Method and system for detecting measurement error

• US 7,373,280 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2005
• Issued: 05/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Soo-Kwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Barlow; John
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, HIEN XUAN
• Application Number:
  US11/195,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20060100827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• Field of Search: 702/189, 702/183, 702/19, 600/300, 600/483, 600/513, 600/515, 128/906, 128/908, 128/920, 703/2, 435/6
• US Class Current: 702/189
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/08 with provision for safeguarding the apparatus, e.g. against abnormal operation, against breakdown
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

A method of and system for detecting a measurement error. The method includes: receiving measurement data from a measurement unit and user expression data from a user; corresponding each of the received measurement data and expression data to any one section of a plurality of sections; and checking whether or not the corresponding two sections are consistent with each other, to detect an error of any one of the measurement data and the expression data when they are not consistent. The system includes: a measurement unit for measuring measurement data; a user inputting unit for receiving expression data from a user; a memory for storing a plurality of sections classifying values of the measurement data and the expression data; a section detecting unit for corresponding each of the measurement data and the expression data to any one of the stored plurality of sections; and an error detecting unit for checking whether or not the corresponding two sections are consistent, to detect an error of any one of the measurement data and the expression data when they are not consistent.

Claims

1. A method of detecting a measurement error, the method comprising:

receiving measurement data from a measurement unit and user expression data;

relating each of the received measurement data and expression data to corresponding ones of a plurality of sections classifying values of the measurement data and the expression data, based on values of the received measurement data and expression data; and

checking whether the data corresponding to the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are consistent with each other, to detect an error in the measurement data or the expression data when the data are not consistent,

wherein the error detecting includes

checking whether the data in the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are consistent with each other;

receiving remeasurement data from the measurement unit when the data of the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are not consistent; and

comparing the measurement data with the remeasurement data, to determine that the measurement unit has an error when the measurement and remeasurement data are not consistent, and to determine that the user expression data has an error when the measurement and remeasurement data are consistent.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising warning a user of a detected error.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating user feedback information on the basis of a detected error.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising resetting sections of a measurement data or sections of an expression data depending on a detected error.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising resetting sections of a measurement data or sections of an expression data to render a measurement data section and a related expression data section consistent with each other.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sections are set for each user.

7. A system for detecting a measurement error, the system comprising:

a measurement unit measuring measurement data;

a user inputting unit receiving expression data;

a memory storing a plurality of sections classifying values of the measurement data and the expression data;

a section detecting unit relating each of the measurement data and the expression data to ones of the stored plurality of sections, depending on the values of the measurement and expression data; and

an error detecting unit checking whether the data corresponding to the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are consistent, to detect an error of the measurement data or the expression data the data are not consistent,

wherein the error detecting unit checks whether the data corresponding to the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are consistent with each other, to control the measurement unit to generate remeasurement data when the measurement and expression data are not consistent, and compares the remeasurement data with the measurement data to determine that the measurement unit has the error when the measurement and remeasurement data are not consistent and to determine that the expression data has the error when the measurement and remeasurement data are consistent.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a warning unit warning a user of a detected error.

9. The system of claim 7, further comprising a feedback generating unit generating user feedback information on the basis of an detected error.

10. The system of claim 7, further comprising a section setting unit resetting sections of the measurement data or sections of the expression data, depending on a detected error.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the measurement unit measures calorie consumption.

12. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for causing a processor to perform a method of detecting a measurement error, the method comprising:

receiving measurement data from a measurement unit and user expression data;

relating each of the received measurement data and expression data to corresponding ones of a plurality of sections classifying values of the measurement data and the expression data, based on values of the received measurement data and expression data; and

checking whether the data corresponding to the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are consistent with each other, to detect an error in the measurement data or the expression data when the data are not consistent,

wherein the error detecting includes

checking whether the data in the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are consistent with each other;

receiving remeasurement data from the measurement unit when the data of the sections to which the measurement and expression data are related are not consistent; and

comparing the measurement data with the remeasurement data, to determine that the measurement unit has an error when the measurement and remeasurement data are not consistent, and to determine that the user expression data has an error when the measurement and remeasurement data are consistent.