ACTIVITY MONITOR, METHOD OF CALCULATING TARGET ACTIVITY AMOUNT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120209533A1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Original Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Inventors: KODAMA, Miyuki, Kato, Jun, Yamashita, Mayumi, Takahashi, Shizuka
• Granted Patent: US 9,017,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4866 Evaluating metabolism A61B5/083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising

Abstract

The activity monitor (100) includes a basic information acquisition unit (20) that accepts input of basic physical information (BA) of the user'"'"'s body, a target information acquisition unit (30) that accepts input of the user'"'"'s target physical expenditure (CS), an activity pattern acquisition unit (40) that acquires pattern information indicating the user'"'"'s intent on the activity amount (AM), and a target activity calculation unit (50) that determines a target activity amount (TA) on the basis of the basic physical information (BA), the target physical expenditure (CS), and the pattern information acquired by the activity pattern acquisition unit (40).

Claims

1. An activity monitor having an activity amount measurement unit that measures an activity amount of a user, comprising:

a basic information acquisition unit that accepts an input of basic physical information on the user'"'"'s body;

a target information acquisition unit that accepts an input of a target physical expenditure of the user;

an activity pattern acquisition unit that acquires pattern information indicating the user'"'"'s intent on the activity amount; and

a target activity calculation unit that determines a target activity amount on the basis of the basic physical information, the target physical expenditure, and the pattern information acquired by the activity pattern acquisition unit.

2. The activity monitor according to claim 1,

wherein the activity pattern acquisition unit acquires the pattern information on the basis of the activity amount measured by the activity amount measurement unit.

3. The activity monitor according to claim 2,

wherein the activity amount measurement unit comprises an exercise amount measurement unit that measures the user'"'"'s exercise amount, and a basal metabolism calculation unit that calculates the user'"'"'s basal metabolism on the basis of the basic physical information, and

the activity pattern acquisition unit acquires the exercise amount measured by the exercise amount measurement unit as the pattern information.

4. The activity monitor according to claim 1,

wherein the activity pattern acquisition unit acquires distribution information indicating a distribution ratio of a decrease in energy intake to an increase in energy expenditure by exercise as the pattern information, and

the target activity calculation unit determines target energy intake and the target activity amount on the basis of the distribution information and the target physical expenditure.

5. The activity monitor according to claim 1,

wherein the activity pattern acquisition unit accepts an input of the pattern information by the user.

6. The activity monitor according to claim 1, further comprising a period data acquisition unit that acquires period data indicating a period in a menstrual cycle,

wherein the target activity calculation unit determines the target activity amounts that are different for each period in the menstrual cycle, on the basis of the basic physical information, the target physical expenditure, the pattern information, and the period data.

7. The activity monitor according to claim 6, further comprising an output unit that outputs a period name indicating that the period in the menstrual cycle is suitable for diet in the case where the period corresponds to a follicular phase, and outputs another period name indicating that it is preferable to set a milder diet target than in the follicular phase in the case where the period corresponding to a luteal phase, to thereby notify the user of the period.

8. The activity monitor according to claim 6,

wherein the activity pattern acquisition unit presents a plurality of target variation patterns each representing the target activity amounts arranged in different manners for each period in the menstrual cycle, and acquires a selected one of the target variation pattern as the pattern information.

9. The activity monitor according to claim 6,

wherein the target activity calculation unit determines the target activity amount for the follicular phase at a higher level than the target activity amount for a menstrual period and the luteal phase.

10. The activity monitor according to claim 6,

wherein the activity pattern acquisition unit acquires the pattern information on the basis of the activity amount measured by the activity amount measurement unit in association with the period data.

11. The activity monitor according to claim 6,

wherein the activity pattern acquisition unit acquires, as the pattern information, distribution information indicating a distribution ratio between a decrease in energy intake and an increase in energy expenditure by exercise, and allocation information indicating an arrangement of the target activity amount for the luteal phase and the follicular phase, and

the target activity calculation unit determines the target activity amount with the distribution ratios that are different for the luteal phase and the follicular phase.

12. The activity monitor according to claim 6,

wherein the target activity calculation unit determines a target energy intake for the follicular phase at a lower level than a target energy intake for the luteal phase.

13. The activity monitor according to claim 6,

wherein the period data acquisition unit accepts an input of reference date information indicating a first day of the menstrual period as the period data, and calculates the period in the menstrual cycle on the basis of the reference date information and the number of elapsed days after the acceptance of the period data.

14. The activity monitor according to claim 1, further comprising an evaluation unit that evaluates an achievement level through comparison of the target activity amount determined and the activity amount measured by the activity amount measurement unit.

15. The activity monitor according to claim 6, further comprising an evaluation unit that evaluates an achievement level through comparison of the target activity amount determined and the activity amount measured by the activity amount measurement unit,

wherein the activity monitor being configured to output an evaluation result in different manners for the luteal phase and the follicular phase, when the evaluated achievement level is the same.

16. The activity monitor according to claim 14,

wherein the target activity calculation unit calculates an unachieved portion of the target physical expenditure on the basis of a cumulative amount of the activity amounts measured by the activity amount measurement unit, and updates the target activity amount on the basis of the unachieved portion.

17. The activity monitor according to claim 1,

wherein the target activity calculation unit calculates an estimated date of achievement of the target physical expenditure on the basis of the cumulative amount of the activity amount measured by the activity amount measurement unit.

18. A method of calculating a target activity amount, comprising:

accepting an input of basic physical information on a user'"'"'s body;

accepting an input of a target physical expenditure of the user;

acquiring pattern information indicating the user'"'"'s intent on the activity amount; and

determining the target activity amount on the basis of the basic physical information, the target physical expenditure, and the pattern information.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

preliminarily measuring the user'"'"'s activity amount for a predetermined period thereby acquiring the pattern information; and

adding an additional expenditure by exercise to the activity amount preliminarily measured, thereby determining the target activity amount.

20. A storage medium containing a program for causing an activity monitor having an activity amount measurement unit to execute a calculation of a target activity amount,

wherein the calculation of a target activity amount includes:

accepting an input of basic physical information on a user'"'"'s body;

accepting an input of a target physical expenditure of the user;

acquiring pattern information indicating the user'"'"'s intent on the activity amount; and

determining the target activity amount on the basis of the basic physical information, the target physical expenditure, and the pattern information.