Activity aid apparatus

• US 20060200051A1
• Filed: 02/13/2006
• Published: 09/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cecilia Bergh, Michel Zandian, Per Sodersten
• Original Assignee: Cecilia Bergh, Michel Zandian, Per Sodersten
• Inventors: Zandian, Michel, Bergh, Cecilia, Sodersten, Per
• Application Number:
  US11/353,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20060200051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/595
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1122 of movement trajectories
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

The invention relates to a lightweight body portable arrangement (10, 12) for correcting or aiding a human being to keep an amount of physical activity correlated to a preferred level of dieting.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A portable arrangement for correcting the amount of physical activity to a preferred level of dieting, comprising:

at least one sensor adapted to be attached to limb of a human user, the sensor adapted to directly register movements with a predetermined resolution of the movement of said limb;

a processor adapted to control and record-input signals from said at least one sensor;

a comparator means adapted to compare said input signals with predetermined stored movements within a provided resolution for said preferred level of dieting in said memory; and

a feedback means adapted to provide an output signal to said user, whereby said output signal indicates how to adapt said movements to said stored movements, thus alerting the user to adapt physical activity to a level corresponding to said dieting level, whereby physical activity is being correlated to said level of dieting.

18. An arrangement according to claim 17, wherein said movements stored for the preferred level of dieting are correlated to at least one of the parameters weight and height of said user.

19. An arrangement according to claim 17, wherein said stored preferred level of movements for dieting is correlated to said user'"'"'s Body Mass Index.

20. An arrangement according to claim 17, wherein said feedback through at least two signals alerts the user to increase or decrease movements, respectively.

21. An arrangement according to claim 17, wherein said output signals are sound, visual display or tactile feedback signals.

22. An arrangement according to claim 17, wherein said processor and said comparator and feedback means are comprised in a portable housing with a display.

23. An arrangement according to claim 22, wherein said housing comprises said at least one sensor.

24. An arrangement according to claim 17, wherein said predetermined stored movements differ between different activities.

25. A method of using a body portable arrangement for correcting the amount of physical activity to a preferred level of dieting, comprising:

attaching at least one sensor to a limb of a human user, and directly registering movements with a predetermined resolution of the movement of said limb;

controlling and recording input signals from said at least one sensor through a processor having a memory;

comparing said input signals with predetermined stored movements within a provided resolution for said preferred level of dieting in said memory; and

providing a feedback through an output signal to said user whereby said output signal indicates how to adapt said movements to said stored movements, thus alerting the user to adapt physical body activity to a level corresponding to said dieting level, whereby physical activity is being correlated to said level of dieting.

26. A method according to claim 25, wherein said movements stored for the preferred level of dieting are correlated to at least one of the parameters weight and height of said user.

27. A method according to claim 25, wherein said preferred stored level of movements for dieting is correlated to said user'"'"'s Body Mass Index.

28. A method according to claim 25, wherein said feedback through at least two signals alerts the user to increase or decrease movements, respectively.

29. A method according to claim 28, wherein said output signals are sound, visual display or tactile feedback signals.

30. A method according to claim 25, wherein said processor and said comparator and feedback means are comprised in a portable housing with a display.

31. A method according to claim 30, wherein said housing comprises said at least one sensor.

32. A method according to claim 25, wherein said predetermined stored movements differ between different activities.