HEALTH SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PROGRAM

• US 20150173648A1
• Filed: 12/09/2014
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Original Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Inventors: SANO, Ayumi, KODAMA, Miyuki, KASAHARA, Yasuhiro, MINAGAWA, Naotaka
• Application Number:
  US14/564,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20150173648A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/082 Evaluation by breath analysis, e.g. determination of the chemical composition of exhaled breath A61B5/083, A61B5/091 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7246 using correlation, e.g. template matching or determination of similarity
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/0047 Organic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/497 of gaseous biological material, e.g. breath
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/4975 other than oxygen, carbon dioxide or alcohol, e.g. organic vapours
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A health support device 10 acquires a measured ketone concentration by measuring ketones excreted from a user, acquires a target curve that expresses changes in target ketone concentration corresponds to a health objective of the user, and outputs advice information corresponding to the health objective based on a comparison result between the ketone concentration and the target curve.

Claims

1. A health support device comprising:

a ketone concentration acquisition section that acquires a measured ketone concentration by measuring ketones excreted from a user;

a target curve acquisition section that acquires a target curve expressing changes in target ketone concentration corresponding to a health objective of the user; and

an output section that outputs advice information corresponding to the health objective based on a comparison result between the measured ketone concentration and the target curve.

2. The health support device of claim 1, wherein:

the output section outputs the advice information corresponding to the health objective based on comparison results between a plurality of measured ketone concentrations in the same day, and a plurality of target ketone concentrations on the target curve that correspond to respective measurement times of the plurality of measured ketone concentrations.

3. The health support device of claim 2, wherein:

the output section calculates a measured ketone concentration integral value based on a concentration difference between the plurality of measured ketone concentrations in the same day and a time difference between measurement times, and calculates a target ketone concentration integral value based on concentration differences between the plurality of target ketone concentrations and time differences between the measurement times, and outputs the advice information corresponding to the health objective based on a comparison result between the measured ketone concentration integral value and the target ketone concentration integral value.

4. The health support device of claim 3, wherein:

in cases in which the slope of a line connecting the plurality of measured ketone concentrations is downward and the measured ketone concentration integral value is smaller than the target ketone concentration integral value, the output section outputs advice information related to at least one result out of eating or exercise if the difference between the measured ketone concentration integral value and the target ketone concentration integral value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.

5. The health support device of claim 3, wherein:

in cases in which the slope of a line connecting the plurality of measured ketone concentrations is upward and the measured ketone concentration integral value is greater than the target ketone concentration integral value, the output section outputs advice information related to at least one result out of eating or exercise if the difference between the measured ketone concentration integral value and the target ketone concentration integral value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.

6. The health support device of claim 2, wherein:

the output section derives an eating time based on an actual measurement curve expressing the plurality of measured ketone concentrations, and outputs advice information related to eating time based on the derived eating time and an eating time on the target curve.

7. The health support device of claim 1, wherein:

the output section outputs achievement points derived based on a difference between, or a ratio of, the measured ketone concentration and the target ketone concentration.

8. The health support device of claim 7, wherein:

the output section calculates an overall achievement points based on a plurality of instances of achievement points derived for a plurality of measured ketone concentrations measured in the same day, and outputs the calculated overall achievement points.

9. The health support device of claim 1, wherein the output section outputs an action plan screen image expressing an action plan corresponding to the target curve for each respective period of time.

10. The health support device of claim 1, wherein the output section outputs a concentration change screen image that displays the actual measurement curve representing changes in the measured ketone concentration and the target curve.

11. The health support device of claim 1, further comprising:

a measurement section that measures ketones excreted from a user.

12. The health support device of claim 1, wherein the ketones excreted from the user are acetone contained in breath exhaled from the user.

13. A health support method comprising:

acquiring a measured ketone concentration of measured ketones excreted from a user;

acquiring a target curve expressing changes in target ketone concentration corresponding to a health objective of the user; and

outputting advice information corresponding to the health objective based on a comparison result between the measured ketone concentration and the target curve.

14. A non-transitory recording medium stored with a health support program that causes processing to be executed on a computer, the processing comprising:

acquiring a measured ketone concentration by measuring ketones excreted from a user;

acquiring a target curve expressing changes in target ketone concentration corresponding to a health objective of the user; and

outputting advice information corresponding to the health objective based on a comparison result between the measured ketone concentration and the target curve.