BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20170344577A1
• Filed: 05/02/2017
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: NAGASAKI, Shintaro
• Application Number:
  US15/584,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20170344577A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1737 for reducing power consumption or coping with limited storage space, e.g. in mobile devices saving storage space on storage devices G06F3/0608; power saving in storage systems G06F3/0625
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0625 Power saving in storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/22 Negotiating communication rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0473 the resource being transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A biological information measuring apparatus includes a sensor unit, a processing unit that detects biological information on the basis of sensor information received from the sensor unit, and a communication unit that transmits the biological information to a connection target device at a transmission speed corresponding to a scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information.

Claims

1. A biological information measuring apparatus comprising

a sensor unit;

a processing unit that detects biological information on the basis of sensor information received from the sensor unit; and

a communication unit that transmits the biological information to a connection target device at a transmission speed corresponding to a scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information.

2. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the communication unit receives a transmission speed change request, which is information for requesting a change to a predetermined transmission speed, from the connection target device, and

wherein the processing unit performs a process of instructing the communication unit to set the transmission speed based on the transmission speed change request.

3. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the communication unit

transmits scheduled transmission data amount information indicating the scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information to the connection target device,

receives the transmission speed change request indicating the transmission speed determined on the basis of the scheduled transmission data amount information from the connection target device, and

transmits the biological information to the connection target device at the transmission speed based on the received transmission speed change request.

4. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the communication unit

transmits the biological information to the connection target device at a first transmission speed in a case where the scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information is a first data amount, and

transmits the biological information to the connection target device at a second transmission speed higher than the first transmission speed in a case where the scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information is a second data amount larger than the first data amount.

5. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing unit performs a process of computationally calculating the scheduled transmission data amount or a process of computationally calculating the transmission speed corresponding to the scheduled transmission data amount, on the basis of a determination result for a user'"'"'s action.

6. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit that stores log data of the biological information,

wherein the communication unit transmits a transmission request event for the log data to the connection target device.

7. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the communication unit transmits the transmission request event to the connection target device in a case where elapse of a predetermined time or a change in the user'"'"'s action state is detected.

8. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the communication unit performs short-range wireless communication and sets the transmission speed on the basis of a connection interval indicating an interval between connection events of the short-range wireless communication.

9. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the communication unit sets connection slave latency of the short-range wireless communication, and

wherein the communication unit does not perform neglect of the connection event based on the connection slave latency when the transmission speed based on the connection interval is set.

10. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the communication unit transmits the scheduled transmission data amount as a response to a packet during the connection event which is received from the connection target device, in a case where a request for the scheduled transmission data amount is included in the packet.

11. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the communication unit is set on a slave side in the short-range wireless communication, and

wherein the communication unit performs setting of the transmission speed on a communication unit of the connection target device.

12. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the communication unit performs a change to a transmission speed different from a given transmission speed in a case where a setting failure response is returned by the communication unit of the connection target device, with respect to a request for a change to the given transmission speed.

13. The biological information measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the connection target device is a portable information processing apparatus or a gateway device.

14. A communication system comprising:

a biological information measuring apparatus including a sensor unit, a first processing unit that detects biological information on the basis of sensor information received from the sensor unit, and a first communication unit that transmits scheduled transmission data amount information indicating a scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information; and

a connection target device including a second communication unit that receives the scheduled transmission data amount information, and a second processing unit that determines a data transmission speed between the first communication unit and the second communication unit on the basis of the scheduled transmission data amount information,

wherein the second communication unit transmits the data transmission speed determined by the second processing unit to the biological information measuring apparatus, and the biological information measuring apparatus transmits the biological information to the connection target device at the data transmission speed.

15. A communication method comprising:

detecting biological information on the basis of sensor information received from a sensor unit; and

transmitting the biological information to a connection target device at a transmission speed corresponding to a scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information.

16. The communication method according to claim 15,

wherein the transmitting of the biological information includes

transmitting the biological information to the connection target device at a first transmission speed in a case where the scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information is a first data amount, and

transmitting the biological information to the connection target device at a second transmission speed higher than the first transmission speed in a case where the scheduled transmission data amount of the biological information is a second data amount larger than the first data amount.

17. The communication method according to claim 15,

wherein the transmitting of the biological information includes determining the scheduled transmission data amount or determining the transmission speed corresponding to the scheduled transmission data amount, on the basis of an action determination result of an action performed by a user.

18. The communication method according to claim 15,

wherein the transmitting of the biological information includes setting the transmission speed on the basis of a connection interval indicating an interval between connection events in short-range wireless communication.

19. The communication method according to claim 15, further comprising:

storing log data of the biological information,

wherein the transmitting of the biological information includes transmitting a transmission request event for the log data to the connection target device.

20. The communication method according to claim 19,

wherein the transmitting of the biological information includes transmitting the transmission request event to the connection target device in a case where elapse of a predetermined time or a change in the user'"'"'s action state is detected.