Physical Change Evaluation Device, Method, and Recording Medium Stored with Program

• US 20150226747A1
• Filed: 02/11/2015
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Original Assignee: Tanita Corporation (Tanita)
• Inventors: Kodama, Miyuki, Sano, Ayumi, Kasahara, Yasuhiro, Minagawa, Naotaka, Watabe, Moe
• Granted Patent: US 10,175,247 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/64 involving ketones
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

The invention provides a physical change evaluation device, method, and program capable of easily evaluating physical change from the past to the present, and from the present into the future.

A physical change evaluation device 10 acquires a ketone concentration measurement measuring ketone excreted from a user, acquires physical data relating to the body of the user, evaluates physical change in the user based on the acquired ketone concentration measurement and the physical data, and outputs an evaluation result.

Claims

1. A physical change evaluation device comprising:

a ketone concentration acquisition section that acquires a ketone concentration measurement measuring ketone excreted from a user;

a physical data acquisition section that acquires physical data relating to the body of the user;

an evaluation section that evaluates physical change in the user based on the ketone concentration measurement acquired by the ketone concentration acquisition section and the physical data; and

an output section that outputs an evaluation result by the evaluation section.

2. The physical change evaluation device of claim 1, wherein:

the physical data acquisition section acquires as the physical data at least one out of body weight data of the user or body composition data of the user; and

the evaluation section evaluates physical change in the user based on the ketone concentration measurement and at least one piece of physical data out of the body weight data of the user or the body composition data of the user.

3. The physical change evaluation device of claim 2, wherein:

the physical data acquisition section acquires the physical data that is current and past; and

the evaluation section evaluates physical change in the user based on the ketone concentration measurement and a comparison result between the current physical data and the past physical data.

4. The physical change evaluation device of claim 1, wherein the output section outputs advice information corresponding to the evaluation result.

5. The physical change evaluation device of claim 1, further comprising a measurement section that measures ketone excreted from the user.

6. The physical change evaluation device of claim 1, further comprising a metering section that meters physical data relating to the body of the user.

7. The physical change evaluation device of claim 1, wherein the ketone excreted from the user are acetone contained in breath exhaled from the user.

8. A physical change evaluation method comprising:

acquiring a ketone concentration measurement measuring ketone excreted from a user;

acquiring physical data relating to the body of the user;

evaluating physical change in the user based on the acquired ketone concentration measurement and the physical data; and

outputting an evaluation result.

9. A non-transitory recording medium stored with a physical change evaluation program that causes processing to be executed on a computer, the processing comprising:

acquiring a ketone concentration measurement measuring ketone excreted from a user;

acquiring physical data relating to the body of the user;

evaluating physical change in the user based on the acquired ketone concentration measurement and the physical data; and

outputting an evaluation result.