BIOMETRIC APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING BODY IMAGE CREATING PROGRAM

• US 20140025346A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Original Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Inventors: UCHIYAMA, Tomoka
• Application Number:
  US13/801,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20140025346A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0537 Measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1072 measuring distances on the body, e.g. measuring length, height or thickness A61B5/1076 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1075 for measuring dimensions by non-invasive methods, e.g. for determining thickness of tissue layer A61B8/0858 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/744 Displaying an avatar, e.g. an animated cartoon character

Abstract

A biometric apparatus including: a biometric information acquiring unit configured to acquire biometric information of a user; a storing unit configured to store a correspondence relation between the biometric information and body part sizes; an arithmetic operation unit configured to calculate the body part sizes of the user on the basis of the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit and the correspondence relation stored in the storing unit; an image creating unit configured to create a body image of the user on the basis of the body part sizes calculated by the arithmetic operation unit; and a display unit configured to display the body image created by the image creating unit.

Claims

1. A biometric apparatus comprising:

a biometric information acquiring unit configured to acquire biometric information of a user;

a storing unit configured to store a correspondence relation between the biometric information and body part sizes;

an arithmetic operation unit configured to calculate the body part sizes of the user on the basis of the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit and the correspondence relation stored in the storing unit;

an image creating unit configured to create a body image of the user on the basis of the body part sizes calculated by the arithmetic operation unit; and

a display unit configured to display the body image created by the image creating unit.

2. The biometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit includes height, sex, and age of the user, and

the correspondence relation stored in the storing unit has a ratio of the body part sizes with respect to the height, and is set according to the sex and age.

3. The biometric apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the biometric information acquiring unit acquires body composition information as the biometric information on the entire body, and on the part to part basis by measuring the user.

4. The biometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image creating unit creates a body image indicating part or the entire figure of the user'"'"'s body.

5. The biometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image creating unit creates a body image differentiating fat and lean body of the user'"'"'s body part.

6. The biometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the arithmetic operation unit calculates the diameters of arms and/or legs and the diameters of lean bodies of arms and/or legs as the body part sizes and the image creating unit creates a body image in which fat and lean body of the arms and/or legs are differentiated on the basis of the body part size.

7. The biometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image creating unit creates the body image by correcting a model data relating to a figure stored in the storing unit on the basis of the body part sizes calculated by the arithmetic operation unit.

8. The biometric apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the arithmetic operation unit calculates the abdominal circumference, the length of the body trunk, the lengths of the arms, the lengths of the legs, fat volumes and lean body volumes of the respective body parts, the average cross-sectional area of the fat and the average cross-sectional area of the lean body of the respective body parts, the arm diameters, the leg diameters, the acromial width, the infra-axillary width, the navel height, the waist height, and the long axis of abdominal circumference as the body part sizes, and the image creating unit creates an body image of the front of the user on the basis of the body part sizes.

9. The biometric apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the arithmetic operation unit calculates the infra-axillary thickness, the short axis of abdominal circumference, and the length from the back to the centers of the arms as body part sizes and the image creating unit creates a body image of the side surface of the user on the basis of the body part sizes.

10. The biometric apparatus according to claims 1, wherein the image creating unit creates a body image imitating the cross section of the body parts of the user, which is a body image differentiating fat and lean body.

11. The biometric apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the image creating unit creates a body image imitating an abdominal cross-section of the user including an ellipsoidal model of an abdominal circumference cross-section of the user and an ellipsoidal model of the visceral fat area of the user.

12. A computer-readable storage medium storing a body image creating program executed by an information processing apparatus capable of receiving biometric information of a user for creating a body image of the user on the basis of the biometric information, wherein

the program causes the information processing apparatus to execute;

a size calculating process for calculating body part sizes of the user on the basis of a correspondence relation between the biometric information and the body part sizes; and

an image creating process for creating a body image of the user on the basis of the body part sizes calculated by the size calculating process.

13. A computer-readable storage medium storing the body image creating program according to claim 12, wherein the information processing apparatus is a computer or a mobile computer, and

a computer-readable storage medium storing the body image creating program is configured to cause a display unit of the information processing apparatus to display the body image created by the image creating process.