KR20190044867A - Apparatus for elderly people who lives alone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for monitoring the elderly who lives alone and, more specifically, to an apparatus for monitoring the elderly who lives alone, configured to determine presence of the elderly and whether an emergency situation occurs using sensors and a camera respectively installed in a privacy-uninvaded area and a privacy-invaded area. To this end, the apparatus for monitoring the elderly who lives alone comprises: a plurality of movement detection units installed in a monitored area of the elderly and configured to detect movement of an object; a lamp detection unit for detecting whether a lamp of the elderly is turned on or off; a behavior pattern distinguishing unit for distinguishing a human being from a companion animal by comparing a behavior pattern of the human being, which is a sensed object, with that of the companion animal based on a signal of the movement detection units; a location checking unit for generating location information and time information of the object based on the signal of the movement detection units; a presence determining unit for determining presence of the object based on signals of the plurality of movement detection units, the lamp detection unit, the behavior pattern distinguishing unit, and the location checking unit; and an emergency situation determining unit for determining whether an emergency situation occurs based on the location information and the time information generated by the location checking unit.

Description

[0002] Apparatus for elderly people who lives alone [0003]

[0001] The present invention relates to a single-family control device for a single-family household, and more particularly, to a single-family control device for determining whether a single elderly person is re-housed and an emergency by using sensors and cameras installed in a non- will be.

Conventional prior art technology monitors the electricity consumption of a single generation, installs various sensors in a single household, monitors wearable devices and installs a wearable device for an elderly person living alone, and monitors emergency situations.

Such a conventional prior art has disadvantages in that it is inconvenient to install a camera in the privacy infringement area, and can not accurately detect the emergency situation of the elderly living alone.

KR 10-0980426, KR 10-1039626, KR 10-1409299, KR 10-1654609, KR 10-1735540, KR 10-2010-0058272, KR 10-2013-0137976, KR 10-2014-0134109

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in an effort to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a camera and motion detection sensor in a privacy non-invasion area and an invasion area, respectively, The purpose is to provide.

However, the objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

The above object of the present invention can be also achieved by a digital still camera including a plurality of motion detection units installed in a surveillance area of a single generation to detect movement of a target object, a light sensing unit sensing on / A behavior pattern discriminating unit for discriminating a behavior pattern of a person who is to be sensed and a behavior pattern of a pet, a position confirming unit for generating position information and time information of the object based on a signal of the motion sensing unit, And a position determination unit for determining whether or not the target object is reacquired based on the position information and the position information generated by the position identifying unit, And a judging unit for judging whether or not the single-party household monitoring apparatus is in operation.

In addition, the plurality of motion sensing units may include a first motion sensing unit installed in a first compartment area set as a privacy non-invasive area to sense a motion of a target object, and a second motion sensing unit installed in a second compartment area set as a privacy- And a second motion detection unit,

When the object moves from the first zone to the second zone, the emergency condition determiner compares the time information preset in the second zone with the position information and the time information generated in the second motion detector, .

In addition, the plurality of motion sensing units may include a first motion sensing unit installed in a first compartment area set as a privacy non-invasive area to sense a motion of a target object, and a second motion sensing unit installed in a second compartment area set as a privacy- And a second motion detection unit,

The emergency situation determination unit may include time information preset in each of the divided areas set differently according to day and night when the object continuously stays in the first or second area, position information generated in the first and second motion sensing units, And compares the time information with each other to determine whether or not the situation is an emergency situation.

The behavior pattern distinguishing unit includes a voice matching unit that recognizes the voice of the pet and the voice of the object and matches the recognized voice to the object or the pet, and an action of comparing the behavior pattern of the object with the behavior pattern of the pet And a pattern characteristic analyzing unit, wherein the discriminating unit distinguishes a person and a pet based on a signal of the speech matching unit or the behavior pattern analyzing unit, and the losing room determining unit determines whether or not to reuse according to the discrimination signal of the behavior pattern distinguishing unit.

In addition, it is also possible to provide a guardian communication unit that is networked with a singular household grouped with each other, a guardian display unit to which positional information and time information of a grouped object of the opposite party received through the communication unit, And a moving picture bell unit which is pressed when an emergency situation occurs in the other party's household according to information of at least one of moving picture information and moving picture information,

The emergency situation determination unit senses the signal of the guard bell, judges the emergency situation of the grouped party, and informs the upper party of the emergency situation.

According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to accurately detect an emergency situation in a privacy invasion area in which a motion sensor is installed by installing cameras and motion sensors in the privacy non-invasion area and the invasion area, respectively.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to further the understanding of the technical idea of the invention, It should not be construed as limited.
1 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a single generation according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a single-family generation control system according to an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 3 is a reference diagram for explaining a case where an emergency occurs in the privacy invasion area when the elderly living alone moves according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, the embodiment described below does not unduly limit the content of the present invention described in the claims, and the entire structure described in this embodiment is not necessarily essential as the solution means of the present invention. In addition, the description of the prior art and those obvious to those skilled in the art may be omitted, and the description of the omitted components and the function may be sufficiently referred to within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

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As shown in FIG. 1, the single-family generation control system according to one embodiment of the present invention is a system for real-time detection of a single-person living alone (1, subject) . The elderly living alone (1) moves or remains in each compartmented space. In FIG. 1, the living room, the balcony, the kitchen, the room 1, the room 2, and the toilet are divided according to an embodiment. The living room is the space where the elderly living alone (1) is mainly staying during the daytime, and the room 1 is the room where the nighttime is mainly staying. Therefore, the living room and room 1 may be the main room and the rest may be the sub-room. The camera 10 and the motion detection sensor units 11 and 12 are installed in the living room and the motion detection sensor units 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 are installed in the access areas (or doors) And detects whether or not the elderly person (1) is alone. At this time, the area where the camera 10 is installed is the privacy non-infringing area, and the area where the motion detecting sensor parts 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 are installed can be set as the privacy infringing area. Therefore, a camera may be additionally installed in the compartment area set as the non-privacy area. The elderly living alone 10 can stay in the first path 21, the second path 22, or various places along the path, while staying in the single generation.

As shown in FIG. 2, the voice recognition unit detects the voice of a person or a pet residing in the single-person household, matches time information and position information to the detected voice, and stores the matching voice in the database unit. The bed sensor attaches to the bed and detects the pressure or weight of the elderly living alone. The light sensing unit senses the on / off state or the brightness of a lighted light on a single generation. The signals generated by the voice recognition unit, the bed sensor unit, and the light sensing unit are stored in the database unit together with the time information, and are also input to the room judgment unit. The motion detection unit is a camera or a motion detection sensor unit that captures the elderly living alone as a moving picture or detects a single elderly person who is installed at an entrance of each divisional area and enters and leaves each divisional area. The signal of the motion sensing unit is input to the behavior pattern distinguishing unit and the position checking unit, and is matched with the time information and the position information, and is stored in the database unit.

The voice matching unit of the behavior pattern distinguishing unit recognizes the voice of the pet and the voice of the elderly living alone, and matches the recognized voice to the alone elderly person or pet object. That is, when the living alone and the cat are present in the same space at the same time, the voice of the elderly living alone is matched to the living elderly object, and the voice of the cat is matched to the cat object. Therefore, it can be concluded that the cats and the elderly living alone live in the single generation. Behavioral Patterns of the Behavioral Pattern Classification The Behavioral Pattern Analysis Department distinguishes between the behaviors of the elderly living alone and the behavior patterns of the pet. The behavior pattern characteristic analyzing unit may distinguish behavior patterns of the elderly living alone and the pet from moving images transmitted from the camera, or may distinguish each other by signals transmitted from the motion detection sensor unit. In other words, when dogs and elderly living alone reside in the living room, their behavior patterns may be different. Therefore, based on the signals obtained from the plurality of motion detection sensor units installed in the living room, the separated elderly person and the dog are distinguished from each other. The patterns of behaviors of elderly people living alone and their dogs can be stored and learned in the database department.

The position determination unit generates position information and time information of the living alone or the pet based on the signals of the plurality of motion detection units. In other words, assuming that the living alone aged person 1 moves along the first path 21 from the living room to the toilet in FIG. 1, the position confirming unit determines that the signal of the camera 10 or the motion detecting sensor units 11, The location information and the time information while staying in the living room are matched and recorded in the database unit in real time. Also, when the elderly living alone (1) enters the restroom, the position confirming unit matches the position information and the time information while staying in the toilet based on the signal of the motion detecting sensor unit 17 and records the same in the database unit in real time. At this time, the location information may be location information of a place where each motion detection sensor unit is installed. On the basis of the above-mentioned whole contents, the learner judging unit judges whether a living alone old person is living in a single household.

Hereinafter, it will be explained that an elderly person living alone is judged that an emergency has occurred and informing them to the upper level. In case of fire or gas leakage or flood in the rainy season, the Emergency Decision Department may inform the upper level that an emergency has occurred.

In addition, the emergency situation can be determined on the basis of the redundancy judged by the redundancy judgment unit. That is, as shown in FIG. 1, an unexpected emergency may occur in the toilet when the elderly person moves from the living room to the toilet along the first path 21. In FIG. 3, when the living alone is located in the living room, the living room determining unit analyzes the moving images 110, 120, and 130 generated by the camera from the location checking unit, At this time, elderly people living alone (1) when moving along the first path 21 to the toilet in the third video image 130 obtained at t ₃ time are not detected, elderly people living alone (1). Moreover, elderly people living alone (1) is an example of a motion detection signal writing movement sensor part 17 to the bath is produced in t ₄ hours. The control unit grasps the movement path of the living alone aged person (1) based on the generated motion sensing signal and moving image from the camera. At this time, the control section detects that an emergency case for counting the time from the time entered to the toilet in the living room (t _4), and exceed, the counting by the time information, and compare the maximum waiting time information is set to stay in the bath (Predetermined time information is stored differently for each partition area in the database unit). Of course, in this case, if the speech recognition unit is installed in each divided area, it can be detected that an emergency has occurred by analyzing the voice. On the other hand, the predetermined time information of each divided area can be stored differently because the elderly living alone can stay at different times. When you go to the toilet living room back to back along the first path 21, the video image from the camera to t ₅ hours (140) is obtained, the elderly people living alone (1) is detected.

In the example described above, if the elderly living alone 1 moves in the living room, but the operation is not detected in any of the plurality of motion detection sensor units, the control unit sounds the emergency alarm first, The emergency situation determination unit informs the upper stage that the emergency situation has occurred.

On the other hand, in the case where the elderly living alone 1 is not moving along the movement path but is staying in the room 1 for example, the emergency situation judging unit judges that the predetermined time information of the room 1, (Or an emergency) by comparing the position information and the time information generated by the motion detection unit with each other. At this time, if the elderly living alone (1) is moving in the room 1, since the motion detection sensor unit (15) continuously generates the motion detection signal, the motion detection signal To determine whether or not an emergency situation exists. The control unit can analyze the pattern of the motion detection signal to determine the state of the elderly living alone. That is, the operation pattern of the case where the elderly living alone (1) falls down in the room 1 and the case where the elderly living alone (1) moves in the room 1 will be different.

As described above, according to the present invention, the state of the elderly living alone (1) is closely observed and analyzed through the camera in the uninvited privacy area, and it is determined accurately whether the sleeping situation and the emergency situation occur. In the privacy intrusion area, It is judged whether or not it is reacquired. However, at this time, it is difficult to recognize whether or not an emergency situation has occurred by the motion detection sensor unit. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether or not an emergency occurs based on the time information and the position information of the segment area provided with the motion detection sensor unit .

On the other hand, if the single elderly people are grouped together and the elderly living alone is connected to each other, the guarding function can be performed to protect each other. In order to carry out this guard function, the guard communication section establishes a network connection between the singular generation groups which are grouped together. The guardian display unit displays positional information and time information or moving image information of the alone elderly person of the grouped opposing party generation received through the guard communication unit. The keep-alive bell is pressed by the other person alone when it is determined that an emergency occurs in the other party's household according to at least one of the position information, the time information, and the moving image information. The emergency situation determination unit senses the signal of the guard bell, judges the emergency situation of the grouped party, and informs the upper party of the emergency situation.

In addition, the keeping communication unit may enable a voice call or a video call between elderly people living alone. That is, in the case of the elderly living alone, there may be no mobile phone, so it is possible to solve the mutual respect and loneliness by voice call or video call.

On the other hand, if more than two elderly living alone exist in a single household, the control unit manages the individual elderly living alone and the emergency situation individually according to the above-mentioned principle by separately managing the elderly living alone. As an example, a single elderly person living alone is uncomfortable and lonely, and the elderly person living alone is managed individually according to the condition of the elderly living alone when the behavior is possible. An elderly person living alone who is inconvenient in his / An elderly person living alone who is free to move depends on the principle described above and judges whether or not the person is in an emergency situation.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description of the present invention are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to be exemplary only and are not restrictive of the invention, It will be possible.

The configuration and functions of the above-described components have been described separately from each other for convenience of description, and any of the components and functions may be integrated with other components or may be further subdivided as needed.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiment thereof, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and applications are possible. In other words, those skilled in the art can easily understand that many variations are possible without departing from the gist of the present invention. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions relating to the present invention as well as specific combinations of the components of the present invention with respect to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. something to do.

1: Elderly people living alone
10: camera (or first motion detection unit)
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17: a motion detection sensor unit (or second motion detection unit)
21: First path
22: Second path
110: First moving image
120: Second moving image
130: Third moving image
140: Fourth video image

Claims (5)

A plurality of motion detection units installed in the surveillance area of the single generation to detect movement of the object,
A light sensing unit for sensing on / off of the electric lamp of the single generation,
A behavior pattern distinguishing unit for comparing a behavior pattern of a person who is a sensing object with a behavior pattern of a pet based on a signal of the motion sensing unit,
A position determination unit for generating position information and time information of the object based on the signal of the motion detection unit,
A robot room determining unit for determining whether or not a target object is re-positioned based on the signals of the plurality of motion sensing units, the light sensing unit, the behavior pattern discriminating unit,
And an emergency condition determiner for determining whether the emergency situation is based on the location information and the time information generated by the location determiner.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the plurality of motion detection units comprise:
A first motion detection unit installed in a first compartment area set as an uninvited privacy area to detect movement of a target object,
And a second motion detection unit installed in a second zone defined as a privacy-infringing zone to detect motion of the object,
The emergency situation determination unit may include:
When the object moves from the first partition area to the second partition area, the time information preset in the second partition area and the position information and the time information generated in the second motion detection part are compared with each other, Wherein said individual generation control device is characterized by the following:
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the plurality of motion detection units comprise:
A first motion detection unit installed in a first compartment area set as an uninvited privacy area to detect movement of a target object,
And a second motion detection unit installed in a second zone defined as a privacy-infringing zone to detect motion of the object,
The emergency situation determination unit may include:
The time zone information and the time information generated by the first and second motion sensing units, respectively, in each of the divided zones set differently according to day and night when the object continuously stays in the first or second zone zone, To determine whether or not an emergency situation is present.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the behavior pattern distinguishing unit comprises:
A voice matching unit for recognizing the voice of the pet and the voice of the target and matching the recognized voice with the target or pet;
And a behavior pattern characteristic analyzing unit for comparing and analyzing the behavior pattern of the object and the behavior pattern of the pet,
A human or a pet is discriminated based on a signal of the speech matching unit or the behavior pattern characteristic analyzing unit,
The lapping-
And judges whether or not to reuse according to a discrimination signal of the behavior pattern discrimination unit.
The method according to claim 1,
A guard communication unit connected to a single generation group grouped together,
A display unit for displaying location information and time information of a target grouped moving object received through the communication unit or moving image information,
Further comprising a keep-alive bell unit which is pressed when an emergency situation occurs in the other party's household according to at least one of the position information, the time information, and the motion picture information,
The emergency situation determination unit may include:
Wherein the control unit senses a signal of the guard bell unit to judge an emergency situation of the grouped single party generation and informs the upper party of the emergency situation.

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