ORGANISM INFORMATION MEASURING INSTRUMENT, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, ORGANISM INFORMATION MEASURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120296571A1
• Filed: 01/04/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Shinoda, Shigeki, Sasaki, Yasuhiro, Sakai, Hiroshi, Takahashi, Masatake
• Application Number:
  US13/576,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296571A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7221 Determining signal validity, reliability or quality A61B5/7207 and A61B5/7217 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An organism information measuring instrument of the present invention includes: a sensor that measures organism information; a normalization circuit that normalizes the organism information by converting a value of the organism information based on preset normalization information; and a reliability information generation circuit that detects a change amount greater than or equal to a predetermined value in a predetermined time period, with respect to the organism information or the normalized organism information, and generates reliability information indicating lower reliability as the change amount is greater.

Claims

1. An organism information measuring instrument, comprising:

a sensor that measures organism information;

a normalization circuit that normalizes the organism information by converting a value of the organism information based on preset normalization information; and

a reliability information generation circuit that detects a change amount greater than or equal to a predetermined value in a predetermined time period, with respect to the organism information or the normalized organism information, and generates reliability information indicating lower reliability as the change amount is greater.

2. The organism information measuring instrument according to claim 1, comprising:

a plurality of the sensors;

a plurality of the normalization circuits that normalize the organism information measured by each of the sensors;

a plurality of the reliability information generation circuits that generate the reliability information for each of the organism information or each of the normalized organism information; and

a weighted averaging circuit that performs weighted averaging on pieces of the normalized organism information with larger weight for the organism information having higher reliability based on the reliability information.

3. The organism information measuring instrument according to claim 2,

wherein the organism information measuring instrument comprises a plurality of types of the sensors and measures a plurality of types of the organism information, and

the weighted averaging circuit calculates a weighted average of the plurality of types of normalized organism information.

4. The organism information measuring instrument according to claim 2,

wherein the reliability information generation circuits determine an increase/decrease of values of the organism information measured by the plurality of sensors, the reliability information generation circuits generate the reliability information indicating higher reliability in a case where all the values of the organism information increase or do not change and in a case where all the values of the organism information decrease or do not change, and the reliability information generation circuits generate the reliability information indicating lower reliability in a case where the value of one organism information increases and the value of another organism information decreases.

5. A portable terminal device comprising the organism information measuring instrument according to claim 3,

wherein the plurality of types of sensors include a perspiration sensor which measures a perspiration amount and a heartbeat sensor which measures a heart rate,

the weighted averaging circuit calculates a weighted average of the plurality of types of normalized organism information including the normalized perspiration amount and the normalized heart rate, and

the portable terminal device comprises:

an exercise load determination circuit that determines an exercise load of an person subject to measurement based on the weighted average; and

a display circuit that displays the determined exercise load.

6. A portable terminal device comprising the organism information measuring instrument according to claim 1, the organism information measuring instrument comprising:

a plurality of the sensors;

a plurality of normalization circuits that normalize the organism information measured by each of the sensors, and

a plurality of the reliability information generation circuits that generate the reliability information for each of the organism information or each of the normalized organism information,

wherein the plurality of the sensors include a perspiration sensor which measures a perspiration amount and a body temperature sensor which measures a body temperature, and

the portable terminal device comprises;

a mental state determination circuit that determines a mental state of an person subject to measurement based on the perspiration amount and reliability information of the perspiration amount and the body temperature and reliability information of the body temperature; and

a display circuit that displays the determined mental state.

7. The portable terminal device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a transmission circuit that transmits mental state information indicating the mental state determined by the mental state determination circuit to another terminal device.

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