Photographing device for wheelchair

Abstract

To provide the state of a user who uses a wheelchair and an ambient state around him / her to the user's family, etc.SOLUTION: A first camera enabling photographing of an occupant in a wheelchair and a second camera enabling photographing of the front of a wheelchair are mounted to the wheelchair, every time a first prescribed time elapses, the occupant is photographed by the first camera and the occupant image with the photographed date / time and location attached as appended information is transmitted to an external administrative server, and also every time a second prescribed time elapses, the front of the wheelchair is photographed by the second camera and the front image with the photographed date / time and location attached as appended information is transmitted to the administrative server.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to a wheelchair-accessible imaging device. [Background technology]

[0002] In recent years, a proposal has been made for wheelchairs that sets a route using nodes and route link information based on position information along the sidewalk, road, and pedestrian section, with priority given to barrier-free sidewalks, and creates linear guide blocks on the sidewalks and painted pavement lines on the road and crosswalks, allowing the wheelchair to move by following these lines (see, for example, Patent Document 1). [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] JP 2022-013179 A Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] The families of such wheelchair users are constantly concerned about whether or not the users are using the wheelchair safely, and would like some method of obtaining information such as the user's wheelchair usage status.

[0005] The wheelchair-accessible photographing device of the present disclosure has a primary purpose of providing the condition of a wheelchair user and the surrounding environment to the user's family and others. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] The wheelchair-accessory camera of the present disclosure employs the following means to achieve the above-mentioned main object.

[0007] The wheelchair-accessible photographing device of the present disclosure is A wheelchair-use photographing device is attached to a wheelchair and has a first camera capable of photographing a passenger in the wheelchair and a second camera capable of photographing an area in front of the wheelchair, taking an image of the occupant using the first camera every time a first predetermined time has elapsed, and sending the image of the occupant to an external management server with a date and time of taking the image and a location of taking the image attached as supplementary information; every time a second predetermined time has elapsed, an image of the front of the wheelchair is captured by the second camera, and the captured image is sent to the management server together with the date and time of capture and the location of the captured image as supplementary information; It is characterized by:

[0008] In the wheelchair photography device of the present disclosure, the first camera capable of photographing the occupant in the wheelchair photographs the occupant every time a first predetermined time has passed, and the occupant image is generated. The occupant image is attached with the date and time of photographing and the location of photographing as supplementary information and transmitted to an external management server. In addition, the front of the wheelchair is photographed by the second camera capable of photographing the front of the wheelchair every time a second predetermined time has passed, and the front image is transmitted with the date and time of photographing and the location of photographing as supplementary information to an external management server. The family of the user, etc. can know the state of the user using the wheelchair and the surrounding situation by acquiring the occupant image with the supplementary information and the front image with the supplementary information from the management server. That is, the state of the user using the wheelchair and the surrounding situation can be provided to the family of the user. The wheelchair includes a wheelchair that is operated manually by the occupant and a wheelchair that is operated by the occupant's operation using power from a power source.

[0009] The wheelchair-accessible photographing device of the present disclosure is A monitoring system including the wheelchair-accessible photographing device, the management server capable of communicating with the wheelchair-accessible photographing device, and a mobile terminal capable of communicating with the management server, The management server includes: storing the identification information of the wheelchair-mounted photographing device in a database together with the occupant image with supplementary information and the front image with supplementary information; When a predetermined request is made from the mobile terminal using the identification information, the passenger image with the supplementary information and / or the front image with the supplementary information are sequentially transmitted based on the identification information. It may also be used in a monitoring system. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0010] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram showing an outline of the configuration of a monitoring system 10 including a wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. [Diagram 2] 13 is a flowchart showing an example of a monitoring photography process as a function of a monitoring application 22 for photography installed in a wheelchair-accessible photography device 20. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0011] Next, a mode (embodiment) for carrying out the present disclosure will be described. Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a monitoring system 10 including a wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 as an embodiment of the present disclosure. The monitoring system 10 is composed of the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 attached to a wheelchair 12 by a holder 14, a management server 30 capable of communicating with the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20, and a mobile terminal 40 capable of communicating with the management server 30.

[0012] The wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 is configured by installing a photographing monitoring application 22 on a general smartphone that has a date function and is equipped with cameras for photographing on the front and back. The wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 has a GPS (Global Positioning System, Global Positioning Satellite) function, and is capable of acquiring position information of the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20.

[0013] The management server 30 is configured as a general server computer and functions as a cloud server. Although not shown, the management server 30 has an image data storage device for storing image data, and transmits the image data stored in the image data storage device to the mobile terminal 40 in response to a request from the mobile terminal 40.

[0014] The mobile terminal 40 is configured by installing a receiving monitoring application on a general smartphone. In the receiving monitoring application 42, identification information (identification information of the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20) for identifying the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 linked from the multiple wheelchair-accessible photographing devices 20 is set, and the identification information is used to request the management server 30 to transmit image data.

[0015] Next, a description will be given of the operation of the monitoring system 10 configured as above. Fig. 2 is a flow chart showing an example of a monitoring photographing process as a function of the photographing monitoring application 22 installed in the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20.

[0016] The monitoring photography process begins with adjusting the position of the wheelchair photography device 20 attached by the holder 14 (step S100). This position adjustment can be performed, for example, by photographing the occupant in the wheelchair 12 with the front camera and judging whether the occupant's face is in a predetermined position (e.g., the upper center of the screen) in the photographed image, or by photographing the area in front of the wheelchair 12 with the rear camera and judging whether the situation in front has been photographed correctly. Such a judgment may be made by the occupant of the wheelchair 12 or by another person.

[0017] Next, the process waits for the process to start (step S110). This process can be performed, for example, by displaying a "processing start" switch on the display screen of the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 and waiting for the switch to be tapped.

[0018] When the process starts, after waiting for a first predetermined time to elapse (step S120), the front camera captures an image of the occupant of the wheelchair 12 (step S130), and the captured image is sent to the management server 30 as occupant image data with the identification information of the wheelchair camera 20 and the date and time of capture and the capture location as supplementary information (step S140). When the management server 30 receives the occupant image data from the wheelchair camera 20, it stores the data in the image data storage device.

[0019] Next, after waiting for a second predetermined time to elapse (step S150), the camera on the back side captures an image of the area in front of the wheelchair 12 (step S160), and sends the captured image to the management server 30 as front image data with the identification information of the wheelchair camera 20 and the date and time of capture and the capture location as supplementary information (step S170). When the management server 30 receives the front image data from the wheelchair camera 20, it stores the data in the image data storage device.

[0020] Then, it is determined whether or not the process has ended (step S180), and if it is determined that the process has not ended, the process returns to the process in step S120 in which the first predetermined time has elapsed, and if it is determined that the process has ended, the process ends. The process may end, for example, by displaying an "end" switch on the display screen of the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 and tapping this switch, or by turning off the power of the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20.

[0021] The wheelchair photography device 20 photographs the occupant of the wheelchair 12 with the front camera and transmits the photographed image data to the management server 30 every time a first predetermined time has elapsed since the start of processing, and also photographs the front of the wheelchair 12 with the rear camera and transmits the photographed image data to the management server 30 every time a second predetermined time has elapsed.

[0022] In the mobile terminal 40, the user starts the receiving monitoring application 42, inputs the stored identification information and date of the wheelchair-use photographing device 20, and transmits them to the management server 30 together with a signal requesting transmission of image data. In response to this request, the management server 30 transmits the passenger image data and the front image data that match the identification information and the date of the wheelchair-use photographing device 20 to the mobile terminal 40 in chronological order. If the date corresponds to "today", the passenger image data and the front image data stored immediately after the passenger image data and the front image data are stored in the image data storage device are transmitted to the mobile terminal 40. The mobile terminal 40 that receives the passenger image data and the front image data reads out the passenger image data and the front image data in chronological order by the user's operation and displays them on the display screen. This allows the user of the mobile terminal 40 to check the state of the passenger in the wheelchair 12 and the situation ahead.

[0023] In the monitoring system 10 of the embodiment described above, the wheelchair photographing device 20 photographs the occupant of the wheelchair 12 with the front camera and transmits the photograph as occupant image data to the management server 30 every time a first predetermined time has elapsed since the start of processing, and photographs the front of the wheelchair 12 with the rear camera and transmits the photograph as front image data to the management server 30 every time a second predetermined time has elapsed. The management server 30 transmits the occupant image data and front image data to the mobile terminal 40 in response to a request from the mobile terminal 40. This allows the user of the mobile terminal 40 to check the state of the occupant of the wheelchair 12 and the situation ahead.

[0024] The correspondence between the main elements of the embodiment and the main elements of the invention described in the section on means for solving the problem will be described below. In the embodiment, the front camera corresponds to the "first camera", the rear camera corresponds to the "second camera", the wheelchair-accessible photographing device 20 corresponds to the "wheelchair-accessible photographing device", and the management server 30 corresponds to the "management server".

[0025] Note that the correspondence between the main elements of the embodiment and the main elements of the invention described in the Means for Solving the Problem column does not limit the elements of the invention described in the Means for Solving the Problem column, since the embodiment is an example for specifically explaining the form for implementing the invention described in the Means for Solving the Problem column. In other words, the interpretation of the invention described in the Means for Solving the Problem column should be made based on the description in that column, and the embodiment is merely a specific example of the invention described in the Means for Solving the Problem column.

[0026] The present disclosure has been described above using embodiments, but the present disclosure is not limited to these embodiments in any way, and it goes without saying that the present disclosure can be embodied in various forms without departing from the gist of the present disclosure. [Industrial Applicability]

[0027] The present disclosure can be used in the wheelchair imaging device manufacturing industry, etc. [Explanation of symbols]

[0028] 10 monitoring system, 12 wheelchair, 14 holder, 20 wheelchair camera, 22 monitoring application for photography, 30 management server, 40 mobile terminal, 42 receiving monitoring application.

Claims

[Claim 1] A wheelchair-use photographing device is attached to a wheelchair and has a first camera capable of photographing a passenger in the wheelchair and a second camera capable of photographing an area in front of the wheelchair, taking an image of the occupant using the first camera every time a first predetermined time has elapsed, and sending the image of the occupant to an external management server with a date and time of taking the image and a location of taking the image attached as supplementary information; an image of a front of the wheelchair is captured by the second camera every time a second predetermined time has elapsed, and the captured image is sent to the management server together with information indicating the date and time of capture and the location of the captured image. A wheelchair-accessible photographing device.

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