METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTH SERVICE AND REFRIGERATOR THEREFOR

• US 20150161871A1
• Filed: 12/08/2014
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Young Hyun
• Granted Patent: US 10,115,286 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02405 Determining heart rate variability
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1171 based on the shapes or appearances of their bodies or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/35 by template matching
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4561 Evaluating static posture, e.g. undesirable back curvature A61B5/1116 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6887 mounted on external non-worn devices, e.g. non-medical devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 2700/02 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/12 Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2700/04 Sensors detecting the presence of a person
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2700/08 Sensors using Radio Frequency Identification [RFID]
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 29/00 Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method of providing a health service through a refrigerator that includes determining biometric information of a user using the refrigerator, searching for a user profile including biometric information corresponding to the determined biometric information from a user profile database stored in the refrigerator, and providing the user with a health service based on a user profile stored in the user profile database corresponding to the user.

Claims

1. A method of providing a health service through a refrigerator, the method comprising:

determining biometric information of a user using the refrigerator;

searching for a user profile including biometric information corresponding to the determined biometric information, from a user profile database stored in the refrigerator; and

providing the user with a health service based on the user profile stored in the user profile database that corresponds to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determined biometric information is an electrocardiogram of the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the electrocardiogram of the user is identification information from which a predetermined common component is removed.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether to update the user profile, based on a point in time of registration of information included in the user profile.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

obtaining biometric information of the user for updating the user profile; and

including the obtained biometric information in the user profile.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining whether it is appropriate to measure a body resistance of the user, based on the user profile;

measuring the body resistance of the user when it is determined to be appropriate to measure the body resistance; and

determining body fat of the user based on the body resistance.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining whether a posture of the user for measuring the body resistance is appropriate based on an image obtained by photographing the user; and

in response to determining that the posture is inappropriate, providing the user with advice about a predetermined posture.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein in response to the user profile including information indicating that a pacemaker is used, determining that measuring the body resistance of the user is inappropriate.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the determined biometric information includes facial recognition information of the user, iris recognition information, or fingerprint recognition information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving device information of an electronic device adjacent to the refrigerator,

wherein the received device information is used for searching for the user profile.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that records a program for implementing a method of providing a health service through a refrigerator, the method comprising:

determining biometric information of a user using the refrigerator;

searching for a user profile including biometric information corresponding to the determined biometric information, from a user profile database stored in the refrigerator; and

providing the user with a health service based on the user profile stored in the user profile database that corresponds to the user.

12. A refrigerator that provides a health service, the refrigerator comprising:

a storage unit configured to store at least one user profile in a user profile database;

a sensor unit configured to determine biometric information of a user; and

a controller configured to search the user profile database for a user profile including biometric information corresponding to the determined biometric information, and provide the user with a health service based on the user profile.

13. The refrigerator of claim 12, wherein the sensor unit includes an electrocardiogram sensor unit configured to determine an electrocardiogram of the user using an electrode;

and

the determined biometric information is a determined electrocardiogram of the user.

14. The refrigerator of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to search for the user profile using identification information obtained by removing a predetermined common component from the determined electrocardiogram of the user.

15. The refrigerator of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether to update the user profile based on a point in time of registration of the information included in the user profile.

16. The refrigerator of claim 15, further comprising:

a body resistance sensor unit configured to measure a body resistance of the user,

wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether it is appropriate to measure the body resistance of the user based on the user profile, measure the body resistance of the user using the body resistance sensor unit in response to determining that it is appropriate to measure the body resistance of the user, and calculate body fat of the user based on the body resistance.

17. The refrigerator of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine whether a posture of the user for measuring the body resistance is appropriate, based on an image obtained by photographing the user; and

provide the user with advice about a predetermined posture in response to determining that the posture of the user is inappropriate.

18. The refrigerator of claim 16, wherein, the controller is further configured to determine that measuring the body resistance of the user is inappropriate in response to the user profile containing information indicating that a pacemaker is used.

19. The refrigerator of claim 12, wherein the sensor unit includes at least one of a camera configured to recognize a face of the user, an iris sensor configured to recognize an iris of the user, a fingerprint sensor configured to recognize a fingerprint of the user, and a communication unit configured to receive device information of an electronic device adjacent to the refrigerator.

20. A device for storing food, the device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store user data corresponding to each of a plurality of users;

a sensor unit configured to sense identifying information of a current user;

an output unit; and

a controller configured to update the user data for the current user of the plurality of users on the storage unit, determine personalized feedback for the current user, and control the output unit to output the personalized feedback for the current user.