KR20160149390A

KR20160149390A - Determinig method and device for condition of pet's health using stool condition and evacuation activity

Info

Publication number: KR20160149390A
Application number: KR1020150086264A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 이민성
Original assignee: 이민성
Priority date: 2015-06-18
Filing date: 2015-06-18
Publication date: 2016-12-28

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a device for determining condition of pet health using excreta condition and bowel movement. The present invention recognizes the health state of a pet by using the excreta condition and the bowel movement and effectively manage the pet by notifying a terminal of a pet manager about the recognized health state.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the health state of a pet using feces state and defecation activity,

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining a pet's health state using a feces state and a defecation activity, more particularly, to a method for determining a pet's health state using the number of feces changes and an interval and an excrement image, And more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining the state of pet health using the state of excrement and the activity of defecation to enable efficient management of pets.

In general, the pets are taught to recognize the place designated by the training as a place of bowel movement. In the place where the bowel movement is performed, a sheet such as an absorbent sheet or a so-called "cat sha" .

However, since learning of such a defecation place does not ensure safety of administrators and pets from various germs and parasites present in excrement as well as appearance, the automatic toilet which automatically collects excrement of pets is recently developed And the applicant of the present invention has also registered a toilet for pets in Korean Patent No. 10-1526247.

However, in the past, pet restrooms are not only clean and easy to treat pet excrement, but can not grasp the health state of the pet.

In particular, the cat has a habit of burying the catheter, so that the administrator can not grasp the health condition (diarrhea, constipation, enteritis, etc.) of the cat when the state of the cat's excrement is not checked individually.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a poultry health management system and a poultry health management system, And a method and an apparatus for determining a pet health state using the defecation activity.

In the above, the bowel movement activity uses the bowel movement frequency and interval, and the excrement condition uses the excrement image, sound, and smell.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for inspecting a pet, comprising: an access sensor installed at a learned position of a pet to detect entry and exit of a pet, And a server for judging a signal transmitted from the access sensor and the photographing means to determine a health condition including enteritis and constipation and transmitting the detected state to a terminal of a registered pet manager. State and defecation activities.

The server further includes one or both of an odor detection sensor and an acoustic acquiring means, and the server comprehensively determines a signal transmitted from the entrance sensor, the photographing means, the odor sensor and the sound acquiring means Identify health conditions.

Another characteristic of the present invention is that the server detects a signal transmitted from an entrance / exit sensor that detects the entrance / exit of a pet, installed at a defecation site, checks the access time of the pet, The server determines the state of the excrement by judging the image transmitted from the imaging means provided at the corresponding defecation site, and a server for checking the state of the excrement based on the excrement state and the excrement activity detected in the defecation checking step, And a health status notification process in which the server transmits the health status detected in the health examination process to an administrator terminal registered to match with the corresponding pet, It is in a way to judge the state of health.

In this case, the server converts the transmitted slurry image into a monochrome image, and acquires only a predetermined image by the opposite side. When the image corresponding to the feces is secured, the server determines the feces size or area to check the feces state, Check the number of pet outings for a set period of time.

According to the present invention having such a configuration as described above, since the manager can easily grasp the health status of the pet, it is possible to efficiently manage the pet, and as a result, the health of the pet can be maintained well .

1 is a block diagram showing an apparatus for determining a pet health status according to the present invention
2 and 3 are views showing an embodiment of a pet health condition determination apparatus

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing an apparatus for determining a pet health condition according to the present invention. The apparatus includes an entrance / exit sensor 110 installed at a learned location of a pet to detect entry / exit of a pet's place at a bowel movement, A photographing means 120 for photographing the excrement image of a pet, a signal transmitted from the entrance sensor 110 and the photographing means 120 to determine a health condition including enteritis and constipation, And a server (140) for transmitting to the pet administrator terminal (130).

The access detection sensor 110 detects the entry and entry of a pet into a defecation place and transmits a signal against the entry or exit of the filling time information. The access detection sensor can detect various kinds of information such as an infrared sensor, a beacon signal, The detailed embodiment will be omitted.

When the entrance of the pet is confirmed from the private access sensor 110 in consideration of the power consumption, the photographing unit 120 may be operated for taking pictures of moving images or still images, When the pet 140 is driven only for the time period for feeding the driving means of the photographing means 120 and the pet is kept at the defecation place, or when only the still image is taken, immediately after the entry and advancement of the pet is confirmed Or after a predetermined period of time to shoot an excrement image.

The reason why we shoot after a certain period of time like this is that the cat takes into account the time it takes for the treatment apparatus to sift out the excrement buried in sand because it is buried in the sand after defecation.

Meanwhile, the apparatus further includes any one or both of the odor detection sensor 150 and the sound acquiring means, and the sound acquiring means needs to be provided separately when the imaging means takes a moving image.

In addition, the server provides an identification code to the excretion state and activity monitoring means provided at the excretion detection sensor and the photographing means, such as the photographing means, matches the corresponding identification code with the administrator terminal, records the data in the database, Are recorded in the database together to determine the health status.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the lower body 10, the upper body 20, and the collecting cylinder 30 are included as an example of the defecation place, .

The lower body 10 is provided with an arcuate receiving portion 12 to fill the collecting material 12a and an outlet 14 in front of the arcuate receiving portion 12, A door 22 is provided at the front end of the body 10 and is reciprocally operated by the driver 23 on the inner wall of the arcuate housing part 12 to discharge the excrement onto the discharge port 14 The collecting container 30 is disposed on the lower body 10 and collects excretion discharged through the discharge port 14 and a mesh foot plate 32 is provided on the collecting container 30.

The entrance detection sensor 110 is installed at the door 22 to detect entrance and exit and the photographing means 120 is installed in the collection container 30 to detect an excrement image from the collection material 12a Can be easily obtained.

A method for determining the pet health state of the present invention using the thus configured pet health state determination device will be described below.

First, the server senses a signal transmitted from the access sensor 110, identifies the identification code of the access sensor 110, and records the access time of the compartment of the pet, which is recorded to match the access sensor 110 .

Thereafter, when the slurry image is transmitted from the photographing means 120, the identification code of the photographing means 120 is confirmed, and the slurry image is recorded in the corresponding recording site.

For example, in the case of a cat, since the defecation is buried in the sand, the server converts the transmitted image into a monochrome image, then removes the black image corresponding to the predetermined sand, When a stool image is obtained, the size or area of the stool is determined and recorded in the storage space.

When the pet's access time and the image of the excrement are secured, the server recognizes the health condition of the pet such as constipation, diarrhea or enteritis, and health.

Specifically, the health status of the pet is judged to be a feces when the thickness and area of the feces are judged to be equal to or greater than a predetermined value in the excrement image, and it is judged that the feces is healthy when the number of defecation is within a preset number of times .

In the case of diarrhea or urine, there is no collection by the collection day, so there is almost no image that can be judged as excretion after the monochrome image processing. If the area of the defecation is judged to be below the preset value, The abnormal bowel movement is judged to be abnormal. If the abnormal bowel movement continues and the number of accesses to the bowel movement site is within the predetermined range of error within the normal range, the constipation is judged. If the abnormal bowel movement is continued, , It is judged to be diarrhea or cystitis.

In order to make such a determination more accurately, it is possible to further judge the signal output from the odor sensor provided at the defecation site, and further determine the sound output from the sound acquisition means provided at the defecation site.

In this case, as an example of judging the sound, a voice vomited by a pet can be used. Specifically, a cat often eats a lot of hair and vomits, so that the cat manager voices the voices voiced by the cat, The server stores the data as reference data and then compares the sound with the actual sound and notifies the cat manager terminal of the occurrence of the sound of the same or within the error range.

As another example of the reference data generation method for judging the sound, there can be used a method of acquiring the voices voiced by a plurality of cats, collecting the voices, setting the reference voices as the reference data It is not necessary for the cat manager to record and record the sound separately, thereby improving the convenience of use.

In the present invention, the sound judgment is based on the vomiting of a cat, but it is also possible to detect other pets other than cats, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Also, in case of smell, the smell differs depending on the health condition, so it is judged by using this.

When the health examination of the pet is completed, the server transmits the health status of the pet to the administrator terminal registered to match the corresponding pet.

At this time, the administrator terminal can be any device capable of communicating with a normal smart phone, smart pad, or the like.

110: entrance / exit detection sensor 120: photographing means
130: administrator terminal 140: server

Claims

An entrance / exit sensor 110 installed at a place where a pet is at a bowel movement,
A photographing means (120) installed at a stool and photographing an excrement image of a pet,
A server 140 for judging a signal transmitted from the access sensor 110 and the photographing means 120 to determine a health state including enteritis and constipation and transmitting the received signal to the administrator terminal 130 of the registered pet The pet health state determination device according to claim 1,

[2] The pet health condition determining apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an odor sensor or sound acquiring means in the pet stool, wherein the server determines the health status of the pet through the transmitted odor or sound, And the result is transmitted to the administrator terminal.

The server detects the signal transmitted from the entrance / exit sensor that detects the entrance / exit of the pet, installed at the stowage place, checks the entry / exit time of the pet's stool, A server for checking the image transmitted from the photographing means to check the state of the excrement,
A health examination process in which the server judges the health of the animal based on the excrement status and the defecation activity detected in the defecation check process,
And a health status notification process in which the server transmits the health status detected in the health examination process to an administrator terminal registered to match with the corresponding pet. Way.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the server converts the transmitted slurry image into a monochrome image, obtains only a predetermined image by the opposite side, and judges the size or area of the feces when the image corresponding to the feces is secured, And determining the health state of the pet by using the excrement condition and the defecation activity.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the defecation activity is confirmed by the number of pet outings for a preset period of time.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the pet health state determination method comprises: determining a health state of a pet through an odor or sound transmitted from an odor sensor or sound acquisition means provided at a place of a pet's stomach, And transmitting the data to the administrator terminal.