Mobile terminal having pulse meter
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomoko Koide, Satoyuki Sasaki, Takemi Katoh, Satoshi Kyohgoku
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Abstract
A mobile terminal (10) of the present invention has a sensor (15) for detecting a pulse, in an upper end portion of a back surface of a main body of the mobile terminal (10). The sensor (15) is constituted by a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. A position of the sensor is determined so that a force acting on the sensor falls within a range from 50 gf to 200 gf in a case where the mobile terminal is supported at its lower end portion and at the sensor by a fingertip. Thus, the present invention provides the mobile terminal (10) which can be always carried with a user and which realizes easy and stable pulse measurement.
Claims12
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a main body housing an electronic device;
- a display section or an operation section, being provided on a first surface of the main body;
- a sensor for detecting a pulse, the sensor being provided on a second surface of the main body, the sensor having a light-receiving element,
- the mobile terminal having a weight of not more than 200 gf in order to facilitate the pulse detection by the sensor, and
- an attitude detector sensor configured to detect an attitude of the mobile terminal;
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- a control section configured to (i) perform determination as to whether or not a direction of the sensor matches a gravitational direction, and (ii) control, in accordance with the determination, (I) notification of information or (II) pulse detection, the control section performing the determination on the basis of the attitude of the mobile terminal, the attitude being detected by the attitude detector sensor.
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a main body housing an electronic device;
- a display section or an operation section, being provided on a first surface of the main body;
- a sensor for detecting a pulse, the sensor being provided on a second surface of the main body, the sensor having a light-receiving element,
- the mobile terminal having a weight of not more than 200 gf in order to facilitate the pulse detection by the sensor,
- detecting an attitude of the mobile terminal with an attitude detector sensor;
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- performing determination as to whether or not a direction of the sensor matches a gravitational direction, and controlling, in accordance with the determination, (I) notification of information or (II) pulse detection, the determining step performing the determination on the basis of the attitude of the mobile terminal, the attitude being detected by the attitude detector sensor.
A mobile terminal, comprising:
- a main body housing an electronic device, the main body having a first main surface, a second main surface and side surfaces connecting the first and second main surfaces;
- a display section or an operation section, being provided on a first main surface of the main body;
- a pulse sensor being provided on a second main surface of the main body at a sensor position, wherein the sensor position is located such that when the mobile terminal is bottom -supported near an end portion of the second main surface and at the sensor position, the mobile terminal's weight applies a force to the pulse sensor in a range from 50 gf to 200 gf.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.