Portable medical apparatus
AssigneeMandometer AB
InventorsCecilia Bergh, Per Sodersten
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Abstract
The invention regards a portable medical apparatus made up of at least two devices (30, 32) adapted to measure eating rate utilized to teach persons to eat according to a predetermined graphic eating curve (10, 24) displayed on a screen and a method therefore. In a specific mode the predetermined graphic curve (24) describes a non linear descending rate of eating behaviour. The apparatus comprises a device with cellular capabilities (30), and a scale (32), which devices communicate through near field radiation such as Bluetooth or IR.
Claims20
A portable medical apparatus made up of at least two devices adapted to measure eating rate utilized to teach persons to eat according to a predetermined graphic eating curve displayed on a screen, comprising:
- a first pocket portable device with a screen storing said predetermined graphic eating curve in a memory, said first device having cellular phone capability and remote near field radiation capabilities for communication with a related second device;
- said related second device being a portable scale adapted to communicate with said first device having cellular phone capability through similar remote near field radiation communication capabilities as said first device;
- weighing food on said scale in a measurement session of a length of time, and transmitting the food weight to said first device through said near field radiation when food is removed from said scale by a person eating the food, and through means of software residing in said first device storing the amount of food removed during a session in said memory, displaying the weight of food removed as a measurement point on said screen when it is removed from said scale to make up a real time graphic eating curve to be compared with said predetermined eating curve;
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- a software means utilized to transmit said stored session through said first device cellular phone capabilities to a remote computer for registration from an arbitrary place, having cellular coverage for said first device at least at one of a predetermined time, at the will of a person utilizing the medical apparatus, at the finishing of at least one session and at an arbitrary time.
A portable medical apparatus made up of at least two devices adapted to measure eating rate utilized to teach persons to eat according to a predetermined graphic eating curve displayed on a screen, comprising:
- a first pocket portable device with a screen storing said predetermined graphic eating curve in a memory, said first device having cellular phone capability and remote near field radiation capabilities for communication with a related second device;
- said predetermined graphic eating curve describing a non linear descending rate of eating behaviour;
- said related second device being a portable scale adapted to communicate with said first device having cellular phone capability through similar remote near field radiation communication capabilities as said first device;
- weighing food on said scale in a measurement session of a length of time, and transmitting the food weight to said first device through said near field radiation when food is removed from said scale by a person eating the food, and through means of software residing in said first device storing the amount of food removed during a session in said memory, displaying the weight of food removed as a measurement point on said screen when it is removed from said scale to make up a real time graphic eating curve to be compared with said predetermined eating curve.
A method utilizing a portable medical apparatus made up of at least two devices adapted to measure eating rate utilized to teach persons to eat according to a predetermined graphic eating curve displayed on a screen, comprising:
- storing said predetermined graphic eating curve in a memory in a first pocket portable device with a screen, said first device having cellular phone capability and remote near field radiation capabilities for communication with a related second device;
- describing said predetermined graphic eating curve through a non linear descending rate of eating behaviour;
- said related second device being a portable scale adapted to communicate with said first device having cellular phone capability through similar remote near field radiation communication capabilities as said first device;
- weighing food on said scale in a measurement session of a length of time, and transmitting the food weight to said first device through said near field radiation when food is removed from said scale by a person eating the food, and through means of software residing in said first device storing the amount of food removed during a session in said memory, displaying the weight of food removed as a measurement point on said screen when it is removed from said scale to make up a real time graphic eating curve to be compared with said predetermined eating curve.
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