Portable apparatus for acquiring and processing data relative to the dietetics and/or the health of a person

• US 4,686,624 A
• Filed: 04/10/1984
• Issued: 08/11/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BLUM, ANDRE, 26 CHEMIN DU GRAND BUISSON, BESANCON (25000), BLUM, DOMINIQUE, 14 RUE DU VALLON, THISE (25220) ROCHE LEZ BEAUPRE
• Original Assignee: Dominique Blum
• Inventors: Blum, Dominique, Bechtel, Pierre, Grandmottet, Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grossman, Jon D.
• Application Number:
  US06/598,709
• Time in Patent Office: 1,218 Days
• Field of Search: 364/413, 364/415, 364/417, 364/418, 364/709, 364/715, 364/187, 364/146, 364/705, 371/10, 371/66, 346/20, 346/33 R, 346/33 ME, 340/573
• US Class Current: 346/20
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

The portable apparatus for acquiring and processing information relative to the dietetics and/or health of a person comprises, in combination, a series (2) of alpha-numeric keys for inputting information relative to the dietetics and/or the health of the user; at least one ROM in which are stored data and instructions in relation with this information; a display (5) for displaying the information introduced and the indications relating to them coming from the ROM; and a device for effectively inputting (3e) and refusing inputting (3d) of this information. The device also comprises a clock for dating each input of information; at least one RAM adapted to store the inputted information as well as the date thereof; a computing adapted to determine, from the inputted information and from data stored in the ROM, instructions intended for the user of the apparatus and relative to the dietetics and/or health of the user; main electric power supply for the apparatus; and a communication device (11) for transferring information stored in the RAM to an external data processing unit and, in return, the introduction into this RAM of instructions coming from this unit.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus for acquiring and processing information relative to the diet of a person undergoing medical treatment, said apparatus comprising a portable unit comprising in combination:

(a) first inputting means for inputting

diet instructions, including a daily reference amount of proteids, lipids, glucids, alcohol and calories allowed to be ingested by the user, and

treatment instructions in connection with a medical treatment;

(b) second inputting means, including a plurality of alphanumeric keys, for inputting

dietetic information including the amount of each type of food intended or actually ingested by the user,

information in connection with the health of a person using the apparatus, and

information relative to any medical treatment actually performed;

(c) means for effectively inputting and refusing inputting the said dietetic information;

(d) at least one random access memory for storing the information inputted through the said first and second inputting means;

(e) clock means connected to said second inputting means for providing a date for each input to the said random access memory of information from said second inputting means and including dietetic information relative to the food actually ingested, the amount of glucose as measured and the treatment actually performed;

(f) at least one read only memory for storing data relative to a predetermined number of foods and including the average proteid, glucid, lipid, alcohol content of the food;

(g) a display means for displaying said information stored in the said random access memory and said data stored in said read only memory;

(h) computer means for receiving the inputted information stored is said random access memory and the data stored in said read only memory and for, responsive thereto,

determining for each type of food as a function of the quantity of food inputted at one time through the said inputting means the amount of proteids, lipids, glucids, alcohol and calories, causing these amounts to be displayed on said displaying means and providing thereafter for storage of these amounts with an appropriate date in said random access memory, upon actuation of the said means for effectively inputting of information from said second inputting means,

providing from time to time to a person using the apparatus appropriate information relative to the diet instructions and to the treatment instructions such as are initially inputted in the random access memory from said first inputting means,

causing said daily reference amount of proteids, lipids, glucids, alcohol and calories to be displayed on the said displaying means and modifying the said reference amount as a function of the type and quantity of foods actually ingested and inputted through the second inputting means, and

resetting the said amount of the maximum value of the said daily reference amount at a given time based upon the time information received from the clock means, for the next day;

(i) electric power supply means for powering the apparatus; and

(j) connector means, adapted to connect said first inputting means and said random access memory to an external unit including a computer under doctor'"'"'s control, for enabling initially inputting from the external unit the said diet instructions including the daily reference amount of proteids, lipids, glucids, alcohol and calories allowed to the user, for enabling initially inputting from the external unit the said treatment instructions and for enabling transferring to said external unit the said information inputted through the said second inputting means and stored in the said random access memory.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising means for connecting the said portable unit to an apparatus for automatically determining the amount of glucose in the blood and to input said value to the random access memory to be stored in the said random access memory with the date of said measurement as provided by the clock.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein one of said keys comprises a meal key actuation of which controls processing of the inputted dietetic information in accordance with a dietetic program stored in said read only memory.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein one of said keys comprises a glycemia key actuation of which provides processing of the inputted dietetic information in accordance with a program which relates to the glucose content of the blood and which is stored in the read only memory.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein one of said keys comprises a medical treatment key actuation of which provides processing of the inputted dietetic information in accordance with a program stored in said read only memory relating to a particular medical treatment.