APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT AMOUNT, AN APPARATUS FOR SUGGESTING A NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT, A BLENDING APPARATUS OF A NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT AND A BLENDING SYSTEM OF A NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT

• US 20100286999A1
• Filed: 07/08/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nutrition Act Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nutrition Act Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Sano, Kayo, Ishikawa, Masahito
• Granted Patent: US 10,068,062 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

It is provided with a medical inquiry processing unit for acquiring the response to a medical inquiry presenting medical inquiry items to a person to be examined, a nutrient requirement amount calculating unit for calculating the nutrient requirement amount of the person to be examined from the response to the medical inquiry, a nutritional supplement suggesting unit for suggesting the blend of a nutritional supplement based on the nutrient requirement amount of the person to be examined and a nutritional supplement blending unit for blending nutrients to prepare the nutritional supplement based on the blend of the nutritional supplement.

Claims

1. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount of a person to be examined from a response to a medical inquiry, comprising:

a medical inquiry response acquiring unit for acquiring a plurality of responses to said medical inquiry from said person to be examined at a different time or on a different day;

an insufficient nutrient processing unit for determining an insufficient degree of nutrient corresponding to each response to said medical inquiry acquired by said medical inquiry response acquiring unit; and

a nutrient requirement amount calculating unit for calculating said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined based on a result of accumulating said insufficient degree of nutrient.

2. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a medical inquiry processing unit for selecting a medical inquiry item for said person to be examined from a medical inquiry item database based on change in said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined caused by passage of time, during said medical inquiry except a first time.

3. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a medical inquiry processing unit for selecting a medical inquiry item for said person to be examined from a medical inquiry item database based on a life goal predetermined by said person to be examined, during said medical inquiry except a first time.

4. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a medical inquiry processing unit for selecting a medical inquiry item for said person to be examined from a medical inquiry item database based on a time interval predetermined for each medical inquiry item, during said medical inquiry except a first time.

5. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a medical inquiry processing unit for displaying a medical inquiry item in an order, wherein a necessity degree of response is from high to low, to a terminal with which said person to be examined inputs said response to said medical inquiry, during said medical inquiry except a first time.

6. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a medical inquiry history database for storing a history of said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined; and

a medical inquiry processing unit for selecting a medical inquiry item for said person to be examined from a medical inquiry item database by using said history of said person to be examined, during said medical inquiry except a first time.

7. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a medical inquiry processing unit for selecting a medical inquiry item to perform said medical inquiry on said person to be examined,

wherein said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit outputs advice about nutrient ingestion to said person to be examined based on said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined,

said medical inquiry processing unit designates said medical inquiry item to inquire about a nutrient ingestion condition indicating whether said person to be examined is taking in said nutrient requirement amount outputted by said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit at a previous time and

said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit calculates said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined based on a response to a medical inquiry about said nutrient ingestion condition.

8. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 7, wherein said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit outputs medical treatment recommendation information to recommend medical treatment at a medical institution, in case of judging that said person to be examined is taking in said nutrient based on said nutrient requirement amount and said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined is not improved in regard to at least one of said nutrients, as a result of said medical inquiry about said nutrient ingestion condition.

9. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 8, wherein said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit further comprises a disease name presuming unit for judging a presumed disease name based on a result of calculating said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined, and outputs said presumed disease name as said medical treatment recommendation information.

10. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 8, wherein said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit further comprises:

a disease name presuming unit for judging a presumed disease name based on a result of calculating said nutrient requirement amount; and

a medical institution recommending unit for selecting a recommended medical institution corresponding to said presumed disease name, and

outputs said recommended medical institution as said medical treatment recommendation information.

11. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount of a person to be examined from a response to a medical inquiry, comprising:

a medical inquiry response acquiring unit for acquiring said response to said medical inquiry of a medical inquiry item from said person to be examined;

an insufficient nutrient processing unit for determining an insufficient degree of nutrient corresponding to each response to said medical inquiry acquired by said medical inquiry response acquiring unit; and

a nutrient requirement amount calculating unit for calculating said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined based on living environment information indicating a living environment of said person to be examined acquired from an outer part and a result of accumulating said insufficient degree of nutrient.

12. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 11, wherein said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit further comprises:

a living environment database for storing said living environment information corresponding to each region; and

a living environment searching unit for acquiring said living environment information corresponding to an address of said person to be examined by searching said living environment database by using said address predetermined by said person to be examined, and

calculates said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined by using said living environment information searched by said living environment searching unit.

13. An apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount as claimed in claim 11, wherein said nutrient requirement amount calculating unit further comprises:

a living environment database for storing said living environment information corresponding to each region;

a living environment searching unit for acquiring said living environment information corresponding to an address of said person to be examined by searching said living environment database by using said address predetermined by said person to be examined; and

a workplace living environment searching unit for acquiring living environment information corresponding to an address of a workplace of said person to be examined by searching said living environment database by using said address of said workplace predetermined by said person to be examined, and

calculates said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined by using said living environment information corresponding to said address and said address of said workplace.

14-61. -61. (canceled)