Digital scale able to measure human weight and determine suitable dosage of a medicament
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1. A digital bathroom scale, comprising:
- a weight measuring unit internal to the digital bathroom scale, and comprising one or more load cells to measure a weight of a user who stands on the digital bathroom scale;
a dosage determination module internal to the digital bathroom scale, to determine a dosage of a medicament based on said weight of said user measured by the weight measuring unit;
a display unit embedded in the digital bathroom scale, to display to the user said dosage of said medicament,wherein the digital bathroom scale is an integrated, autonomous device which is able (A) to measure the weight of the user who stands on the digital bathroom scale, and (B) to determine and display to the user the dosage of said medicament based on the weight of the user;
wherein the display unit is to display (a) the weight of the user as measured by the weight measuring unit, and (b) a name of said medicament, and (c) said dosage of said medicament as determined by the dosage determination module based on said weight.
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Some embodiments of the present invention include a digital scale to measure a weight of a user who stands on the digital scale; and to calculate and convey to the user a dosage of a medicament which is appropriate for the user based on the measured user weight. The digital scale may determine the medicament dosage by performing a local query to a locally-stored medicament database which may be stored locally within the digital scale, and/or by performing a remote query to a remotely-stored medicament database which may be stored externally to the digital scale.
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1. A digital bathroom scale, comprising:
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a weight measuring unit internal to the digital bathroom scale, and comprising one or more load cells to measure a weight of a user who stands on the digital bathroom scale; a dosage determination module internal to the digital bathroom scale, to determine a dosage of a medicament based on said weight of said user measured by the weight measuring unit; a display unit embedded in the digital bathroom scale, to display to the user said dosage of said medicament, wherein the digital bathroom scale is an integrated, autonomous device which is able (A) to measure the weight of the user who stands on the digital bathroom scale, and (B) to determine and display to the user the dosage of said medicament based on the weight of the user; wherein the display unit is to display (a) the weight of the user as measured by the weight measuring unit, and (b) a name of said medicament, and (c) said dosage of said medicament as determined by the dosage determination module based on said weight. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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