Body movement detecting apparatus and body movement detecting method
AssigneeTanita Corporation
InventorKenji Nishibayashi
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Abstract
There is provided a body movement detecting apparatus having a body movement data acquiring unit configured to detect a body movement of a user and acquire body movement data relating to the body movement and a computing unit configured to calculate consumed energy on the basis of the body movement data, including: a time data acquiring unit configured to acquire time data when the body movement data is acquired; a data accumulating unit being capable of accumulating the body movement data in correspondence with the time data; and a detection condition changing unit being capable of changing a detection condition for detecting the body movement on the basis of the body movement data and the time data accumulated in the data accumulating unit.
Claims11
A body movement detecting apparatus comprising:
- a body movement data acquiring unit configured to detect a body movement of a user and acquire body movement data relating to the body movement;
- a computing unit configured to calculate consumed energy based on the body movement data;
- a time data acquiring unit configured to acquire time data, including day of week and time of day, when the body movement data are acquired;
- a data accumulating unit configured to accumulate the body movement data in correspondence with the time data;
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- a detection condition changing unit configured to change a threshold value relating to a body movement strength as a detection condition for detecting the body movement based on the body movement data and the day of week and the time of day of the time data accumulated in the data accumulating unit.
A body movement detecting method comprising:
- a body movement data acquiring step of detecting, by body movement detecting apparatus, a body movement of a user and acquiring body movement data relating to the body movement;
- an energy computing step of calculating consumed energy based on the body movement data;
- a time data acquiring step of acquiring time data, including day of week and time of day, when the body movement data is acquired;
- a data accumulating step of accumulating the body movement data in correspondence with the time data into a memory device;
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- a detection condition changing step of changing a threshold value relating to a body movement strength as a detection condition, by body movement detecting apparatus, for detecting the body movement based on the body movement data and the day of week and the time of day of the time data accumulated in the data accumulating step.
A body movement detecting apparatus comprising:
- a body movement data acquiring unit configured to detect a body movement of a user and acquire body movement data relating to the body movement;
- a computing unit configured to calculate consumed energy based on the body movement data;
- a time data acquiring unit configured to acquire time data, including day of week and time of day, when the body movement data are acquired;
- a data accumulating unit configured to accumulate the body movement data in correspondence with the day of week and time of day;
- an activity pattern data acquiring unit configured to acquire activity pattern data including a type of the activity and a frequency of the activity taken by the user on respective days of week and respective time of day based on the body movement data and the day of week and the time of day accumulated in the data accumulating unit;
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- a detection condition changing unit configured to change a threshold value relating to a body movement strength as a detection condition for detecting the body movement based on the body movement data and the activity pattern data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.