Measuring device with comment input function

• US 7,039,560 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2001
• Issued: 05/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: Harada, Toshihiko, Kawatahara, Masanao, Kai, Akinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Assouad, Patrick J.
• Application Number:
  US10/433,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20040039256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 702/187
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0295 adapted for recording user messages or annotations
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• 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 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A measuring device (1) has, e.g., a voice input portion (27) for a measurer to input an arbitrary comment at a time of measurement, and it allows a voice recognition portion (28) to recognize the measurer'"'"'s comment inputted by the voice input portion (27) and also allows a recognition result to be stored in a comment storing portion (43) in correlation with information on date and time, thereby storing conditions or the like of the measurer at the time of measurement, together with the measurement data.

Claims

1. A measuring device with a comment input function, the measuring device comprising:

a measuring portion;

a measurement data storing portion for storing measurement data measured with the measuring portion;

a comment inputting portion for inputting an arbitrary comment as a voice or an image;

a comment recognizing portion for converting a comment inputted by the comment inputting portion into comment data;

a comment storing portion for storing the comment data;

a date and time information acquiring portion for acquiring date and time information; and

a transmitting portion for transmitting to an external device the measurement data stored in the measurement data storing portion and comment data stored in the comment storing portion;

in the measurement data storing portion, the measuring device storing, together with the measurement data, the measurement date and time information acquired by the date and time information acquiring portion;

in the comment storing portion, the measuring device storing, together with the comment data, the comment inputting date and time information acquired by the date and time information acquiring portion;

the transmitting portion retrieving, from either the measurement data storing portion or the comment storing portion, the measurement data and the comment data in an order of date and time of either the measurement or the comment inputting, and transmitting the data to an external device.

2. The measuring device with a comment input function according to claim 1, wherein the comment inputting portion inputs the comment as a voice, and the comment recognizing portion converts the comment inputted by the comment inputting portion into voice data to be stored in the comment recognizing portion.

3. The measuring device with a comment input function according to claim 1, wherein the comment inputting portion inputs the comment as an image, and the comment recognizing portion converts the comment inputted by the comment inputting portion into image data to be stored in the comment recognizing portion.

4. The measuring device with a comment input function according to claim 1, wherein the comment recognizing portion converts the comment inputted by the comment inputting portion into text data.

5. The measuring device with a comment input function according to claim 1, wherein the comment recognizing portion converts the comment inputted by the comment inputting portion into an event code.

6. The measuring device with a comment input function according to claims 1, further comprising a date and time information acquiring portion for acquiring date and time information,

when a time interval between measurement date and time acquired by the date and time information acquiring portion and date and time of the comment input is within a predetermined range, the measurement data and the comment data are correlated with each other and stored in the measurement data storing portion and in the comment storing portion.