JP2007286985A - Portable terminal device, server, and system for calculating intake of food and drink - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To calculate the intake of food and drink and to provide information corresponding to the individual matters of a user to take the food and drink. <P>SOLUTION: A portable terminal device for calculating the intake of nutritional supplements by adding nutritional values constituted of calorific values, respective nutrients and the contents of respective components of dietary supplements to be taken within a prescribed period comprises: a storage means for storing a reference intake to be a reference to be taken by a user for calculating the intake within the prescribed period; a reading means for reading the nutritional value data from a recording medium in which nutritional value data of food and drink are stored; a calculation means for calculating the intake by adding the nutritional values of the food and drink to be taken by the user within the prescribed period, which are read by the reading means, and calculating a difference between the calculated intake and the reference intake; and a display means for displaying the calculated intake and the difference. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal device, a server, and a system that calculate the intake of food and drink, in particular, the nutritional value composed of the amount of heat and the content of each nutrient.

  In recent years, due to the increase in health consciousness, diet boom, etc., calories and nutrients (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, etc.) are factors that determine the choice of food and drink to purchase and the choice of meals ordered at restaurants, etc. Nutritional value such as the content of cereal has become an important specific gravity. When consumers actually purchase food and drinks at stores, etc., it is also common to check the nutritional value printed on the package.

  However, when purchasing a plurality of foods and drinks, it is complicated and cumbersome to calculate the total intake by adding up the above-mentioned nutritional values with a calculator that has been mentally calculated or brought, and it is not practical.

  Therefore, conventionally, the above-mentioned food package provided with access information for accessing a calorie calculation homepage for performing calorie calculation of food and a memory (barcode, IC tag, etc.) storing this food information is read by means of reading means. A calorie calculation method and a calorie calculation system for reading information, accessing a calorie calculation homepage on a mobile terminal based on the access information, and displaying the calculation result calculated on the calorie calculation homepage on the mobile terminal have been proposed. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

According to the present invention, since the calorie calculation homepage performs the calculation of the intake of food and drink to be purchased and ordered, the consumer can easily calculate the intake without performing a complicated and complicated calculation. can do.
Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-54609 (claims 1 to 6)

  However, in the above-described calculation method and calculation system for calculating the intake of food and drink, only the read nutritional value is added, so whether the calculated intake is an appropriate amount for the user or too much. There was the inconvenience of not knowing whether it was missing or not.

  In addition, for example, there are cases where it is not sufficient as health-related information and diet information simply by calculating the amount of intake such as problems caused by excess or deficiency of specific foods and drinks and problems of eating together between foods and drinks.

  In particular, in addition to the normal diet, there are numerous examples of overdose caused by ingesting dietary supplements, which in turn cause disabilities.

  With regard to drugs, when a doctor prescribes a drug, it is necessary to accurately grasp the intake situation of the patient's over-the-counter drug.

  In view of the above problems, the present invention is capable of calculating intakes of foods and drinks, dietary supplements and commercially available drugs, and providing information according to individual circumstances of users who consume foods and drinks. It is an object to provide a portable terminal device, a server, and a system.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the portable terminal device according to the present invention ingests food and beverages to be ingested within a predetermined period, the amount of heat of nutritional supplements, and the nutritional value composed of the contents of each nutrient and ingredients. A portable terminal device for calculating an amount, wherein a storage means for storing a reference intake by which a user for calculating the intake should be ingested within the predetermined period; and nutritional value data of food and drink are stored. Reading means for reading the nutritional value data from the recorded medium, and calculating the intake amount by adding the nutritional value of food and drink taken by the user by the reading means within the predetermined period. It has a calculation means for calculating the difference from the reference intake, and a display means for displaying the calculated intake and difference.

  According to this configuration, the intake amount of food and drink within a predetermined period of each user is calculated, and the difference between the required intake amount and the intake amount that the user should take within the predetermined period is also calculated. The nutritional value of each user who has caused excess or deficiency within a predetermined period is clearly indicated, and each user can obtain an index of the nutritional value to be ingested.

  The reading means is an IC tag reader or bar code reader capable of reading the nutrition value data recorded on an IC tag or bar code affixed to a package for foods and drinks, dietary supplements, catalogs, restaurant menus, etc. If it is. The IC tag reader and bar code reader may be either those built in the communication terminal device or those connected externally.

  The portable terminal device includes a determination unit that determines whether or not the difference amount has reached a predetermined numerical value, or is within a predetermined numerical value range, and whether or not the predetermined amount is reached. A notification generation unit that generates a notification that the intake amount is excessive or deficient, and that the generated notification is displayed by the display unit. It may be configured.

  According to this configuration, whether or not the intake amount of each user within a predetermined period has reached a predetermined numerical value or whether it is within a predetermined numerical value range is determined, and the determination is made based on the above notification. Can let you know. This notification may be text, sound, image, or a combination thereof.

  After the intake is calculated by the calculation means, the added nutritional value may be subtracted. For example, when calculating the cumulative nutritional value of multiple foods and drinks, if you subtract part of the added nutritional value of food and drink and add another food and drink again, do not recalculate from the beginning. It takes time and is not efficient. Therefore, it is only necessary to be able to subtract only the nutritional value of this part of food and drink.

  There is a storage means for storing the intake history within the predetermined period, and the intake history is read from the storage means in response to a browsing request at an arbitrary time within the predetermined period and displayed by the display means. It may be configured so that it can be viewed. For example, if the current intake amount can be viewed before the predetermined period expires, the nutritional value that can be consumed in the remaining period can be referred to at any time.

  The reading means reads the component data from the recording medium on which the ingredients of the commercially available drug are recorded, calculates the amount of the component to be ingested by the calculating means, and displays the calculated amount of the ingredient as the ingested amount by the display means. It may be.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the server according to the present invention is a request for browsing information on food and drink, nutritional supplements, and marketed medicines for which the intake is calculated from the mobile terminal device via the communication network such as the Internet. Transmission / reception means for receiving signals, information storage means for foods and drinks for storing information on the foods and drinks, nutritional supplements and marketed drugs, and foods and nutritional supplements for which browsing is requested from the information storage means for foods and drinks, etc. In order to display information on food and drinks and the like, and to generate information on foods and drinks and the like, and to generate information on foods and drinks, etc. The transmission / reception means is configured to transmit to the portable terminal device via the communication network.

  In addition, the above information on foods and drinks includes failure information in the event of excessive or insufficient intake, information on eating with other foods, dietary supplements, or drugs, additive information, and drinking of multiple drugs 1 or more information is included among the information regarding, disease name information on which intake restriction is imposed, and recipe information.

  When the server receives from the mobile terminal device the nutritional value read by the reading unit via the communication network, the storage unit, the calculation unit, the determination unit, the notification generation unit, and the storage unit of the mobile terminal device In order to display the history of intake, difference, notification, intake, and component amount on the display means of the mobile terminal device, the communication by the transmission / reception means It may be configured to transmit these data to the mobile terminal device via a network.

  In order to solve the above problems, an intake amount calculation system for foods and drinks according to the present invention comprises the portable terminal device and a server.

  Note that the present invention may be provided in the form of a computer-readable information recording medium storing a program characterized by causing a mobile phone or PDA to function as the mobile terminal device.

  As is clear from the above description, the mobile terminal device, server, and system according to the present invention calculate the intake of food and drink and information according to the individual circumstances of the user who takes this food and drink. There is an effect that can be provided.

  In other words, whether the calculated intake is appropriate for the user, whether it is excessive, or insufficient can be indicated by a numerical value and notified.

  Furthermore, for example, it is possible to provide health-related information, diet information, etc., such as obstacles caused by excess or deficiency of specific foods and drinks, and problems of mutual eating and drinking.

  Referring to FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a portable terminal device according to the present invention. The mobile terminal device 1 is, for example, a dedicated phone, a mobile phone or a PDA, but is not limited thereto.

  The mobile terminal device 1 includes a reading unit 11 that reads data recorded on a recording medium M such as a bar code printed on a food or dietary supplement, a package for a drug, a menu of a restaurant, or an IC tag attached thereto. ing. The reading unit 11 may be built in the mobile terminal device 1 or may be externally attached. The recording medium M contains at least nutritional value data of foods and foods listed in the menu (content of nutrients such as calories and proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and amounts of ingredients if dietary supplements or drugs) or nutritional supplements. And component data of drugs are recorded.

  The mobile terminal device 1 includes a control unit 12 that executes various processes of the nutritional value data or component data read by the reading unit 11. The control unit 12 sequentially adds the read nutritional value or component amount to calculate the intake amount, and the portable terminal device 1 is used to eat and drink, nutritional supplements, drugs (hereinafter “ A personal information storage unit 122 that stores in advance a reference intake amount (nutrient value to be ingested within a predetermined period) of a user who desires to calculate the intake amount of “food and drink”.

  The intake amount refers to the total of the nutritional value actually consumed or the total nutritional value read by the reading unit 11 before intake. The reference intake includes both those arbitrarily set by the user and those specified by the advice of doctors and instructors.

  The “nutrition requirement” may be used as the reference intake. “Nutrition requirements” refers to the amount of energy and nutrient intake that is a standard for maintaining and promoting the health of people and preventing lifestyle-related diseases for healthy people.

  The specific “nutrition requirement” is calculated by measuring the necessary intake of a specific age group or gender group, and one day when it is estimated that 50% of the population will meet the above requirement. Is calculated as “average required amount + double standard deviation (2SD)”.

  The predetermined period is a period arbitrarily set by the user such as one day, one week, one month, or one year.

  The calculation unit 121 can also calculate a difference amount by subtracting the calculated intake from the reference intake stored in the user information storage unit 122.

  When the determination process is performed by the excess / deficiency determination unit 123 that determines whether or not an excess or deficiency of the nutritional value has occurred as compared with the reference intake from the calculated difference amount, The notification of only the calculated difference amount is generated. On the other hand, when it is determined that an excess or deficiency has occurred, the notification generation unit 124 generates a notification that an excess or deficiency has occurred due to characters (including e-mails), voice, images, and the like. Whether or not there is excess or deficiency due to this difference amount is determined by setting a predetermined numerical range in addition to the case where the difference amount shows a predetermined numerical value and whether or not the difference amount is included in this range. May be. The predetermined numerical value or the predetermined numerical value range is set in advance by the excess / deficiency determination unit 23.

  Further, the calculation unit 121 can cancel and subtract the nutritional value once added by the user's selection after calculating the intake amount or calculating the difference amount. For example, when it is added before ingestion and an excess or deficiency occurs in the nutritional value, when it is changed to another food or drink, the calculated nutritional value may be subtracted by the calculation unit 121.

  The generated notification is displayed on the display unit 14 of the mobile terminal device 1. The display unit 14 may be either a screen, a speaker, or both depending on the type of notification.

  The control unit 12 includes a history information accumulation unit 125 that accumulates the nutritional value added as the intake amount within the predetermined period. When the user of the mobile terminal device 1 requests to view his / her intake at an arbitrary point in time within the predetermined period, the history data of the intake is read from the history information storage unit 125, and the sum of the latest intakes Alternatively, the display unit 14 displays the breakdown of the intake until now so that it can be browsed in chronological order, for example.

  The mobile terminal device 1 can be connected to a communication network N such as the Internet network by the transmission / reception unit 13. For example, when the mobile terminal device 1 is a mobile phone, the connection to the Internet network is actually connected to the Internet network via a base station, a mobile phone switch, and an ISP (not shown).

  The user who has calculated the intake amount with the mobile terminal device 1 can request the server 2 to browse information related to the food or the like taken (or taken) via the network communication network N.

  In addition, when a user accesses the server 2 from the portable terminal device 1, the user code for confirming the access right to the server 2 is also transmitted with the signal of a browsing request. In addition, in order to browse information on food and drink related to the calculation of the amount of intake, a trader code for manufacturing and selling the food and drink is transmitted together with the above browsing request signal.

  The server 2 includes a user information database 21 for storing user personal information, a trader information database 22 for storing information on the trader, a history information database 23 for storing past intake data of the user, food and drink, etc. And a food and beverage information database 24 that stores information on

  When the transmission / reception unit 22 of the server 2 receives the browsing request signal, the user code, and the supplier code from the user, the server 2 checks whether the transmitted user code has an access right. And the data in the personal information database 21 are collated. Similarly, in order to confirm whether or not a user is a registered trader who manufactures and sells food and drink etc., information on the food and drink etc. that the user desires to browse is checked against the data in the trader information database 22. To do.

  Information about the food and drink requested to be read is read from the food and drink information database 24. The read information such as food and drink is generated so that it can be viewed on the mobile terminal device 1, and is transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 22 to the mobile terminal device 1 via the communication network N.

  By the way, in the present embodiment, the data of the recording medium M read by the reading unit 11 is variously processed by the control unit 12 of the mobile terminal device 1, but the mobile terminal device 1 transmits / receives data to / from the reading unit 11. The server 2 may be substituted for the processing executed by the control unit 12 having only the unit 13 and the display unit 14. That is, even if the mobile terminal device 1 does not have the control unit 12 as in the present embodiment, the data recorded on the recording medium M is read and the read data is transmitted via the communication network N. When transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 13, it is received by the transmission / reception unit 22 of the server 2, and the CPU 23 performs various operations by the calculation unit 231 and the notification generation unit 232 having the same functions as the calculation unit 121 and the notification generation unit 124 of the mobile terminal device 1. Execute the process. The user information storage unit 122 and the history information storage unit 125 of the mobile terminal device 1 are substituted by the user information database 21 and the history information database 23.

  In the present embodiment, the user information database 21, the trader information database 22, the history information database 23, and the food and drink information database 24 are provided externally to the server 2, but the server 2 has these databases. May be.

  The portable terminal device 1 can communicate with a personal computer (not shown) owned by the user, and the calculation result and history information may be viewed from the personal computer.

  The reading unit 11 reads the component data from the recording medium M on which the components of the commercially available drug are recorded, calculates the amount of the component to be ingested by the calculating unit 121, and calculates the amount of the component to be ingested by the display unit 14. May be displayed. In this case, the intake data of these commercially available drugs may be transferred to a doctor's electronic medical record or the like.

  FIG. 2 illustrates an example of the data table of the user information database 21, the supplier information database 22, the history information database 23, and the food and beverage information database 24 described in FIG.

  FIG. 2A is a user information data table. Each user must register user information including the following items before or at the same time as calculating the intake amount. Each user's information includes a personal ID uniquely assigned to each user, the name of each user, and a reference intake within a predetermined period (in this embodiment, the predetermined period is a week, It is not intended to be limited to the period). Furthermore, medical history information, administration drug information, health data information, and the like may be added.

  FIG. 2B is a supplier information data table. Each trader must register trader information including the following items before recording data such as food and drink handled by the trader on the recording medium M and distributing it in the market. The information of each trader is composed of a trader ID uniquely assigned to each trader, a name of each trader, an ID of a food and drink to be handled, and information such as a food and drink for each trader.

  FIG. 2C is a history information data table. This is history data of nutritional value read by each user for a predetermined period (in this embodiment, one week). For each individual ID, the date of the week and the intake of calories, protein, fat, and carbohydrate for each date are recorded. In addition, you may make it write together the total intake at the time of browsing a log | history (not shown). In addition, the user can cause the portable terminal device 1 to display only the items specified by arbitrarily specifying items of calories, protein, fat, and carbohydrate. The item indicating the nutritional value is not limited to calories, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. For example, vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, and the like may be added.

  FIG. 2D is a failure information data table. This is an example of the food and beverage information database 24 and is not intended to be limited to this. Therefore, as food and beverage information, for example, other food and beverage, nutritional supplements, information on eating together with drugs, additive information, information on drinking multiple medicines, and intake restrictions are imposed. The disease name information, recipe information, and the like may be provided alone or in combination.

  In the present embodiment, for example, when the user is notified of the excess or deficiency of the nutritional value based on the difference value described with reference to FIG. 1, information on a disorder (for example, illness) caused by the excess or deficiency is obtained. It is a data table for providing. When the nutrition value ingested in the above notification is classified into “excess” and “insufficiency”, different codes are assigned, and the user returns this notification to the server 2 as a reply, either “excess” or “insufficiency” data Is transmitted, and information relating to the failure is transmitted so that the mobile terminal device 1 can view it.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing flow of the mobile terminal device 1. A user who has registered user data uses the reading unit 11 of the mobile terminal device 1 to read nutrition value data recorded on a recording medium M such as a bar code printed on a food package or restaurant menu or an IC tag attached thereto. When read (S1), the nutritional value data is transferred to the control unit 12, and the intake amount read by the calculation unit 121 is added to the nutritional value amount consumed within a predetermined period to calculate the intake amount ( S2).

  The control unit 12 reads the reference intake amount from the user information storage unit 122 (S3). The calculation unit 121 calculates a difference amount between the calculated intake amount and the read reference intake amount (S4).

  The calculated difference amount is determined by the excess / deficiency determination unit 123 as to whether or not the calculated difference amount falls within a predetermined numerical range (S5). When the excess / deficiency determination unit 123 determines that excess / deficiency has occurred, the notification generation unit 124 generates a notification of excess / deficiency (S6). On the other hand, if it is determined that there is no excess or deficiency, the calculation result information is generated (S7). The notification or information generated in S6 or S7 is displayed on the display unit 14 (S8, S9).

  The user who sees the displayed notification or information can select whether or not he / she wants to browse the information such as the food and drink that has been calculated and ingested (S10). When browsing is desired, a transmission request signal is transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 14 of the portable terminal device 1 to the server 2 via the communication network N (S11).

  On the server 2 side, when this browsing request signal is received (S 12), information such as food and drink is read from the food and drink information database 24 (S 13), and information such as food and drink is generated so that it can be browsed on the mobile terminal device 1. (S14). The generated food and beverage information is transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 22 of the server 2 to the mobile terminal device 1 via the communication network N (S15).

  When the transmission / reception unit 14 of the portable terminal device 1 receives the information such as food / drink (S16), the information such as the food / drink can be displayed and viewed on the display unit 14 (S17).

  If the medical history information, administration drug information, health data information, etc. in the user information database 21 are linked to the food / drink information database 24 and the personal ID is transmitted to the server 2, the personal history is transmitted to the individual. It is also possible to read appropriate information from the food and beverage database and generate display data for the user.

  At any point in the processing flow, the user can read the history information of his / her intake during the predetermined period from the history information storage unit 125 of the mobile terminal device 1 and browse the history information (not shown). .

  In FIG. 3, the mobile terminal device 1 includes the control unit 12 (calculation unit 121, user information storage unit 122, excess / deficiency determination unit 123, notification generation unit 124, history information unit 125). Only the server 11, the transmitter / receiver 13, and the display unit 14 may be provided, and the server 2 may perform the processing executed by the controller 12. That is, when the data read by the reading unit 11 from the transmission / reception unit 13 of the mobile terminal device 1 is transmitted to the server 2 via the communication network N, the processing of the calculation unit 121 is executed by the calculation unit 231 of the server 2. The processing of the user information storage unit 122 is executed by the user information database 21, the processing of the excess / deficiency determination unit 123 is executed by the excess / deficiency determination unit 232 of the server 2, and the processing of the notification generation unit 124 is performed by the notification generation unit of the server 2. The history information unit 125 can execute the process in the history information database 23.

  In addition, the thing of the form provided as a system comprised from the said portable terminal device 1 and the server 2 may be sufficient as this invention.

  Further, when the mobile terminal device 1 is, for example, a mobile phone or a PDA, the mobile terminal device 1 may be provided in the form of a computer or a program readable by the mobile terminal device that functions as the mobile terminal device 1. .

Functional configuration diagram of portable terminal device and server (A) User information data table (b) Contractor information data table (c) History information data table (d) Failure information data table The figure which shows the processing flow by the portable terminal device concerning this invention

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Portable terminal device 2 Server 11 Reading part 12 Control part 13 Transmission / reception part 14 Display part 21 Personal information database 22 Trader information database 23 History information database 24 Food and drink information database

Claims (11)

It is a portable terminal device that calculates the intake by adding the nutritional value composed of the calorie of food and drink, nutritional supplements, and the content of each nutrient and ingredient within a predetermined period, and calculating this intake A storage unit that stores a reference intake amount that is a reference that the user should ingest within the predetermined period, a reading unit that reads the nutritional value data from a recording medium that stores the nutritional value data of food and drink, A calculating means for calculating a difference between the intake amount and the reference intake amount by calculating the intake amount by adding the nutritional value of food and drink taken by the user by the reading means within the predetermined period; And a display means for displaying the intake amount and the difference amount. An IC tag reader or barcode reader capable of reading the nutrition value data recorded on an IC tag or barcode attached to a package, catalog, restaurant menu, etc. for food and drink or dietary supplement The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is provided. The determination means for determining whether the difference amount has reached a predetermined numerical value or whether it is within a predetermined numerical value range, and has not reached the predetermined numerical value or not within the predetermined numerical value range A notification generating means for generating a notification that the intake amount is excessive or deficient when it is determined, and the generated notification is displayed by the display means. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2. The portable terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the calculating means is configured to be able to subtract the added nutritional value after calculating the intake amount. There is a storage means for storing the intake history within the predetermined period, and the intake history is read from the storage means in response to a browsing request at an arbitrary time within the predetermined period and displayed by the display means. The portable terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the portable terminal device is configured so as to be browsed.   The reading means reads the component data from the recording medium on which the components of the commercially available drug are recorded, calculates the amount of the ingredient to be ingested by the calculating means, and displays the calculated amount of the ingredient as the ingested amount by the display means. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal device is configured as described above.   Transmission / reception means for receiving a browsing request signal for information on foods and beverages, nutritional supplements, and marketed drugs whose intakes are calculated from the portable terminal device via the communication network such as the Internet network, and the foods and nutritional supplements Food and beverage information storage means for storing information on foods and commercially available drugs, and information on foods, nutritional supplements and marketed drugs requested to be read from the information storage means for foods and foods, etc. A food / beverage information generating means for generating the information, and in order to display the generated food / beverage information on the display means of the portable terminal device, the transmission / reception means causes the portable terminal device to communicate via the communication network. A server configured to transmit.   The above information on foods and drinks includes information on disability when excess or shortage of intake occurs, information on eating with other foods, dietary supplements, or drugs, additive information, information on drinking multiple medicines The server according to claim 6, comprising one or more pieces of information among disease name information and recipe information for which intake restriction is imposed. The portable terminal device has a storage unit, a calculation unit, a determination unit, a notification generation unit, and a storage unit, and receives a nutritional value read by the reading unit from the portable terminal device via the communication network. The processing by each of the above means is performed in place of the portable terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, and the intake amount, difference amount, notification, intake amount, and component amount history are displayed on the display means of the portable terminal device. 8. The server according to claim 6, wherein the data is transmitted to the portable terminal device via the communication network by the transmission / reception means to display the data. An intake amount calculation system for food and drink, etc., comprising the portable terminal device and the server. A program readable by a computer or a mobile terminal device, which causes a mobile phone or a PDA (personal digital assistant) to function as the mobile terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

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