Body type determining apparatus

• US 20050080352A1
• Filed: 10/07/2004
• Published: 04/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Original Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Inventors: Sato, Hitoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/959,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20050080352A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/547
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0537 Measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/107 Measuring physical dimensions, e.g. size of the entire body or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/50 having additional measuring devices, e.g. for height
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/3728 with wireless means

Abstract

The body type determining apparatus comprises: an input unit, an impedance measuring unit, a calculation unit, a standard setting unit, and a body type determining unit, wherein the input unit inputs personal physical data; the impedance measuring unit measures a bioelectrical impedance; the calculation unit calculates a body mass index and a body composition index based on the personal physical data and the bioelectrical impedance; the standard setting unit sets a normal value obtained from a regression formula based on measured data of the body mass index and the body composition index, as a body type determination standard, and the body type determining unit determines a body type based on the body type determining standard; thereby making it possible to determine a body type in numeric values with good accuracy.

Claims

1. A body type determining apparatus comprising:

an input unit,

an impedance measuring unit,

a calculation unit,

a standard setting unit, and

a body type determining unit,

wherein

the input unit inputs personal physical data,

the impedance measuring unit measures a bioelectrical impedance,

the calculation unit calculates a body mass index and a body composition index based on the personal physical data and the bioelectrical impedance,

the standard setting unit sets a normal value obtained from a regression formula based on measured data of the body mass index and the body composition index, as a body type determination standard, and

the body type determining unit determines a body type based on the body type determination standard.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the body composition index is at least one of FMI and LMI.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the standard setting unit sets a number of body type determination standards for different objects for comparison.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the body type determining unit determines a body type based on the difference between the normal value and the calculated body composition index.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the body type determining unit sets a proper range or abnormal range of a body type based on at least one statistical technique out of the percentile value or standard deviation of the body composition index based on the normal value or Z score based on the standard deviation and determines a body type by a range to which the body composition index belongs.