Bioinformation input/output device, bioinformation presenting device, bioinformation input/output method, and computer program

• US 20090106050A1
• Filed: 04/04/2007
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Heartware,Inc. (Medtronic Plc), HeartWare Pty Ltd. (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Katsuya, Ikeda, Yutaka, Niwamoto, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US11/921,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20090106050A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A bioinformation input/output apparatus comprises bioinformation storage means for storing bioinformation in association with a user or users, device information storage means for storing a device(s) in association with the user or users, and bioinformation output means for reading bioinformation stored in the bioinformation storage means and outputting the bioinformation to a device. The bioinformation output means outputs the bioinformation to the device according to the user associated with the device. With this, the bioinformation input/output apparatus outputs bioinformation according to the device.

Claims

1. A bioinformation input/output apparatus for inputting/outputting bioinformation in order to present the bioinformation to a user, comprising:

bioinformation storage means for storing bioinformation in association with the user or users;

device information storage means for recording a device in association with the user or the users; and

bioinformation output means for reading the bioinformation stored in the bioinformation storage means and outputting the bioinformation to a device,

the bioinformation output means performing the output operation of the bioinformation to the device selectively according to the user associated with the device.

2. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the device information storage means records the device(s) further in association with confidentiality of the device(s);

the bioinformation storage means stores the bioinformation further in association with type data of the bioinformation; and

the bioinformation output means determines an output manner of bioinformation, and outputs the bioinformation in the output manner, the output manner including whether to output the bioinformation or not, and being determined at least depending on the user and confidentiality, which are recorded in the device information storage means, of the device to which the bioinformation is to be outputted, and the-type data associated with the bioinformation.

3. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the bioinformation output means outputs the bioinformation further depending on measured data of the bioinformation.

4. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the bioinformation output means outputs the bioinformation to the device according to a current time or when the device is turned on.

5. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the bioinformation output means outputs bioinformation immediately to a predetermined device in case where a situation is specified as an emergency according to the measured data of the bioinformation.

6. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

bioinformation acquiring means for acquiring the bioinformation externally from a device, and the bioinformation storage means storing, in association with the bioinformation acquired externally from the device, a user of the device, who is obtained from device information stored in the device information means.

7. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

the device detects the user thereof and informs the bioinformation input/output apparatus of the user, so that the user is recorded in the device information storage means.

8. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

user information storage means for storing user information that regards either sex or age of the user, and

the bioinformation output means performing the determination of the output manner further depending on the user information stored in the user information storage means.

9. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

the output manner is a rule on which a type of bioinformation to be outputted is determined.

17. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the device information storage means records the device(s) further in association with confidentiality of the device(s); and

the bioinformation output means outputs the bioinformation selectively to a device depending on the confidentiality associated with the device.

21. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 1, being a portable telephone or a television.

10. A bioinformation presenting apparatus for presenting bioinformation to a user, comprising:

communication means for acquiring the bioinformation through communication; and

bioinformation presenting means for presenting, to the user, the bioinformation acquired by the communication means,

when the bioinformation presenting apparatus is turned on or according to the current time, the bioinformation presenting means acquiring the bioinformation and the bioinformation presenting means presenting the bioinformation.

11. The bioinformation presenting apparatus as set forth in claim 10, wherein:

if the bioinformation presenting means acquires predetermined bioinformation through the communication means, then the bioinformation presenting means emphatically presents the predetermined bioinformation thus acquired.

12. The bioinformation input/output apparatus as set forth in claim 11 comprising:

user detecting means for detecting a current user,

the bioinformation presenting means acquiring the bioinformation according to the user detected by the user detecting means, and the bioinformation presenting means presenting the bioinformation thus acquired.

13. A bioinformation input/output method for inputting/outputting bioinformation in order to present the bioinformation to a user, comprising:

(a) storing the bioinformation in association with the user or users;

(b) recording a device(s) in association with the user or the users; and

(c) outputting the bioinformation to a device according to the user associated with the device, the bioinformation being stored in the bioinformation storage means.

14. The bioinformation input/output method as set forth in claim 13, wherein:

the step (b) further includes;

storing the device(s) in association with confidentiality of the device(s);

the step (a) further includes;

storing the bioinformation in association with type data of the bioinformation; and

the step (c) includes;

determining an output manner of bioinformation, the output manner including whether to output the bioinformation or not, and being determined at least depending on the user and confidentiality, which are recorded in the device information storage means, of the device to which the bioinformation is to be outputted; and

the user and type data associated with the bioinformation; and

outputting the bioinformation in the output manner.

15. The bioinformation input/output method as set forth in claim 13, wherein:

the step (c) further includes;

outputting the bioinformation to the device when the device is turned on or according to the current time.

16. A computer program for causing a computer to perform a bioinformation input/output method as set forth in claim 13.

18. A bioinformation presenting apparatus for presenting bioinformation to a user, comprising:

communication means for acquiring the bioinformation through communication;

user detecting means for detecting who is a user of the bioinformation presenting apparatus; and

bioinformation presenting means for presenting, to the user, the bioinformation acquired by the communication means,

the bioinformation presenting means notifying, to outside, information of the user detected by the user detecting means, the received bioinformation being selected by an external device according to the information of the user, and the bioinformation presenting means presenting the bioinformation thus selected and received.

19. The bioinformation presenting apparatus as set forth in claim 18, wherein:

if the bioinformation presenting means acquires predetermined bioinformation through the communication means, then the bioinformation presenting means emphatically presents the predetermined bioinformation thus acquired.

20. The bioinformation presenting apparatus as set forth in claim 19 comprising:

user detecting means for detecting who is a current user,

the bioinformation presenting means acquiring the bioinformation according to the user detected by the user detecting means, and the bioinformation presenting means presenting the bioinformation thus acquired.