VISIBLE-LIGHT-IMAGE PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEM WITH THERMAL DETECTING ASSISTANCE

• Main Authors: CHEN, Chien-Yu, HSU, Chien-Hui, LIANG, Tzu Ling, WU, Huan-Yun, SHAN, Kang-Ning, WANG, Yu-Chiao, SHEN, Shih-Yun, HSU, Hsueh-Fa, LIN, Por-Sau, LIN, Hsin-Yi, TSENG, Chih-Hsin
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.11.2021
• Subjects: ALARM SYSTEMS; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVEREDIN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; MEASURING; MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; MEASURING TEMPERATURE; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TESTING; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A visible-light-image physiological monitoring system with thermal detecting assistance is disclosed. The system takes a visible-light image and a thermal image of a body at the same time. A processing unit identifies a body feature of the visible-light image and determines a coordinate of the feature. In a learning mode, an initial temperature of the body feature is determined from the thermal image according to the coordinate of the body feature. After then, a physiological status monitoring mode is executed to monitor the temperature changes of the body feature and output an alarm when the temperature is determined to be abnormal. Therefore, a monitoring accuracy of the visible-light-image physiological monitoring system is increased and avoids transmitting false alarms or no alarms.