Title:
BATHING MONITORING SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2002125222
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a monitoring system utilizing an image of a nursed user taking a bath that can eliminate a psychological oppressive feeling of the user.
A camera used for monitoring a bath room is designed to be concealed and a person identification section switches on/off a monitoring operation of the system. The roughness of the image can be set in a plurality of states and a proper image can automatically be selected depending on a level of the emergency. The setting and the revision of the roughness of the image are permitted only from the inside of the bath room so that the system is configured to play a role of monitoring on the occurrence of abnormality while taking the psychological state of the bathing user into account.
Inventors:
KANZAKI KEISUKE
ARIFUKU KIYOSHI
TODOROKI KENTARO
TSUCHIYA KATSUHISA
OKANO HIROSHI
ARIFUKU KIYOSHI
TODOROKI KENTARO
TSUCHIYA KATSUHISA
OKANO HIROSHI
Application Number:
JP2000316672A
Publication Date:
April 26, 2002
Filing Date:
October 17, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOTO LTD
International Classes:
A61H33/00; G08B25/00; G08B25/04; H04N5/225; H04N7/18; (IPC1-7): H04N7/18; A61H33/00; G08B25/00; G08B25/04; H04N5/225