Seafarer safety device, seafarer safety system, seafarer safety program, vessel activity inference device, report generation assistance system, and vessel activity inference program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12583564-B2
Application number	US-202318997762-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2023
Priority date	Jul 26, 2022
Publication date	Mar 24, 2026
Grant date	Mar 24, 2026

Abstract

A seafarer safety device (500) includes an evaluator (510a) and an inboard outputter (510k). The evaluator (510a) executes an evaluation process of evaluating whether a crew in emergency circumstances, on the basis of the intensities of notification radio waves indicating the existence of the crew on a craft and transmitted from a wearable transmitting device that repetitively transmits the notification radio waves, and on the basis of the strengths of rocking motions of the craft detected by a craft rocking-motion sensor that detects the strengths of rocking motions. The inboard outputter (510k) outputs, to an alarm unit, an emergency evaluation signal indicating a result of evaluation, when the evaluator (510a) evaluates that the crew is in emergency circumstances.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A vessel activity inference device, comprising:
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor executes
a craft-location-data acquiring process of acquiring craft location data containing a chronological series of detected values indicating locations of a craft during a navigation,
a specifying process of specifying, based on the craft location data acquired in the craft-location-data acquiring process, activities performed by the craft, and
an outputting process of outputting activity data indicating the activities specified in the specifying process,
in the specifying process, the at least one processor has a function of specifying, based on the craft location data, each of (a) travel toward a search region in which search for a fishery is performed, (b) the search for the fishery in the search region, (c) fishing in the fishery searched, (d) offshore stay, and (e) travel to return to a port after the fishing, as the activities, and specifies the activities multiple times based on the craft location data from departure until arrival of the craft to specify the activities of different types performed during the period from the departure until the arrival of the craft, and the activity data indicates the activities of different types performed during the period from the departure until the arrival of the craft, and a time at which each activity is performed.

2 . The vessel activity inference device according to claim 1 , wherein
in the specifying process, the at least one processor has a function of specifying, based on the craft location data, that longline fishery is performed as the fishing, and, when the fishing is specified as the longline fishery based on the activities, specifies, based on the craft location data, an outward period during which a longline is developed in the longline fishery, and a return period during which the longline is collected in the longline fishery.

3 . The vessel activity inference device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor further executes a crew data acquiring process of acquiring crew data containing a chronological series of detected values indicating motions or organic activities of a crew on the craft, and in the specifying process, the at least one processor specifies the activities, based on not only the craft location data but also the crew data during the navigation.

4 . The vessel activity inference device according to claim 3 , wherein
the crew data contains a chronological series of detected values indicating motions of the crew, the at least one processor further executes
a craft rocking-motion data acquiring process of acquiring craft rocking-motion data containing a chronological series of detected values indicating strengths of locking motions of the craft, and
a correction process of removing a contribution of the locking motions of the craft to the motions of the crew, from the detected values indicating the motions of the crew, using the crew data and the craft rocking-motion data, and generating corrected crew data indicating motions of the crew relative to the craft, and
in the specifying process, the at least one processor specifies the activities, based on not only the craft location data but also the corrected crew data during the navigation.

5 . The vessel activity inference device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor further executes an equipment-state data acquiring process of acquiring equipment state data containing a chronological series of detected values indicating states of operation or usage of equipment installed in the craft, and in the specifying process, the at least one processor specifies the activities, based on not only the craft location data but also the equipment state data during the navigation.

6 . The vessel activity inference device according to claim 1 , wherein
the specifying process is executed using a learned model generated through machine learning for specifying the activities from the craft location data.

7 . A report generation assistance system, comprising:
the vessel activity inference device according to claim 1 ; and a report generating server to acquire the activity data from the vessel activity inference device, and to generate, based on the acquired activity data, report data indicating achievements of the navigation.

8 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a vessel activity inference program, the vessel activity inference program causing a computer to serve as:
a craft location data acquirer to acquire craft location data containing a chronological series of detected values indicating locations of a craft during a navigation; a specifier to specify, based on the craft location data acquired by the craft location data acquirer, activities performed by the craft; and an outputter to output activity data indicating the activities specified by the specifier, wherein the specifier has a function of specifying, based on the craft location data, each of (a) travel toward a search region in which search for a fishery is performed, (b) the search for the fishery in the search region, (c) fishing in the fishery searched, (d) offshore stay, and (e) travel to return to a port after the fishing, as the activities, and specifies the activities multiple times based on the craft location data from departure until arrival of the craft to specify the activities of different types performed during a period from the departure until the arrival of the craft, and the activity data indicates the activities of different types performed during the period from the departure until the arrival of the craft, and a time at which each activity is performed.

9 . A seafarer safety device, comprising:
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor executes
an evaluation process of evaluating, based on intensities of notification radio waves indicating existence of a crew on a craft and strengths of rocking motions of the craft detected by a craft rocking-motion sensor, whether the crew is in emergency circumstances, the notification radio waves being received from a wearable transmitting device that repetitively transmits the notification radio waves, the craft rocking-motion sensor repetitively detecting the strengths of the rocking motions, and
an outputting process of outputting an emergency evaluation signal indicating a result of evaluation, when the crew is evaluated to be in emergency circumstances in the evaluation process.

10 . The seafarer safety device according to claim 9 , wherein
the evaluation process further includes
a low-intensity period determining process of comparing the intensities of the notification radio waves with a threshold radio-wave intensity, and determining a length of a low-intensity period while the intensities of the notification radio waves are lower than the threshold radio-wave intensity, the threshold radio-wave intensity being preliminarily set as a threshold implying existence of the crew on the craft,
an initial locking-motion strength determining process of determining, based on the strengths of the rocking motions detected by the craft rocking-motion sensor, an initial locking-motion strength that indicates a strength of locking motions of the craft at start of the low-intensity period, and
an evaluation execution process of evaluating, based on the length of the low-intensity period determined in the low-intensity period determining process and the initial locking-motion strength determined in the initial locking-motion strength determining process, whether the crew is in emergency circumstances.

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Assignees

• Univ Kagoshima
• Ocean Solution Tech Kabushiki Kaisha
• Sasebo Kokai Sokkisha Co Ltd
• Neos Corp

Inventors

• Oda Kentaro
• Mizukami Yosuke
• YAMAO Kaito
• Miyagishima Hideki
• Yamamoto Naoya

Classifications

• G08B25/001

  Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation · CPC title

• G08B21/088

  by monitoring a device worn by the person, e.g. a bracelet attached to the swimmer · CPC title

• G08G3/00

  Traffic control systems for marine craft (marking of navigational route B63B22/16, B63B51/00) · CPC title

• G08B21/0216

  Alarm cancellation after generation · CPC title

• G08B21/02

  Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons · CPC title