METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR EVALUATING LIFE STYLES

• US 20100174153A1
• Filed: 01/04/2010
• Published: 07/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/651,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20100174153A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a life-style evaluation method including the steps of acquiring information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style, obtaining a virtual biological-clock rhythm curve by reflecting the information in a reference biological clock rhythm curve on a basis of the degree of an effect given by the form of the living habit on a biological-clock rhythm curve, and setting an indicator of the life style on a basis of the virtual biological-clock rhythm curve.

Claims

1. A life-style evaluation method comprising:

acquiring information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style, obtaining a virtual biological-clock rhythm curve by reflecting said information in a reference biological clock rhythm curve on a basis of the degree of an effect given by said form of the living habit on a biological-clock rhythm curve; and

setting an indicator of said life style on a basis of said virtual biological-clock rhythm curve.

2. The life-style evaluation method according to claim 1, wherein said life style is evaluated on the basis of a difference in phase between said reference biological-clock rhythm curve and said virtual biological-clock rhythm curve.

3. The life-style evaluation method according to claim 2, wherein said reference biological-clock rhythm curve is a curve expressed by Eqs. (1) and (2) given below whereas said virtual biological-clock rhythm curve is a curve expressed by Eqs. (3) to (6) given below:

4. The life-style evaluation method according to claim 3, wherein said information on a form of a living habit includes at least a time of getting up, a time of going to bed, times of eating meals, the length of an exercise time and the intensity of said exercise.

5. An information processing apparatus comprising:

means for acquiring information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style; and

means for computing a virtual biological-clock rhythm curve by reflecting said information in a reference biological clock rhythm curve on a basis of the degree of an effect given by said form of the living habit on a biological-clock rhythm curve.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

means for computing a difference in phase between said reference biological-clock rhythm curve and said virtual biological-clock rhythm curve.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

means for acquiring said information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said means for acquiring said information on a form of a living habit includes at least one of an acceleration sensor, a cardiac-beat sensor and a photo sensor.

9. A life-style evaluation program comprising:

at least the step of computing a virtual biological-clock rhythm curve by reflecting information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style in a reference biological-clock rhythm curve on a basis of the degree of an effect given by said form of the living habit on a biological-clock rhythm curve.

10. A recording medium used for recording a life-style evaluation program in a form readable by a computer as a program which includes at least the step of computing a virtual biological-clock rhythm curve by reflecting information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style in a reference biological-clock rhythm curve on a basis of the degree of an effect given by said form of the living habit on a biological-clock rhythm curve.

11. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first section configured to acquire information on a form of a living habit prescribing a life style; and

a second section configured to compute a virtual biological-clock rhythm curve by reflecting said information in a reference biological clock rhythm curve on a basis of the degree of an effect given by said form of the living habit on a biological-clock rhythm curve.