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US 8,466,379 B2Granted
Portable apparatus for measuring eating rates and satiety levels
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 behavior. 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 apparatus for measuring eating rates and satiety levels of a user, comprising:
- a food device for supporting food disposed thereon;
- a scale disposed below the food device, the scale having means for measuring, at predetermined time intervals, a weight of the food disposed on the food device;
- a communication device being in communication with the scale and having means for displaying a predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve and a predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve;
- the communication device having means for displaying, on a display, an amount of the food the user removes from the food device;
- the communication device having means for receiving information about satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals;
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- the communication device having means for simultaneously displaying the measured weight and the amount of food removed by the user from the food device as a continuously descending eating rate and the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals, the communication device having means for displaying the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve and means for displaying the continuously descending eating rate of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve.
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A portable medical apparatus for measuring eating rates and satiety levels of a user, comprising:
- a bowl or plate having food disposed thereon;
- a scale supporting the bowl or plate, the scale having means for measuring, at predetermined time intervals, a weight of the food disposed on the bowl or plate;
- a mobile telephone, having mobile telephone capability, being in communication with the scale and having means for displaying a predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve and a predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve retrieved from a memory of the mobile telephone;
- the mobile telephone having means for displaying, on a display in real time, an amount of the food the user removes from the bowl or plate at predetermined time intervals;
- the mobile telephone having means for receiving information about satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals;
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- the mobile telephone having means for simultaneously displaying in real time the measured weight and the amount of food removed by the user from the food device as a continuously descending eating rate and the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals, the mobile telephone having means for displaying the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve and means for displaying the continuously descending eating rate of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve.
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A method for using an apparatus, comprising:
- providing a scale supporting a food device having food disposed thereon and a communication device being in communication with the scale;
- measuring, at predetermined time intervals, a weight of the food disposed on the food device;
- displaying a predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve and a predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve on a display;
- removing an amount of food from the food device;
- receiving information about satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals;
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- simultaneously displaying in real time a measured weight and the amount of food removed from the food device as a continuously descending eating rate and the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals;
- displaying the satiety levels of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined normal satiety level sigmoid curve;
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- displaying the continuously descending eating rate of the user at the predetermined time intervals adjacent to the predetermined continuously descending concave-shaped eating rate curve.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.