Advertising method using automatic blood pressure measuring apparatus, and automatic blood pressure measuring apparatus having advertising function

• US 20020002341A1
• Filed: 06/14/2001
• Published: 01/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Colin Corporation (Fukuda Denshi Company Limited)
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Hiroya
• Granted Patent: US 6,726,633 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/499
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

An advertising method, including the step of displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of an automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus including an inflatable cuff and a display device, an advertisement on the display device.

Claims

1. An advertising method, comprising the step of:

displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of an automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus including an inflatable cuff and a display device, an advertisement on the display device.

2. An advertising method, comprising the steps of:

transmitting, from a host computer which stores an advertisement data base comprising a plurality of advertisements, each one of the advertisements, to at least one of a plurality of automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses each of which includes an inflatable cuff and a display device and is connected to the host computer via a communication line, according to a predetermined relationship between the advertisements and the automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses, and

displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of said one automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus which has received said each one advertisement, said each one advertisement on the display device of said one automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus.

3. An advertising method according to claim 2, further comprising a step of transmitting a summary comprising a number of times of displaying of said each one advertisement by said one automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus, to a terminal of a client who transmitted said each one advertisement to the host computer so that the host computer stores the advertisement data base comprising said each one advertisement.

4. An advertising method according to claim 2, further comprising a step of determining the relationship based on an advertising condition which is transmitted, together with said each one advertisement, from the terminal of the client to the host computer.

5. An automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus, comprising:

an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject to press the body portion;

a display device;

at least one advertisement recording medium on which at least one advertisement is recorded; and

a display control device which controls the display device to display the advertisement recorded on the advertisement recording medium, during at least a portion of a time period in which a pressing pressure of the cuff applied to the body portion of the subject is changed.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, comprising a plurality of said advertisement recording mediums on which a plurality of different advertisements are recorded, respectively, wherein a first one of the advertisement recording mediums is replaceable with a second one of the advertisement recording mediums.

7. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a summary recording medium on which a summary comprising a number of times of displaying of the advertisement by the display device is recorded.

8. A recording medium for recording a computer program which is used by a computer to transmit a plurality of pieces of information to a plurality of automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses, the computer program comprising the steps of

determining a relationship between the plurality of pieces of information and the plurality of automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses, and

transmitting each one piece of information out of the plurality of pieces of information, to at least one of the automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses each of which includes an inflatable cuff and is connected to the computer via a communication line, according to the determined relationship.

9. A recording medium for recording a computer program which is used by a computer of an automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus which includes an inflatable cuff and a display device and is connected to a host computer via a communication line, the computer program comprising the steps of

receiving, from the host computer which stores a plurality of pieces of information, one piece of information out of the plurality of pieces of information, via the communication line, and

displaying, during an blood-pressure measuring operation of the automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus which has received said one piece of information, an image representing said one piece of information on the display device.