KR20010018462A - Diet managing method using personal wireless portable communication device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for managing a personal diet schedule is provided to supply various information on a diet to manage personal weight by using a personal wireless portable communication apparatus such as a cellular phone, so that a user is easily receive a diet managing service at any places in which the cellular phone is used. CONSTITUTION: A user inputs diet data composed of more than one of food kinds and food amounts taken by the user and energy of the user, by using a personal wireless portable communication apparatus(11). The personal wireless portable communication apparatus(11) transmits the diet data to a wireless communication exchange(12). The wireless communication exchange(12) transmits the diet data to a server(14) connected to the wireless communication exchange(12) through a computer network(13). The server(14) calculates more than one results, among intake calories, consumed calories by activities, recommended intake calories, excessive calories, and energy necessary for excessive calory consumption, on the basis of the transmitted diet data. The server(14) transmits the calculated results to the personal wireless portable communication apparatus(11). The personal wireless portable communication apparatus(11) displays the results.

Description

Diet managing method using personal wireless portable communication device

The present invention relates to a diet management method using a personal wireless portable communication device, and more particularly, to a method for managing weight by providing various information about a diet through a mobile phone or a PCS phone.

Recently, more and more people want to control their weight for personal or medical reasons. To this end, a variety of diet-related services are provided, mainly join a predetermined group and use diet information such as various recommended diets provided by the group or specific drugs.

However, for a systematic diet, you should check your metabolism rate, calorie consumption rate by each exercise, calories and fat content of ingested food, and check them daily. To this end, various diet programs have been developed. According to this program, you check your calories from a list containing nutritional information about your food, exercise-consuming calorie information, or calories burned by exercise from exercise equipment such as a pedometer or treadmill. Check the net calorie intake by offsetting from calorie intake. An apparatus for performing such a program has been developed, and when a user inputs the type (quantity) and the amount of exercise he has ingested, it functions to calculate the above-described net intake calories from the data stored therein.

In addition, computer-based dieting software has been developed, which allows you to enter the type and amount of food consumed, detailing the calories and nutritional content of the food, and eating foods you have eaten in the past, foods you have eaten in the future, and intakes in the future. Keep track of your eating habits by keeping track of what you eat. In addition, when the individual enters the type and time of the exercise, it calculates the calories burned by the activity, and functions to inform the amount of exercise required to remove excess calories.

In addition, if the diet software user inputs the weight, height, and eating habits of the subject, a diet schedule suitable for the user may be provided, and in such a diet schedule, an appropriate calorie and a recommended diet for each meal are provided. do.

Recently, due to the spread of the Internet, such a diet program is serviced on the web, and when the user accesses the corresponding website, enters his or her personal information, or joins as a member, the following diet management on the website (calorie of intake food) Calculations, calorie consumption by exercise, recommended diet, etc.).

However, in the case of a diet using such computer software, a notebook, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a PC (Personal Computer) must be provided to run the software, and it is cumbersome because a PC must be run every time the diet is managed. Rather, it is almost impossible for modern people who are active to remember the day's food, exercise, etc., and use this data to manage the day's diet on a PC. Even when accessing and using the diet management service website, a PC or the like is required, and the above-described problems do not disappear.

In order to solve this problem, various portable diet related devices have been developed. The most recent development of such portable diet equipment is described in US Pat. No. 5,890,128. The apparatus includes a storage device storing various food lists including calories and fat content, and storage means for storing each exercise list including calories burned and consumption rate by activities. When the user enters their gender, age, weight, height, lifestyle, the most optimal weight, metabolic rate, daily calorie / fat intake target, exercise target and daily calorie consumption are calculated. The device also keeps track of your daily or past calorie intake / release, showing your current weight in the form of a chart or graph. In addition, warnings may be issued in special cases, such as in excess of optimal calorie intake. In addition, a calorie consumed by the activity is calculated by a wirelessly connected activity sensor such as a pedometer, and the result is automatically subtracted from the calories ingested.

In addition, if you enter the food you eat, calories are counted and the calories are accumulated and summed, and if you enter one exercise that day, the calories burned are calculated by calculating the calorie intake from the calorie intake calories. Portable devices (4,100,401 and 4,159,416 US patents) have been developed.

However, such a portable diet management device has a disadvantage in that the device is always carried with the device, and also the cost of such a device is not easily available to the user.

Accordingly, the present invention is to provide a service for diet management using a personal wireless communication device such as a cellular phone, a PCS phone or an IMT-2000 terminal, which is widely used recently, without a PC or a special portable device. .

In recent years, mobile phone or PCS phone service has been extended to an interactive message (short message) service between a wireless communication repeater and a user's mobile device in addition to a general call, and can even use the Internet using a wireless mobile communication device. In this situation, the portable diet management device or the PC as described above is no longer needed, and by using a personal wireless communication device such as a mobile phone as a client module on the computer network, the same function as the diet software described above can be provided.

An object of the present invention is to provide a diet management service using a personal wireless portable communication device such as a mobile phone.

Another object of the present invention is to easily provide a diet management service by connecting to a computer network such as the Internet using a personal wireless portable communication device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a diet management system using a personal wireless portable communication device.

Figure 1 shows the configuration of a system for implementing a diet management method according to the present invention.

2 illustrates a calorie calculation service among the diet management services according to the present invention.

3 illustrates a diet scheduling service among the diet management services according to the present invention.

Figure 4 illustrates a character function that can be additionally added to the diet scheduling service according to the present invention.

Diet management service for achieving the above object, the step of inputting a diet data consisting of the type and amount and / or amount of food ingested by the user using a personal wireless portable communication device and transmitting to the wireless communication switch; And transmitting, by the wireless communication exchange, the diet data to a server connected to the wireless communication exchange through a computer network, and wherein the server is based on the transmitted diet data, calories consumed, calories consumed and exceeded by the activity. Calculating a result of at least one of the calories, and transmitting and displaying the calculated result to a user's personal wireless portable communication device.

The above calculation step is not necessarily performed in a server connected to the wireless communication exchange through a computer network such as the Internet. If the software for performing the calculation is installed in the wireless communication exchange, the calculation may be performed directly in the exchange. It may be. However, since the exchange is mainly responsible for signal transmission only, the calculations will be performed mainly on other (host) computers connected to the exchange, rather than when the calculations are made directly within the exchange.

The above-mentioned diet data is preferably inputted by the type and amount of food ingested every meal, and the amount of activity such as the amount of exercise between the previous meal and the corresponding meal, and may be input in units of a day.

The result of the calculation is preferably to transmit the calories consumed for each meal, the calories consumed by the activity so far, and the excess calories exceeded from the predetermined recommended intake calories, and in some cases, the amount of activity necessary to consume excess calories. That is, the type of exercise and the amount of exercise may be transmitted together.

The method of inputting diet data using a personal wireless communication device is similar to that of a conventional wireless communication service. Alternatively, the data may be input directly, provided as a serialized list, and the user may select the number. You may also This input method will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In addition, the diet scheduling service according to the present invention comprises the steps of the user input his or her personal information (gender, age, weight, height, eating habits, BMI index) using a personal wireless portable communication device and transmitting to the wireless communication switch and And transmitting, by the wireless communication switch, the personal information of the user to a server connected to the wireless communication exchange through a computer network, and wherein the server selects a diet plan suitable for the user based on the transmitted personal information of the user. And transmitting the recommended diet goal to the user's personal wireless mobile communication device before mealtime according to the diet plan.

The recommended diet goal is any one or more of the intake time, calories intake and the recommended diet of the meal, the recommended diet is preferably formulated based on the eating habits of the user's personal information.

In the above description, the body mass index (BMI) represents a relationship between a weight of a person and a height, and means a value obtained by dividing the weight (kg) by the square of the height (m ² ). If this BMI is in the 25 to 29.9 range, it is overweight, and if it exceeds 30, it is obesity.

In some cases, a step of confirming whether a recommended diet goal has been achieved from a predetermined time period after a predetermined period has passed, and if the goal is not achieved, after checking the diet data exceeding the target value, the result is transmitted to the user. It may be provided with an additional step. At this time, the diet data is the type and amount and / or amount of food intake of the meal failed to achieve the goal, the calculation results are intake calories, calories consumed by activity, excess calories and excess calories consumed by the meal failed to achieve the goal. At least one of the type of exercise and the amount of exercise required.

The diet plan may be set on a daily or weekly basis, and the recommended diet goal may be the recommended calories per meal and / or the recommended diet and / or the recommended restaurants nearby, or if the goal is not met, the recommended diet may be broken. The type and amount of food consumed in the meal are input from the user, and the excess calories and the amount of exercise required to consume the same are calculated and transmitted to the user's communication device for display. At this time, when the diet plan of the day is completed, a scoring system for giving a predetermined score may be provided.

In addition, in consideration of the fact that eating habits vary depending on the emotional state, the user may select the emotional state of the day from the mobile phone, and a service provider such as a server may select a diet menu suitable for the emotional state and transmit the same to the user ( Emotional diet function). In addition, when joining a diet program, you may designate a friend or family other than yourself, and monitor the user's diet progress by sending the progress of the diet plan to a friend or family from time to time. In this case, the friend or family, etc. notified of the diet plan progress status may increase the success rate of the diet by transmitting an encouragement message or a warning message to the user by using a message transmission function (diet monitoring function).

In addition, if necessary, a predetermined character appears on the display of the personal wireless portable communication device, and the growth of the character is controlled according to its achievement during the diet planning process (the higher the achievement, the healthy and beautiful growth), and if necessary, other users Let's compete with the growth of the character, and increase the success rate of the diet by giving a certain reward to the best users. In addition to the above, various services may be provided to increase the success rate of the diet.

Also, in the above-described service, instead of inputting various data through the keypad and displaying the result on the display of the communication device, various data are input by voice using voice recognition technology, and the result is input by the user through voice or text. You can also take a return method to.

The system for implementing a diet management service using the personal wireless portable communication device is connected to the wireless wireless communication switch using a personal wireless mobile communication device, a wireless communication switch and a computer network wirelessly connected to the personal wireless mobile communication device. It consists of a service providing server. When the user sends the necessary information to the exchange using a personal wireless portable communication device, the exchange transmits the information to the server, which derives the necessary calculation or result and then displays it on the screen of the user device through the exchange. This service is similar to the interactive message or short message function of a conventional wireless communication service. If necessary, the above-described server may be omitted, and the exchange may be configured to take over the function of the server. In this case, software for providing a diet management service should be installed inside each exchange.

The exchanger or server has a database means therein, and the database means stores food information such as calorie or fat content for numerous foods and activity information such as calorie consumption according to various types of exercise and exercise amount. The information about each user is divided and stored. When the user's personal information (weight, height, BMI index, etc.) is input only once at the beginning, the user's identity is automatically identified when connecting to the exchange or server, and the result corresponding to the user is calculated and transmitted.

In addition, when the service providing server is on a network such as the Internet, even if the user does not necessarily use a personal wireless portable communication device, the diet service by accessing a web server (website) on a computer network using a general PC. You can also be provided. If you access the website like this, you can get more diet information. Of course, even in this case, the web server is connected to the wireless communication switch, so that the service can be used by using a personal wireless portable communication device.

Preferably, the personal wireless portable communication device is a mobile phone or a PCS phone, but may also be a smart phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA). In the latter case, the result is a HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) document or HDML. It can be sent as a document that conforms to standards for wireless Internet terminals such as Handheld Device Mark-up Language (WAP) or Wired Access Point (WAP) standards, providing more detailed information and graphicizing menus (icons) if necessary. You may. In addition, in addition to the diet service, it is also possible to provide a personal schedule management service.

Such a diet service has an advantage in that a diet management service can be simply provided wherever the communication device is operated by using a personal wireless portable communication device.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a diet management service according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 shows a configuration of a system for implementing a diet service according to the present invention, a personal wireless portable communication device 11 such as a mobile phone, a wireless communication switch 12 wirelessly connected to the communication device, It consists of a server 14 which is connected to the exchange 12 via a computer network 13. Of course, a plurality of repeaters and / or base stations may be disposed between the personal wireless portable communication device and the switch, but the repeaters and base stations are not shown for convenience. The computer network can be anything as long as it can connect the exchange and the server computer that will perform the calculations. The Internet can be used by everyone, or a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) connected to specific users. Can be. However, as described above, when there is a program capable of executing a diet program inside the exchange, the computer network 13 and the server 14 do not necessarily have to be provided. The exchange or server has a built-in database means to store a list of calories according to the amount of food and activity. The personal wireless mobile communication device may be a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a PCS phone, a smart phone, a satellite phone, and the like, but is not limited thereto.

FIG. 2 illustrates a calorie calculation service among the diet services according to the present invention. When the user is not a member of the service, a member registration screen as shown in FIG. 2A is provided. Member information such as gender, age, weight, height, and eating habits should be entered. Once such member information is entered once, it is sufficient for the first input since it recognizes that it is a member when connected to the exchange.

2B illustrates a step of inputting the type and amount of food ingested in the calorie counting service. First, the calorie counting service and the diet scheduling service are provided as shown in FIG. On the service selection screen, select the item "Calculation". In (c), you can choose whether the meal you want to count calories is for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. In this figure, it is assumed that lunch is selected. In (d), select the category of the ingested meal, and select specific foods in (e). If necessary, it is desirable to be able to select the intake amount as shown in (bar), and the intake amount can be made by selecting one from the numbers 1 to 9. At this time, number 5 means quantification, number 3 means half of the quantification, and number 9 means about twice the quantity. In case you have eaten two or more foods, ask them to choose additional foods as in (g) and (h). When the selection is finished, the finally selected menu as shown in (i) is displayed on the screen of the user communication device.

Figure 2b is the next step in the intake of food choices, allowing input of the amount of activity up to that time as needed. If there is no special activity, it is possible to derive the calorie calculation result immediately by selecting “No” in the (tea) screen of FIG. 2B. If there is an activity amount, select "Yes" to move to the activity type input screen such as (K). If you select activity type and time from breakfast to lunch in (K) and (T), calorie calculation screen as shown in Fig. In this calorie calculation screen, calories ingested for the corresponding meal, recommended calories, calories consumed by activity, and calories exceeded / underlying are calculated and transmitted, and in some cases, the type of exercise necessary to consume excess calories. And momentum.

Figure 3 shows a diet scheduling service, Figure 3a shows the procedure until the diet goal of the day, Figure 3b shows the process when the goal is not achieved.

First, a diet schedule item is selected in FIG. 3A. If necessary, enter a mobile phone number of another friend or family member to provide the family service described above (b). As described above, by using such a family service, by allowing a friend or family member to receive the diet plan progress of the user together, it functions to monitor and encourage diet performance. In addition, it is possible to select the character function to control the growth state according to the diet success (c). When such a character is set, the character is displayed on the screen of the wireless portable communication device as shown in FIG.

In this embodiment, the exchange or server sets a diet schedule of one week unit according to the user's personal information. Then, before the meal time, diet information such as recommended calories and recommended diet of the meal is transmitted to the user's communication device, and the transmission of such diet information is performed even if the user does not specifically request by using a kind of "push" function. When the time comes, it is automatically sent to the user. 3A, 3A, and 3B are screens transmitted to the user before breakfast and dinner time, and a meal time, recommended calories, and a recommended menu (diet) are shown, but are not necessarily limited to this information. Optionally, a check function may be provided to check whether the diet goal is achieved after a predetermined period such as one day has elapsed. For example, about 10 pm at night, the user transmits a diet goal confirmation screen such as (g) to the user's communication device. .

3B shows a case in which the diet goal is not achieved following FIG. 3A. When the item that the goal is not reached is selected in (R), the user may select which meal (the meal) the goal is not achieved in (Tea), Have them choose what meals they ate in (K) to (PAR). This process can use part of the calorie calculation function shown in FIG. 2 as it is, and allows the input of the type and amount of food ingested and / or the amount of activity. Then, the calorie consumption according to the calorie of the meal menu and the amount of activity, if necessary, and can transmit the excess calories and / or the amount of exercise required as shown below.

4 illustrates a screen of a communication device displaying a character 41 whose growth state is controlled according to a plan completion degree of a diet scheduling service according to the present invention. Such a character service should just use a conventional character raising program.

The transmission and reception of information between the portable communication device and the exchange and between the exchange and the server may be performed while the personal wireless mobile communication device is always connected to the switch, but only when a message is transmitted and received, such as an interactive message service according to the current technology. It is desirable to make the connection.

As described above, according to the diet service using the personal wireless portable communication device, the individual portable communication by eliminating the inconvenience that the individual has to carry out a diet management using a diet software running on a PC or carry a separate portable diet management device, Wherever you can use, easy and convenient diet management services can be provided.

Claims (9)

Inputting diet data including at least one of a type, an amount of food, and an amount of activity consumed by a user by using a personal wireless portable communication device, and transmitting the diet data to a wireless communication switch; The wireless communication exchange transmitting the diet data to a server connected to the wireless communication exchange via a computer network; The server calculating a result of at least one of intake calories, calories consumed by activity, recommended intake calories, excess calories and excess amount of activity required for consumption of excess calories based on the transmitted diet data; And, And transmitting the calculated result to a personal wireless portable communication device of the user and displaying the calculated result. The method of claim 1, The user further comprises the step of transmitting to the wireless communication switch by inputting one or more personal information selected from the gender, age, weight, height, eating habits, BMI index using a personal wireless mobile communication device Diet management method using a wireless portable communication device. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the diet data input is performed by one of an input through a keypad of a personal wireless portable communication device and an input by a user's voice. How to manage. Transmitting, by a user, his or her personal information to a wireless communication exchange by inputting using a personal wireless portable communication device; The wireless communication exchange transmitting the personal information of the user to a server connected to the wireless communication exchange via a computer network; Selecting, by the server, a diet plan suitable for the user based on the transmitted personal information of the user; According to the diet plan, a diet management method using a personal wireless portable communication device comprising the step of transmitting a recommended diet goal to a user's personal wireless portable communication device before mealtime. The method of claim 4, wherein Confirming, by the user, whether the recommended diet goal has been achieved until a predetermined period has passed; And, As a result of confirming that the recommended diet goal has been achieved, if the goal is not achieved, the method further includes a step of checking diet data exceeding the target value and transmitting a calculation result to the user. The diet data is any one or more of the type and amount of food intake, the amount of activity failed to achieve the goal, The calculation result is a diet management method using a personal wireless mobile communication device, characterized in that any one or more of the calorie intake of the meal failed to achieve the goal, the calories consumed by the activity, excess calories and excess calories consumed and the amount of exercise. The method according to claim 4 or 5, Personal information of the user is a diet management method using a personal wireless portable communication device, characterized in that at least one selected from the user's gender, age, weight, height, eating habits, BMI index. The method according to claim 4 or 5, The recommended diet goal is a diet management method using a personal wireless mobile communication device, characterized in that any one or more of the intake time, calories intake and the recommended diet of the meal. The method according to claim 4 or 5, Diet management method using a personal wireless mobile communication device, characterized in that for providing a predetermined character on the display of the personal wireless mobile communication device, the growth state is controlled according to whether the diet goal is achieved. The method of claim 5, The user's personal information input and the input for confirming whether the recommended diet goal is achieved are performed by any one of an input through a keypad of a personal wireless portable communication device and an input by a user's voice. How to manage your diet.