Non-invasive body information measurement apparatus

• US 8,437,821 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2009
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Akizuki, Mamiko, Ueda, Yasushi, Inoshita, Hiroyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Julian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Templeton, Christopher L
• Application Number:
  US12/349,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20100174159A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,582 Days
• Field of Search: 600/316, 600/322, 600/319, 600/365, 600/310, 600/309
• US Class Current: 600/316
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7207 of noise induced by motion artifacts

Abstract

A non-invasive body information measurement apparatus, in which a blood glucose level is corrected using a blood glucose level measured with an invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus, wherein in a calibration period, measurement of body information is performed at a plurality of luminous energy levels, a plurality of estimated blood glucose levels are calculated from a plurality of characteristic quantities calculated at the various luminous energy levels and from blood glucose levels measured with an invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus, and at the end of the calibration period, the blood glucose levels measured with the invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus are compared with a plurality of estimated blood glucose levels, and in a normal measurement period a light source is controlled so that measurement is performed at a luminous energy level corresponding to the estimated blood glucose level that satisfies the targeted accuracy.

Claims

1. A non-invasive body information measurement apparatus comprising:

a light source;

a body information sensor that measures body information;

a characteristic quantity detector that analyzes the body information measured by the body information sensor and calculates a characteristic quantity for the body information;

a blood glucose level estimator that finds an estimated blood glucose level from the characteristic quantity calculated by the characteristic quantity detector and a measured blood glucose level measured by an invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus; and

a controller that (i) during a calibration period performs measurement of the body information at a plurality of luminous energy levels and calculates a plurality of the estimated blood glucose levels from (a) a plurality of the characteristic quantities calculated at various luminous energy levels of the plurality of luminous energy levels and (b) the measured blood glucose levels measured by the invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus, (ii) at an end of the calibration period compares the plurality of the estimated blood glucose levels with the measured blood glucose levels measured by the invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus, and (iii) during a normal measurement period controls the light source so that measurement is performed at the plurality of luminous energy levels corresponding to the estimated blood glucose levels that satisfy a targeted accuracy,

wherein the controller includes a luminous energy level modifier that controls a luminous energy level of the plurality of luminous energy levels according to a luminous energy level command signal outputted from the blood glucose level estimator.

2. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the blood glucose level estimator includes a luminous energy level selector that compares the plurality of the estimated blood glucose levels with the measured blood glucose levels measured by the invasive blood glucose measurement apparatus, calculates an average error, and detects a smallest luminous energy level at which the average error is under a preset threshold.

3. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the luminous energy level selector includes a register that can be written to from outside the luminous energy level selector, and

wherein the luminous energy level selector changes the preset threshold based on a value of the register.

4. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the luminous energy level modifier includes a first register group that can be written to from outside the luminous energy level modifier, and

wherein the luminous energy level modifier modifies the luminous energy level according to the luminous energy level command signal.

5. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller includes a periodic luminous energy level checker that, during the normal measurement period, changes a timing at which the light source is turned on in a preset cycle, and outputs the luminous energy level after changing the luminous energy level to a preset value.

6. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the periodic luminous energy level checker includes a register that can be written to from outside the periodic luminous energy level checker, and

wherein the periodic luminous energy level checker changes the preset cycle based on a value of the register.

7. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the periodic luminous energy level checker includes a register that can be written to from outside the periodic luminous energy level checker, and

wherein the periodic luminous energy level checker changes the luminous energy level based on a value of the register.

8. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the blood glucose level estimator includes a favorable luminous energy level checker that (i) compares the estimated blood glucose level measured at the luminous energy level changed by the periodic luminous energy level checker with the estimated blood glucose level measured at the luminous energy level set prior to being changed by the periodic luminous energy level checker, (ii) calculates an error, (iii) determines whether or not the error is at or below a preset threshold, and (iv), if the error is at or below the preset threshold, outputs to the controller a luminous energy level restoration signal so as to return to the luminous energy level set prior to being changed by the periodic luminous energy level checker.

9. The non-invasive body information measurement apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the favorable luminous energy level checker includes a register that can be written to from outside the favorable luminous energy level checker, and

wherein the favorable luminous energy level checker changes the preset threshold based on a value of the register.