Health management device

• US 6,095,949 A
• Filed: 06/17/1998
• Issued: 08/01/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ADK Corporation
• Original Assignee: ADK Corporation
• Inventors: Arai, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Richman, Glenn E.
• Application Number:
  US09/099,516
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• Field of Search: 482/1-9, 482/57, 482/900-902, 434/127
• US Class Current: 482/4
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders

Abstract

A health management device according to this invention comprises: an exercise quantity measurer for measuring a quantity of exercise; an intake calorie calculator for calculating an intake calorie on the basis of input information of meal including the types and quantities of foods; a consumption calorie calculator for calculating, on the basis of the information of a quantity of exercise measured by the exercise quantity measurer, a calorie consumed by the exercise; a calorie balance analyzer for analyzing a calorie balance on the basis of the calculation results of the intake calorie and the consumption calorie; a diet effect simulator for simulating a diet effect on the basis of the information of the analyzed calorie balance and personal information; and a moving image display controller for changing a display character to display the diet effect with a moving image.

Claims

1. A health management device comprising:

exercise quantity measurement means for measuring a quantity of exercise;

intake calorie calculation means for calculating an intake calorie on the basis of input information of meals, including the types and quantities of foods;

consumption calorie calculation means for calculating, on the basis of a information of a quantity of exercise measured by said exercise quantity measurement means, the calories consumed by the exercise;

calorie balance analysis means for analyzing a calorie balance on the basis of the calculation results of the intake calories and the consumption calories;

diet effect simulation means for simulating a diet effect on the basis of the information of the analyzed calorie balance and personal information; and

moving image display control means for changing a display character to display the diet effect with a moving image.

2. A health management device according to claim 1, further comprising a step count detector for detecting the number of steps walked by a holder, wherein said exercise quantity measurement means measures the quantity of walking exercise on the basis of detected information of said step count detector and the personal information.

3. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said exercise quantity measurement means measures the quantity of exercise of the exercise on the basis of input information from an external device having the function of measuring the quantity of exercise.

4. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein unbalanced eating is checked on the basis of recorded data of the information of meals, and the character is changed depending on state of unbalanced eating.

5. The health management device according to claim 1, comprising health condition determination means for determining a health condition on the basis of an analysis result of the calorie balance, the information of the meals, information on the quantity of exercise and the personal information, wherein said moving image display control means changes the character depending on the determined result of said health condition determination means to display a health condition with a moving image.

6. The health management device according to claim 1, comprising nutrition balance analysis means for analyzing the nutritional balance of the input foods on the basis of information of the nutritional elements set in correspondence with the types of foods, wherein the character is changed on the basis of the analyzed result of the nutritional balance.

7. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said consumption calorie calculation means calculates the degree of error of the manner of eating on the basis of the number of meals per day, the quantity of intake calories of one meal, and a time zone of the meals based on the information of the meals;

corrects the digestion calorie by using a calories depending on the degree of error as a non-digestion calorie, and calculates time in a rest state in which no exercise is executed on the basis of the information of the quantity of exercise, so that the digestion calorie is corrected by using a basal metabolic rate depending on the time as a digestion calorie.

8. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said health management device is a portable compact game machine in which a step count detector for detecting the number of steps walked by a holder is provided, a character obtained by personifying the holder as a hero is set to be a character displayed by said moving image display control means, and the story of the game is developed depending on the behavior of the holder determined on the basis of detected information of said step count detector and the information on the meal.

9. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said personal information means includes height and weight measurements.

10. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said moving image display controller changes the action of the character depending on the quantity of exercise.

11. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said input information of meal is selectively designated from the food list displayed on the display unit.

12. The health management device according to claim 1, comprising display situation means which displays the current situation and the progress being made by means of a graph.

13. The health management device according to claim 5, wherein said display character is changed in action, proportion, and color to display said health condition.

14. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein this kind of said character is determined based on the input of said personal information.

15. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein this kind of said character is selected from a plurality of characters.

16. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said character is a personified character.

17. The health management device according to claim 1, wherein said character is a pseudo creature character.