an emergency notification function with a simple configuration that is significantly different from the prior art, it is expected that it will have a considerable effect in terms of economy as well as ease of use.

100: user terminal 110: user application
200: Protector-side terminal 210: Protector application
300: Earphone S111: Earthing recognition step
S112: Earthing release recognition step S113: First discrimination step
S114: First release condition S115: Secondary identification step
S116: Second release condition S117: Emergency situation recognition step
S118: Coordinate transmission step S211: Protector application execution step
S212: Position information display step S213: Flag step

Claims

A user side terminal 100 provided with a user app 110 and a protector side terminal 200 installed with a protector app 210 are interlocked with each other with an ear jack to which an earphone 300 is grounded;
A ground recognizing step (S111) of recognizing that the earphone (300) is normally grounded to the ear jack by executing the user application (110);
A ground release recognition step (S112) of recognizing when the earphone 300 is disconnected from the ear jack during execution of the ground recognition step (S111);
A first discriminating step (S113) of confirming whether the earphone (300) returns to the earthing jack to a normal earthing state within a predetermined time after the earthing release recognition step (S112);
A second discriminating step (S115) of confirming whether or not a predetermined password or pattern is correctly inputted within a predetermined time after confirming return to the normal ground state in the first discriminating step (S113);
If the user is returned to the normal ground state in the first discrimination step S113 or an error occurs in the input of the password or pattern in the second discrimination step S115, Step S117;
A coordinate transmitting step (S118) in which the user application (110) generates a position / hardness value in association with the GPS module of the user-side terminal (100) and transmits an SMS to the guardian-side terminal (200);
A guardian application execution step (S211) in which the guardian app (210) is executed in the guardian terminal (200) receiving the SMS;
A location information display step (S212) of taking out the location information of the user taking the top and longitude values included in the SMS and displaying the map on which the user location and the address are displayed on the screen, ;
And a notification step (S213) of transmitting a notification message together with the location information to a predetermined reporting organization in the parental control application (210). Accordingly, the emergency situation of the user can be easily identified and the safety can be quickly secured A method of providing an emergency notification function using a smartphone and an earphone.

The method according to claim 1,
The first discrimination step S113 includes a first releasing condition S114 in which the earphone 300 returns to a normal ground state in the ear jack within a predetermined time, and in the second discriminating step S115, And a second unlocking condition (S116) in which correct input of a preset password or pattern is performed. When the first unlocking condition (S114) and the second unlocking condition (S116) are both satisfied, And stops the process to the next step and re-enters the ground recognition step S111. Thus, the emergency cancellation by the third party can be essentially blocked or the occurrence of the false notification due to the user's earphone operation error can be prevented, Wherein the emergency notification function is configured to increase the identification power.

The method according to claim 1,
The user application 110 allows the user to preset whether the earphone 300 is automatically activated at the time when the earphone 300 is grounded to the ear jack, so that the user application 110 maintains the execution state even during the idle state to receive an emergency notification function The method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an emergency notification function using a smartphone and an earphone;

The method according to claim 1,
The SMS transmitted to the protector-side terminal 200 in the coordinate transmission step S118 includes a unique code identifying the SMS transmitted by the user application 110;
The guardian app 210 is configured to automatically execute the guardian application execution step S211 when the SMS including the unique code is transmitted, so that only the guardian who receives the SMS can confirm the location information of the user A method of providing an emergency notification function using a smartphone and an earphone.

The method according to claim 1,
In the coordinate transmitting step S118, the upper and lower values are generated at regular intervals and the SMS is transmitted to the guardian terminal 200 in real time;
In the step of displaying the position information (S212), the map module, which takes over the values of the stiffness and hardness transmitted in real time, updates the position of the user at predetermined intervals and displays it on the map, A method of providing an emergency notification function using a smartphone and an earphone.