JP2008229109A - Proper momentum meter - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is an appropriate exercise amount meter that improves the feeling of wearing a device during exercise and can be used as an appropriate exercise indicator and a data storage type pedometer according to the purpose.
SOLUTION: Based on input personal data, appropriate exercise amount calculating means 8 for calculating an appropriate exercise amount including an upper limit value and a lower limit value of a heart rate, and a heart rate attached to the exerciser 2 to measure the heart rate. Determine whether the measuring means 5 and the measured heart rate exceeds the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate amount of exercise, falls below the lower limit value, or is between the lower limit value and the upper limit value, and the determination result A proper exercise indicator 4 provided with a determination instruction means 8 for giving a voice instruction to the exerciser, a step count counting means 20 for calculating the number of steps based on the body movement of the exerciser 2, and a measurement for storing the measured heart rate And a proper movement indicator 4 and the main body 3 are provided separately, and a weak radio wave is provided between the proper movement indicator 4 and the main body 3. Communication is provided.
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Description

  The present invention relates to exercise therapy instruction management for lifestyle-related diseases and the like performed by doctors and lifestyle habit leaders in medical areas, health areas, and the like, and an appropriate exercise meter that can be applied to exercise therapy self-management.

  Conventionally, as an exercise evaluation / recording instrument used for doctors and lifestyle leaders to give appropriate guidance to individuals for health promotion and lifestyle improvement for patients with lifestyle diseases and their reserves, There were pedometers and calorie counters using acceleration sensors.

  In addition, as a lifestyle recorder, there is an “exercise level temporal storage device” provided with means for detecting physical activity by an acceleration sensor, determining a physical exercise level, and storing a representative value of the exercise level over time. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

  In addition, there is a “heart rate recording type appropriate exercise amount indicating device” that allows an exerciser himself to immediately grasp the intensity and exercise amount of exercise performed by the exerciser from the exerciser's heart rate and record the heart rate ( For example, see Patent Document 2).

  In addition, the heart rate signal detected from the body surface of the exerciser is wirelessly transmitted to calculate and display the appropriate amount of exercise, and the number of steps and calories consumed from the body movement of the exerciser's waist are displayed and each data is stored in a memory card. There is a “exercise therapy instruction management device” that can be used (for example, see Patent Document 3).

JP 2000-93409 A Japanese Patent No. 3421738 JP 2004-321585 A

  Both the pedometer and the calorie counter recognize the amount of exercise performed after the end of exercise using the number of steps or calories consumed as an index, and the amount of exercise cannot be recorded over time. In addition, the lifestyle recorder has a problem that heart rate data is not introduced.

  The heart rate recording type appropriate exercise amount indicating device cannot record the heart rate for a long period of time, and cannot measure the number of steps and calories consumed as daily physical activity. The unit is formed by integrating the means, the appropriate amount of exercise instruction means, the step count means, and the data storage means, and it is not easy to wear the device. The appropriate exercise indicator and the step counter are used separately according to the purpose of use. There was a problem that it was not possible.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the object of the present invention is to improve the feeling of wearing the apparatus during exercise, and as an appropriate exercise indicator or a data storage type pedometer according to the purpose. The purpose is to provide an appropriate exercise meter that can be used.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises the following arrangement.
According to the appropriate exercise amount meter of the present invention, the appropriate exercise amount calculating means for calculating the appropriate exercise amount including the upper limit value and the lower limit value of the heart rate based on the input personal data, and the heart rate attached to the exerciser. A heart rate measuring means for measuring the heart rate, the heart rate measured by the heart rate measuring means exceeds the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate exercise amount, falls below the lower limit value, or between the lower limit value and the upper limit value, An appropriate exercise indicator comprising: a determination instruction means for determining which one is present and instructing the exerciser by voice, and a voice output means for outputting a voice instruction based on the determination instruction means; A step number counting means for calculating the number of steps based on movement, and a main body portion provided with a measurement data storing means for storing the measured heart rate, and the proper motion indicator and the main body portion are separately provided. Proper exercise provided on the body Between 示計 and the body portion is characterized in that is provided to be communicated by weak radio waves.
By adopting this configuration, the exerciser is divided into a proper exercise indicator for voice indicating whether or not the exercise performed by the exerciser is an appropriate exercise amount, and a main body portion provided with a step count counting means and a data storage means. Both can be connected by weak wireless to improve the feeling of wearing the apparatus during exercise, and can be used as an appropriate exercise indicator or a data storage type pedometer according to the purpose.
The personal data for calculating the appropriate amount of exercise refers to sex, age, weight, exercise intensity, and the like.

The determination instruction means includes an input unit for inputting an external audio signal, and the heart rate measured by the heart rate measurement means is between the lower limit value and the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate exercise amount. The external audio signal input from the input unit is transmitted to the audio output means, and the heart rate measured by the heart rate measuring means exceeds the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate exercise amount or falls below the lower limit value. If so, the external audio signal input from the input unit may be provided so as not to be transmitted to the audio output means.
According to this configuration, for example, when an exerciser inputs an external voice (such as music) and is exercising while listening to it, the external voice signal is blocked that the current amount of exercise is outside the appropriate range. So, an exerciser can easily know.

  The proper exercise meter of the present invention is divided into a main body part and an appropriate exercise indicator, which makes it easy to wear the device, and according to the purpose of use, it is divided into a data storage type pedometer and proper exercise indicator by the main part. There is an effect that it can be used.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of exercise with an appropriate exercise meter according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the appropriate exercise meter, and FIG. 3 is an operation for explaining a specific operation / processing procedure of the appropriate exercise meter. Process flow diagram and FIG. 4 are exercise management analysis screens analyzed and created by an external computer based on data recorded on a memory card installed in the main body of the proper exercise meter.

The appropriate exercise meter 1 includes a main body 3 and an appropriate exercise instruction meter 4, and is configured separately so that it can be attached to different parts of the exerciser.
For example, the main body 3 of the appropriate exercise meter 1 is attached to the waist of the exerciser 2. Since the main body 3 functions as a pedometer alone, it is preferable that the main body 3 can be attached to the waist.
The proper motion indicator 4 is configured as a neck-hanging type and is mounted by being lowered from the neck, or is formed in a clip-fixed type and mounted in a chest pocket or the like of the upper body of the exerciser. The proper motion indicator 4 is preferably provided at a position close to the head of the exerciser 2 because a sound output means such as an earphone or a pulse wave detector 5 attached to the earlobe is provided.

The proper motion indicator 4 is provided with a pulse wave detector 5 (heart rate measuring means in the claims) and earphones 6L and 6R (voice output means in the claims).
The pulse wave detector 5 is attached to the body surface of the earlobe of the exerciser 2, and the earphones 6L and 6R are attached to both ears of the exerciser 2. Note that the sound output means for outputting the sound for instructing the appropriate motion range is not limited to the earphone, and may be a speaker.

In FIG. 2, the block diagram of the main-body part 3 and the appropriate exercise | movement indicator 4 is shown.
The main body 3 is provided with an exerciser constant data transmission circuit 15. The proper exercise indicator 4 is provided with an exerciser constant data receiving circuit 14. A constant data transmission / reception line 23 is connected between the exerciser constant data transmission circuit 15 and the exerciser constant data reception circuit 14.
A tact switch 18 is provided in the main body 3. The exerciser 2 operates the tact switch 18 of the main body unit 3 and refers to the LCD 21 screen while referring to the LCD 21 screen for age, sex, weight, date, time, constants of appropriate exercise intensity prescribed by the doctor or lifestyle instructor or the person himself / herself. Are input interactively, and each constant signal is supplied to the microcomputer 20 to set a constant. The set constant is stored in the memory card 22 and supplied to the microcomputer 8 installed in the proper motion indicator 4 through the constant data transmission / reception line 23.

  The microcomputer 8 in the appropriate exercise indicator 4 constitutes an appropriate exercise amount calculating means, and calculates the appropriate exercise amount based on the constant transmitted from the main body 3. The appropriate amount of exercise is an exerciser's appropriate amount of exercise using the heart rate as an index, and the appropriate amount of exercise is represented by an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the heart rate.

A pulse wave detector 5 serving as a heart rate detecting means is attached to, for example, an earlobe region on the body surface of the exerciser 2 by an attaching means such as a clip, and detects a pulse wave. The detected pulse wave signal is supplied to the microcomputer 8 via the pulse wave shaping circuit 7.
The microcomputer 8 actually calculates the average heart rate for 3 minutes of the exerciser 2 and determines the resting heart rate. Then, the microcomputer 8 compares the calculated appropriate amount of exercise with the detected heart rate to determine whether or not appropriate exercise is being executed, and instructs the exerciser on the result. Whether the actually detected heart rate exceeds the upper limit value of the heart rate, falls below the lower limit value of the heart rate, or is between the lower limit value and the upper limit value. Is determined, and the exerciser 2 is informed of this by an audio signal.

An instruction to the exerciser 2 is that the internal sound synthesized by the external sound source 13 or the microcomputer 8 input to the input unit 9 is switched by the switching circuit in the input unit 9, and passes through the audio output circuit 10 to the speaker 11 or This is done by outputting from the earphones 6L, 6R.
As an external sound source, a media player such as a CD or MD, a digital audio player using a flash memory, a hard disk, or the like can be used.

For example, when the exerciser 2 is listening to music from the external sound source 13, the determination instruction of the microcomputer 8 is left as it is when the actually detected heart rate is within an appropriate amount of exercise between the lower limit value and the upper limit value. If music continues to flow and the upper limit value of the heart rate is exceeded or falls below the lower limit value of the heart rate, the output of the music is cut off. Thus, by losing music during exercise, the exerciser can know that the exercise was inappropriate.
Further, when the internal sound synthesized by the microcomputer 8 is to be heard by the exerciser 2, the fact that the amount of exercise is appropriate or inappropriate may be directly output as a language, or the amount of exercise is appropriate or inappropriate. In this case, the oscillation frequency may be changed to output an oscillation sound.

The pulse rate calculated in the microcomputer 8 is sequentially transmitted from the pulse rate weak radio transmission circuit 12 to the pulse rate weak radio reception circuit 16 provided in the main body 3 by weak radio. The reception signal received by the pulse rate weak radio reception circuit 16 is stored as a heart rate in the memory card 22 (measurement data storage means in the claims) through the microcomputer 20.
Further, the body part 3 is provided with a body motion detector 17 capable of outputting a step count signal from the body movement of the exerciser 2. The step count signal detected from the body motion detector 17 is supplied to the microcomputer 20 and performed on the pedometer side, and then stored in the memory card 22 as step count data.
The main body 3 is provided with a clock circuit 19, which can measure the measurement time of the step count data obtained by the body motion detector 17.

The main body 3 may be provided so as to be directly connectable to an external computer, or the memory card 22 may be detachably provided so that the external computer 22 can read the removed memory card 22.
By supplying the exerciser constant and heart rate and step count data stored in the memory card 22 to the external computer 24, the exercise analysis of the exerciser is performed using the dedicated exercise analysis software 25 installed in the external computer 22. It can be performed. The external computer 22 can browse the analysis result as an image or printout.

  Next, the operation / processing procedure of the appropriate exercise meter 1 will be described with reference to the operation / processing diagram shown in FIG. In STEP 1, the main body 3 and the appropriate exercise indicator 4 are connected by an exerciser data transmission / reception line 23. In STEP 2, the memory card 23 is inserted into the slot of the main body 3. In STEP 3, the power source of the main body unit 3 and the appropriate motion indicator 4 is turned on. In STEP 4, the name, sex, age, resting heart rate, weight and time data of the athlete are set by the tact switch 18 while referring to the LCD 22. In STEP 5, the set data is transferred to the appropriate motion indicator 4.

  After the data transfer, the connection of the constant data transmission / reception line 24 is disconnected in STEP 6, and the pulse wave detector 5 is attached to the earlobe of the exerciser 2 in STEP 7. After confirming the reception of the pulse signal on the LCD 21 in STEP 8, the main body 3 is attached to the waist of the exerciser 2. In STEP 9, the tact switch 18 is pressed to start the exercise. In STEP 10, an appropriate movement range is instructed by voice from the speaker 11 or the earphones 6L and 6R. In step 11, the pulse rate is received by the weak pulse rate radio reception circuit 16, and the number of steps detected by the body motion detector 17 is counted by the microcomputer 21.

  When the tact switch 18 is pressed in step 12 to end the exercise, the heart rate and step count data are stored in the memory card 22 in step 13. In STEP14, the power source of the main body 3 and the appropriate motion indicator 4 is turned off.

  The exercise data analysis performed by the exerciser 2 is executed by inserting the memory card 22 into the slot of the external computer 24.

  The exercise data recorded in the memory card 22 is supplied to the external computer 24 and calculated from the average heart rate, the total number of steps, the heart rate and the number of steps as the daily exercise amount change of the exerciser 2 using the dedicated exercise analysis software 25. The calorie consumption and the exercise time are made into a trend graph as shown in FIG. 4 and can be easily analyzed by doctors, lifestyle leaders and the person himself / herself.

  While the present invention has been described above with reference to a preferred embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and it goes without saying that many modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. .

It is a schematic diagram which shows the suitable exercise amount meter mounting exercise example of this invention. It is a block diagram of a proper exercise amount meter. It is an operation / process flow diagram of a proper exercise meter. It is an exercise management analysis screen that is analyzed and created by an external computer based on data recorded in a memory card of the appropriate exercise meter.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Appropriate momentum meter 2 Athlete 3 Main body part 4 Proper motion indicator 5 Pulse wave detector 6R Earphone 6L Earphone 7 Pulse wave shaping circuit 8 Microcomputer 9 Input part 10 Audio output circuit 11 Speaker 12 Pulse rate weak radio transmission circuit 13 External Sound source 14 Constant data receiving circuit 15 Constant data transmitting circuit 16 Pulse rate weak radio receiving circuit 17 Body motion detector 18 Tact switch 19 Clock circuit 20 Microcomputer 21 LCD
22 Memory card 23 Constant data transmission / reception line 24 External computer 25 Dedicated motion analysis software

Claims (2)

Based on the input personal data, an appropriate exercise amount calculating means for calculating an appropriate exercise amount including an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the heart rate, a heart rate measurement means for measuring a heart rate worn by an athlete, and a heart rate It is determined whether the heart rate measured by the measuring means exceeds the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate exercise amount, below the lower limit value, or between the lower limit value and the upper limit value, and the determination result is A determination instruction means for giving a voice instruction to the exerciser, and a proper exercise indicator comprising a voice output means for outputting a voice instruction based on the determination instruction means;
A step number counting means for calculating the number of steps based on the body movement of the exerciser, and a main body portion provided with a measurement data storage means for storing the measured heart rate,
The proper motion indicator and the main body are provided separately,
The proper exercise meter is provided between the proper exercise indicator and the main body so as to be communicable by weak radio waves. The determination instruction means includes
An input unit for inputting external audio signals is provided.
When the heart rate measured by the heart rate measuring means is between the lower limit value and the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate exercise amount, an external audio signal input from the input unit is transmitted to the audio output means. When the heart rate measured by the heart rate measuring means exceeds the upper limit value of the heart rate of the appropriate exercise amount or falls below the lower limit value, the external audio signal input from the input unit is used as the audio signal. 2. The proper exercise amount meter according to claim 1, wherein the appropriate exercise amount meter is provided so as not to be transmitted to the output means.

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