System and method for non intrusive monitoring of “at risk” individuals
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsEdith Stern, Barry E. Willner
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring one or more humans while maintaining the privacy of those individuals. The system includes one or more activity pickups that create one or more respective information outputs. A computer system monitors one or more of the information outputs and processes the information outputs to determine when one or more types of inactivity of the human in an area exceeds one or more thresholds of inactivity. Alarms and/or indications activate when one or more of the thresholds of inactivity is exceeded. Various types of thresholds of inactivity are disclosed.
Claims22
A system for monitoring one or more humans comprising:
- one or more activity pickups that create one or more respective information outputs;
- a computer system that monitors one or more of the information outputs and processes the information outputs to be indicative of activity, without providing information which violates privacy of the one or more humans;
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- a process, executing on the computer system, that determines when one or more types of inactivity of the human in an area exceeds one or more thresholds of inactivity and causes one or more alerts when one or more of the thresholds of inactivity is exceeded.
A system for monitoring one or more humans comprising:
- one or more activity pickups that create one or more respective information outputs;
- a computer system that monitors one or more of the information outputs;
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- a process, executing on the computer system, that determines when one or more types of inactivity of the human in an area exceeds one or more thresholds of inactivity and causes one or more alerts when one or more of the thresholds of inactivity is exceeded;
- where the alert is caused when one or more of the thresholds of inactivity is exceeded for a time period;
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- where the threshold of inactivity is determined by any of the following:
- a logical combination of two or more thresholds of inactivity, a variable determined by a formula containing more than one of the outputs, a logical combination of more than one levels of activity, and a level of more than one of the outputs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.