Patent ID: 8994805
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: A61B,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A safe nursing system comprising: a control unit programmed to monitor a movement of a patient on a bed, the control unit including: an image capturing unit disposed in a position from which an image including a side of a top surface of the bed can be captured; wherein the control unit further includes an image capturing control unit that obtains image data captured by the image capturing unit; the calculation unit specifies feature points in an image of the patient in the image data obtained by the image capturing control unit and calculates a value of the predetermined index of the specified feature points; the setting unit sets the predetermined condition based on a region of the bed in the image data obtained by the image capturing control unit; the control unit further includes a caregiver determination unit that determines whether or not a caregiver is present based on the image data obtained by the image capturing control unit; and the alert level setting unit changes, in a case where the caregiver determination unit determines that a caregiver is present, the correspondence relationship so as to lower, but not cancel, the alert level from “warning” to “caution” or from “caution” to “normal alert” for each predetermined movement indicated by the set correspondence relationship.