JP2014042699A - Hearing aid and medicine taking reminder notification system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a hearing aid and a medicine taking reminder system for preventing medicine from being forgotten.
A microphone that collects ambient sounds, a hearing aid processing unit that performs hearing aid processing on a sound signal input from the microphone, a receiver that outputs a sound signal subjected to hearing aid processing by the hearing aid processing unit, A timer that counts the current time, a storage unit that stores dosing instruction information, a meal start detection unit that analyzes input sound from the microphone and detects that a meal has started, and detects that a meal has ended A meal end detection unit; a detection result of the meal start detection unit or a detection result of the meal end unit; and a dosing message output determination unit that determines whether to output a dosing message from the dosing instruction information; When the dose message output determination unit determines to output a message, the message output unit outputs a dose message from the receiver.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for managing a medication time by linking a hearing aid and a medicine box.

  Drugs prescribed at pharmacies are timed to be taken according to the type of drug, and patients must take the drug as instructed, but in reality, the majority of patients follow the prescription instructions. It is regarded as a problem not to take. Therefore, there is a known medicine notification prompting method that uses a mobile terminal to notify a patient of the time to be taken so that the patient can take the medicine as prescribed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). .

JP 2003-016185 A

  The conventional medicine reminding notification method is effective when there is little change in the patient's life pattern (for example, meal time), but it cannot be applied when the patient's meal time changes, for example.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a hearing aid that can notify the time taken in response to changes in meal time, which is a lifestyle of patients.

  In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a microphone that collects ambient sounds, a hearing aid processing unit that performs hearing aid processing on an audio signal input from the microphone, and a hearing aid process performed by the hearing aid processing unit. A receiver that outputs the received audio signal, a timer that counts the current time, a storage unit that stores dosing instruction information, and a meal start detection that detects input from the microphone and detects that a meal has started Whether or not to output a dosing message from the meal end detection unit for detecting that the meal has ended, the detection result of the meal start detection unit or the detection result of the meal end unit, and the dosing instruction information A message output unit that determines a message and outputs a message from the receiver when the message output determination unit determines that a message is to be output. Part was configured to have.

  Further, a medicine dispenser capable of sorting and storing medicines suitable for one dose and taking out the sorted medicines for each dosage, a control unit for controlling the entire operation of the medicine dispenser, and this control A detection unit for detecting that a medicine has been taken out from the medicine dispenser, connected to the control unit, a medicine dosage information storage unit connected to the control unit for storing medicine dosage information of a patient, and a withdrawal detection unit. A drug dispenser having a drug dispenser communication unit connected to the control unit for communicating a detection result, the drug medication information, and the like with the hearing aid, and the hearing aid according to claim 1, further comprising: And a hearing aid communication unit connected to the taking message output determination unit for performing communication.

  This achieves the intended purpose.

  As described above, the present invention provides a microphone that collects ambient sounds, a hearing aid processing unit that performs hearing aid processing on a sound signal input from the microphone, and a sound signal that has been subjected to hearing aid processing by the hearing aid processing unit. A receiver for outputting, a timer for counting current time, a storage unit for storing dosing instruction information, a meal start detecting unit for analyzing the input sound from the microphone and detecting that a meal has started, and a meal A meal message for determining whether or not to output a meal message from the meal end detection part for detecting the end of the meal, the detection result of the meal start detection part or the detection result of the meal end part, and the dosing instruction information An output determining unit; and a message output unit that outputs a dosing message from the receiver when the dosing message output determining unit determines to output a message. .

  Further, a medicine dispenser capable of sorting and storing medicines suitable for one dose and taking out the sorted medicines for each dosage, a control unit for controlling the entire operation of the medicine dispenser, and this control A detection unit for detecting that a medicine has been taken out from the medicine dispenser, connected to the control unit, a medicine dosage information storage unit connected to the control unit for storing medicine dosage information of a patient, and a withdrawal detection unit. A drug dispenser having a drug dispenser communication unit connected to the control unit for communicating a detection result, the drug medication information, and the like with the hearing aid, and the hearing aid according to claim 1, further comprising: And a hearing aid communication unit connected to the taking message output determination unit for performing communication.

  In this way, in the present invention, since it is possible to notify the timing of taking the medicine from the hearing aid, it is possible to inform the taking time corresponding to the fluctuation of the meal time, which is a lifestyle of the patient, so forgetting to take the medicine Can be prevented.

The figure which shows the use condition of Embodiment 1 of this invention Block diagram of Embodiment 1 of the present invention The figure which shows taking instruction information Flowchart of Embodiment 1 of the present invention The figure which shows the use condition of Embodiment 2 of this invention Block diagram of Embodiment 2 of the present invention Flowchart of Embodiment 1 of the present invention

Hereinafter, embodiments of the hearing aid and the reminder notification system for taking medicines according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a use state in which a user 1 wears a hearing aid 2 on an ear. The user 1 is a hearing impaired person and always wears the hearing aid 2 on his / her ear in daily life. And the user 1 has chronic illness and needs to take a medicine every day. With regard to taking this medicine, the timing of taking the medicine, such as taking it after meals or taking it before meals, is decided, but it is quite easy for User 1 to take the medicine at these timings without forgetting it. difficult. Therefore, in the first embodiment, a configuration for notifying the timing of taking medicine by the hearing aid 2 is shown below.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the hearing aid 2. First, as a function of a normal hearing aid, a microphone 3 that collects ambient sounds, an A / D converter 4 that converts analog audio data output from the microphone 3 into digital audio data, and the A / D converter 4 Hearing aid processing unit 5 that performs hearing aid processing according to the hearing ability of user 1 with respect to the data converted into digital sound data, and digital sound data that has been subjected to hearing aid processing by this hearing aid processing unit 5 is converted into analog sound data. A D / A converter 6 and a receiver 7 that converts analog audio data converted by the D / A converter 6 into air vibrations are provided.

  And in order to implement | achieve the function of this Embodiment 1, it connects with the hearing aid process part 5, and the meal which detects the mastication sound which generate | occur | produces when the user 1 eats and drinks from the ambient sound input with the microphone 3 A start detection unit 8 is provided. When the mastication sound is detected by the meal start detection unit 8 (S1 in FIG. 4), the medication message output unit 9 is notified.

  A storage unit 10 is connected to the dose message output unit 9, and dose instruction information is recorded in the storage unit 10, and specific information of the dose instruction information includes breakfast, lunch, For each dinner, time to eat, whether it is taken before meals or after meals, and if taken before meals, how long before meals, if taken after meals, how long after meals It is time to take whether to take it.

  A timer 11 is connected to the dosing message output unit 9. When receiving the meal start notification from the meal start detection unit 8, the dosing message output unit 9 considers the current time (S 2 in FIG. 4) by the timer 11 and the dosing instruction information recorded in the storage unit 10. Then, it is determined whether or not a dose message is output.

  For example, if the time when the meal start notification is received from the meal start detection unit 8 is 7:30 minutes, the closest one is extracted from the meal times recorded as the medication instruction information. In the case of the information as shown in FIG. 3, the closest time is 7:00 for breakfast. Although it is 7:00 as taking instruction information, since the actual meal time is not so accurate, for example, within ± 1 hour, it is the meal time recorded in the taking instruction information. to decide.

  In addition, the meal start time detected by the meal start detection part 8 may be recorded and totaled, and the start time in breakfast, lunch, and dinner of the dosing instruction information may be updated.

  In addition, since the breakfast instruction is taken before meals (S3 in FIG. 4), for example, a recommendation message such as “Did you take the medicine?” Is output from the receiver 7 (FIG. 4). S4).

  In another example, if the time when the meal start notification is received from the meal start detection unit 8 is 11:30 minutes, the closest one is extracted from the meal times recorded as the medication instruction information. In the case of the information as shown in FIG. 3, the closest time is 12:00 for lunch. Although it is 12:00 as taking instruction information, since the actual meal time is not so accurate, for example, within ± 1 hour, it is the meal time recorded in the taking instruction information. to decide.

  Further, as the medication instruction information, since lunch is taken after a meal (S3 in FIG. 4), it is in a standby state until the meal is finished (S5 in FIG. 4). The end of meal is detected by the end of meal detection unit 12 connected to the hearing aid processing unit 5 and the taking message output unit 9. The meal end detection unit 12 regards that the mastication sound is not detected for a predetermined time in the state where the meal start detection unit 8 notifies the dosing message output unit 9 of the start of the meal, and determines that the meal ends and outputs a dosing message. Notify unit 9.

The medication message output unit 9 receives the notification from the meal end detection unit 12, and after 30 minutes, which is the medication time information recorded as the medication instruction information, has elapsed (S6 in FIG. 4), for example, "Recommended?" Is output from the receiver 7 (S7 in FIG. 4).
In the above configuration, by notifying the user 1 of the medication timing from the hearing aid 2, it is possible to prevent forgetting to take the medication and to cope with a certain amount of meal time shift.

(Embodiment 2)
Next, a drug use reminding notification system in which a hearing aid and a medicine dispenser are linked will be described. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same component as Embodiment 1. FIG.

  In FIG. 5, the user 1 wears the hearing aid 13 on his / her ear and uses the drug dispenser 14 together. The medicine dispenser 14 is a storage box for storing medicines and can take out medicines from the medicine outlet 15 for each medicine taken at one time. This medicine dispenser is generally widely known, and the description of the basic function is omitted, and only the characteristic part of the second embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a drug use reminding notification system in which the hearing aid 13 and the medicine dispenser 14 are linked.

  The configuration of the hearing aid 13 is different from the configuration of the hearing aid 2 of the first embodiment in that a communication unit 16 for communicating with the drug dispenser 14 is provided.

  The drug dispenser 14 is a control unit 17 that controls the overall movement of the drug dispenser 14, a drug dispenser communication unit 18 that communicates with the hearing aid 13, and an extraction that detects that the drug has been extracted from the drug extraction port 15. A detecting unit 19 and a medicine taking information storage unit 20 storing medicine taking information are provided.

  Next, the overall processing flow will be described.

  When the mastication sound is detected by the meal start detection unit 8 that detects the mastication sound generated when the user 1 eats or drinks from the ambient sound input to the microphone 3 and connected to the hearing aid processing unit 5 (see FIG. 7 (S1), the medication message output unit 9 is notified.

  A storage unit 10 is connected to the dose message output unit 9, and dose instruction information is recorded in the storage unit 10, and specific information of the dose instruction information includes breakfast, lunch, For each dinner, time to eat, whether it is taken before meals or after meals, and if taken before meals, how long before meals, if taken after meals, how long after meals It is time to take whether to take it.

  A timer 11 is connected to the dosing message output unit 9. Upon receipt of the meal start notification from the meal start detection unit 8, the dosing message output unit 9 considers the current time (S2 in FIG. 7) by the timer 11 and the dosing instruction information recorded in the storage unit 10. Then, it is determined whether or not a dose message is output.

  For example, if the time when the meal start notification is received from the meal start detection unit 8 is 7:30 minutes, the closest one is extracted from the meal times recorded as the medication instruction information. In the case of the information as shown in FIG. 3, the closest time is 7:00 for breakfast. Although it is 7:00 as taking instruction information, since the actual meal time is not so accurate, for example, within ± 1 hour, it is the meal time recorded in the taking instruction information. to decide.

  In addition, as for taking instruction information, since breakfast is taken before meals (S3 in FIG. 7), for example, a recommendation message such as “Did you take the medicine?” Is output from the receiver 7 (see FIG. 7). S4) A medicine discharge request is notified to the medicine dispenser 14 via the communication unit 16 (S5 in FIG. 7).

  When the medicine dispenser 14 receives the above notification via the medicine dispenser communication unit 18 (S6 in FIG. 7), the control unit 17 discharges one dose of medicine from the medicine dispenser 14 to the medicine outlet 15 (FIG. 7). S7).

  The take-out detection unit 19 detects whether or not the medicine has been taken out from the medicine take-out port 15 (S8 in FIG. 7), and when detecting that the medicine has been taken out by the user 1, the medicine dispenser communication unit 18 Is sent to the hearing aid 13 (S9 in FIG. 7).

  The hearing aid 13 waits for a medicine removal notification from the medicine dispenser 14 after the medicine discharge request (S5 in FIG. 7) (S10 in FIG. 7).

  Here, when the medicine removal notification is received from the medicine dispenser 14 via the communication unit 16, the user 1 is considered to have taken the medicine, and a message such as the effect of taking this medicine is received by the receiver. 7 (S12 in FIG. 7).

  If the medicine withdrawal notification from the medicine dispenser 14 is not received within a predetermined time, it is considered that the medicine has not been taken, and various symptoms assumed when the medicine is not taken are received by the receiver. 7 (S13 in FIG. 7).

  In addition, although the message at the time of taking or not taking these drugs is stored in the storage unit 10 of the hearing aid 13, it is stored in the drug use information storage unit 20 of the drug dispenser 14 separately from the message. You may make it send to the hearing aid 13.

  In another example, if the time when the meal start notification is received from the meal start detection unit 8 is 11:30 minutes, the closest one is extracted from the meal times recorded as the medication instruction information. In the case of the information as shown in FIG. 3, the closest time is 12:00 for lunch. Although it is 12:00 as taking instruction information, since the actual meal time is not so accurate, for example, within ± 1 hour, it is the meal time recorded in the taking instruction information. to decide.

  Further, as the dosing instruction information, since lunch is taken after a meal (S3 in FIG. 7), it is in a standby state until the meal is finished (S14 in FIG. 7). The end of meal is detected by the end of meal detection unit 12 connected to the hearing aid processing unit 5 and the taking message output unit 9. The meal end detection unit 12 regards that the mastication sound is not detected for a predetermined time in the state where the meal start detection unit 8 notifies the dosing message output unit 9 of the start of the meal, and determines that the meal ends and outputs a dosing message. Notify unit 9.

  The medication message output unit 9 receives the notification from the meal end detection unit 12 and, after 30 minutes, which is the medication time information recorded as the medication instruction information, has passed (S15 in FIG. 4), for example, Please take a message such as “Please do” from the receiver 7 (S16 in FIG. 7), and notify the medicine dispenser 14 of a medicine discharge request via the communication unit 16 (S17 in FIG. 7).

  When the medicine dispenser 14 receives the above notification via the medicine dispenser communication unit 18 (S6 in FIG. 7), the control unit 17 discharges one dose of medicine from the medicine dispenser 14 to the medicine outlet 15 (FIG. 7). S7).

  The take-out detection unit 19 detects whether or not the medicine has been taken out from the medicine take-out port 15 (S8 in FIG. 7), and when detecting that the medicine has been taken out by the user 1, the medicine dispenser communication unit 18 Is sent to the hearing aid 13 (S9 in FIG. 7).

  The hearing aid 13 waits for a medicine removal notification from the medicine dispenser 14 after the medicine discharge request (S17 in FIG. 7) (S10 in FIG. 7).

  Here, when the medicine removal notification is received from the medicine dispenser 14 via the communication unit 16, the user 1 is considered to have taken the medicine, and a message such as the effect of taking this medicine is received by the receiver. 7 (S12 in FIG. 7).

  If the medicine withdrawal notification from the medicine dispenser 14 is not received within a predetermined time, it is considered that the medicine has not been taken, and various symptoms assumed when the medicine is not taken are received by the receiver. 7 (S13 in FIG. 7).

  As described above, in the second embodiment, it is possible to check the medicine instruction to the user 1 and whether or not the user 1 actually took the medicine.

  In the second embodiment, the medication instruction information recorded in the storage unit 10 of the hearing aid 13 is stored in the medication use information storage unit 20 of the medication dispenser 14 so that the information is transmitted to the hearing aid 13 by communication. Good.

  Further, by saving the medication history of the user 1 as log data, it can be used for diagnosis by a doctor.

  As described above, the present invention can notify the timing of taking the drug from the hearing aid, and can inform the patient of the taking time corresponding to the fluctuation of the meal time, which is a lifestyle of the patient. Since it can be prevented, it will be widely used.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 User 2 Hearing aid 3 Microphone 4 A / D converter 5 Hearing aid processing part 6 D / A converter 7 Receiver 8 Meal start detection part 9 Dosing message output part 10 Memory | storage part 11 Timer 12 Meal end detection part 13 Hearing aid 14 Drug dispenser 15 Medicine Extraction port 16 Communication unit 17 Control unit 18 Drug dispenser communication unit 19 Extraction detection unit 20 Drug medication information storage unit

Claims (15)

A microphone that collects ambient sounds,
A hearing aid processor that performs hearing aid processing on the audio signal input from the microphone;
A receiver that outputs a sound signal that has been subjected to hearing aid processing by the hearing aid processing unit;
A timer for counting the current time and a storage unit for storing dosing instruction information;
A meal start detection unit for analyzing the input sound from the microphone and detecting that the meal has started;
A meal end detection unit for detecting that the meal has ended;
From the detection result of the meal start detection unit or the detection result of the meal end detection unit and the dosing instruction information, a dosing message output determination unit that determines whether to output a dosing message;
A hearing aid having a message output unit that outputs a dose message from the receiver when the dose message output determination unit determines to output a message. The hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein the dosing instruction information includes at least one of pre-meal, post-meal, and post-meal time. The hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein the taking instruction information includes start times for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which are normal life patterns of patients. The hearing aid according to claim 3, wherein the meal start detection unit records and totals the detected meal start times, and updates the start times of breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the dosing instruction information. The hearing aid according to claim 3, wherein the meal start detecting unit detects the start of meal when chewing is detected within a predetermined time before and after the start time of breakfast, lunch, and dinner included in the dosing instruction information. A medicine dispenser capable of sorting and storing medicines suitable for a single dose and taking out the sorted medicines for each dose,
A control unit for controlling the overall operation of the drug dispenser;
A take-out detection unit that is connected to the control unit and detects that a drug is taken out from the drug dispenser;
A drug dosage information storage unit connected to the control unit for storing drug dosage information of a patient;
A drug dispenser having a drug dispenser communication unit connected to the control unit that communicates the detection result of the take-out detection unit, the drug medication information, and the like with the hearing aid;
The hearing aid according to claim 1, further comprising a hearing aid communication unit connected to the taking message output determination unit that communicates with the medicine dispenser communication unit. The pharmaceutical medication reminding system according to claim 6, wherein the medication use information includes at least one of pre-meal, post-meal, and post-meal time. 7. The drug use reminding notification system according to claim 6, wherein the drug use information includes start times of breakfast, lunch and dinner, which are normal life patterns of patients. The medicine taking notice system according to claim 6, wherein the medicine taking information includes drug action and side effect information. The notification of medication taking according to claim 6, wherein the medication message output determination unit notifies the medication dispenser communication unit from the hearing aid communication unit when the meal start detection unit detects that the meal has been started. system. 7. The drug use reminder notification system according to claim 6, wherein the medication message output determination unit notifies the medication dispenser communication unit from the hearing aid communication unit when the meal end detection unit detects that the meal has been completed. . The control unit notifies the hearing aid communication unit from the medicine dispenser communication unit when detecting that the medicine has been taken out by the take-out detection unit after receiving the notification of the end of the meal from the hearing aid communication unit. The notification reminding system for taking medicines according to claim 6. The medication message output determination unit, after detecting that the meal has been completed by the meal end detection unit, receives a drug removal notification from the drug dispenser communication unit, and receives a message regarding the action of the drug from the receiver. The medicine taking notice system according to claim 6 which outputs. When the medication message output determination unit has detected that the meal has been completed by the meal end detection unit and has not received a medicine removal notification from the drug dispenser communication unit even after a predetermined time has elapsed. 7. The drug reminding notification system according to claim 6, wherein a message regarding a reaction when no medicine is taken is output from the receiver. The medication message output determination unit is configured to take medication before the meal, and when the meal start detection unit detects the meal start, and after a predetermined time has elapsed, the medication dispenser communication unit 5. The drug use reminding notification system according to claim 4, wherein a warning message is output from the receiver when no take-out notification is received.

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