Vital information measuring device

• US 8,195,261 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2006
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc. (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc. (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Nagai, Yoshiroh, Tateda, Norihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Winakur, Eric
• Assistant Examiner(s): Liu, Chu Chuan
• Application Number:
  US11/595,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20070112259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,034 Days
• Field of Search: 600/330, 600/336, 600/500, 600/310, 600322-324, 356/41
• US Class Current: 600/310
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02007 Evaluating blood vessel condition, e.g. elasticity, compliance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02125 of pulse wave propagation time
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips

Abstract

A vital information measuring device includes: a first light emitter for outputting light having a first wavelength; a second light emitter for outputting light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; a light detector for detecting the light outputted from the first light emitter and the light outputted from the second light emitter; an emission controller for controlling the first light emitter and the second light emitter to emit the respective light at sampling frequencies different from each other a detection controller for controlling the light detector to detect the light from the first light emitter and the light from second light emitter in synchronism with the emission timing of the first light emitter and the emission timing of the second light emitter, respectively; and a storage for storing therein a light detection signal outputted from the light detector as measurement data.

Claims

1. A vital information measuring device comprising:

a first light emitter for outputting light having a first wavelength;

a second light emitter for outputting light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength;

a light detector for detecting the light outputted from the first light emitter and the light outputted from the second light emitter;

an emission controller for controlling the first light emitter to emit the light at a first sampling frequency and the second light emitter to emit the light at a second sampling frequency based on a relationship between an emission timing of the first light emitter and an emission timing of the second light emitter having phases displaced from each other, wherein the emission controller sets the first sampling frequency to an integral multiple of the second sampling frequency using an integer greater than one;

a detection controller for controlling the light detector to detect the light from the first light emitter and the light from second light emitter in synchronism with the emission timing of the first light emitter and the emission timing of the second light emitter, respectively; and

a storage for storing therein a light detection signal outputted from the light detector as measurement data;

a first analyzer for performing a first analysis based on only first measurement data obtained by using the first light emitter and stored in the storage; and

a second analyzer for performing a second analysis based on second measurement data obtained by using the second light emitter and stored in the storage, and third measurement data which is extracted out of the first measurement data at a predetermined time interval corresponding to the second sampling frequency.

2. The vital information measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display section for displaying an analysis result of the first analyzer and an analysis result of the second analyzer;

a display mode changer for changing over a display concerning the analysis result of the first analyzer and the analysis result of the second analyzer among a first display mode of exclusively displaying the analysis result of the first analyzer, a second display mode of exclusively displaying the analysis result of the second analyzer, and a third display mode of displaying both the analysis result of the first analyzer and the analysis result of the second analyzer; and

a display controller for controlling the display section to display the analysis result in the display mode selected by the display mode changer.

3. The vital information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

the storage stores therein the analysis result of the first analyzer and the analysis result of the second analyzer.

4. A vital information measuring device comprising:

a first light emitter for outputting light having a first wavelength at a first frequency;

a second light emitter for outputting light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength at a second frequency different from the first frequency;

a light detector for detecting the light outputted from the first light emitter and the light outputted from the second light emitter;

a first analyzer for performing a first analysis based on first measurement data obtained by using the first light emitter and sampled at the first frequency; and

a second analyzer for performing a second analysis based on both second measurement data obtained by using the second light emitter and third measurement data which is extracted out of the first measurement data at a predetermined time corresponding to the second frequency;

wherein the first frequency is set to an integral multiple of the second frequency using an integer greater than one.