JP2003288653A - Terminal monitoring system and terminal monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal monitoring system and terminal monitoring device capable of ensuring high precision and sufficient reliability without using a precise or expensive portable device. <P>SOLUTION: This terminal monitoring system 10 has a terminal device to be monitored 200, a terminal monitoring device 100, and an information communicating terminal device 300 having an input part 312, a display part 311, and a receiving part 320. The terminal monitoring device has a terminal position management device 110; a position error information management device 140; a monitoring range specifying management device 130 having an image information processing part 134 for visually displaying a combination of geographic information and position error information based on the input from the input part and a monitoring range forming part 135; a monitoring range information management device 120 having monitoring range information management parts 122 and 123 and a monitoring range determination part 124 for determining whether the terminal device to be monitored is located within the monitoring range or not; and a report transmitting means 129 for reporting the determination result. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a terminal monitoring system and a terminal monitoring device for monitoring a terminal device to be monitored specified by a user and notifying the user of the result.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, there has been a demand for a system for monitoring the position of a child, for example, to protect the child, and alerting a parent when the child enters a dangerous area.

[0003]

However, in order to accurately recognize the dangerous area desired by the parent and accurately determine whether or not the child has entered this dangerous area, it is necessary to accurately grasp the positional information of the child. Therefore, it is necessary to use a mobile terminal that can accurately transmit the current position for that purpose. In this case, there is a problem that even if the parent tries to use the system, the usage fee is too high and it is difficult for many people to use the system. Even if an expensive and accurate mobile terminal is used, there is always an error in the position information,
It was difficult to judge exactly what the parents wanted in the dangerous area.

In view of the above points, it is an object of the present invention to provide a terminal monitoring system and a terminal monitoring apparatus that are accurate and sufficiently reliable without using a highly accurate and expensive portable device. .

[0005]

According to the invention of claim 1, the above object is to specify and monitor a monitoring target terminal device which is a monitoring target terminal device and a monitoring range of the monitoring target terminal device. A terminal monitoring device for notifying the monitoring result, and an input unit and a display unit connected to the terminal monitoring device for specifying the monitoring range and the like, and receiving for receiving the notification of the monitoring result And a terminal location management device that manages location information of the monitoring target terminal device, and an information communication terminal device that includes: A position error information management device that acquires position error information regarding a position, and a combination of geographical information and position error information acquired from the position error information management device based on an input from the input unit of the information communication terminal device. In addition, a monitoring range specifying management device having an image information processing unit that is visually displayed on the display unit of the information communication terminal device and a monitoring range creating unit that creates the monitoring range based on an input from the input unit. And a monitoring range information management unit that manages information related to the monitoring range, and determines whether the monitoring target terminal device is located inside or outside the monitoring range managed by the monitoring range information management unit. A monitoring range determining unit, a monitoring range information management device included therein,
And a notification transmitting unit for notifying the receiving unit of the information communication terminal device of the determination result of the monitoring range determining unit.

According to the structure of claim 1, the terminal monitoring device acquires the terminal position management device for managing the position information of the monitored terminal device and the position error information regarding the position of the monitored terminal device. And a position error information management device. Therefore, it is possible to acquire the position information of the monitoring target terminal device and the position error information regarding the position of the monitoring target terminal device.

According to the structure of the present invention, the information communication terminal is configured by combining the geographic information and the position error information acquired from the position error information management device based on the input from the input unit of the information communication terminal device. And a monitoring range specifying management device having a processing unit for visually displaying image information on a display unit of the device, and a monitoring range creating unit for creating the monitoring range based on an input from the input unit. There is. Therefore, a user who wants to monitor the monitoring target terminal device is
It can be input from the input unit of the information communication terminal device.

At the time of this input, the image information processing unit combines the geographic information and the position error information acquired from the position error information management device and visually displays them on the display unit of the information communication terminal device. To be done. Therefore, since the user can visually recognize the position error information at the same time when visually specifying the monitoring range, the user can determine the monitoring range including this position error information. The monitoring range of and the monitoring range desired by the user are almost the same.

Further, according to the structure of the present invention, the monitoring range information management section for managing information related to the monitoring range, and the monitoring range within or outside the monitoring range managed by the monitoring range information management section. It has a monitoring range determination unit that determines whether or not the target terminal device is located, and a monitoring range information management device that it has. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether or not the monitored terminal device is within the monitoring range defined by the user.

Further, according to the structure of the present invention, there is provided notification transmitting means for notifying the receiving section of the information communication terminal device of the judgment result of the monitoring range judging section, and the receiving section. Since the information communication terminal device is equipped with
The user can promptly receive the notification of the monitoring result of the monitoring range defined by the input unit by the user at the receiving unit.

[0012] Preferably, according to the invention of claim 2, in the configuration of claim 1, the monitored terminal device is a mobile phone or a PHS that communicates with a base station, and the position error information management device acquires the position error information management device. The terminal monitoring system is characterized in that the position error information is the communicable range of each of the base stations.

According to the structure of claim 2, the terminal device to be monitored is a mobile phone or a PHS that communicates with a base station.
(Personal Handyphone System
em). Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a special terminal device as the monitored mobile terminal device. The position error information acquired by the position error information management device is the communicable range of each of the base stations. Therefore, since the position error information management device obtains the information about the communicable range of the base station, it can be used as the position error information, so that the terminal monitoring system can be inexpensive.

[0013] Preferably, according to the invention of claim 3, according to the configuration of claim 1, the monitoring target terminal device obtains its own position information by communicating with an artificial satellite GPS (Global Positioning Sy).
terminal) The mobile terminal device, wherein the position error information acquired by the position error information management device is position error information generated when the mobile terminal device communicates with the artificial satellite. System.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the monitored terminal device is a GPS portable terminal device that acquires its own position information by communicating with an artificial satellite, and the position error information management device acquires the position. Since the error information is position error information generated when the mobile terminal device communicates with the artificial satellite, it is not necessary to provide a special terminal device as the monitored mobile terminal device, as in the second aspect. Further, the position error information acquired by the position error information management device is position error information generated when the mobile terminal device communicates with the artificial satellite. Therefore, by acquiring the position error information generated when communicating with the artificial satellite, it can be used as the position error information,
It can be an inexpensive terminal monitoring system.

Preferably, according to the invention of claim 4, in the configuration of any one of claims 1 to 3, the monitoring range specifying management device comprises a WEB server connectable via the Internet or the like. The information communication terminal device has a connection terminal that can be connected to the WEB server via the Internet or the like, and the notification transmission means is a mail transmission unit capable of transmitting an electronic mail, and the reception unit is The terminal monitoring system is a portable terminal for receiving notifications.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the monitoring range specifying management device is connectable to W via the Internet or the like.
The information communication terminal device has an EB server, and the information communication terminal device has a connection terminal that can be connected to the WEB server via the Internet or the like. Therefore, the user can specify the desired monitoring range by connecting to the monitoring range specifying management device from his / her own terminal via the Internet, etc., and easily access the terminal monitoring system. can do. Further, according to the configuration of the present claim,
The notification sending unit is a mail sending unit capable of sending an electronic mail, and the receiving unit is a notification receiving mobile terminal. Therefore, for example, even when the user is moving, the notification receiving portable terminal allows the user to know the monitoring result, which enhances the convenience of the user.

According to the invention of claim 5, the above object is to provide a terminal monitoring device for specifying and monitoring a monitoring range of a monitoring target terminal device, and notifying a monitoring result. Is a terminal position management device that manages the position information of the monitoring target terminal device, a position error information management device that acquires position error information regarding the position of the monitoring target terminal device, and an input from the input unit of the information communication terminal device. On the basis of the input from the input unit, the image information processing unit that combines the geographic information and the position error information acquired from the position error information management device, and visually displays it on the display unit of the information communication terminal device. A monitoring range specification management device having a monitoring range creation unit for creating the monitoring range, a monitoring range information management unit for managing information related to the monitoring range, and the monitoring range information management unit. Or outside of the monitoring range,
To notify the receiving unit of the information communication terminal device of a monitoring range determining unit that determines whether or not the monitoring target terminal device is located, a monitoring range information managing device that has the monitoring range determining unit, and a determination result of the monitoring range determining unit. And a notification transmitting unit of the above.

According to the structure of claim 5, as in claim 1, the terminal monitoring device includes the terminal position management device,
And the position error information management device. Therefore, similarly to the first aspect, the terminal monitoring device can acquire the position information of the monitoring target terminal device and the position error information regarding the position of the monitoring target terminal device. Further, according to the configuration of the present invention, as in the case of the first aspect, there is provided a monitoring range specifying management device including the image information processing unit and the monitoring range creating unit. Therefore, claim 1
Similarly to the above, a user who desires to monitor the monitoring target terminal device can input to the monitoring range specifying management device. Then, at the time of this input, the image information processing unit combines the geographical information and the position error information acquired from the position error information management device and visually displays them on the display unit of the information communication terminal device.

Therefore, since the user can visually recognize the position error information at the same time when the monitoring range is visually specified, the user can determine the monitoring range including the position error information. Therefore, the actual monitoring range and the monitoring range desired by the user are almost the same. Therefore, since the user recognizes the position error information in advance and determines the monitoring range, the accuracy of the monitoring range is significantly improved. According to the configuration of this claim, as in claim 1, the monitoring range information management unit,
It has the above-mentioned surveillance range judgment part and the surveillance range information management device which it has. Therefore, similarly to claim 1, it is possible to determine whether or not the monitored terminal device is within the monitoring range defined by the user.

According to the structure of this claim, claim 1
Similarly, a notification transmitting unit for notifying the determination result of the monitoring range determination unit. Therefore, claim 1
Similarly, the user can receive the notification of the monitoring result of the monitoring range defined by the input unit by the user by the notification transmitting means. As described above, even the terminal device having the position error range to some extent can be the terminal device to be monitored. Therefore, a highly reliable terminal can be used without using a highly accurate and expensive mobile terminal. It is a monitoring device.

[0021]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. still,
Since the embodiment described below is a preferred specific example of the present invention, various technically preferable limitations are attached, but the scope of the present invention particularly limits the present invention in the following description. Unless stated otherwise, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

(Embodiment of the Present Invention) FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view showing a terminal monitoring system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this terminal monitoring system 10, for example, when a user is a parent and a child invades a certain area defined by the parent,
This is the terminal monitoring system 10 for notifying parents, which will be described below based on this specific example.

(Outline of Overall Configuration of Terminal Monitoring System 10) As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal monitoring system 10 of the present embodiment includes a mobile phone 2 which is a terminal device to be monitored.
00, terminal monitoring device 100, and information communication terminal device 3
It has 00 etc.

(Regarding the mobile phone 200, etc.) The terminal monitoring system 10 of the present embodiment is provided with a terminal device to be monitored, which is a terminal device to be monitored. In the present embodiment, the monitored terminal device is formed of, for example, the mobile phone 200 as shown in FIG. 1, but it may be a so-called PHS. Then, the mobile phone 200 is carried by the child to be monitored.

FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory view showing a specific configuration of the mobile phone 200. As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile phone 200 includes a microphone 261 for inputting a voice of the child, who is a possessor, and a speaker 162 for outputting the voice of the other party during the call. The voice input to the microphone 261 is the CPU 2 which is the central processing unit.
According to the instruction of 10, the data is transmitted from the antenna 170 via the voice processing unit 160, the baseband processing unit 150, the RF unit 240, etc. to the base station 11 of the mobile phone having the communication coverage area, and the other party can talk. It is like this.

The signal of the other party received from the antenna 270 is also transmitted to the RF section 240, by the instruction of the CPU 210.
The sound is output from the speaker 162 as the voice of the other party via the baseband processing unit 150, the voice processing unit 160, and the like. Note that the CPU 210 performs a series of processes together with the memory 211, but in order to give an instruction for this process, a key input unit 230 is provided, and a display unit 220 including a display or the like for confirming the instruction content is also formed. ing.

(Regarding the terminal monitoring device 100, etc.)
As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal monitoring system 10 also has a terminal monitoring device 100 for specifying and monitoring the monitoring range of the mobile phone 200 and notifying the monitoring result. The terminal monitoring device 100 includes a terminal position information management device 110 which is a terminal position management device, an ambiguous information management device 140 which is a position error information management device, and a WEB which is a monitoring range identification management device.
An information management device 130 and a zone information management device 120, which is a monitoring range information management device, are provided.

(Regarding Terminal Position Information Management Device 110, etc.) FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view showing the configuration of the terminal position information management device 110. The terminal location information management device 110 manages location information of the mobile phone 200. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the terminal location information management device 1
10 is a terminal position information management server 111, a terminal information database 112 and a terminal position information database 113.
And so on. These are configured by a computer or the like. In FIG. 3, the terminal location information management server 111, the terminal information database 112, and the terminal location information database 113 are separate computers, but they may be configured as one computer server.

(Terminal location information management server 111, terminal information database 112, terminal location information database 11
3) The terminal position information management server 111 has a terminal position information receiving unit 115 that receives signals from the mobile phone 200 and the base station 11. The signal received by the terminal position information receiving unit 115 is specifically the base station 1
1 and the mobile phone 200 communicate with each other, and the mobile phone 200 has entered the communication coverage area of the base station 11. The signal thus received by the terminal position information receiving unit 115 is input to the terminal position information data registration unit 117 in FIG.

On the other hand, the terminal location information management server 111
It has a terminal information registration unit 114. The terminal information registration unit 114 is software for registering in the terminal information database 112 various information of the mobile phone 200 owned by the child monitored by the parent who desires the user of the terminal monitoring system 10. That is, this terminal information registration unit 11
4, various information of the mobile phone 200 is registered in the terminal information database 112. FIG. 4 shows an example of the terminal information database registered in the terminal information database 112. That is, for example, the mobile phone 200
Type, specifically, whether it is a mobile phone or PHS, a telephone number, the name of a child who uses the terminal, and the person who manages this terminal location information management device 110 is the mobile phone 200.
The terminal IDs and the like assigned to each of the above are registered.

Then, as described above, when the terminal position information receiving unit 115 receives a signal regarding a specific mobile phone 200, the terminal information acquisition unit 116 in FIG. 112
If there is corresponding information, the information is input to the terminal information data registration unit 117.

In the terminal information data registration section 117, the signal received from the above-mentioned terminal position information receiving section 115 with respect to the mobile phone 200, that is, the mobile phone 20.
Information regarding the base station 11 with which 0 is communicating is input together with information about the mobile phone 200. Then, in addition to this information, the mobile phone 20 from the terminal information acquisition unit 116.
The information about 0 as shown in FIG. 4 is input to the terminal information data registration unit 117. Then, the terminal information data registration unit 117 associates the information obtained from the terminal position information reception unit 115 with the information obtained from the terminal information acquisition unit 116 and registers them in the terminal position information database 113 as a terminal position information database. .

FIG. 5 shows the terminal position information database 113.
It is an example of a terminal position information database registered in. As shown in FIG. 5, the terminal position information receiving unit 11
The ID number of the mobile phone 200 received in step 5, position data regarding the base station 11 with which the mobile phone 200 is communicating, and the like are registered.

(As to the ambiguous information management device 140, etc.) The ambiguous information management device 140 acquires position error information regarding the position of the mobile phone 200. As described above, the position information of mobile phone 200 in the present embodiment is specifically the position information of base station 11 with which mobile phone 200 is communicating. That is, since the mobile phone 200 does not transmit the information regarding the normal position, the mobile phone 20 is ready to communicate with the base station 11 when the mobile phone 200 can communicate with the base station 11.
It is recognized that 0 has entered the communication coverage area, which is the communicable range of the base station 11, and it is determined that the mobile phone 200 is located somewhere in the communication coverage area.

FIG. 6 is a schematic explanatory view showing the structure of the ambiguous information management device 140. Hereinafter, the fuzzy information management device 140
The above will be specifically described with reference to FIG. 6 and the like. As shown in FIG. 6, the ambiguous information management device 140 includes an ambiguous information acquisition server 141 and an ambiguous information database 142. These are configured by a computer or the like. In addition, in FIG. 6, the ambiguous information acquisition server 14
Although the 1 and the ambiguity information database 142 are separate computers, they may be configured as a single computer server.

(As to Ambiguous Information Database 142) As shown in FIG. 6, the ambiguous information database 142 contains data of the base station 11 in the area where the terminal monitoring system 10 provides services, that is, the position of the base station 11. And information on the communication coverage area is registered. FIG. 7 shows an example of information on the base station 11 registered in the ambiguous information database 142. As shown in FIG. 7, latitude and longitude indicating the position of the base station 11 to which the ambiguous data ID is attached, and error data indicating the communication coverage area are described. In the present embodiment, it is only possible to determine that the position of the mobile phone 200 is within the communication coverage area of the base station 11 as described above, so the base station 1
In the data of FIG. 7, the communication coverage area of No. 1 is expressed as an error (where the mobile phone 200 is located somewhere in it).

(About ambiguous information acquisition server 141, etc.)
As described above, the ambiguous information database 142 has already registered information on the position of the base station 11, the communication coverage area, and the like. However, unregistered base station 11
Also, since there is a change in the information of the base station 11, etc., an ambiguous information acquisition server 141 is provided to add or change the information of the ambiguous information database 142. In particular,
As shown in FIG. 6, the ambiguity information acquisition server 141 includes a base station ambiguity information receiving unit 143, a base station ambiguity information data registration unit 144, and a base station ambiguity information search unit 145 by software or the like.

That is, the base station ambiguity information receiving unit 143
Receives the signal transmitted from the base station 11 and inputs it to the base station ambiguity information data registration unit 144. Then, the base station ambiguous information data registration unit 144 determines whether the information regarding the base station 11 is unregistered in the ambiguous information database 142, or whether it is registered but the information is changed, and the information is not registered. In the case or change, the information as shown in FIG. 7 of the ambiguous information database 142 is registered or changed.

The zone information management device 120 described later is also provided.
When the information on the base station 11 is required in the WEB information management device 130, the base station ambiguity information searching unit 145 in FIG. 6 is requested to acquire the information on the specific base station 11.
In this case, the base station ambiguous information search unit 145 searches the information of the base station 11 that has made the request. The searched information of the specific base station 11 is registered in the ambiguity information database 142 via the base station ambiguity information receiving unit 143 and the base station ambiguity information data registration unit 144. Therefore, the information of the registered base station 11 is used for the zone information management device 120 and the WEB.
The information management device 130 acquires and uses it.

(About WEB information management device 130, etc.)
The WEB information management device 130 has an image information processing unit and a monitoring range creation unit. This image information processing unit 13
4 combines the geographical information and the position error information acquired from the ambiguous information management device 140 based on the input from the input unit of the information communication terminal device 300, and visually displays it on the display unit of the information communication terminal device 300. indicate. Further, the monitoring range creating unit creates the monitoring range based on the input from the input unit.

FIG. 8 is a schematic explanatory view showing the structure of the WEB information management device 130. WEB information management device 130
Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8, the WEB server 13
1, a geographic information map database 133, and a user information database 132. These are configured by a computer or the like. In addition,
In FIG. 8, the WEB server 131, the map database 133, and the user information database 132 are separate computers, but they may be configured as a single computer server.

(About WEB server 131 etc.) WEB
As shown in FIG. 8, the server 131 includes an image information processing unit 134 and the zone creation unit 13 which is the monitoring range creation unit.
5, zone data output unit 135a, zone / ambiguity information correspondence data output unit 135b, map data acquisition unit 138, fuzzy information acquisition unit 139, fuzzy information request unit 139a, user information registration unit 136, and user information acquisition unit 137. And so on. Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the image information processing unit 134, the user input data acquisition unit 134a, the WEB.
It has a screen creation unit 134b and a WEB screen output unit 134c. In addition, these are configured by software and the like.

Specifically, the image information processing unit 134
It is connected to the information communication terminal device 300 via the Internet. That is, a parent who intends to use the terminal monitoring system 10 connects to the image information processing unit 134 via the information communication terminal device 300. The image information processing unit 134 includes a user input data acquisition unit 134a that receives an input from the information communication terminal device 300 and a WEB screen creation unit so that the WEB screen can be viewed on the display unit of the information communication terminal device 300. 134b and a WEB screen output unit 134c are provided. That is, in this embodiment, the parent can visually determine the monitoring range on the display unit of the information communication terminal device 300.

Specifically, first, the information communication terminal device 30.
Parents from 0 to WEB information management device 130 on the Internet
When you access, the input screen is displayed on the screen. Then, when a user ID or a user password described later is input, the user information acquisition unit 137 searches the user information database 132 of FIG. 8 to see if the user information database 132 is registered. , Go to the screen such as the terminal monitoring system settings. On the other hand, if there is no registration in the user information database 132, a screen for new registration is displayed, and new registration is made in the user information database 132 via the user information registration unit 136.

FIG. 9 shows an example of user information data registered in the user information database 132. As shown in FIG. 9, the user ID, mail address, ID of the monitoring target terminal, nickname, ID number of the monitoring zone, etc. are registered.

The WEB server 131 shown in FIG. 8 is configured so that the user can visually specify the monitoring range of the monitored terminal via the Internet. Specifically, the map data acquisition unit 138 selects from the map database 133 the map data that the user thinks is the monitoring range, is input to the image information processing unit 134, and outputs the WEB screen creation unit 134b and the WEB screen. Via the part 134c,
It is displayed as an image on the display unit of the information communication terminal device 300 of the user.

FIG. 10 shows a user information communication terminal device 30.
It is a figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of 0. As shown in FIG. 10, map data that the user considers to be a monitoring range is displayed on the display unit. As shown in the figure, the map data can be changed to the whole area, wide area, middle area, details, etc., and the map data acquisition unit 138 of FIG. It is designed to acquire more necessary map data.

When the user displays the map data necessary for specifying the monitoring range on the display unit, the user then specifies the monitoring range. FIG. 11 is another diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the user's information contact terminal device 300. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 11, a circle is formed by specifying the center and radius of the displayed map data. The input from this user is input from the user input data acquisition unit 134a in FIG.

Next, the ambiguity information which is the position error information about the circle line of the monitoring range shown in FIG. 11 is acquired from the ambiguity information acquisition unit 139. This ambiguity information is registered in the ambiguity information database 142 of FIG.
This is information on the communication coverage area of No. 1. That is, the circle line that is the monitoring range arbitrarily determined by the user does not necessarily coincide with the boundary line of the communication coverage area of the base station 11, so the line of the circle is the boundary line of the communication cover area of the base station 11. , The boundary line is provided to the user as an image by the image information processing unit 134.

FIG. 12 shows a user information communication terminal device 30.
It is a figure which shows an example of the screen where the communication cover area of the base station 11 was displayed on the display part of 0. As shown in FIG. 12, in this screen, the communication coverage areas of the eight base stations 11 intersect with the circle line of the monitoring range. That is, it is displayed to the user on the screen that the boundary line of the actually monitorable range is the boundary line of the communication coverage area of each base station 11. Then, the user can select whether to include the communication coverage area of each of the base stations 11 of 1 to 8 in the monitoring range (whether to include an ambiguous portion) while looking at the screen shown in FIG. .

Specifically, if the communication coverage area of one base station 11 is not included, it means that the initially set monitoring range is narrowed only in that communication coverage area. Since the narrowed portion is excluding the ambiguous portion, when it is determined that the mobile phone 200 to be monitored is within the monitoring range, it is surely entered. on the other hand,
If the communication cover area of one base station 11 is included, it means that the initially set and set monitoring range is expanded only in the communication cover area. Since the expanded portion includes the ambiguous portion, the mobile phone 2 to be monitored
Even if it is determined that 00 is within the monitoring range, it may not be within the monitoring range specified by the user in the beginning, which is an ambiguous part.

As described above, the user can visually recognize the existence of the ambiguous portion which is the position error information, and may or may not include the ambiguous portion as necessary. Therefore, since the ambiguous portion can be selected depending on the area of the monitoring range, the monitoring range can be freely set according to the needs of the user.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen on which the user has selected whether or not to include the communication coverage areas (ambiguous parts) of a plurality of base stations 11. In the example shown in FIG. 13, among the base stations 1 to 8 shown in FIG. 12, the base stations 1 to 4 and the base station 6 are selected including the ambiguous portion, and the base stations 5 and 5 are selected. The base station 7 and the base station 8 were selected so as not to include an ambiguity.

The actual monitoring range in this case is as shown in FIG. 13, which is different from the monitoring range initially set by the user, but the user can visually recognize the actual monitoring range. . Further, the user may or may not accurately include the ambiguous portion in the monitoring range according to his or her needs. As described above, the final monitoring range set by including or removing the ambiguous part in the monitoring range initially set by the user is almost the same as the monitoring range desired by the user.

By the way, the screen information as described above is processed by the image information processing unit 134, and the information communication terminal device 300 of the user is displayed.
The user sets the above-mentioned monitoring range while visually checking it on the display unit, and the setting is performed by the image information processing unit 134.
It is brought to the WEB server 131 via the user input data acquisition unit 134a. Then, the monitoring range including such an ambiguous portion is created by the zone creating unit 135. That is, the final monitoring range is created by combining the input information from the user and the ambiguity information (communication coverage area information of the base station 11) acquired from the ambiguity information acquisition unit 139.

The information of the final monitoring range created in this manner is the data of the circle of the monitoring range initially set by the user, and the zone information management device, which will be described later, via the zone output unit 135a of FIG. 120 are output. Also, initially,
Information regarding whether or not the ambiguous portion is included in the monitoring range set by the user is the zone / ambiguous information correspondence data output unit 1
35b outputs to the zone information management device 120.

On the other hand, in the case of FIG. 12 described above, the data of the base station 11 which should exist for the circle line of the user's initial monitoring range may not be registered in the map database 133 of FIG. Therefore, the WEB server 131 of FIG.
Is provided with an ambiguous information requesting unit 139a. The request from the ambiguous information requesting unit 139a is based on the above-described FIG. 6, that is, the base station ambiguous information searching unit 1 of the ambiguous information managing device 140.
45, and the communication coverage area information of the base station 11 is input to the base station ambiguity information receiving unit 143, as described above.
It is configured to be registered in the ambiguity information database 142 via the base station ambiguity information data registration unit 144.

Then, the newly registered ambiguous information (information such as the communication coverage area of the base station 11) is acquired by the ambiguous information acquiring unit 139 of FIG.
Provided to. Therefore, when there is no communication coverage area information of the base station 11 as described above, the information can be acquired and the screen shown in FIG. 12 can be provided to the user.

(Regarding the zone information management device 120, etc.)
The zone information management device 120 includes a monitoring range information management unit and a monitoring range determination unit. The monitoring range information management unit manages information on the monitoring range, and is, for example, a zone database 122 and a zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 123 shown in FIG. The monitoring range determining unit determines whether the mobile phone 200 or the like is located inside or outside the monitoring range managed by the monitoring range information management unit (zone database 122 and zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 123). To judge whether
For example, the zone IN / OUT determination unit 124 shown in FIG.
Is. The zone information management device 120 is also provided with a notification transmission unit. This notification transmission means also notifies the reception unit of the information communication terminal device 300 of the determination result of the monitoring range determination unit (zone IN / OUT determination unit 124). For example, the mail transmission unit 129 shown in FIG.
Is.

FIG. 14 is a schematic explanatory view showing the structure of the zone information management device 120. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 14, the zone information management device 120 includes a zone management server 121, the zone database 122, the zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 123, and the like. These are configured by a computer or the like. In addition,
In FIG. 14, the zone management server 121, the zone database 122, and the zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 123 are separate computers, but they may be configured as one computer server.

(Zone management server 121, zone database 122, zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 12
14), the zone management server 121 includes a zone data registration unit 122a, a zone / ambiguity information correspondence data registration unit 123a, and a zone data acquisition unit 1 as shown in FIG.
25, zone / ambiguous information corresponding data acquisition unit 126, terminal position information data acquisition unit 127, fuzzy information acquisition unit 128,
Zone IN / OUT determination unit 124 and mail transmission unit 1
It has 29 mag. These are composed of software and the like.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 14, it has a zone data registration section 122a. The zone data registration unit 122a is the same as the WEB information management device 1 shown in FIG.
The user has a function of registering the zone data of the monitoring range initially set by the user in FIG. 11 and output from the zone data output unit 135a of 30 into the zone database 122 of FIG. Further, the zone / ambiguous information corresponding data registration unit 123a of FIG. 14 also includes or includes an ambiguous portion in the above-mentioned monitoring range set by the initial user, which is output from the zone / ambiguous information corresponding data output unit 135b of FIG. The function of registering information (information in the final monitoring range) that is not included in the zone / ambiguous information correspondence database 123 is exerted. Figure 15
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of zone / ambiguous information correspondence data registered in the zone / ambiguous information correspondence database 123.

Further, the terminal position information data acquisition unit 127 of FIG. 14 is the terminal position information management device 11 shown in FIG.
It acquires necessary terminal position information data from the terminal position information database 113 of 0. That is, the position information (specifically, the information indicating that it is located within the communication coverage area of the specific base station 11) regarding the monitored terminal device, for example, the mobile phone 200, is sent to the terminal position information receiving unit 11 in FIG.
5 is received and registered in the terminal position information database 113 together with the terminal information of the mobile phone 200 (see FIG. 4), from the terminal position information database 113,
The terminal position information data acquisition unit 127 acquires the position information of the mobile phone 200, and the zone IN / OUT determination unit 12
You will have to enter 4.

The zone data acquisition unit 125 also uses the zone database 122 to retrieve the zone data set by the parent whose terminal is the mobile phone 200 from the zone IN.
It is input to the / OUT determination unit 124. Then, the zone / ambiguous information corresponding data acquisition unit 126 also obtains the zone / ambiguous information corresponding data set by the parent who has the mobile phone 200 as the monitoring target terminal from the zone / ambiguous information corresponding database 123. To enter.
Further, the ambiguous information acquisition unit 128 is similar to the ambiguous information acquisition unit 139 of FIG. 8 in that the ambiguous information database 142 of FIG.
The ambiguity information, that is, the information about the communication coverage area of the base station 11 is acquired from.

As a result, the zone IN / OUT determination unit 1
The mobile phone 200 or the like of the terminal device to be monitored 24 is shown in FIG.
It is determined whether or not it is within the monitoring range set by the WEB information management device 130. Specifically, description will be made with reference to the examples of FIGS. 11 and 13 described above. Zone IN / OUT determination unit 1
Since 24 has the information of FIG. 11 and FIG. 13, in the case of FIG. 13, the mobile phone 200 of the monitored terminal enters the communication coverage area of the base stations 1 to 4 and the base station 6. If it is, it is judged that it is within the monitoring range. In addition, in this case, if the communication coverage area of the base station 5, the base station 7, and the base station 8 is entered, it is determined that it is not within the monitoring range.

The zone IN / OUT determination unit 12 as described above
The determination of No. 4 is transmitted to the information contact terminal device 300 by the mail transmission unit 129 of FIG. 14 and notified to the user. In the present embodiment, the mail transmission unit 129
Is disposed in the zone information management device 120, but may be configured as a device different from the zone information management device 120.

(Regarding Information Communication Terminal Device 300 etc.) The terminal monitoring system 10 of the present embodiment has an information communication terminal device 300 as shown in FIG. The information communication terminal device 300 includes an input unit, a display unit, and a receiving unit. The input unit and the display unit are for connecting to the terminal monitoring device (terminal monitoring device 100) and specifying a monitoring range and the like, and for example, as shown in FIG. 1, a keyboard of a personal computer (PC) 310. 312
And a display 311 or the like. Further, the receiving unit is for receiving the notification of the monitoring result, for example,
As shown in FIG. 1, it is a mobile phone 320 or the like. In the present embodiment, the terminal for inputting the monitoring range and the like to the terminal monitoring device 100 and the terminal for receiving the monitoring result are separately configured, but the same personal computer (PC) inputs the monitoring range and the like. However, the monitoring result may be received.

Specifically, a parent or the like who is a user of the terminal monitoring system 10 according to this embodiment uses his or her own personal computer (PC) 310, for example, the Internet or the like, to display the terminal monitoring device 100. By accessing the WEB information management device 130,
Only by operating the keyboard 312 of 0, the monitoring range can be set. In addition, when setting the monitoring range or the like, an image is created by the image information processing unit 134 of the WEB information management device 130.
On the display 311 of 10, the monitoring range and the like can be set while visually confirming the screens shown in FIGS.

Therefore, the structure is easy for the user to use. Further, since the result of the monitoring range is immediately notified to the user's mobile phone 320 by e-mail or the like, the result can be quickly obtained even when the user is moving.

That is, according to the terminal monitoring system 10 of the present embodiment, even if the mobile phone 200 or the like having a position error range is to be monitored, the position error range can be processed as ambiguous information. You can be notified of the exact monitoring results that match your perception. Moreover, since it is not necessary to use a highly accurate mobile terminal having a small position error range, the terminal monitoring system 10 can be constructed at low cost.

(Regarding Operation of Terminal Monitoring System 10) The terminal monitoring system 10 of this embodiment is configured as described above, and its operation will be described below. Specifically, with the user of the terminal monitoring system 10 of the present embodiment as a parent, the mobile phone 200 that is the terminal device to be monitored.
With the mobile phone 200 as a child,
explain.

FIG. 16 is a schematic flowchart showing the overall operation of the terminal monitoring system 10 of this embodiment. First, a parent who is a user who intends to use the terminal monitoring system 10 is information regarding the child's mobile phone 200, specifically, a position type, a telephone number, and a terminal user, which are matters shown in FIG. An application form in which a child's name or the like is entered is submitted to the operator of the terminal monitoring system 10. Then, the business operator or the like registers the information of the mobile phone 200, which is the monitored terminal device, in the terminal information database 112 from the terminal information registration unit 114 of FIG. 3 (ST of FIG. 16).
1).

Next, the parent accesses the WEB server 131 shown in FIG. 3 through the Internet using his or her own PC 310 shown in FIG. 1 (ST2). At this time, if the parent inputs the user ID or user password obtained from the business operator,
The EB server 131 collates with the information in the user information database 132 and confirms the user ID shown in FIG. At this time, if there is no registration in the user information database 132, the parent newly performs registration in the user information database 132 via the user information registration unit 136 of FIG.

Next, the WEB server 131 uses the parent PC 3
On the display 311 of FIG. 10, a window for specifying the monitoring range of the child is shown by the image information processing unit 134 of FIG. At this time, the user (parent) is the WEB server 13
In 1, the zone, the target terminal, the notification destination email address, etc. are specified (ST3). This ST3 is specifically shown in FIG.
It is performed as shown in. Figure 17 shows the monitoring range (zone)
6 is a schematic flow chart for creation. First, the window for setting the monitoring range (zone) is as shown in FIG. Therefore, the parent searches for an area that he / she wants to monitor, and displays it on the screen using tabs such as whole area, wide area, middle area, and detail. At this time, the WEB server 13
1 acquires necessary map data from the map database 133 of FIG.

Next, the parent sets the center point on the displayed map and inputs the radius distance at the upper left of the window (ST3a in FIG. 17). Further, the child of the mobile phone 200 of the monitored terminal is specified in the target person column of the window. Further, the mail address of the parent mobile phone 320 to be notified of the monitoring result, the notification message, and the like are also input in the window (ST3b). Then, as shown in FIG. 11, a circular monitoring range (zone) is visually shown on the map.

Next, the parent selects whether or not to consider the ambiguous portion (range of the communication coverage area of the base station) (ST3).
c). Here, if the icon for considering the ambiguous portion is selected, a window for selecting the position type of the terminal to be monitored is displayed (ST3d).
Since you have a mobile phone. Select PHS if the child has PHS.

Next, the window is as shown in FIG.
With respect to the boundary line of the circular monitoring range (zone) defined by the parent on the map, the communication coverage area of the base station, which is an ambiguous part, is overlapped and displayed for each base station. In FIG. 12, eight base stations (1 to 8) are displayed. Here, the parent selects whether or not each base station includes an ambiguous portion while looking at the map (S
T3e). Then, as shown in FIG. 13, a monitoring range (zone) indicating whether or not the ambiguous portion is included for each base station.
Is displayed on the screen. That is, the monitoring range (zone) in which the parent considers the position error is displayed on the map (ST3
f). If the parent is within the monitoring range (zone) shown on the screen, the monitoring range (zone) is confirmed (ST3g, ST
3h).

As described above, when the parent specifies the monitoring range (zone), at the same time, the parent can visually determine the range while recognizing the ambiguous portion (communication coverage area of the base station) which is position error information. The actual monitoring range and the monitoring range desired by the parent will almost match. This completes the flowchart for creating the monitoring range (zone) in FIG.

The monitoring range (zone) is defined in this way, and the ambiguous information used at this time is obtained by the ambiguous information acquiring unit 139 of FIG. 8 acquiring from the ambiguous information database 142 shown in FIG. . However, at this time, if the ambiguity information (information such as the communication coverage area of the base station) is not registered in the ambiguity information database 142, the ambiguity information is acquired by the base station ambiguity information search unit 145 of FIG. To be done. Hereinafter, a process of acquiring the ambiguity information by the base station ambiguity information search unit 145 and the like will be described. A schematic flowchart will be described.

FIG. 18 is a schematic flowchart for explaining a process of acquiring the ambiguity information by the base station ambiguity information searching unit 145 or the like. WEB server 131 of FIG. 8
(ST101), and when there is no ambiguity information database 142 (ST102), the base station position / error information of the ambiguity part of the monitoring range (zone) (information such as the communication coverage area of the base station) Request (ST10
3).

Specifically, the ambiguity information requesting unit 139 shown in FIG.
The request is made to the base station ambiguous information search unit 145 of the ambiguous information management device 140 shown in FIG. 6 via a. Then, the base station ambiguity information retrieval unit 145 retrieves / transmits base station position / error information (ST104). Then, the base station ambiguity information receiving unit 143 of FIG. 6 receives the base station position / error information (ST
105), registering in the ambiguity information database 142 via the base station ambiguity information data registration unit 144 (ST10).
6). As a result, the WEB server 131 of FIG. 8 can display the ambiguous information on the screen (screen display considering the ambiguous portion) (ST107). That is,
ST3f in FIG. 17 is possible.

Next, the WEB server 131 registers the monitoring range (zone) defined by the parent in the zone management server 121 of the zone information management device 120 (ST4). Specifically, it is registered in the zone database 122 and the zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 123 of the zone information management device 120.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the terminal position information management device 110 detects the position information of the mobile phone 200, specifically, the base station communication coverage area of the mobile phone 20.
Whether 0 is located is registered in the terminal location information database 113 (ST5). The terminal location information data acquisition unit 127 of the zone information management device 120 of FIG.
The data is input to the zone IN / OUT determination unit 124, and the monitoring range (zone) is determined (ST5).

Specifically, data of the monitoring range (zone) defined by the parent of the mobile phone 200 is also input from the zone database 122 and the zone / ambiguity information correspondence database 123 of FIG. That is, the zone IN / OUT determination unit 124 receives monitoring range (zone) data as shown in FIG. Therefore, the zone IN / OUT determination unit 124 acquires the data of which base station the communication coverage area of the mobile phone 200 is in from the terminal position information database 113 of FIG. For example,
In FIG. 13, when the mobile phone 200 is within the communication coverage area of the base station 8, the ambiguous information is determined to be outside the monitoring range (zone). On the other hand, when the mobile phone 200 enters the communication coverage area of the base station 6, it is determined that the mobile phone 200 is in the monitoring range (zone).

In this way, the zone IN / OUT judging section 1
24 determines that the mobile phone 200, which is the terminal to be monitored, has entered or left the monitoring range (zone), and notifies in either case depending on the setting of the user. In the present embodiment, an example of notifying when entering is described. Therefore, when the zone IN / OUT determination unit 124 determines that the mobile phone 200 has entered the monitoring range (zone) (ST7),
From the mail transmission unit 129 of FIG. 14 to the parent mobile phone 3 of FIG.
20 will be notified by e-mail (ST8).

(First Modification of Embodiment of the Present Invention) In the above-described first embodiment, the information about the communication coverage area of the base station 11 is exclusively acquired by the ambiguous information management device 140 of FIG. However, in addition to this, the terminal location information management device 110 of FIG. 3 may acquire the information of the base station 11 through the mobile phone 200 and register the information in the ambiguous information database 142 of FIG. . In this case, the information of the base station 11 can be collected more efficiently.

(Second Modification of Embodiment of the Present Invention) In the first embodiment, the mobile phone 200 or PHS is used as the monitoring target terminal device, but communication with an artificial satellite is performed as the monitoring target terminal device. GPS (Global Positioning S) that acquires its own location information by
system). In this case, instead of the ambiguity information in the first embodiment, the position error information uniquely possessed by the GPS terminal is processed as the ambiguity information. Therefore, the communication cover of the base station in the first embodiment is processed. There is no need to obtain information about areas.

That is, the position error information acquired by the position error information management device becomes position error information generated when the GPS portable terminal device communicates with the artificial satellite.
Specifically, for example, when defining the monitoring range (zone), the screen shown in FIG. 19 is provided to the user instead of FIG. The selection of the ambiguous portion in this case is either included or not included. FIG. 19 shows
It is a figure which shows an example of the screen in which the position error information of a GPS portable terminal device was displayed on the display part of a user's information contact terminal device. Therefore, in this modified example, since the position error information generated when communicating with the artificial satellite can be used as the position error information, an inexpensive terminal monitoring system can be obtained.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Further, the above-described respective embodiments may be configured by being combined with each other.

[0090]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a terminal monitoring system and a terminal monitoring system that are accurate and sufficiently reliable without using a highly accurate and expensive portable device. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing a terminal monitoring system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory view showing a specific configuration of a mobile phone.

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a terminal location information management device.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a terminal information database registered in the terminal information database.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a terminal position information database registered in the terminal position information database.

FIG. 6 is a schematic explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration of an ambiguous information management device.

FIG. 7 shows an example of base station information registered in an ambiguous information database.

FIG. 8 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a WEB information management device.

FIG. 9 shows an example of user information data registered in a user information database.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the information communication terminal device of the user.

FIG. 11 is another diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the information communication terminal device of the user.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a screen in which the communication cover area of the base station is displayed on the display unit of the information communication terminal device of the user.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen on which the user has selected whether or not to include the communication coverage areas (ambiguous portions) of a plurality of base stations.

FIG. 14 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a zone information management device.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of zone / ambiguous information correspondence data registered in a zone / ambiguous information correspondence database.

FIG. 16 is a schematic flowchart showing the overall operation of the terminal monitoring system according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a schematic flowchart for creating a monitoring range (zone).

FIG. 18 is a schematic flowchart illustrating a process in which the base station ambiguous information search unit or the like acquires the ambiguous information.

FIG. 19 shows a GP on the display unit of the user's information communication terminal device.
It is a figure which shows an example of the screen in which the positional error information of the S portable terminal device was displayed.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Terminal monitoring system, 11 ... Base station, 10
0 ... Terminal monitoring device, 110 ... Terminal position information management device, 111 ... Terminal position information management server, 112 ...
・ Terminal information database, 113 ... Terminal position information database, 114 ... Terminal information registration unit, 115 ...
・ Terminal position information receiving unit, 116 ... Terminal information acquisition unit,
117 ... Terminal information data registration unit, 120 ... Zone information management device, 121 ... Zone management server, 12
2 ... Zone database, 122a ... Zone data registration unit, 123 ... Zone / fuzzy information correspondence database, 123a ... Zone / fuzzy information correspondence data registration unit, 124 ... Zone IN / OUT determination unit , 125
..Zone data acquisition unit 126 ... zone / ambiguity information corresponding data acquisition unit 127 ... terminal position information data acquisition unit 128 ... fuzzy information acquisition unit 129 ... email transmission unit 130 ..WEB information management device, 131
... WEB server, 133 ... Map database,
134 ... Image information processing unit, 134a ... User input data acquisition unit, 134b ... WEB screen creation unit,
134c ... WEB screen output unit, 135 ... Zone creation unit, 139 ... Ambiguous information acquisition unit, 140 ... Ambiguous information management device, 141 ... Ambiguous information acquisition server, 1
42 ... Ambiguous information database, 143 ... Base station ambiguous information receiving unit, 144 ... Base station ambiguous information data registering unit, 145 ... Base station ambiguous information searching unit, 200, 3
20 ... Mobile phone, 210 ... CPU, 211 ...
Memory, 220 ... Display unit, 230 ... Key input unit, 240 ... RF unit, 250 ... Baseband processing unit, 260 ... Voice processing unit, 261 ... Microphone, 262. ..Speakers, 270 ... Antennas,
300 ... Information communication terminal device, 310 ... Personal computer (PC), 311 ... Display,
312 ... keyboard

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A monitoring target terminal device which is a monitoring target terminal device, a terminal monitoring device for specifying and monitoring a monitoring range of the monitoring target terminal device, and notifying a monitoring result, and the terminal monitoring. A terminal monitoring system including: an information communication terminal device, which is connected to the device and includes an input unit and a display unit for specifying a monitoring range and the like, and a receiving unit for receiving the notification of the monitoring result. There, the terminal monitoring device, a terminal position management device that manages the position information of the monitoring target terminal device, a position error information management device that acquires position error information regarding the position of the monitoring target terminal device, the information Based on the input from the input unit of the contact terminal device, the geographical information and the position error information acquired from the position error information management device are combined and visually displayed on the display unit of the information contact terminal device. An image information processing unit, a monitoring range creating unit that creates the monitoring range based on an input from the input unit, and a monitoring range information management unit that manages information related to the monitoring range. A monitoring range determining unit that determines whether the monitoring target terminal device is located within or outside the monitoring range managed by the monitoring range information managing unit; And a notification transmitting unit for notifying the receiving unit of the information communication terminal device of the determination result of the monitoring range determining unit. 2. The terminal device to be monitored is a mobile phone or PHS (Personal Ha) that communicates with a base station.
The terminal monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the position error information acquired by the position error information management device is a communicable range of each of the base stations. 3. The GPS in which the monitored terminal device acquires its own position information by communicating with an artificial satellite.
(Global Positioning System
m) A mobile terminal device, wherein the position error information acquired by the position error information management device is:
The terminal monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is position error information generated when communicating with the artificial satellite. 4. The monitoring range specifying management device includes a WEB server connectable via the Internet or the like, and the information communication terminal device has a connection terminal connectable to the WEB server via the Internet or the like. The notification transmitting means is a mail transmitting unit capable of transmitting an electronic mail, and the receiving unit is a notification receiving portable terminal. The terminal monitoring system described. 5. The monitoring range of the terminal device to be monitored is specified,
A terminal monitoring device for monitoring and notifying a monitoring result, wherein the terminal monitoring device manages position information of the monitoring target terminal device, and a position of the monitoring target terminal device. A position error information management device that acquires position error information, and based on an input from the input unit of the information communication terminal device, combines geographic information and position error information acquired from the position error information management device, A monitoring range specifying management device having a processing unit for visually displaying image information on the display unit, and a monitoring range creating unit for creating the monitoring range based on an input from the input unit, and information on the monitoring range. And a monitoring range information managing unit that manages the monitoring range information managing unit that manages the A terminal monitoring device, comprising: a range determination unit; a monitoring range information management device included; and a notification transmitting unit for notifying the reception unit of the information communication terminal device of the determination result of the monitoring range determination unit. apparatus.