Patent ID: 7298256
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. A crisis monitoring apparatus to judge whether a person is in a crisis situation, comprising an input unit, a recording unit, and a control unit to judge whether a person is in a crisis situation, wherein the input unit receives an audio signal, the recording unit records emotion attribute information, which includes a feature of a specific emotion in an audio signal, as information necessary to judge a crisis situation, and the control unit controls the input unit and the recording unit, determines a person's emotion by comparing an audio signal inputted to the input unit with the emotion attribute information, and executes a predetermined emergency processing when the determined emotion indicates a crisis situation, wherein the recording unit records an audio signal inputted to the input unit, and wherein the control unit: deletes the audio signal recorded in the recording unit after a predetermined time elapses, when the determined emotion does not indicate a crisis situation; and keeps to record the audio signal recorded in the recording unit after the predetermined time elapses, when the determined emotion indicates a crisis situation.