Method and system for computerized visual behavior analysis, training, and planning

• US 6,585,516 B1
• Filed: 01/09/2002
• Issued: 07/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DietGoal Innovations LLC (Empire IP LLC)
• Original Assignee: Oliver Alabaster
• Inventors: Alabaster, Oliver
• Primary Examiner(s): Rovnak, John Edmund
• Application Number:
  US10/040,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20030129570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 434/127, 128/921, 700/104.1
• US Class Current: 434/127
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

A system and method for computerized visual behavior analysis, training, and planning. The system includes a User Interface (UI), a Meal Database, a Food Database, a Picture Menus, and a Meal Builder. The method can include the following steps. First, the Meal Database and the Food Database can be prepared. Second, the user can use the Picture Menus to choose meals for a particular time period to correspond to a customized eating plan. Third, the user can decide whether or not to change one or more of the meals he has chosen for the particular time period. If the user decides to change his chosen meals, the user can edit or create new meals using the Meal Builder. If the user decides not to change his choices, or after the user changes his choices, the user can save the meals for the particular time period.

Claims

1. A system of computerized meal planning, comprising:

a User Interface;

a Database of food objects organizable into meals; and

at least one Picture Menus, which displays on the User Interface meals from the Database that a user can select from to meet customized eating goal.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a Meal Builder, which displays on the User Interface meals from the Database, corresponding to the Picture Menus, where the user can change the content of said meal'"'"'s and view the resulting meal'"'"'s impact on customized eating goals.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the meal planning is designed to impact eating behavior.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein food objects are food images.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the Database further comprises:

a Food Database comprising the food objects incorporated into the Meal Builder; and

a Meal Database comprising various combinations of the food objects designated as meals and incorporated into the Meal Builder and the Picture Menus.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the Database is based on a behavior analysis comprising collecting and analyzing specific information on a user'"'"'s instinctive tendencies and preferences.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the Food Database and the Meal Database are based on a behavior analysis comprising collecting and. analyzing specific information on a user'"'"'s instinctive tendencies and preferences.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the behavior analysis further comprises comparing the specific information to a set of goals.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the behavior analysis is a diet behavior analysis comprising collecting and analyzing specific information on a user'"'"'s instinctive eating tendencies and preferences.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the diet behavior analysis further comprises comparing the specific information to a set of customized eating goals.

2. A system of computerized meal planning, comprising:

a User Interface;

a Database of food objects; and

a Meal Builder, which displays on the User Interface meals from the Database, and wherein a user can change content of said meals and view the resulting meals'"'"' impact on customized eating goals.

12. A method of computerized planning that can influence behavior, comprising:

preparing a Database of food objects;

allowing a user to choose meals from one or more Picture Menus, which display on a User Interface meals comprised from the food objects from the Database that the user can mix and match to meet customized eating goals, for a particular amount of time; and

allowing a user to save the meals.

14. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

allowing the user to decide whether or not to change one or more of the meals; and

if the user decides to change one or more of the meals, allowing the user to change the meals using a Meal Builder, which displays on the User Interface the food objects from the meals from the Database, corresponding to the Picture Menus, where the user can change and view the meals'"'"' impact on customized eating goals.

15. The system of claim 12, further comprising the step of incorporating a behavioral analysis comprising collecting and analyzing specific information on a user'"'"'s instinctive tendencies and preferences into the Database.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the behavior analysis further comprises comparing the specific information to a set of goals.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the behavior analysis is a diet behavior analysis comprising collecting and analyzing specific information on a user'"'"'s instinctive eating tendencies and preferences.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the diet behavior analysis further comprises comparing the specific information to a set of customized eating goals.

13. A method of computerized planning that can influence behavior, comprising:

preparing a Database of food objects;

allowing the user to decide whether or not to change one or more meals comprising food objects; and

if the user decides to change one or more of the meals, allowing the user to change the meals using a Meal Builder, which displays on the User Interface the food objects from the meals from the Database, corresponding to the Picture Menus, where the user can change and view the meals'"'"' impact on customized eating goals.