EP0845241A1
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Consumed calorie measuring apparatus and body temperature measuring apparatus
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corp
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Filing: 1997-06-12
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2017-06-12
Abstract
Abstract A consumed calorie measuring apparatus comprises a basal metabolism state specifying portion (142) for specifying a basal metabolism state of a subject from the body temperature of the subject so as to accurately determine a consumed calorie, a correlation storage portion (151) for storing regression formulae representing the correlation between a pulse rate and the consumed calorie at the time of rest and at the time of activity, respectively, a correlation calibration portion (152) for calibrating the regression formulae so stored by using the basal metabolism state, a body motion judgement portion (104) for judging whether or not the subject is in a rest state, and a regression formula selection portion (153) for selecting a regression formula to be applied, in accordance with the judgement result, wherein the pulse rate of the subject is applied to the selected regression formula and the consumed calorie corresponding to this pulse rate is calculated by the consumed calorie calculation portion (162).
Inventors
- 👤 Kazuhiko Amano
- 👤 Kazuo Uebaba
- 👤 Hitoshi Ishiyama
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
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2026-11-09 13:49
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B5/00; A61B5/68; A61B5/6801; A61B5/6813; A61B5/6828; A61B5/02; A61B5/0205; A61B5/02055; A61B5/024; A61B5/02416; A61B5/02438; A61B5/22; A61B5/221; A61B5/222; A61B5/48; A61B5/4866; A61B5/6802; A61B5/681; A61B5/6814; A61B5/6822; A61B5/6825; A61B5/6826; A61B5/683; A61B5/6838; A61B5/74; A61B5/742; A61B5/744; G; G01; G01K; G01K13/00; G01K13/20; A61B2560/00; A61B2560/04; A61B2560/0406; A61B2562/00; A61B2562/02; A61B2562/0219; A61B2562/0247; A61B2562/04; A61B2562/043; A61B2562/046; A61B5/103; A61B5/11; A61B5/6824; A61B5/72; A61B5/7235; A61B5/7253; A61B5/7257; A61B5/726
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 38
Claim 1
Independent Claim
92 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device, comprising: a basal metabolic state specifying means for specifying a
subject's basal metabolic state; a correlation storing means for storing the correlation
between the pulse rate and calorie expenditure; a correlation correcting means for correcting the
correlation stored in the correlation storing means by using
the basal metabolic state specified by the basal metabolic
state specifying means; and a calorie calculating means for applying the subject's
pulse rate in the correlation stored in the correlation
storing means, to calculate the calorie expenditure
corresponding to this pulse rate.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
114 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
1, further comprising: a pulse wave detecting means for detecting over a
specific area the pulse pressure around a site at which the
subject's pulse is present; a temperature detecting means for detecting temperature,
which is provided near the pulse wave detecting means; and a body temperature specifying means for specifying the
temperature which was detected at the site where the largest
pulse pressure was detected from among the pulse pressures
which were detected over the specific area, as the body
temperature; wherein the basal metabolic state specifying means
specifies the subject's basal metabolic state from the body
temperature specified by the body temperature specifying
means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
105 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
1 or claim 2, characterized in that: the correlation storing means stores regression formulas
for at least resting and active times, respectively; the calorie expenditure measuring device is further
provided with a body motion determining means for determining
whether or not the subject is in a resting state, and a
regression formula selecting means for selecting the
regression formula which should be used in accordance with the
result of the determination by the body motion determining
means; and the calorie calculating means calculates the calorie
expenditure using the regression formula selected by the
regression formula selecting means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
83 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
3, further comprising: a body temperature determining means for determining
whether or not the subject's body temperature is above a
specific value; wherein the regression formula selecting means selects
not the resting regression formula, but the active regression
formula in the case where the body motion determining means
determines that the subject is in a state of rest and the body
temperature determining means determines that the subject's
body temperature is above a specific value.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
82 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
3, further comprising: a pulse rate measuring means for measuring the subject's
pulse rate; and a body motion detecting means for detecting the subject's
body motion; wherein the body motion determining means determines
whether or not the subject is at rest based on the body motion
detected by the body motion detecting means, and the calorie
calculating means applies the pulse rate measured by the pulse
rate measuring means in the selected regression formula.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
102 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
5, further comprising: a measured result storing means for storing the pulse
rate measured by the pulse rate measuring means and the body
motion detected by the body motion detecting means in
respective time series; wherein the regression formula selecting means selects
the regression formula which is to be used by employing the
body motion stored in the measured result storing means, and
the calorie calculating means calculates the calorie
expenditure by applying the pulse rate stored in the measured
result storing means to the regression formula selected by the
regression formula selecting means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
29 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
5, further comprising a first notifying means that notifies
the subject of the calorie expenditure calculated by the
calorie calculating means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
121 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device, comprising: a correlation storing means for storing the correlation
between the pulse rate and calorie expenditure; a calorie calculating means which applies the subject's
pulse rate to the correlation stored in the correlation
storing means, and calculates the calorie expenditure
corresponding to this pulse rate; a first target value storing means which stores in
advance target values for calorie expenditure during a
specific time interval; a subtraction means which sequentially subtracts at fixed
time intervals the calorie expenditure calculated by the
calorie calculating means from the target value stored in the
first target value storing means; and a second notifying means for notifying the subject of the
result of the subtraction operation by the subtracting means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
60 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
8, further comprising: a first comparing means for comparing the target value
from the first target value storing means and the subtracted
result for the specific time interval by the subtracting
means; and a third notifying means for notifying the subject of the
results of the comparison by the first comparing means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
72 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device, comprising: a correlation storing means for storing the correlation
between the pulse rate and the calorie expenditure; a calorie calculating means for applying the subject's
pulse rate to the correlation stored in the correlation
storing means and calculating the calorie expenditure
corresponding to this pulse rate; and a first storing means for sequentially storing at fixed
time intervals the calorie expenditure calculated by the
calorie calculating means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
49 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
10, further comprising: an adding means for adding the calorie expenditure stored
in the first storing means by fixed time intervals; and a fourth notifying means for notifying the subject of the
result of the addition operation by the adding means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
58 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
11, further comprising: a second storing means for storing at fixed time
intervals the calorie expenditure added by the adding means;
and a fifth notifying means for notifying the subject of the
change over time in the summed calorie expenditure based on
the stored results of the second storing means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
79 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
11, further comprising: a first target value storing means for storing in advance
the target value of the calorie expenditure during a specific
time interval; a second comparing means for comparing the target value
according to the first target value storing means and the
result of addition by the adding means; and a sixth notifying means for notifying the subject of the
results of the comparison by the second comparing means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
47 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
8 or claim 13, further comprising: a receiving means for receiving information set in an
external device; and a target value setting means for setting the information
received by the receiving means as the target value for
calorie expenditure.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
79 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
10, further comprising: a rate of change calculating means for reading out the
calorie expenditure calculated earlier in the previous time
interval from the first storing means, and determining the
rate of change showing how the calorie expenditure calculated
currently has changed from the read out calorie expenditure;
and a seventh notifying means for notifying the subject based
on the rate of change determined by the rate of change
calculating means.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
63 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
15, further comprising: a third storing means for storing the rate of change
obtained by the rate of the change calculating means at fixed
time intervals; and an eighth notifying means for notifying the subject of
the change over time in the rate of change, based on the
stored results of the third storing means.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
81 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
15, further comprising: a second target value storing means for storing in
advance the rate of change in calorie expenditure as a target
value; a third comparing means for comparing the rate of change
from the second target value storing means and the rate of
change from the rate of change calculating means; and a ninth notifying means for notifying the subject of the
result of the comparison by the third comparing means.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
59 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
17, further comprising: a receiving means for receiving information set in an
external device; a second target value setting means for setting the
information received by the receiving means as the rate of
change in calorie expenditure which is to be the target value
in the second target value storing means.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
73 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to one
of claims 10 through 18, further comprising: a transmitting means for transmitting information with an
external device, which transmits to the external device at
least one from among the calorie expenditure in a fixed
interval of time stored in first storing means, the calorie
expenditure summed by the summing means, or the rate of change
in the calorie expenditure stored in the third storing means.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
75 words
A calorie expenditure measuring device according to claim
19, further comprising: a fourth storing means for storing in a time series at
least one from among the body temperature detected by the body
temperature detecting means, the pulse rate measured by the
pulse rate measuring means, or the body motion detected by the
body motion detection means; and a transmission means for sending the stored results of
the fourth storing means to an external device.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
81 words
A body temperature measuring device, comprising: a pulse wave detecting means for detecting over a
specific area the pulse pressure around the site where the
subject's pulse is present; a temperature detecting means for detecting temperature
which is provided near the pulse wave detecting means; and a body temperature specifying means for specifying as the
body temperature the temperature detected at the site at which
the largest pulse pressure from among the pulse pressures
detected in the specific area was detected.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
60 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
21, provided with a plurality of pairs of pulse wave detecting
means and temperature detecting means, wherein the body temperature specifying means specifies
as the body temperature the temperature detected by the
temperature detecting means corresponding to the pulse wave
detecting means which detected the largest pulse pressure as
the body temperature.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
53 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
22, wherein the plurality of pairs of pulse wave detecting
means and temperature detecting means are disposed in rows at
roughly a right angle with respect to the direction of
elongation of the arterial vessels at which the detection of
pulse pressure is carried out.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
35 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim 21
or claim 22, further comprising a fifth storing means for
storing at fixed intervals of time the body temperature
specified by the body temperature specifying means.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
38 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
24, further comprising a tenth notifying means for notifying
the subject of the change in body temperature over time, based
on the body temperatures stored in the fifth storing means.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
29 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
24, further comprising a transmission means for transmitting
the body temperature stored in the fifth storing means to an
external device.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
53 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim 21
or claim 22, further comprising: a pulse discriminating means which determines whether or
not the pulse wave detecting means is detecting the pulse
pressure; and an eleventh notifying means which notifies the subject of
the result of the determination by the pulse discriminating
means.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
59 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim 21
or claim 22, further comprising a body motion detecting means
for detecting the subject's body motion, wherein the body temperature specifying means specifies
the body temperature when a determination is made that the
body motion is within specified limits based on the detected
results of the body motion detecting means.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
91 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
21, further comprising: a basal metabolic state specifying means for specifying
the subject's basal metabolic state from the body temperature
specified by the body temperature specifying means; a physiological information measuring means for measuring
the subject's physiological information; a physiological information specifying means for
specifying the physiological information measured by the
physiological information measuring means as the physiological
information of the subject's basal metabolic state, in the
case where the basal metabolic state was been specified by the
basal metabolic state specifying means.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
29 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
29, wherein the basal metabolic state specifying means
specifies the minimum in the subject's body temperature as the
basal metabolic state.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
54 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
29, further comprising a body motion detecting means for
detecting the subject's body motion, wherein the basal metabolic state specifying means
specifies the subject's basal metabolic state when body motion
is with specific limits based on the results of detection by
the body motion detecting means.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
54 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
29, further comprising a time keeping means for measuring the
current time, wherein the basal metabolic state specifying means
specifies the basal metabolic state in the case where the
clock time kept by the time keeping means is determined to be
within a preset time period.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
88 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
29, further comprising: a body motion detecting means for detecting the subject's
body motion; and a time keeping means for measuring the current time; wherein the basal metabolic state specifying means
specifies the basal metabolic state in the case where body
motion is determined to be within specific limits based on the
results of detection by the body motion detecting means, and
the clock time kept by the time keeping means is determined to
be within a preset time period.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
54 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
29, further comprising: an environmental temperature detecting means for
detecting the temperature of the environment around the
subject; and a correcting means for correcting the physiological
information measured by the physiological information
measuring means based on the environmental temperature
detected by the environmental temperature detecting means.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
29 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim 29
or claim 34, further comprising a sixth storing means for
storing physiological information specified by the
physiological information specifying means.
Claim 36
Dependent Claim
36 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
35, further comprising a twelfth notifying means for notifying
the subject of a change in the physiological information based
on the stored results of the sixth storing means.
Claim 37
Dependent Claim
43 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
35, wherein the twelfth notifying means carries out
notification in response to the deviation between the
physiological information measured by the physiological
information measuring means and the physiological information
stored in the sixth storing means.
Claim 38
Dependent Claim
29 words
A body temperature measuring device according to claim
35, further comprising a transmitting means for transmitting
the physiological information stored in the sixth storing
means to an external device.
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