BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DETECTOR, BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND HYPOGLYCEMIA SYMPTOM OCCURRENCE TIMING STORING METHOD

• US 20160345877A1
• Filed: 05/24/2016
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyorin Gakuen Educational Association, Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Kyorin Gakuen Educational Association, Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Jun, Sumitani, Yoshikazu, Ishida, Hitoshi, Otsuka, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US15/162,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20160345877A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A biological information detector includes a biological information detector that detects biological information of a user, a storage that stores the biological information, a timepiece that indicates a current date-time, an input unit that receives an input operation, in which when a predetermined input operation is performed on the input unit, the time indicated by the timepiece is stored as an occurrence time of a hypoglycemia symptom.

Claims

1. A biological information detector comprising:

a biological information detector configured to detect biological information of a user;

a storage configured to store the biological information;

a timepiece configured to indicate a current date-time; and

an input unit configured to receive an input operation, wherein

when a predetermined input operation is performed on the input unit, the time indicated by the timepiece is stored as an occurrence time of a hypoglycemia symptom.

2. The biological information detector according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined input operation is a combination of a first operation and a second operation that are mutually different.

3. The biological information detector according to claim 2, wherein

the input unit comprises a tap operation detection unit configured to detect a tap operation of the user and an operation unit comprising a button exposed to an outside,

the first operation is the tap operation, and

the second operation is an input operation on the button.

4. The biological information detector according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display configured to display a setting screen allowing a transition to an occurrence timing recordation screen configured to record the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom when the first operation is performed, wherein

the biological information detector is configured to store the time indicated by the timepiece as the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom when the second operation is performed on the displayed setting screen.

5. The biological information detector according to claim 3, further comprising:

a display configured to display a setting screen allowing a transition to an occurrence timing recordation screen configured to record the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom when the first operation is performed, wherein

the biological information detector is configured to store the time indicated by the timepiece as the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom when the second operation is performed on the displayed setting screen.

6. The biological information detector according to claim 4, wherein

when the first operation is performed, the display is configured to display a setting screen configured to display a plurality of items, one of the plurality of items being configured for the transition to the occurrence timing recordation screen and being displayed preferentially to the rest of the plurality of items.

7. The biological information detector according to claim 1, further comprising:

a body movement information detection unit configured to detect body movement information of the user; and

a storage configured to store the biological information and the body movement information.

8. A biological information measurement system comprising:

the biological information detector according to claim 1; and

an information processor configured to communicate with the biological information detector, wherein

the biological information detector comprises a time information sending unit configured to send time information indicating a time stored in the storage as the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom,

the information processor comprises;

an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information sent from the biological information detector;

a processor-side display configured to display an input screen, on which a time of at least one of a meal, an exercise and medicine-dose of the user is capable of being inputted; and

a time storage configured to store the time indicated by the time information acquired by the information acquisition unit and the inputted time.

9. The biological information measurement system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a timing display screen generation unit configured to generate a timing display screen comprising a time table showing hours in a predetermined time period arranged in a chronological order, a hypoglycemia occurrence marker disposed in the time table correspondingly to the time indicated by the time information, and an active time marker disposed in the time table correspondingly to the time, wherein

the processor-side display is configured to display the timing display screen.

10. The biological information measurement system according to claim 8, wherein

the time information comprises a date to which the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom belongs,

the information processor comprises a calendar display screen generation unit configured to generate a calendar display screen comprising a calendar showing date in a predetermined time period arranged in a chronological order and a hypoglycemia occurrence marker disposed in the calendar correspondingly at least to the date comprised in the time information, and

the processor-side display is configured to display the calendar display screen.

11. A timing storing method performed using a biological information detector configured to measure biological information, the method comprising:

storing a current time as an occurrence time of a hypoglycemia symptom when a predetermined input operation is performed.

12. A biological information detector comprising:

a biological information detection unit configured to detect biological information of a user;

a body movement information detection unit configured to detect the body movement information and operation information of the user;

a timepiece configured to indicate date and time; and

a controller configured to acquire the biological information and the body movement information, wherein

the controller is configured to judge a condition of the user based on the biological information and the body movement information and, when it is detected that a predetermined operation is performed based on the operation information from the body movement information detection unit, judge the time indicated by the timepiece as the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom.

13. The biological information detector according to claim 12, wherein

the status of the user comprises at least one of an attachment condition of the biological information detector, a type of an exercise performed by the user and an intensity of the exercise performed by the user.

14. The biological information detector according to claim 12, further comprising:

a storage configured to store the biological information, the body movement information and the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom.

15. The biological information detector according to claim 12, further comprising:

a communication unit configured to send the biological information, the body movement information and the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom to the information processor.

16. The biological information detector according to claim 12, wherein

the predetermined operation is a tap operation.

17. The biological information detector according to claim 16, wherein

the body movement information detection unit is an acceleration sensor, and

the controller detects the tap operation based on an output signal from the acceleration sensor.

18. A biological information presentation system comprising:

a biological information detector; and

an information processing terminal, wherein

the biological information detection unit comprises;

a biological information detection unit configured to detect biological information of a user;

a body movement information detection unit configured to detect body movement information of the user;

a timepiece configured to indicate date and time;

a control unit configured to acquire the biological information and the body movement information of the user, to judge a type and a time of an exercise performed by the user based on the biological information and the body movement information and to judge the time indicated by the timepiece as a time the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom when it is detected that a predetermined operation is performed based on a signal from the body movement information detection unit; and

a communication unit configured to send exercise information comprising the type and time of the exercise performed by the user and hypoglycemia occurrence information comprising the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom, and wherein

the information processing terminal comprises;

a receiver configured to receive the exercise information and the hypoglycemia occurrence information from the biological information detector; and

a display control unit configured to display an exercise time for each of a plurality of the exercise types on a first display area based on the exercise information, to display an action performed by the user comprising at least one of a medicine-dose, a meal and a sleep in a second display area in a chronological order, and to display a marker in the second display area at a position corresponding to the occurrence time of the hypoglycemia symptom when the hypoglycemia occurrence information is received from the biological information detector.

19. The biological information presentation system according to claim 18, wherein

the exercise information comprises the type of the exercise performed by the user and the exercise time for each of the plurality of exercise types.

20. The biological information presentation system according to claim 19, wherein

the display control unit displays the exercise time for each of the plurality of the exercise types in a graph in the first display area.