Healthcare monitoring system

Abstract

A healthcare monitoring system for health caring and space monitoring that determines movements or existence of a care recipient by utilizing visual images to detect variation in shape of an optical pattern is provided. The system includes a light source unit, an image capturing unit, an image processing unit and a warning unit. By capturing the shape variation of the optical pattern emitted by the light source unit provided around a lying equipment via the image capturing unit, the system effectively determines motions of the care recipient lying on the lying equipment, such as motions of getting up, turning over and hand waving, in addition to lying flat, and detects activities of care providers or irrelevant persons around the lying equipment, thereby having an advantage that the activities of the care recipient lying on the lying equipment and the condition around the lying equipment can be monitored comprehensively.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a health care monitoring system, in particular to a health care and space monitoring system that uses image vision to detect shape changes of optical patterns to determine the movement or presence of a caregiver. Background technique [0002] By the way, with the aging of the social population and the advancement of medical technology and equipment, many medical care activities that used to be performed in medical institutions can now be completed in the home environment of the elderly or patients. One of the main reasons for the vigorous development of home care related fields and industries; although many home care or support centers currently employ relevant caregivers to take care of the beneficiaries, there are still many unhealthy people in every corner of society. Sick elderly people often need to be alone at home, or there is only one person living alone in the whole home environment, etc., and these old people ...

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[0002] By the way, with the aging of the social population and the advancement of medical technology and equipment, many medical care activities that used to be performed in medical institutions can now be completed in the home environment of the elderly or patients. One of the main reasons for the vigorous development of home care related fields and industries; although many home care or support centers currently employ relevant caregivers to take care of the beneficiaries, there are still many unhealthy people in every corner of society. Sick elderly people often need to be alone at home, or there is only one person living alone in the whole home environment, etc., and these old people who are not sick or living alone do not need to hire caregivers to assist in caring; however, these people who are not sick Sick old people or old people who live alone, because of their old age, fading, and poor health, will always have common home accidents such as falls without knowing it, or more serious ones such as Serious events such as fainting or myocardial infarction

[0003] At present, relevant researches have been used to solve the above problems. For example, some elderly care systems wear tilt sensors on the elderly, which can sense the tilt signal when the elderly fall, and send relevant warning messages to the mobile communication devices of relatives. Remind relatives to be able to provide rescue in time; however, if the elderly forget to wear the tilt sensor or the tilt sensor falls from the elderly, they cannot effectively monitor the fall of the elderly; And the elderly care system including this detector" was developed to solve the above problems. This patent includes a sensing module, a processing module and a wireless transmission module. The sensing module senses whether there is an object passing in front; the processing module and the sensing module Connection; the wireless transmission module is connected with the processing module, wherein when the sensing module does not detect that there is an object passing in front of the predetermined time interval, the processing module can generate a warning signal, and can transmit the warning signal through the wireless transmission module; this The patent mainly uses infrared sensing to sense whether there is an object in front of it, and then drives the processing module to start lighting, providing a function similar to a night light to effectively prevent accidents where the elderly fall due to insufficient light at night. If the infrared sensing module When an object passing in front cannot be detected between predetermined time intervals, the drive processing module will generate a warning signal and send it to the mobile communication device held by the relative through the cloud server to warn the relative to rescue in real time; The presented sensing device can only detect certain fixed actions and at a fixed position. Since there is no image to assist observation, it does not mean that there is a problem if the elderly do not pass through the infrared detection area. At this time, the warning signal will change. Therefore, how to effectively use innovative hardware design to effectively judge the patient’s movements such as getting up, turning over or waving on the bed other than lying flat, and to detect the relatives of caregivers or other people around the bed It is still a problem that developers and researchers in related industries such as health care monitoring systems need to continue to work hard to overcome and solve

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