Data processing apparatus, measurement apparatus and data collection method

• US 8,131,478 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2005
• Issued: 03/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: Kai, Akinori
• Primary Examiner(s): BORIN, MICHAEL L
• Application Number:
  US11/587,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20070213938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,505 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0013 Medical image data A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1095 the scanner comprising adaptations for scanning a record carrier that is displayed on a display-screen or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present invention provides a data processing system and a data collection method by which measurement data can be read in and transmitted easily, without connecting a terminal for transmitting data with various types of measurement apparatuses, and further provides a measurement apparatus to be used for the data processing system and the data collection method. The data processing system at least uses: a measurement apparatus (10) provided with a display screen (13); a terminal (20); and a server (30). The measurement apparatus (10) includes: a measurement portion for obtaining measurement data; a code transforming portion for transforming the measurement data into a bar code, a two-dimensional code (8) or a composite code; and a display portion for displaying the code on the display screen. The terminal (20) includes; an image pickup portion for picking up an image on the display screen (13) that displays the code; an analysis portion for generating measurement data for transmission by analyzing the code that is picked up; and a transmission portion for transmitting, to the server (30), the measurement data for transmission. The server includes a memory portion for storing the transmitted measurement data for transmission.

Claims

1. A data processing system at least comprising:

a portable measurement apparatus provided with a display screen;

a terminal; and

a server,

wherein the portable measurement apparatus comprises;

a measurement portion for obtaining measurement data;

a code transforming portion for transforming the measurement data into a bar code, a two-dimensional code or a composite code;

a display portion for displaying the code that is obtained by the transformation on the display screen; and

a memory portion for storing the measurement data, and the code transforming portion transforms the plural sets of the measurement data, which are stored in the memory portion, into a bar code, a two-dimensional code or composite code at once,

the terminal comprises;

an image pickup portion for picking up an image on the display screen that displays the code;

an analysis portion for generating measurement data for transmission by analyzing the code that is picked up; and

a transmission portion for transmitting, to the server, the measurement data for transmission, and the server comprises a memory portion for storing the received measurement data for transmission.

2. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein the measurement portion of the measurement apparatus obtains a blood glucose level, a blood pressure, a heart rate, the number of steps, a body weight, a body fat percentage or a cholesterol level of a living body, as the measurement data.