Application of multi-media technology to nutrition education and diet planning
OwnerNina J. Kuchinventor
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Abstract
A system is shown to teach individuals the relationship between the visual size and the nutritional characteristics of portions of food by using either a life size image of, or the corporeal finger of the individual as a scale against life size images of different sized portions of different kinds of food, while showing the nutritional characteristics of such portions; and to adjust the relative sizes of portions of food to provide a nutritionally well-balanced meal.
Claims43
A method of displaying information related to a characteristic in appropriate units of measurement of an object, comprising the steps of:
- providing a storage means containing data for displaying images of different kinds of objects and for each kind of object relating to different sizes of each of said kind of objects;
- providing a database containing data relating to different kinds of characteristics in appropriate units of measurement of each of said kinds of objects and for each kind of characteristic relating to said different sizes of each of said kind of objects;
- selecting a particular kind of object;
- selecting a particular kind of characteristic and appropriate units of measurement;
- displaying an image of said selected kind of object in a selected size of such image;
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- displaying that datum which relates to the selected characteristic of the selected size of the selected kind of object.
A method of teaching an individual to estimate the size of an object, comprising the steps of:
- providing a storage means containing data for displaying images of different sizes of an object;
- displaying an image of the object in a selected size;
- providing a storage means containing data for displaying an image of a particular portion of human anatomy in different shapes and sizes;
- selecting and displaying that shape and size image which most closely resembles said individual's own particular portion of anatomy;
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- utilizing the displayed image of said individual's particular portion of anatomy as a visual scaling factor for the displayed images of the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.