Exercise amount measuring device capable of displaying the amount of exercise to be performed further

• US 5,989,200 A
• Filed: 04/02/1998
• Issued: 11/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Maki, Yamasawa, Tsutomu, Hatakenaka, Tsukasa, Morita, Kazuyuki, Tabata, Makoto, Yoshimura, Manabu, Watanabe, Tomoo, Takenaka, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hindenburg, Max
• Assistant Examiner(s): WINGOOD, PAMELA LYNN
• Application Number:
  US09/053,909
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 364/415, 364/561, 272/73, 600/587
• US Class Current: 600/587
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/222 combined with detection or measurement of physiological parameters, e.g. heart rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/744 Displaying an avatar, e.g. an animated cartoon character

Abstract

Total consumed calories are indicated in an upper portion of a display. A life activity intensity of each of the past seven days and an average life activity intensity over the same period are indicated by a bar graph in a lower portion of the display. The life activity intensity is classified into rank I (light), rank II (medium), and rank III (a little heavy). A total exercise amount (i.e., total consumed calories) and a life activity intensity are calculated and automatically displayed at the end of a day.

Claims

1. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating a remaining target calorie value based on an estimated consumption calorie value in a prescribed period; and

means for causing the display section to display the calculated remaining target calorie value.

3. The exercise amount measuring device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising means for causing the display means to display a difference between a target value and a measured value.

2. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating a target exercise amount that the living body is desired to perform in a prescribed period; and

means for causing the display section to display the calculated target exercise amount.

4. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating a remaining target calorie value based on an estimated consumption calorie value in a prescribed period;

means for causing the display section to display the calculated remaining target calorie value; and

means for causing the display section to display a ratio between a measured value and a target value.

5. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating a remaining target calorie value based on an estimated consumption calorie value in a prescribed period;

means for calculating a target exercise amount that the living body is desired to perform in the prescribed period;

means for calculating a life activity index χ

, based on a measured exercise amount, where

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">χ

=0.9(A/B)-1,

A is a value of total energy metabolism and B is a value of basal metabolism; and

means for causing the display section to display an exercise amount, a difference between a target value and a measured value, or a tendency of a temporal variation of the life activity index χ

.

6. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating an estimated consumption calorie value in a prescribed period; and

means for casing the display section to display the calculated estimated consumption calorie value.

7. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for comparing an ingested calorie value and a consumed calorie value in a prescribed period, and for determining advice based on a comparison result; and

means for causing the display section to display the determined advice.

8. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating an estimated consumption calorie value in a prescribed period; and

means for causing the display section to display the calculated estimated consumption calorie value,

wherein a type and a time length of exercise corresponding to a difference between an ingested calorie value and the consumed calorie value is displayed as the advice when the ingested calorie value is larger than the consumed calorie value.

9. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating an estimated consumption calorie value in a prescribed period; and

means for causing the display section to display the calculated estimated consumption calorie value,

wherein a food and an amount thereof corresponding to a difference between an ingested calorie value and the consumed calorie value is displayed as the advice when the ingested calorie value is smaller than the consumed calorie value.

10. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating a difference between an ingested calorie value and a consumed calorie value in a prescribed period, and for determining a tendency of whether the living body is gaining or losing weight; and

means for causing the display section to display the determined tendency.

11. The exercise amount measuring device according to any one of claims 6, 7 and 10, wherein the display section displays information graphically.

12. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor, and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for inputting an ingested calorie value; and

means for causing the display section to display, at the same time, the ingested calorie value as input and an already-input ingested calorie value that has been accumulated so far and is stored.

13. The exercise amount measuring device according to claim 12, further comprising means for adding or subtracting the input ingested calorie value to or from a current already-input ingested calorie value, to obtain an updated already-input ingested calorie value to be displayed.

14. The exercise amount measuring device according to claim 12, wherein the ingested calorie inputting means comprises a menu sheet on which names of foods and calorie values thereof are listed together with calorie numbers representing the calorie values of the respective foods, and allows input of the ingested calorie value by designating one of the numbers.

15. The exercise amount measuring device according to claim 14, wherein the ingested calorie inputting means further comprises an up-key and a down-key for increasing and decreasing the calorie number, respectively.

16. An exercise amount measuring device comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting a body movement of a living body, means for calculating an exercise amount based on a detection signal of the acceleration sensor and a display section for displaying the calculated exercise amount, said device further comprising:

means for calculating a target exercise amount that the living body is desired to perform in a prescribed period;

means for causing the display section to display the calculated target exercise amount; and

means for causing the display section to display a ratio between a measured value of exercise amount and a target value of exercise amount.