Monitoring system and method
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsChristoph Dobrusskin, I-Chih Kang
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Abstract
A baby monitor system and method has a baby monitor unit which collects sounds of a baby to be monitored. The sounds collected are analyzed and crying sounds are identified and categorized into a set of different crying types. A first alert for a first carer receiver unit is generated for a first sub-set of crying types and a second alert is generated for a second carer receiver unit for a second, different, sub-set of crying types. Thus, two (or more) carers can be allocated care responsibility for the baby for different crying types, to provide a division of care.
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A baby monitor system, comprising:
- a baby monitor unit having a microphone for collecting sounds of a baby to be monitored and an output system for providing alerts to a plurality of carer receiver units;
- and
- a processor arrangement for triggering alerts for one or more of the plurality of carer receiver units,
- wherein the processor arrangement is adapted to:
- analyze the sounds collected by the baby monitor unit;
- identify crying from the analyzed sounds and categorize the crying as one of a set of different crying types;
- generate a first alert trigger signal for generating a first alert provided to a first carer receiver unit in response to the crying being one of a first sub-set of crying types;
- and
- generate a second alert trigger signal for generating a second alert provided to a second carer receiver unit of the plurality of carer receiver units in response to the crying being one of a second sub-set of crying types, different to the first sub-set of crying types.
A baby monitoring method, comprising:
- collecting sounds of a baby to be monitored at a baby monitor unit;
- and
- providing signals for triggering generation of alerts for one or more of a plurality of carer receiver units by:
- analyzing the sounds collected by the baby monitor unit;
- identifying crying from the analyzed sounds and categorizing the crying as one of a set of different crying types;
- generating a first alert trigger signal for generating a first alert provided to a first carer receiver unit of the plurality of carer receiver units in response to the crying being one of a first sub-set of crying types;
- and
- generating a second alert trigger signal for generating a second alert provided to a second carer receiver unit of the plurality of carer receiver units in response to the crying being one of a second sub-set of crying types, different to the first sub-set of crying types.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program code that, when run on a processor arrangement of a baby monitoring system, causes the processor arrangement to:
- analyze sounds of a baby received from a baby monitor unit;
- identify crying from the analyzed sounds;
- categorize the crying as one crying type of a set of different crying types;
- generate a first alert for a first carer receiver unit in response to the crying being one of a first sub-set of crying types of the set of different crying types, wherein the first alert is provided to the first carer receiver unit;
- and
- generate a second alert for a second carer receiver unit in response to the crying being one of a second sub-set of crying types of the set of different crying types, different to the first sub-set of crying types, wherein the second alert is provided to the second carer receiver unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.