JP2003319926A - Health degree measuring instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect the state of laughing of a person, measure the extent of the laughing and inform a user himself/herself of the extent thereafter, and to provide information for making the user laugh a lot when the extent of laughing is small. <P>SOLUTION: The instrument comprises: a laughing detection means 1 for detecting the state of laughing of the person; a laughing extent storage means 2 for measuring and registering the extent; a control means 4 for calculating the degree of the health of the person according to an arithmetic method fixed in advance and outputting the result; and a display means 5 for displaying the result. The control means additionally obtains information according to necessity from a database within a server device located at a remote place and provides it to the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention provides information for notifying a user of his / her laughed amount or reporting more necessary laughter by registering the amount of laughed by a person in association with his / her health level. The present invention relates to a health degree measuring device intended to make a user laugh a lot and thereby enhance immunity, thereby improving a user's health condition.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Many studies have already been conducted on how laughter and humor bring about favorable psychological reactions in humans. On the other hand, research results have also been published that sadness, anger, or negative ideas reduce the health of people. In addition, various studies have been conducted on the fact that laughter enhances human immunity and laughing more often leads to health promotion, and the relationship between laughter and immune function has been clarified.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H8-2666 has applied to such an idea.
There is No. 32 publication. This is because people who listen to and listen to comics, comic talks, comedies, etc. laugh as they are or are processed by acoustic technology and at the same time or individually listen to the message of the words that act on the subconsciousness of the person. Of human immunity, which is characterized by activating numerous lymphocytes in the body, which are responsible for the natural healing power of humans, and a magnetic tape used therefor.
It is a recording medium such as audio recording media.

[0003]

However, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 8-266632, the user cannot know whether the amount of laughter he / she has is sufficient or insufficient.
In addition, it is not possible to know how effective the recording medium for enhancing immunity was. In other words, even if it is aimed at boosting immunity, there is no such indicator,
There was a problem that it was not possible to confirm whether or not the health level was improved.

[0004]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention first quantifies the laughter of a user and informs the user of his / her own health level. Furthermore, by providing information that makes the user laugh directly, such as information about comedies and comics, comedy movies, etc., and information that makes the user laugh directly, such as a funny story, to the user who has a small amount of laughter, the user's immunity is increased. It is intended to enhance health and health. By using this device, the user can always grasp his / her own health level by the index of the amount of laughter, and the laughter is naturally taken in to improve the health by laughing.

[0005]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention detects how a user laughs, performs quantification and level conversion, and notifies the user of how well the user is. You can know whether or not you laughed.

In the health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 2 of the present invention, the laughter detecting means for detecting the laughter of the user is incorporated in a belt worn by a person or a health device such as a heart rate meter or a pedometer so that the person laughs. It operates in response to vibrations from the abdomen that sometimes occur. As a result, the user can measure the amount of laughter of himself / herself without any particular attention in daily life and without requiring troublesome actions.

A health degree measuring apparatus according to a third aspect of the present invention operates by detecting a laughter detecting means for detecting a laughter of a user from a volume change caused by utterance. Therefore, the user does not need to wear a specific tool on the body to measure the amount of laughter of the user, and can easily use it.

A health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 4 of the present invention wirelessly communicates with a remote server apparatus and selectively extracts information from a laughing information database provided in the server apparatus. Can be provided to the user.
This allows the user to obtain appropriate information for himself and increase the amount of laughter.

The health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 5 of the present invention is capable of performing data communication with the server apparatus without being restricted by time and space by using a mobile phone.

The health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 6 of the present invention is capable of updating the laughter information database in the server apparatus, and can reflect comedy and comedy movie information in real time. is there.

A health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 7 of the present invention is a program for causing a computer to execute at least one means of the health degree measuring apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6. Since it is a program, a part or all of the health measuring device of the present invention can be easily realized by using a computer at home or a server device connected by a network.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) Regarding Embodiment 1 of the present invention,
This will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a health degree measuring apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a laughter detecting means, and 2 is a laughing amount storage means. Reference numeral 3 is a control means, which is a laughter detection means 1 and a laughter amount storage means 2
Controls information from. Reference numeral 4 is a display means for displaying the information output from the control means 3.

Next, the flow when the user uses the apparatus of this embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 shows the health measuring device of FIG.
It is an external view when applied to a belt worn by a user. In FIG. 2, 5 is a belt main body and 6 is a health degree measuring box. The laughter detecting means 1 is composed of a tape-shaped vibration sensor, and is embedded in the belt body 5.
The health degree measuring box 6 has a laughter amount storage means 2, a control means 3 and a display means 4 incorporated therein, and is attached to the belt body 5 in the form of a heart rate / pedometer, for example.

Next, the flow when the user uses the system of this embodiment will be described. First, the user wears a belt and activates the health degree measurement box 6. It is like pressing the power switch of the device. When the user laughs while wearing the belt body 5, the vibration around the abdomen becomes larger than when not laughing, and the laughter detecting means 1 detects this. FIG. 3 shows an example of vibration generated in the abdomen. For example, assuming that the vibration of normal conversation is 1, and the vibration of laughter reaches 1.5, the laughter detecting unit 1 detects the zone A in which the vibration is 1.5 as a state in which the user is laughing. It will be a matter. When the laughter detection unit 1 outputs this information to the laughter amount storage unit 2 via the control unit 4, the laughter amount storage unit 2 acquires the time information from the time information storage unit 3 and stores the amount of laughed time. This operation is repeated every time the user laughs while wearing the belt body 5, and the number of times the user laughed and the time are accumulated in the laughter amount storage means 2, for example, at the end of one day,
When a user wants to see how much a day laughs,
By pressing the laughing amount confirmation button provided on the display means 5,
The instruction is transmitted to the control means 4. Based on the information stored in the laughter amount storage unit 2, the control unit 4 sums up the laughed amount of one day and performs level conversion. FIG. 4 is a level conversion table for guiding the level of laughter performed by the control means 4. For example, when the total amount of laughter of the user on one day is 35, it is level 2 according to the level conversion table of FIG. The control means 4 sends this information to the display means 5. FIG. 5 is a display example of the degree of health based on the result of the amount of laughter displayed on the display means 5, and the results for the past three days are also displayed. According to this, the user can recognize that the amount of laughter for one day is small, which is not preferable for promoting his / her own health.

The total amount of laughter is only for one day, and it is also possible to convert the level in units of, for example, one week or one month. In addition, the laughing amount stored in the laughing amount storage means 2 can be converted into a level by counting the number of times of laughing in addition to the laughing time (Example 2). 6 to 1
It will be described using 0.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the structure of the health measuring apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 6, 8 is a laughter information selecting means. Reference numeral 9 is a laughter information database, which has information for making people laugh, such as show information for comedies and comics, comedy movies, and laughter information for making people laugh directly such as laughter stories and comics. Reference numeral 10 is a laughter information updating means, which updates the information in the laughter information database 9 in tandem with the stage information, movie show information, and the like. A server device 11 has a laughter information selecting unit 8, a laughter information database 9, and a laughter information updating unit 10 built therein.

The second embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that the control means 4 communicates with the laughter information selection means 8 via a network. The same reference numerals as those in the first embodiment have the same structure, and the description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the flow when the user uses the health measuring apparatus of this embodiment with a mobile phone will be described. FIG. 7 is a display example when the device of this embodiment is activated by the menu of the mobile phone. When the user selects the health level measurement service and decides the start button, the voice data picked up by the user is picked up from the microphone 12, and the volume measurement is started. An example of this measurement result is shown in FIG. For example, if the volume of a person speaking in a normal conversation is 30 db to 40 db and the person laughs firmly at 50 db or more, then in FIG.
It can be said that the zone is laughing, the B zone is in a normal conversation, and the C zone is silent. The laughter detection means 1 operates when the volume reaches the A zone, and detects that the user is laughing. When the laughter detection unit 1 outputs this information to the laughter amount storage unit 2 via the control unit 4, the laughter amount storage unit 2 acquires the time information from the time information storage unit 3 and stores the amount of laughed time. This operation is repeated until the user terminates the service from the mobile phone, and the number of times the user has laughed and the laughter amount storage means 2
Accumulated in.

At the end of the day, for example, the user
When you want to check how much you laughed at the day, display means 5
By pressing the laughter amount confirmation button provided on the control means 4,
The instruction is sent to. The control means 4 sums up the laughed amount of the day based on the information stored in the laughter amount storage means 2,
Convert level. Further, the level-converted information is transmitted to the laughter information selection unit 8, and the laughter information selection unit 8 acquires the laughter information corresponding to the level from the laughter information database 9. FIG. 9 is a provision information correspondence table, which is stored in the laughter information database 9 in the form of a list of laughter information that can make the user further laugh according to the level of the user. Since the information in the laughter information database 9 can be updated at any time by the laughter information updating means 10, the information held is always the latest. The laughter information selection unit 8 randomly extracts the number of provided items according to the level of the user from among many laughter information items, and sends the result to the control unit 4.

For example, when the level of the amount of laughter of the user is 1, the laughter information selecting means 8 uses the laughing story "XX", the funny story "XXX", the control "cooking" (GIF animation), etc. Select 5 of these. The control means 4 outputs the information obtained from the laughter information selection means 8 to the display means 5. FIG. 10 is a display example of information selected by the laughter information selecting unit 8. The user can check the level of his / her laughing amount as a health level on the screen of the mobile phone. For more recommended comedy information, you can laugh by watching the "Cooking" control in a video.

In the present embodiment, the state in which the user is laughing is detected based on the loudness of the voice, but it is also possible to measure at the frequency of the voice in addition to this, and by applying this, the user can be authenticated at the same time. .

Further, as an example of the laughter detecting means 1, it is possible to measure the movement of the muscles of the face or perform image processing of the face in the same manner.

[0025]

According to the present invention, the user can always grasp his / her own health level by the index of the amount of laughter, and the laughter is naturally taken in to improve the health by laughing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a health measuring device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

[Figure 2] Appearance diagram of the same health measurement device applied to a belt

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing laughter detection data based on vibration measurement results.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing level conversion of laughter amount.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display of health level.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a health degree measuring device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display when the device of the second embodiment is activated by a menu of a mobile phone.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing laughter detection data by volume measurement.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing correspondence of provided information.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display of information selected by laughter information selecting means 8.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Laughter detection means 2 Laughing amount storage means 3 Clock information storage means 4 Control means 5 Display means

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Takako Shiraishi             1006 Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka Matsushita Electric             Sangyo Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4C038 PP03

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A laughter detecting means for detecting a laughing state of a person, a laughing amount storage means for measuring and registering the amount, and a person's health level based on information registered in the laughing amount storage means. A health degree measuring device comprising control means for calculating a result based on a predetermined calculation method and outputting the result, and display means for displaying the result. 2. The health according to claim 1, wherein the laughter detection means is incorporated in a belt worn by a person or a health device such as a heart rate monitor or a pedometer, and operates in response to vibration from the abdomen generated when the person laughs. Degree measuring device. 3. The health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the laughter detecting means is built in a portable terminal or the like having a voice data collecting means used by a person, and operates by detecting laughing from a volume change caused by utterance. 4. The information output from the control means is wirelessly communicated with a server device at a remote place, and is selectively selected from information described in a laughter information database provided in the server device as needed. The health degree measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the health degree measuring apparatus extracts and transmits to the control means. 5. The health degree measuring device according to claim 3, wherein the information from the server device is transmitted to a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a system notebook held by a person. 6. The health degree measuring device according to claim 3, wherein the laughter information database provided in the server device is capable of constantly updating the stored information. 7. A program for causing a computer to execute at least one means of the health degree measuring device according to claim 1.