Monitoring caloric expenditure resulting from body activity
AssigneeHealthetech, Inc.
InventorJames R. Mault
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Abstract
Apparatus for monitoring the caloric expenditure rate of a subject, comprising: a caloric expenditure rate detector for detecting and measuring the caloric expenditure rate of the subject; a body activity detector for detecting and measuring the body activity of the subject; and a processor for storing a measured caloric expenditure rate and a concurrently measured body activity for each of a plurality of different body activities and activity rates, to enable each subsequently detected body activity measurement to be converted to the caloric expenditure rate of the respective subject.
Claims25
Apparatus for monitoring the caloric expenditure rate of a subject, comprising:
- a caloric expenditure rate detector for detecting and measuring the caloric expenditure rate of the subject;
- a body activity detector for detecting and measuring the body activity of the subject;
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- a processor for storing a measured caloric expenditure rate and a concurrently measured body activity for each of a plurality of different body activities and activity rates, to enable each subsequently detected body activity measurement to be converted to the caloric expenditure rate of the respective subject.
Apparatus for monitoring the caloric expenditure rate of a subject, comprising:
- a caloric expenditure rate detector for detecting and measuring the caloric expenditure rate of the subject;
- a body activity detector for detecting and measuring the body activity of the subject, including when the subject's body is relatively at rest;
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- a processor for storing a measured caloric expenditure rate and a concurrently measured body activity for each of a plurality of different body activities;
- said processor being programmable to operate in:
- a test mode in which the processor measures and stores a caloric expenditure rate for each body activity;
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- an operational mode in which the processor converts each subsequently detected body activity measurement to the corresponding caloric expenditure rate stored during the test mode.
Apparatus for monitoring the caloric expenditure rate of a subject, comprising:
- a caloric expenditure rate detector for detecting and measuring the caloric expenditure rate of a subject;
- a body activity detector for detecting and measuring the body activity of the subject;
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- a processor for storing a measured caloric expenditure rate with a measured body activity for each of a plurality of body activities during a test mode, and, in an operational mode, receiving a signal from the body activity detector and calculating the caloric expenditure utilizing the stored caloric expenditure rate corresponding to the body activity as stored in the test mode.
A method of monitoring the caloric expenditure of a subject, comprising:
- A. equipping the subject with:
- (1) a calorie expenditure rate detector for producing a caloric expenditure rate measurement of the subject, and (2) a body activity detector for producing a body activity measurement of the subject;
- B. during a test mode:
- (1) utilizing said detectors for producing said caloric expenditure rate measurement and said body activity measurement while the subject is undergoing a plurality of different body activities and at different rates, and (2) storing the correlation between said two measurements for each of said body activities and rates;
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- C. during an operational mode:
- (1) utilizing said body activity detector for producing a body activity measurement;
- (2) retrieving the corresponding caloric expenditure rate measurement stored for the respective body activity;
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- (3) utilizing said retrieved caloric expenditure rate measurement as the measurement of the caloric expenditure rate in monitoring the caloric expenditure of the subject.
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