BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE

• US 20160367172A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: NAKADAIRA, Michio, AOSHIMA, Ichiro, KURODA, Masao, NAKAMURA, Hidenori
• Application Number:
  US15/117,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20160367172A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0245 by using sensing means generating electric signals, i.e. ECG signals
• 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 5/1123 Discriminating type of movement, e.g. walking or running A61B5/1116, A61B5/112 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/22 Ergometry; Measuring muscular strength or the force of a muscular blow exercising apparatus A63B21/00 ; measuring of work or force in general G01L
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices

Abstract

A biological information measuring device includes a biological information detecting unit that detects biological information of a user; a motion information detecting unit that detects motion information related to the motion of the user; an informing unit that informs the user of a load state of the user; a condition setting unit that sets informing condition of the load state for the kind of behavior; a behavior analysis unit that analyzes the kind of behavior of the user based on the detected biological information and motion information; a condition determining unit that determines whether the informing condition is satisfied according to the kind of detected behavior of the user which is analyzed based on the detected biological information and motion information; and an informing control unit that informs the informing unit of the load state when it is determined that the informing condition is satisfied.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A biological information measuring device comprising:

a biological information detecting unit that detects biological information of a user;

a motion information detecting unit that detects motion information related to the motion of the user;

an informing unit that informs the user of a load state of the user;

a behavior analysis unit that analyzes the kind of behavior of the user based on the detected biological information and motion information;

a condition setting unit that sets informing condition of the load state for the behavior;

a condition determining unit that determines whether the informing condition is satisfied according to the kind of behavior; and

an informing control unit that informs the informing unit of the load state when it is determined that the informing condition is satisfied by the condition determining unit.

16. The biological information determining device according to claim 15, wherein the condition setting unit sets the detected biological information to exceed a lower limit of a range of the biological information to be set according to the user as the informing condition in a case where the kind of behavior is at least one of exercise and non-exercise.

17. The biological information measuring device according to claim 15, wherein the condition setting unit sets the detected biological information to exceed an upper limit of the range of the biological information to be set according to the user as the informing condition in the case where the kind of behavior is at least one of exercise and non-exercise.

18. The biological information measuring device according to claim 16, wherein regulation is made such that the condition setting unit sets the detected biological information to be lower than the lower limit of the range of the biological information to be set according to the user as the informing condition in the case where the kind of behavior is exercise and sets the detected biological information to be lower than the lower limit of the range of the biological information to be set according to the user as the informing condition in the case where the kind of behavior is non-exercise.

19. The biological information measuring device according to claim 16, wherein the condition setting unit includes the upper limit of the range of the biological information which is lower than that of the case where the kind of behavior is exercise in the informing condition in the case where the kind of behavior is non-exercise.

20. The biological information measuring device according to claim 15, further comprising an informing regulation unit that regulates informing using the informing unit in a case where the kind of analyzed behavior of the user is sleep.

21. A method of controlling a biological information measuring device that measures biological information of a user and informs the user of a load state of the user, comprising:

detecting biological information of the user;

detecting motion information related to motion of the user;

analyzing the kind of behavior of the user based on the detected biological information and motion information;

determining whether informing condition set for the kind of behavior is satisfied based on the detected biological information and motion information; and

informing the user of the load state of the user when it is determined that the informing condition is satisfied.

22. A biological information measuring device comprising:

a biological information detecting unit that detects biological information of a user;

a motion information detecting unit that detects motion information related to the motion of the user;

an informing unit that informs the user of a load state of the user;

an exercise analysis unit that analyzes the kind of exercise of the user based on the detected biological information and motion information;

a condition setting unit that sets informing condition of the load state for the kind of exercise;

a condition determining unit that determines whether the informing condition is satisfied according to the kind of exercise of the user which is analyzed by the exercise analysis unit based on the detected biological information and motion information; and

an informing control unit that informs the informing unit of the load state when the informing condition is satisfied by the condition determining unit.

23. The biological information measuring device according to claim 22,

wherein the kind of exercise includes at least walking and running, and

the condition setting unit sets at least one of conditions in which the detected biological information exceeds the upper limit of the range of biological information predetermined for the kind of exercise and in which the detected biological information is lower than the lower limit of the range of the biological information as the informing condition in a case where the kind of exercise is one of walking and running.

24. The biological information measuring device according to claim 23,

wherein the running includes high-load running and interval training, and

the condition setting unit sets the detected biological information exceeding the upper limit of the range of the biological information according to the high-load running as the informing condition in a case where the kind of exercise is the high-load running and sets the detected biological information being lower than the lower limit of the range of the biological information according to the interval training as the informing condition in a case where the kind of exercise is the interval training.

25. The biological information measuring device according to claim 24,

wherein the running includes normal running other than the high-load running and the interval training, and

at least one of threshold values of the upper limit and the lower limit of the range of the biological information according to each of the normal running, the high-load running, and the interval training is higher than the threshold value in the range of the biological information according to the walking.

26. The biological information measuring device according to claim 22, further comprising:

a positional information detecting unit that detects positional information of the user, and

wherein the exercise analysis unit analyzes the kind of exercise of the user based on the biological information, the motion information, and the positional information.

27. The biological information measuring device according to claim 22, wherein the range of the biological information for the kind of exercise is set according to the user.

28. A method of controlling a biological information measuring device that measures biological information of a user and informs the user of a load state of the user, comprising:

detecting biological information of the user;

detecting motion information related to motion of the user;

analyzing the kind of exercise of the user based on the detected biological information and motion information;

determining whether informing condition set for the kind of exercise is satisfied based on the detected biological information and motion information; and

informing the user of the load state of the user when it is determined that the informing condition is satisfied.