BIOMEASUREMENT DEVICE, BIOMEASUREMENT METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR A BIOMEASUREMENT DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH SAID CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

• US 20130131465A1
• Filed: 07/14/2011
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Life Science Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Yoshiro, Matsuoka, Norihiro, Kawata, Tomohisa, Azuma, Shinichiro
• Application Number:
  US13/811,429
• Publication Number:
  US 20130131465A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0823 Detecting or evaluating cough events
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/42 Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the gastrointestinal, the endocrine or the exocrine systems A61B1/00, A61B5/4857, A61B5/486, A61B5/4866, A61B5/4869 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4812 Detecting sleep stages or cycles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4818 Sleep apnoea
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7271 Specific aspects of physiological measurement analysis A61B5/316, A61B5/349 and A61B5/374 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/006 Detecting skeletal, cartilage or muscle noise A61B7/003 and A61B7/008 take precedence

Abstract

An analysis device (1) of the present invention includes: an index calculating section (23) for, with use of one or more parameters including a biometric parameter obtained on the basis of biometric signal information, deriving measurement result information indicative of a state of a living body; and a measurement method storage section (31) for storing, in correspondence with each other, (i) a measurement item measurable by the analysis device and (ii) parameter specifying information specifying a parameter for use in measurement, the index calculating section (23) deriving the measurement result information for the measurement item with use of the parameter specified by the parameter specifying information corresponding to the measurement item.

Claims

1. A biometric device for measuring a state of a living body with use of biometric signal information obtained from the living body,

the biometric device comprising:

measurement result deriving means for deriving, with use of one or more parameters including at least a biometric parameter obtained on a basis of the biometric signal information, measurement result information indicative of the state of the living body; and

a measurement method storage section in which (i) a measurement item measurable by the biometric device and (ii) parameter specifying information specifying a parameter for use in measurement of the measurement item are stored in correspondence with each other,

the measurement result deriving means deriving the measurement result information for the measurement item with use of the parameter specified by the parameter specifying information corresponding to the measurement item.

2. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the measurement result deriving means calculates, from the one or more parameters specified by the parameter specifying information, an index indicative of the state of the living body, the state relating to the measurement item.

3. The biometric device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an index calculation rule storage section in which an index calculation rule for calculating, with use of the one or more parameters, the index corresponding to the measurement item is stored for each index,

wherein;

the index calculation rule includes information on a weight to be assigned to a parameter, the weight being assessed on a basis of a magnitude of an influence caused by said parameter on the index calculation; and

the measurement result deriving means, for the index calculation, assigns the weight to each of the one or more parameters in accordance with the index calculation rule, the weight being set for said each of the one or more parameters.

4. The biometric device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a parameter attribute storage section in which a parameter attribute indicative of the magnitude of the influence caused by said parameter on the index calculation is stored for each index and for each parameter,

wherein;

the weight, the information of which is included in the index calculation rule, correlates to all or part of information indicated by the parameter attribute.

5. The biometric device according to claim 4, further comprising:

parameter attribute managing means for, in accordance with an instruction that has been entered by a user into the biometric device and that intends to change the parameter attribute, changing the parameter attribute stored in the parameter attribute storage section,

wherein;

the parameter attribute managing means, in addition to the change to the parameter attribute stored in the parameter attribute storage section, changes the weight, the information of which is included in the index calculation rule.

6. The biometric device according to claim 2,

wherein:

the measurement method storage section further stores repeated measurement instruction information specifying timing for repeating the index calculation for each measurement item; and

the measurement result deriving means repeatedly calculates, at the timing specified by the repeated measurement instruction information, the index with use of the biometric parameter obtained on the basis of the biometric signal information obtained repeatedly.

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

state evaluating means for, on a basis of the index repeatedly calculated by the measurement result deriving means, evaluating a health state of the living body, the health state relating to the measurement item.

8. The biometric device according to claim 7,

wherein:

the state evaluating means, by comparing (i) an index calculated by the measurement result deriving means at a predetermined time point with (ii) a plurality of indexes repeatedly calculated by the measurement result deriving means, evaluates the health state of the living body, the health state being observed at the predetermined time point.

9. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the measurement method storage section stores the parameter specifying information in such a manner that (i) a parameter essential to measurement and (ii) an auxiliary parameter that is preferably used in measurement are discriminated from each other.

10. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the one or more parameters include (i) the biometric parameter reflecting a physiological state of the living body and (ii) an external parameter reflecting an environmental condition arising from outside the living body; and

the measurement method storage section stores the parameter specifying information in such a manner that the biometric parameter and the external parameter are discriminated from each other.

11. The biometric device according to claim 10,

wherein:

the external parameter includes at least one of (i) information on a specification of a biometric sensor for obtaining the biometric signal information from the living body, (ii) information on a position at which the biometric sensor is disposed, (iii) examinee information on the living body, and (iv) environment information on a measurement environment in which the living body is present;

the biometric parameter includes one or more biometric parameters;

the external parameter includes one or more external parameters; and

the measurement method storage section stores, as the parameter specifying information in correspondence with the measurement item, a combination of (i) the one or more biometric parameters and (ii) the one or more external parameters.

12. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the biometric parameter includes (i) a parameter indicative of a change occurring inside the living body and (ii) a parameter indicative of a change appearing outside the living body.

13. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the biometric parameter includes one or more biometric parameters; and

the one or more biometric parameters used by the measurement result deriving means are obtained through analysis of a single item of the biometric signal information.

14. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the biometric parameter includes one or more biometric parameters; and

the one or more biometric parameters used by the measurement result deriving means are obtained through analysis of a plurality of items of the biometric signal information.

15. The biometric device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication section for communicating with a biometric sensor for obtaining the biometric signal information from the living body.

16. The biometric device according to claim 1,

wherein:

the biometric device is contained in a biometric sensor for obtaining the biometric signal information from the living body.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which a control program for causing a computer to function as the means of the biometric device according to claim 1 is stored.

17. A biometric method for use by a biometric device for measuring a state of a living body with use of biometric signal information obtained from the living body,

(i) a measurement item measurable by the biometric device and (ii) parameter specifying information specifying one or more parameters for use in measurement of the measurement item being stored in the biometric device in correspondence with each other,

the parameter specifying information specifying at least one biometric parameter obtained on a basis of the biometric signal information,

the biometric method comprising the steps of:

(a) identifying the one or more parameters specified by the parameter specifying information corresponding to the measurement item; and

(b) deriving, with use of the one or more parameters identified in the step (a), measurement result information indicative of the state of the living body, the state relating to the measurement item.

18. (canceled)