Body Movement Detecting Apparatus

• US 20090143199A1
• Filed: 11/19/2008
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Original Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Inventors: Nishibayashi, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US12/274,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20090143199A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/22 Ergometry; Measuring muscular strength or the force of a muscular blow exercising apparatus A63B21/00 ; measuring of work or force in general G01L
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4866 Evaluating metabolism A61B5/083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers

Abstract

A body movement detecting apparatus includes a body movement data acquiring unit that acquires body movement data relating to a body movement of a user; a body movement discriminating unit that discriminates whether the body movement is a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise; and a computing unit that calculates a consumption energy during the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data discriminated as the walking exercise, calculates the consumption energy at the time of exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data of the body movement which is discriminated as the exercise other than the walking exercise, and calculates the consumption energy by the body movement of the user by adding these consumption energy.

Claims

1. A body movement detecting apparatus comprising:

a body movement data acquiring unit that acquires body movement data relating to a body movement of an user;

a body movement discriminating unit that discriminates whether the body movement is a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data; and

a computing unit that calculates a consumption energy during the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data of the body movement which is discriminated as the walking exercise from among the body movement data by the body movement discriminating unit, calculates a consumption energy at the time of exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data of the body movement which is discriminated as the exercise other than the walking exercise from among the body movement data by the body movement discriminating unit, and calculates a consumption energy by the body movement of the user by adding these consumption energy from among the body movement data by the body movement discriminating unit.

2. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the body movement data includes a body movement strength and a body movement pitch of the user at every certain elapsed time, and the body movement discriminating unit discriminates the movement of the user between a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement strength and the body movement pitch.

3. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the body movement data includes a difference between an upper peak value and a lower peak value of the body movement strength at every certain elapsed time and the body movement pitch, and the body movement discriminating unit discriminates the movement of the user between a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement strength and the body movement pitch.

4. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an acceleration value generated by the body movement, wherein the body movement discriminating unit includes an accelerator sensor which outputs different output values according to the acceleration value.

5. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a biological data acquiring unit that acquires a biological data of the user, wherein the computing unit calculates the consumption energy consumed by the body movement of the user using a calculation formula having the biological data acquired by the biological data acquiring unit and the body movement data as parameters.

6. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein calculation of the consumption energy during the walking exercise is achieved by using a calculation formula including parameters at least such as a body weight as the biological data and a coefficient and a number of steps corresponding to the body movement pitch of the user as the body movement data.

7. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein calculation of the consumption energy during exercises other than the walking exercise is achieved by using a calculation formula including parameters at least such as a body weight and a lean body mass as the biological data and data relating to an acceleration value generated by the body movement as the body movement data.

8. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the consumption energy consumed by the body movement of the user is calculated assuming that a running exercise is included in the walking exercise.

9. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an acceleration value generated by the body movement, wherein the body movement discriminating unit includes an accelerator sensor which outputs different output values according to the acceleration value.

10. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising an acceleration value generated by the body movement, wherein the body movement discriminating unit includes an accelerator sensor which outputs different output values according to the acceleration value.

11. The body movement detecting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein calculation of the consumption energy during exercises other than the walking exercise is achieved by using a calculation formula including parameters at least such as a body weight and a lean body mass as the biological data and data relating to an acceleration value generated by the body movement as the body movement data.