ACTIVITY METER, ACTIVITY AMOUNT MEASUREMENT DEVICE, PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION SHARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, ACTIVITY ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND ACTIVITY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

• US 20170014068A1
• Filed: 09/18/2014
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: GOTOH, Wataru, OTSUBO, Yutaka, YAMAUCHI, Masahiro, HIEDA, Kaoru, AKAMATSU, Shigeo
• Granted Patent: US 9,999,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4812 Detecting sleep stages or cycles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4815 Sleep quality
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/225 Display details
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture

Abstract

An activity meter (100) includes (i) a sleep level judging section (112) for repeatedly detecting a sleep level of a user and (ii) a notifying section (113) for automatically notifying the user of specific information only during a period during which a most recent sleep level is less than a predetermined level.

Claims

1. An activity meter to be worn by a user, comprising:

a judging section for repeatedly judging a sleep level of the user; and

a notifying section for automatically notifying the user of specific information only during a period during which a most recent sleep level is less than a predetermined level.

2. An activity meter as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving section for receiving, from a telephone, incoming message information indicating that the telephone has received an incoming message,

the notifying section notifying the user of the incoming message information as the specific information only during a period during which a most recent sleep level indicates that the user is not in a specific state, and

the specific state being an asleep state or a deep sleep state.

3. The activity meter as set forth in claim 2, wherein

in a case where a most recent sleep level at a time point at which the receiving section received the incoming message information indicates that the user is in the specific state, the notifying section notifies the user of the incoming message information at a start of a period during which the most recent sleep level indicates that the user is not in the specific state.

4. An activity meter as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

a control section for controlling the telephone,

in a case where an incoming message has been received, the telephone (i) transmitting, to the activity meter, incoming message information indicating that the incoming message has been received and then (ii) outputting an incoming message sound, and

only in a case where a most recent sleep level at a time point at which the incoming message information has been received indicates that the user is in the deep sleep state, the control section carrying out prevention control of the telephone so as to prevent the telephone from outputting the incoming message sound.

5. The activity meter as set forth in claim 4, wherein

in a case where the incoming message information indicates that the incoming message has been received from a specific sender, the control section does not carry out the prevention control of the telephone.

6. An activity amount measuring device for measuring an activity amount of a user and transmitting, to a mobile device, activity amount information that indicates the activity amount thus measured, the activity amount measuring device having (i) a first measuring mode in which measurement of the activity amount is carried out during a first period and (ii) a second measuring mode in which, in addition to the measurement during the first period, measurement of the activity amount is carried out during a second period which is shorter than the first period,

said activity amount measuring device comprising:

a receiving section for receiving, from the mobile device, a command that instructs a change in a measuring mode; and

a measuring section for measuring the activity amount, the measuring section changing the measuring mode in accordance with the command thus received by the receiving section.

7. An activity amount measuring device as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

a transmitting section for transmitting the activity amount information to the mobile device (i) after the receiving section receives a command that instructs a change in the measuring mode from the first measuring mode to the second measuring mode and (ii) each time the measuring section measures the activity amount.

8. An activity amount measuring device as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

a transmitting section for transmitting, in a case where the receiving section receives a command that instructs a change in the measuring mode from the second measuring mode to the first measuring mode, activity amount information which indicates an activity amount measured during the second measuring mode, the activity amount information being transmitted to the mobile device.

9. The activity amount measuring device as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

the receiving section receives (i) a command that instructs a change in the measuring mode from the first measuring mode to the second measuring mode and (ii) period information that specifies a value of the second period; and

in a case where the receiving section has received the command that instructs the change in the measuring mode from the first measuring mode to the second measuring mode, the measuring section sets, to a value specified by the period information, the value of the second period during which the activity amount is measured in the second measuring mode.

10. A mobile device for (i) receiving, from an activity amount measuring device, activity amount information which indicates an activity amount of a user and (ii) presenting, to the user, the activity amount indicated by the activity amount information thus received,

the activity amount measuring device having (i) a first measuring mode in which measurement of the activity amount is carried out during a first period and (ii) a second measuring mode in which, in addition to the measurement during the first period, measurement of the activity amount is carried out during a second period which is shorter than the first period,

said mobile device comprising:

a transmitting section for transmitting, in a case where a predetermined user operation has been detected, a command to the activity amount measuring device, a command that instructs a change in a measuring mode in which the activity amount measuring device measures the activity amount, the command being transmitted to the activity amount measuring device.

11. An information sharing support device comprising:

an obtaining section for obtaining, from a first mobile device, first activity amount information which indicates an activity amount measured by a first activity amount measuring device that measures an activity amount of a first user, the first mobile device communicating with the first activity amount measuring device via short-distance wireless communication;

a generating section for generating a reporting instruction which (i) instructs reporting in accordance with the first activity amount information and (ii) instructs reporting by a second activity amount measuring device that measures an activity amount of a second user who is different from the first user; and

a transmitting section for transmitting the reporting instruction to a second mobile device which communicates with the second activity amount measuring device via short-distance wireless communication.

12. An information sharing support device as set forth in claim 11, further comprising:

a reporting ability judging section for judging whether or not the reporting by the second activity amount measuring device is possible,

the transmitting section transmitting the reporting instruction in a case where the reporting ability judging section judges that the reporting by the second activity amount measuring device is possible.

13. An information sharing support device as set forth in claim 12, further comprising:

a storage section for storing schedule management information which manages a schedule of the first user and a schedule of the second user,

in a case where (i) an event, which is among events registered in the schedule of the first user and which is held at a time point at which the first activity amount information is obtained, is specified and (ii) the event thus specified is registered in the schedule of the second user, the reporting ability judging section judging that the reporting by the second activity amount measuring device is possible.

14. An activity amount measuring device for measuring an activity amount of a user, comprising:

a receiving section for receiving activity amount information which indicates an activity amount of another user, the activity amount of the another user being measured by another activity amount measuring device other than the activity amount measuring device, the receiving section receiving the activity amount information from an information sharing support device via a mobile device which communicates with the activity amount measuring device via short-distance wireless communication; and

a reporting section for reporting in accordance with the activity amount information thus obtained by the receiving section.

15. An information sharing system, comprising:

a first activity amount measuring device for measuring an activity amount of a first user;

a second activity amount measuring device for measuring an activity amount of a second user;

a first mobile device for communicating with the first activity amount measuring device via short-distance wireless communication;

a second mobile device for communicating with the second activity amount measuring device via short-distance wireless communication; and

an information sharing support device for communicating with the first mobile device and with the second mobile device,

the information sharing support device transmitting a reporting instruction to the second activity amount measuring device via the second mobile device, the reporting instruction being an instruction which (i) instructs reporting in accordance with activity amount information indicative of the activity amount of the first user, the activity amount information having been transmitted from the first activity amount measuring device via the first mobile device and (ii) instructs reporting by the second activity amount measuring device, and

the second activity amount measuring device reporting in accordance with the reporting instruction.

16. An activity support device comprising:

a providing section for providing, in a case where a target user carries out predetermined exercise, a mobile device of the target user with target user activity amount information indicative of a target user activity amount corresponding to the predetermined exercise; and

an obtaining section for obtaining another user activity amount information indicative of an another user activity amount of the predetermined exercise carried out by another user, the obtaining section obtaining the another user activity amount information from another mobile device which corresponds to an activity amount measuring device that measures the another user activity amount of the another user,

the providing section providing, as the target user activity amount information, the another user activity amount information which has been obtained by the obtaining section.

17. The activity support device as set forth in claim 16, wherein

the obtaining section obtains plural user activity amount information indicative of a plural user activity amount of the predetermined exercise carried out by each of a plurality of users, the obtaining section obtaining the plural user activity amount information from a yet another mobile device which corresponds to an activity amount measuring device that measures the plural user activity amount of the each of the plurality of users,

said activity support device further comprising:

a recording section for recording the plural user activity amount information in a storage section such that the plural user activity amount information is associated with user attribute information indicative of an attribute of the each of the plurality of users,

the providing section providing, as the target user activity amount information, activity amount information which is among pieces of plural user activity amount information recorded in the storage section and which is associated with user attribute information indicative of an attribute similar to an attribute of the target user.

18. An activity support device as set forth in claim 16, further comprising:

an environment information obtaining section for obtaining, in a case where each of a plurality of users has carried out the predetermined exercise, environment information indicative of an environment surrounding the each of the plurality of users; and

a recording section for recording plural user activity amount information indicative of a plural user activity amount of the predetermined exercise carried out by the each of the plurality of users, the recording section recording the plural user activity amount information in a storage section such that the plural user activity amount information is associated with the environment information which has been obtained by the environment information obtaining section,

the providing section providing, as the target user activity amount information, activity amount information which is among pieces of plural user activity amount information recorded in the storage section and which is associated with environment information indicative of an environment similar to an environment surrounding the target user.

19. A mobile device comprising:

a presenting section for presenting, in a case where a target user carries out predetermined exercise, a target user activity amount according to the predetermined exercise; and

a receiving section for receiving another user activity amount information indicative of another user activity amount of the predetermined exercise carried out by another user, the receiving section receiving the another user activity amount information from another mobile device via an activity support device, which another mobile device corresponds to an activity amount measuring device that measures the another user activity amount of the another user,

the presenting section presenting, as the target user activity amount information, an activity amount indicated by the another user activity amount information which has been received by the receiving section.

20. An activity support system comprising:

a mobile device for presenting, in a case where a target user carries out predetermined exercise, a target user activity amount corresponding to the predetermined exercise;

another mobile device corresponding to an activity amount measuring device that measures another user activity amount of another user; and

an activity support device for communicating with the mobile device and with the another mobile device,

the activity support device transmitting, to the mobile device, another user activity amount information which has been obtained from the another mobile device and which indicates another user activity amount of the predetermined exercise carried out by the another user, and

the mobile device presenting, as the target user activity amount information, the another user activity amount indicated by the another user activity amount information transmitted from the activity support device.