Calorie calculator-chronometer

• US 4,100,401 A
• Filed: 01/13/1977
• Issued: 07/11/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene F. Tutt, Rita C. Tutt
• Original Assignee: Eugene F. Tutt, Rita C. Tutt
• Inventors: Tutt, Eugene F., Tutt, Rita C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thesz, Joseph M.
• Application Number:
  US05/758,917
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 235/92 EV, 235/92 T, 235/92 MT, 235/92 CP, 235/156, 58/152 R, 58/23 R, 128/2.06 F, 128/2.05 T
• US Class Current: 377/49
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 47/061 calculating scales for indicating relationship between quantity and time indicating or recording of quantity-time ratios G01D; meters for measuring average speed, measuring speed by chronograph G01P; slide rules and calculating wheels G06G
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/025 for measuring physiological data

Abstract

A solid-state electronic wristwatch with a digital display includes additional circuitry to permit utilization of the display and the source of constant frequency signals of the watch to expand its operation to a calorie calculator. The calorie calculator components include a counter circuit for entering a count indicative of caloric intake, circuitry for entering calorie expenditure rate in terms of calories expended per hour, and a main calorie counter into which the calorie input information is entered and from which counts representative of calories consumed are removed at a rate determined by the calorie expenditure rate entered into the system. The watch display may be activated to display the calories being added, the calorie expenditure rate, and the net calories unconsumed on demand by the user. The watch also, if desired, may include a calendar display which also shares the common digital display elements used to display the time and calorie information.

Claims

1. In an electronic timepiece having a source of constant frequency signals pulses, a time computing circuit coupled to the source of constant frequency signal pulses and producing time information in binary coded decimal form, an electro-optical digital display, a decoder circuit coupling the time computer circuit to the display, and a first manually operated switch coupled to the time computing circuit for energizing the display from the time computing circuit in response to operation of such first switch, an auxiliary calorie calculator data system including in combination:

a main storage counter for storing numerical data indicative of net calories;

a rate controlling circuit coupling said main counter with said source of constant frequency pulses for decrementing the count in said main counter at a predetermined rate;

an auxiliary digital counter;

means including at least a second manually operated switch coupled with said auxiliary counter and with said source of constant frequency pulses to store a count in said auxiliary counter corresponding to caloric intake, said second switch further being coupled with said auxiliary counter for energizing said display from the output of said auxiliary counter in response to operation of said second switch;

means controlled by said second switch for transferring the count from said auxiliary counter to said main counter to increase the count in said main counter by the amount of the count stored in said auxiliary counter;

calorie rate expenditure circuit means including a third manually operated switch for effecting storage of a count in said auxiliary counter corresponding to the rate of expenditure of calories;

a latch memory circuit coupled with said auxiliary counter and operated by said third switch for storing the count present in said auxiliary counter;

a calorie rate down-counter coupled with said latch memory circuit and with said rate controlling circuit for temporarily storing the calorie count stored in said latch memory circuit and for varying the rate at which the count in the main counter is decremented by said rate controlling circuit directly proportional to the count stored in said latch memory circuit; and

a fourth manually operated switch coupled with said main counter for energizing said display from said main counter in response to operation of said fourth switch.

2. In an electronic timepiece including a source of constant frequency signals, a time computing circuit coupled to the source of constant frequency signals and an electro-optical digital display where the time computing circuit produces time information in binary coded form to a decoder coupling the time computer circuit to said display, and means coupled with the time computing circuit for energizing said display in response to operation of such means, an auxiliary data system including in combination:

main auxiliary storage counter circuit means for storing numerical data other than time and date data;

means including at least first manually operated switch coupled with said main auxiliary storage counter circuit means for effecting the storage of data therein;

means coupled with said source of constant frequency signals and with said main auxiliary storage counter circuit means for applying pulses from said source of constant frequency signals to said counter circuit means for decrementing the count in said counter circuit means upon the application of each of said pulses thereto;

further means coupled with said counter circuit means for selectively supplying additional pulses to said counter circuit means over predetermined time intervals to further decrement the count in said counter circuit means in response to each of such additional pulses; and

means including a second manually operated switch coupling the output of said counter circuit means with the decoder for energizing the display from said counter circuit means in response to operation of said second switch.

3. The combination according to claim 2, wherein said counter circuit means is a main counter and further including at least one auxiliary counter and a third manually operated switch for coupling said auxiliary counter with the source of constant frequency signals for entering a numerical count in said auxiliary counter corresponding to caloric input, and means coupling the output of said auxiliary counter with the decoder for energizing the display from said auxiliary counter in response to operation of said third manually operated switch, and means for transferring the count in said auxiliary counter to said main counter to increase the count in said main counter by the amount of the count entered into said auxiliary counter.

4. The combination according to claim 3, further including a calorie rate down-counter, a latch memory and a fourth manually operated switch, wherein said fourth manually operated switch is coupled with said auxiliary counter and said source of constant frequency signals to cause said auxiliary counter to store a count therein indicative of a calorie expenditure rate, said latch memory being coupled with said auxiliary counter and with said fourth switch to store the count in said auxiliary counter in response to operation of said fourth switch;

said calorie rate down-counter being coupled with said latch memory for receiving and storing the data in said latch memory in response to predetermined pulses from said source of constant frequency signals; and

means coupling said calorie rate down-counter with said means for changing the data in said main counter for controlling data stored in said main counter.