Massage apparatus and massage program
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorMasahiko HASHIMOTO
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Abstract
A massage apparatus includes: a massage unit configured to massage a user; a biological information acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of the user; a stress estimation unit configured to estimate a degree of stress of the user based on the biological information acquired by the biological information acquisition unit; and an operation determination unit configured to determine a massage operation to be performed for the user by the massage unit based on the degree of stress of the user estimated by the stress estimation unit.
Claims5
A massage apparatus comprising:
- a massage unit configured to massage a user;
- a biological information acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of the user;
- a stress estimation unit configured to estimate a degree of stress of the user based on the biological information acquired by the biological information acquisition unit;
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- an operation determination unit configured to determine a massage operation to be performed for the user by the massage unit based on the degree of stress of the user estimated by the stress estimation unit.
A massage program that directs a processor coupled to a massage apparatus that further comprises at least one biological information input and one or more motors, comprising the steps of
- inputting electrical data representing biological information of the user, into the processor;
- storing the inputted electrical data;
- comparing the inputted electrical data via at least one of a stored table of values, and generating an estimated stress level of the user;
- selecting a motor activation routine based on the estimated stress level;
- activating the one or more motors according to the selected activation routine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.