ACTIVITY METER

• US 20140005575A1
• Filed: 08/05/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: OGAWA, Hiroshi, ASADA, Yuji, OSHIMA, Yoshitake, TAKEISHI, Naoki
• Application Number:
  US13/959,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20140005575A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/595
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4866 Evaluating metabolism A61B5/083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7278 Artificial waveform generation or derivation, e.g. synthesising signals from measured signals A61B5/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence

Abstract

An activity meter has an activity amount acquisition unit that acquires an amount of physical activity of a user. The activity meter acquires a first index relating to a difference between target calories burned for a unit period and computed calories burned that are computed from the amount of activity acquired by the activity amount acquisition unit in the unit period, and acquires a second index relating to a difference between a target value representing a body composition and a measurement value representing a body composition that is measured for the user. Information on an evaluation of the amount of activity based on the first index and second index that have been acquired is output.

Claims

1. An activity meter comprising:

activity amount acquisition means for acquiring an amount of physical activity of a user;

means for acquiring a first index relating to a difference between target calories burned for a unit period and computed calories burned that are computed from the amount of activity acquired by the activity amount acquisition means in the unit period;

means for acquiring a second index relating to a difference between a target value representing a body composition and a measurement value representing a body composition that is measured for the user; and

means for outputting information on an evaluation of the activity amount based on the first index and the second index that have been acquired.

2. The activity meter according to claim 1,

wherein the means for acquiring the first index acquires, as the first index, an activity age representing a standard age of a person who does the same amount of activity as the activity amount acquired in the unit period, using a real age of the user and the difference between the target calories burned and the computed calories burned, and

the means for acquiring the second index acquires, as the second index, a body age indicating a biological age of the user, using the real age of the user and the difference between the target value representing a body composition and the measurement value representing a body composition that is measured for the user.

3. The activity meter according to claim 2, wherein the means for outputting the evaluation information outputs the information on the evaluation of the activity amount based on the real age, the activity age and the body age of the user.

4. The activity meter according to claim 2, wherein the means for outputting the evaluation information outputs the evaluation information in association with a position indicated by the activity age and the body age that have been acquired for the user, on a coordinate plane defined by an axis of the activity age and an axis of body age that is orthogonal to the activity age axis.

5. The activity meter according to claim 4, wherein the means for outputting the evaluation information outputs the evaluation information in association with the position indicated by the activity age and the body age that have been acquired for the user, on a coordinate plane with the activity age axis being substituted by an axis of calories burned and the body age axis being substituted by an axis of the value representing a body composition.

6. The activity meter according to claim 1, wherein the value representing a body composition indicates a basal metabolic rate.

7. The activity meter according to claim 1, wherein the value representing a body composition indicates a body fat percentage.

8. The activity meter according to claim 2, wherein the means for outputting the evaluation information outputs information on an evaluation of an activity amount based on the difference between the activity age and the real age and the difference between the body age and the real age.

9. An activity amount management method for managing an amount of activity of a user with use of a processor, comprising the steps of:

the processor acquiring an amount of physical activity of a user;

the processor acquiring a first index relating to a difference between target calories burned for a unit period and computed calories burned that are computed from the activity amount acquired in the activity amount acquisition step in the unit period;

the processor acquiring a second index relating to a difference between a target value representing a body composition and a measurement value representing a body composition that is measured for the user; and

the processor outputting, on a display, information on an evaluation of the activity amount based on the first index and the second index that have been acquired.

10. A program for causing a processor to execute an activity amount management method, the activity amount management method comprising the steps of:

the processor acquiring an amount of physical activity of a user;

the processor acquiring a first index relating to a difference between target calories burned for a unit period and computed calories burned that are computed from the activity amount acquired in the activity amount acquisition step in the unit period;

the processor acquiring a second index relating to a difference between a target value representing a body composition and a measurement value representing a body composition that is measured for the user; and

the processor outputting on a display information on an evaluation of the activity amount based on the first index and the second index that have been acquired.

11. A system comprising a measurement device that measures an amount of activity of a user and an information processing device,

the measurement device including:

means for measuring an activity intensity of the user; and

means for outputting measurement data in which the activity intensity is associated with a measurement date-time, and

the information processing device including;

means for receiving the measurement data output from the measurement device;

activity amount acquisition means for acquiring an amount of physical activity of a user from the measurement data;

means for acquiring a first index relating to a difference between target calories burned for a unit period and computed calories burned that are computed from the amount of activity acquired by the activity amount acquisition means in the unit period;

means for acquiring a second index relating to a difference between a target value representing a body composition and a measurement value representing a body composition that is measured for the user; and

means for outputting information on an evaluation of the amount of activity based on the first index and the second index that have been acquired.