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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2018
Hajimu Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Atsumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shotaro Komoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information providing apparatus for providing information of a user who uses a bed placed in a facility includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to collect image data indicating temperatures on the bed and temperatures around the bed from an acquisition device, the image data being acquired by the acquisition device, detect, based on the collected image data, a change of a given temperature in one or more detection areas preset on the bed and around the bed, and send the information of the user to predetermined notification destination, based on the change of the given temperature indicated by the image data in the one or more detection areas detected as corresponding to a preset pattern of change of the given temperature.