Health care method and apparatus based on user's life pattern

• US 20060116558A1
• Filed: 11/14/2005
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Yeun-bee, Jang, Woo-Young, Hwang, Jin-sang, Lee, Kwang-hyeon
• Application Number:
  US11/271,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20060116558A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

A health care apparatus and method that produce a health care program based on a user'"'"'s life pattern. The health care apparatus includes: an input unit inputting user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information; a calculator producing a health care program based on the input user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information; and an output unit outputting the produced health care program. The health care method and apparatus produce a health care program based on a user'"'"'s life pattern that reflects user'"'"'s nutritive food intake and user'"'"'s consumed nutritive food, thereby providing a user with a more accurate and reliable health care program.

Claims

1. A health care apparatus comprising:

an input unit inputting a user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information;

a calculator producing a health care program based on the input user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information; and

an output unit outputting the produced health care program.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the calculator comprises:

a life pattern production agent producing a user'"'"'s life pattern based on the user'"'"'s life pattern information;

a health care program production agent producing the health care program based on the input user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information; and

a controller controlling information input to and output from each of the agents.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the calculator further comprises:

a personal information management agent obtaining the user'"'"'s personal information and storing the obtained personal information; and

a body information management agent obtaining the user'"'"'s body information and storing the obtained body information.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein each of the agents provides another agent with its information at the request of the another agent.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the user'"'"'s personal information comprises a user'"'"'s name, an ID number, family particulars, an age, a marriage status, a disease history, a goal, a favorite food, or a favorite sport.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the user'"'"'s body information comprises a user'"'"'s weight, height, blood pressure, fat, sugar value, or blood components.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the user'"'"'s life pattern information comprises food information on kinds and amount of a user'"'"'s food intake and sport information on kinds and time of a user'"'"'s sport.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the life pattern production agent comprises:

a calculator calculating an amount of user'"'"'s nutritive food intake and an amount of user'"'"'s consumed nutritive food based on the user'"'"'s food intake and the sport information; and

a life pattern producer producing the user'"'"'s life pattern based on the calculated result.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein an amount of a nutritive food intake corresponding to the kinds and amount of the user'"'"'s food intake is categorized and an amount of consumed nutritive food corresponding to the kinds and time of the user'"'"'s sport is categorized, and

wherein the calculator calculates the amount of user'"'"'s nutritive food intake and the amount of user'"'"'s consumed nutritive food based on the nutritive food intake category and the consumed nutritive food category.

10. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the health care program production agent comprises:

a determiner determining a target amount of nutritive food intake and a target consumption amount of nutritive food based on the user'"'"'s personal information and body information;

a modifier modifying the target amount of nutritive food intake and the target consumption amount of nutritive food based on the user'"'"'s life pattern; and

a health care program producer producing the health care program based on the modified target amount of nutritive food intake and target consumption amount of nutritive food.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the determiner determines the target amount of nutritive food intake and the target consumption amount of nutritive food corresponding to the user'"'"'s predetermined target.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the determiner determines the target amount of nutritive food intake and the target consumption amount of nutritive food corresponding to standard food information and standard body information.

13. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a memory storing the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information.

14. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the calculator further comprises an additional information production agent providing additional information relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the additional information production agent comprises:

an examination result provider providing results of medical examinations of people having similar information to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information;

a media information provider providing information on media relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information; and

a community producer searching for a community relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information and providing the user with the searched community, or newly producing the community relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information and providing the user with the produced community.

16. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information are directly input by the user through the input unit.

17. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a receiver receiving the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information from an external device.

18. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a transmitter transmitting the health care program to an external device.

19. A health care method comprising:

inputting a user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information;

producing a user'"'"'s life pattern based on the user'"'"'s life pattern information;

producing the health care program based on the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information; and

outputting the produced health care program to the user.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the user'"'"'s personal information comprises a user'"'"'s name, an ID number, family particulars, an age, a marriage status, a disease history, a goal, a favorite food, or a favorite sport.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the user'"'"'s body information comprises a user'"'"'s weight, height, blood pressure, fat, sugar value, or blood components.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the user'"'"'s life pattern information comprises food information on kinds and amount of a user'"'"'s food intake and sport information on kinds and time of a user'"'"'s sport.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the producing a user'"'"'s life pattern comprises:

calculating an amount of user'"'"'s nutritive food intake and an amount of user'"'"'s consumed nutritive food based on the user'"'"'s food intake and the sport information; and

producing the user'"'"'s life pattern based on the calculated amount of user'"'"'s nutritive food intake and amount of user'"'"'s consumed nutritive food.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein an amount of a nutritive food intake corresponding to the kinds and amount of the user'"'"'s food intake is categorized and an amount of consumed nutritive food corresponding to the kinds and time of the user'"'"'s sport is categorized, and

wherein the amount of user'"'"'s nutritive food intake and the amount of user'"'"'s consumed nutritive food are calculated based on the nutritive food intake category and the consumed nutritive food category.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the producing the health care program comprises:

determining a target amount of nutritive food intake and a target consumption amount of nutritive food based on the user'"'"'s personal information and body information;

modifying the target amount of nutritive food intake and the target consumption amount of nutritive food based on the user'"'"'s life pattern; and

producing the health care program based on the modified target amount of nutritive food intake and target consumption amount of nutritive food.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the target amount of nutritive food intake and the target consumption amount of nutritive food are determined corresponding to the user'"'"'s predetermined target.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the target amount of nutritive food intake and the target consumption amount of nutritive food are determined corresponding to standard food information and standard body information.

28. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

providing additional information relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the additional information comprises results of medical examinations made for people having similar information to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information, information on media relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information, or information on a community relating to the user'"'"'s personal information and body information.

30. The method of claim 19, wherein the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information are directly input by the user.

31. The method of claim 19, wherein the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information are automatically input from an external device.

32. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

transmitting the health care program to an external device.

33. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with processing instructions for causing a processor to execute a health care method, the method comprising:

inputting a user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information;

producing a user'"'"'s life pattern based on the user'"'"'s life pattern information;

producing the health care program based on the user'"'"'s personal information, body information, and life pattern information; and

outputting the produced health care program to the user.