BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE MEASURING DEVICE

• US 20140320538A1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Company Limited (PHC Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Uemura, Toyotoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,928,573 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/659
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48785 Electrical and electronic details of measuring devices for physical analysis of liquid biological material not specific to a particular test method, e.g. user interface or power supply
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

The controller divides a display of the display component provided to the main body case into a first display area that is disposed on a sensor mounting component side and displays measurement values, and a second display area that is disposed on the opposite side from the sensor mounting component side and displays input buttons. When the acceleration sensor has detected that the orientation of the main body case is inverted in a horizontal direction, the controller rotates a display of the first display area and a display of the second display area 180 degrees within each of these areas.

Claims

1. A biological sample measuring device, comprising:

a main body case including a sensor mounting component configured to mount a biological sample sensor at one end;

a measurement component connected to the sensor mounting component, the measurement component disposed inside the main body case;

a controller connected to the measurement component;

an acceleration sensor connected to the controller and operable to sense an orientation of the main body case;

a touch input-type display component provided to an outer surface of the main body case, the display component including a display;

the display component divided into a first display area and a second display area by the controller;

the first display area disposed on a sensor mounting component side and operable to display a measurement value;

the second display area being disposed on an opposite side from the sensor mounting component side, and operable to display an input button; and

when the acceleration sensor has detected that the orientation of the main body case is inverted in a horizontal direction, the controller rotates a display of the first display area 180 degrees within the first display area, and rotates a display of the second display area 180 degrees within the second display area.

2. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 1, wherein:

the main body case has a cuboid shape, and the display component has a rectangular shape.

3. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 1, wherein:

when the controller rotates the display of the first display area 180 degrees within the first display area and rotates the display of the second display area 180 degrees within the second display area, the display of a plurality of input buttons in the second display area is provided after a specific length of time has elapsed after the display of the measurement value in the first display area.

4. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 3, wherein:

when the controller rotates the display of the first display area 180 degrees within the first display area, a marker indicating a reading direction of the measurement value is displayed in the first display area.

5. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 4, wherein:

the marker is a unit display that is displayed on a right side of the measurement value.

6. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 1, wherein:

the controller has an input button enlargement mode in which an input button is enlarged, and

in the input button enlargement mode;

the first display area is shrunken,

the second display area is enlarged, and

the input button is enlarged in the enlarged second display area.

7. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 6, wherein:

the controller scroll displays the input button in the enlarged second display area in the input button enlargement mode.

8. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 6, wherein:

the controller controls the display to indicate that the input button has been enlarged in the input button enlargement mode.

9. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 8, wherein:

the indication that the input button has been enlarged is a boundary recognition line between the shrunken first display area and the enlarged second display area.

10. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 6, wherein:

when the acceleration sensor has detected that the orientation of the main body case is inverted in the horizontal direction in the input button enlargement mode, the controller ends the input button enlargement mode and returns the first display area and the second display area to their original sizes.

11. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 2, wherein:

when the controller rotates the display of the first display area 180 degrees within the first display area and rotates the display of the second display area 180 degrees within the second display area, the display of a plurality of input buttons in the second display area is provided after a specific length of time has elapsed after the display of the measurement value in the first display area.

12. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 11, wherein:

when the controller rotates the display of the first display area 180 degrees within the first display area, a marker indicating a reading direction of the measurement value is displayed in the first display area.

13. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 12, wherein:

the marker is a unit display that is displayed on a right side of the measurement value.

14. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 11, wherein:

the controller has an input button enlargement mode in which an input button is enlarged, and

in the input button enlargement mode;

the first display area is shrunken,

the second display area is enlarged, and

the input button is enlarged in the enlarged second display area.

15. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 14, wherein:

the controller scroll displays the input button in the enlarged second display area in the input button enlargement mode.

16. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 14, wherein:

the controller controls the display to indicate that the input button has been enlarged in the input button enlargement mode.

17. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 16, wherein:

the indication that the input button has been enlarged is a boundary recognition line between the shrunken first display area and the enlarged second display area.

18. The biological sample measuring device according to claim 14, wherein:

when the acceleration sensor has detected that the orientation of the main body case is inverted in the horizontal direction in the input button enlargement mode, the controller ends the input button enlargement mode and returns the first display area and the second display area to their original sizes.