JP2007026262A - Nutrients management system, and commodity proposition server and portable terminal for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve convenience of a user in food selection by putting forward an automatic proposal for a list of foods to supplement nutrients the user takes in insufficiently. <P>SOLUTION: From the portable terminal 100, a quantity of overs and shorts of the nutrients the user has taken in is sent to a commodity proposition server 400. The commodity proposal server 400 refers to a commodity database 410 for storing names of the commodities to supplement a variety of nutrients in accordance with received information on overs and shorts of the nutrients and sends information on commodities the user should take in back to a portable terminal 100. Here, the commodity proposal server 400 selects a commodity according to a commodity selection condition every user and a preference condition of the user. Also, the commodity information is added by privilege information (such as price reduction and point returning) in purchasing commodities in a specific shop. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a nutrition management system that proposes improvement of eating habits via a network, a product proposal server and a mobile terminal used therefor.

  Various systems for providing health management services related to eating habits have been proposed. For example, in Patent Document 1, a portable person who needs a diet therapy or the like reads ingestion energy of food or drink to be consumed with a portable terminal device incorporating a barcode reading means and transmits it to a management device via a network. A health management support system is disclosed in which the management device returns the health management information necessary for the diet of the portable person based on the transmitted energy information and displays it on the portable terminal of the portable person.

  In Patent Document 2, a user creates behavior data (consumed calorie consumption, calorie intake) for each event (exercise, meal) of daily living activities using a mobile terminal, and includes the type and content via a network. A health management method is disclosed in which a management device creates user's health management data based on the transmitted behavior data and transmits it to the user's mobile terminal.

JP 2000-322404 A JP 2004-240862 A

  In the health management support system and the health management method described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, the amount of nutrients and calories consumed by the user are managed, and the amount of nutrients and calories to be ingested are notified. However, the user is not sure what kind of food should be consumed to compensate for the lack of nutrition, and it is inconvenient to investigate by another means. In addition, we want information such as which stores can be purchased and whether there are any benefits at the time of purchase.

  An object of the present invention is to automatically propose a food (product) list that compensates for the lack of nutrients, and to improve the convenience of the user when selecting food. Furthermore, with respect to the products in the food list, it is intended to improve convenience for the user by adding stores that can be purchased and privilege information at the time of purchase.

  The present invention is a nutrition management system that proposes a product for improving a user's eating habits by connecting a product proposal server and a user's mobile terminal via a network. The product proposal server transmits the excess / deficiency amount to the product proposal server, and the product proposal server refers to the product database storing the product names for supplementing various nutrients according to the received nutrient excess / deficiency information, and information on the product to be consumed by the user Is returned to the mobile terminal.

  Here, the product proposal server selects a product that the user should ingest according to the selection condition set for each user or the user's preference condition extracted from the user's past ingested product.

  In addition, the product proposal server adds a privilege information when purchasing a product of a specific store to information related to the product to be ingested by the user in cooperation with a product management server that manages the product of the specific store. Reply to This privilege information includes product price discounts and point return information.

  The present invention is also a product proposal server for proposing a product for improving a user's eating habits to a mobile terminal connected via a network, wherein information on excess and deficiency of nutrients taken by the user from the mobile terminal is obtained. A receiving unit for receiving, a product database storing product names for supplementing various nutrients, and a product information creating unit for creating information on products to be consumed by the user with reference to the product database according to the received excess / deficiency information; And transmission means for transmitting the created product information to the portable terminal.

  The present invention is also a portable terminal that receives a product proposal for improving a user's eating habits from a product proposal server connected via a network, refers to a reference value of a nutrient that the user should ingest, Excess or deficiency nutrient calculation means for calculating the excess or deficiency of nutrients from the difference from the nutrients consumed up to now, transmission means for transmitting the calculated excess or deficiency of nutrients to the product proposal server, and information on excess or deficiency of the transmitted nutrients And receiving means for receiving information relating to the product to be taken by the user from the product proposal server.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the convenience of the user in the case of food selection is improved. Further, the addition of privilege information has the effect of increasing the user's willingness to purchase and promoting the sales volume on the store side.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a nutrition management system according to the present invention. In the system of the present embodiment, a dietary life improvement proposal server (product proposal server) 400, a nutrient data server 300, and a portable terminal 100 are connected via a network (not shown) so that they can communicate with each other.

  The mobile terminal 100 carried by the user identifies the product 200 to be purchased, acquires information about nutrients of the product 200, and displays the information on the screen. Further, the lack of nutrients provided from the dietary life improvement proposal server 400 and the suggested product list (food name) are displayed. It also calculates and manages the nutrients consumed by the user.

  The product 200 is a food (food or drink) that can ingest nutrients. A product identification ID for identifying a food name or the like is given to the product 200, and the product identification ID is described on a display element such as an RF-ID or a barcode.

  The nutrient data server 300 holds a nutrient database 310 that stores product identification IDs of various products and nutrient value data for each product, and nutrition value data of products specified from the database 310 in response to a request from the mobile terminal 100. Search for.

  The eating habits improvement proposal (product proposal) server 400 maintains a product database 410 storing products (food items) that can be ingested with respect to various nutrients and product identification IDs thereof, and in response to a request from the mobile terminal 100, The database 410 is searched to create a dietary life improvement plan (product list) that supplements the nutrients that the user lacks.

  FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the mobile terminal 100 used in the system of FIG. The CPU 101 executes various programs such as display, product identification ID acquisition processing, communication processing control, and calculation of deficient nutrients. The ROM 102 stores various programs and data executed by the CPU 101, and the RAM 103 is used to load and execute various programs executed by the CPU 101 from the ROM 102 and store data. The input / output device 104 manages input / output such as display of nutrients contained in the product, insufficient nutrients, products to be ingested, display change, and menu operation. The communication device 105 transmits the product identification ID to the nutrient data server 300, acquires the nutrient information of the corresponding product, transmits the type and amount of the missing nutrient to the dietary improvement proposal server 400, and satisfies the product Used to query. For example, wireless LAN (Local Area Network), Bluetooth, EV-DO (Evolution Data Only). The product ID reading device 106 reads an RFID tag or barcode attached to a product, and acquires a product identification ID for uniquely identifying the product or a nutrient contained in the product. Of course, the apparatus corresponding to both RF-ID and a barcode may be sufficient.

  Next, the operation of the nutrition management system of FIG. 1 will be described. The user considers purchase of a certain product 200 (that is, nutrition intake). Then, the portable terminal 100 is held over the product 200, and the product identification ID is read from the product 200 (S11). The product identification ID is embedded in barcode data, an RF-ID chip, or the like, and the portable terminal 100 reads the product identification ID with a reading unit corresponding thereto.

  The read product identification ID is transmitted to the nutrient data server 300, and an inquiry is made about nutrient information relating to the product (S12). In response to the inquiry from the mobile terminal 100, the nutrient data server 300 searches for a product that matches the specified product identification ID from the stored nutrient database 310 in a process (nutrient information acquisition process 600) described later. Then, the corresponding nutrition value data is sent back to the portable terminal 100 (S13). When the mobile terminal 100 receives the nutritional value data, the mobile terminal 100 displays it, and the user determines whether or not to purchase the product 200. If it is determined to purchase, it is registered in the product purchase history of the mobile terminal 100.

  On the other hand, the user uses the mobile terminal 100 to calculate an excess or deficiency of nutrients based on the product purchase history so far in a process (excess / deficiency nutrient calculation process 700) described later (S14). When the excess and deficiency nutrients are calculated, the type and amount of the deficiency and excess nutrients are transmitted as search keys to the dietary improvement proposal server 400 (S15). The eating habits improvement proposal server 400 searches for a product satisfying the nutrient conditions designated from the mobile terminal 100 from the product database 410 held, and provides the result as product information (product list) (S16). The portable terminal 100 receives this, creates a menu improvement plan to make up for the lack of nutrients, and displays it.

  Thus, according to the system of the present embodiment, the user not only knows the nutrients that are lacking, but can also acquire product (food) information that supplements them.

  In the present embodiment, the process of calculating excess / deficiency nutrients (excess / deficiency nutrient calculation process 700) is performed by the mobile terminal 100. 400, and the calculation process can be performed by the eating habits improvement proposal server 400.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of a nutrient information acquisition process 600 for acquiring nutrient information of a product between the mobile terminal 100 and the nutrient data server 300 in the present embodiment.

  The nutrient information acquisition process 600 starts when the mobile terminal 100 is held over a product and a product identification ID is acquired. A nutrient information acquisition request message including the acquired product identification ID is transmitted to the nutrient data server 300 (S611). The nutrient data server 300 is in a waiting state until the nutrient information acquisition request message is acquired (S621). When the nutrient information acquisition request message is acquired, the product identification ID in the message is acquired, and the nutrient information corresponding to the ID is acquired from the nutrient database 310 (S622). Then, the acquired nutrient information is sent back to the portable terminal 100 as a response message (S623). The portable terminal 100 receives the response message from the nutrient data server 300 (S612). The nutrient information acquisition process 600 is completed by the above procedure.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of an excess / deficiency nutrient calculation process 700 for calculating excess / deficiency nutrients in the mobile terminal 100 in the present embodiment. FIG. 6 is an example of dietary habits improvement reference data 750 used for this calculation process.

  The excess / deficiency nutrient calculation process 700 is started immediately after the nutrient information acquisition process 600 is completed or by a user operation. The nutrient information (product purchase history) ingested so far held in the portable terminal 100 is acquired (S711), and the current time is acquired (S712). Using the acquired current time and the eating habits improvement reference data (ideal nutrient intake value) 750 stored in the ROM or RAM, the current target intake is calculated (S713).

  For example, a dietary habits improvement standard data 750 as shown in FIG. 6 is stored for a dietary habits improvement program that determines that it is better to take 60 mg of the nutrient coenzyme Q10 per day. Eating habits improvement standard data 750 is composed of nutrient type, determination method, ideal intake, lower limit value and upper limit value of intake amount. When managing various nutrients, it is possible by adding multiple data Become. In the case of FIG. 6, the ideal intake of coenzyme Q10 is 60 mg / day because the determination method is “per day”, the lower limit intake is 55 mg, and the upper limit intake is 65 mg as the target intake. Become. If “N / A” indicating no data is stored, it indicates that there is no limit on the upper limit intake or the lower limit intake.

  Next, the difference between the nutrient data that has been consumed so far acquired in S711 and the target intake calculated in S713 is taken. If the nutrient data that has been consumed so far falls below the lower limit of the target intake, the nutrient is insufficient. If the upper limit of the target intake is exceeded, it is determined that the nutrient is excessive, and the type of excess / deficiency nutrient and the excess / deficiency are calculated (S714).

  Based on the calculation result, it is determined whether the nutrient is excessive or insufficient (S715). If there is an excessive or insufficient nutrient, the input / output device 104 notifies the user of the excessive or insufficient nutrient (S716). And the process mentioned later (corresponding merchandise information acquisition process 800) for searching for the goods which supplement a deficient nutrient, or searching for the goods which should be replaced in the case of excessive intake is performed (S717). If there is no excess or deficiency nutrient in S715, it is notified that there is no excess or deficiency nutrient (S818). With the above procedure, the excess / deficiency nutrient calculation processing 700 is completed.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flowchart of a corresponding product information acquisition process 800 for acquiring product information for supplementing excess or deficient nutrients between the mobile terminal 100 and the dietary improvement proposal server 400. FIG. 8 shows an example of (a) a request message and (b) a response message at that time.

  The corresponding product information acquisition process 800 is activated when there is an excess or deficiency nutrient in the excess or deficiency nutrient calculation process 700 or by an operation from the user. The corresponding product request message 900 is transmitted from the portable terminal 100 to the eating habits improvement proposal server 400 (S811). As shown in FIG. 8A, the corresponding product request message 900 includes a message identification unit for identifying the message type, a nutrient type of a missing nutrient, and a deficient nutrient composed of a data string of a deficient amount. The data section 901 includes an excess nutrient data section 902 configured with a data string of nutrient types and excess amounts of nutrients excessively consumed. If one of the data portions is unnecessary, an unnecessary data portion may be deleted.

  When the eating habits improvement proposal server 400 acquires the corresponding product request message 900 (S821), it analyzes the message and acquires information on insufficient nutrients and information on nutrients excessively consumed (S822). For the missing nutrients, the product database 410 is referred to, and candidates for products that can be supplemented by at least one nutrient (products whose intake ratio to the deficient amount is not 0) and their intakes are acquired. In addition, for nutrients that are excessively consumed, the target product and its intake (or reduction) are acquired. Alternatively, an alternative product candidate is acquired (S823).

  And according to the selection conditions (price, quantity, etc.) preset for every user, the goods candidate acquired by S823 is filtered, and a goods list is created. At that time, it is also effective to extract the preferences from the user's past ingested products and perform filtering to preferentially select the user's favorite products (S824). Furthermore, if there is additional service information, it is created. The additional service information is recipe information such as a cooking example using the product (S825).

  The product information combining the product list created in S824 and the additional service information created in S825 is sent back to the mobile terminal 100 as a response message 910 (S826). FIG. 8B is an example of a response message 910, which describes an ingested product list data portion 911 composed of a product name to be ingested, a product identification ID, and an intake amount, and additional service information 912 such as recipe information. Yes.

  When the mobile terminal 100 receives the response message from the dietary improvement proposal server 400 (S812), the mobile terminal 100 acquires a product list and additional service information and notifies the user via the input / output device 104 (S813). The corresponding product information acquisition process 800 is completed by the above procedure.

  As described above, according to the nutrient management system including the mobile terminal, the nutrient data server, and the dietary life improvement proposal (product proposal) server according to the present embodiment, the mobile terminal 100 calculates the deficient nutrients and stores the deficient nutrient information in the dietary life. This is transmitted to the improvement proposal server 400, and the dietary improvement proposal server 400 is configured to provide the mobile terminal 100 with a list of products that can supplement the missing nutrients. Therefore, the user is automatically advised on how to ingest and reduce not only the nutrients consumed but also the nutrients that are deficient or deficient, so that the nutrition management can be performed more easily. .

  FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram showing another embodiment of the nutrition management system according to the present invention. In this embodiment, the eating habits improvement proposal server 400 is configured to provide additional service information to the user in cooperation with the product management server 500 that manages the product 200 of a specific store.

  The operations from Steps S21 to S24 are the same as the operations from Steps S11 to S14 in Example 1 (FIG. 1). When eating habits suggestion server 400 receives a notice of excess or deficiency of nutrients from portable terminal 100 (S25), it notifies the user's requirements to product management server 500 (S26). The product management server 500 not only creates a product list that satisfies the request, but also adds privilege information about the specific product. For example, create a list of products that can be purchased at the store where the user is currently located or at a group store that is linked, and add additional service information for sales promotion such as price discount coupons and point reductions currently being implemented, It returns to the eating habits improvement proposal server 400 (S27). The eating habits improvement suggestion server 400 returns the product list to the user's portable terminal 100 together with the additional information (S28).

  This additional service information processing is performed in cooperation with the product management server 500 in step S825 of the corresponding product acquisition processing 800 in FIG.

  According to the present embodiment, there is an advantage that the user purchases the proposed product by acquiring the additional service information, so that the user can purchase at a lower price than usual and accumulate points. On the other hand, a store that sells the proposed product can also promote the sales volume by increasing the user's willingness to purchase.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The whole block diagram which shows one Example of the nutrition management system by this invention. The whole block diagram which shows the other Example of the nutrition management system by this invention. The block diagram which shows an example of the portable terminal 100 in a present Example. The figure which shows the flowchart which acquires the nutrient information of goods. The figure which shows the flowchart which calculates the excess and deficiency nutrient. The figure which shows an example of the eating habits improvement reference | standard data in FIG. The figure which shows the flowchart which acquires the merchandise information which supplements an excess and deficiency nutrient. The figure which shows an example of the request message and response message in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Portable terminal 101 ... CPU, 102 ... ROM, 103 ... RAM, 104 ... I / O device, 105 ... Communication device, 106 ... Product ID reading device, 200 ... Product, 300 ... Nutrient data server, 310 ... Nutrient database, 400 ... Dietary life improvement proposal server, 410 ... Product database, 500 ... Product management server, 600 ... Nutrient information acquisition process, 700 ... Excess / deficient nutrient calculation process, 750 ... Dietary life improvement standard data, 800 ... Appropriate product information acquisition process.

Claims (14)

A nutrition management system that connects a product proposal server and a user's mobile terminal via a network and proposes a product for improving a user's diet,
Send the excess and deficiency of nutrients ingested by the user from the mobile terminal to the product proposal server,
The merchandise proposal server refers to a merchandise database storing merchandise names supplementing various nutrients according to the received information on excess or deficiency of nutrients, and returns information related to merchandise to be taken by the user to the portable terminal. Nutrition management system. In the nutrition management system according to claim 1,
The nutrition management system, wherein the product proposal server selects a product to be consumed by a user according to a selection condition set for each user or a user's preference condition extracted from a user's past ingested product. In the nutrition management system according to claim 1 or 2,
Connected to the network is a product management server that manages products of a specific store,
The merchandise proposal server, in cooperation with the merchandise management server, adds privilege information when purchasing the merchandise of the specific store to information related to the merchandise to be taken by the user and returns the information to the mobile terminal. Nutritional management system characterized by The nutrition management system according to claim 3,
The privilege information added by the product proposal server includes information on product price discounts and point reductions. In the nutrition management system according to claim 1,
Connected to the network is a nutrient data server storing nutrition value data of various products,
The nutrient data management system is characterized in that the nutrient data server provides nutrient information of a designated product in response to a request from the portable terminal. In the nutrition management system according to claim 1 or 5,
The said portable terminal refers to the reference value of the nutrient which a user should ingest, The nutrient management system characterized by calculating the excess and deficiency of a nutrient from the difference with the nutrient which the user ingested so far. A product proposal server for proposing a product for improving a user's eating habits for a mobile terminal connected via a network,
Receiving means for receiving information on excess and deficiency of nutrients taken by the user from the mobile terminal;
A product database that stores product names that supplement various nutrients,
According to the received excess / deficiency information, referring to the product database, product information creating means for creating information on the product to be ingested by the user,
A product proposal server comprising: a transmission unit configured to transmit the created product information to the mobile terminal. In the product proposal server according to claim 7,
The product proposal server is characterized in that the product information creation means selects a product to be consumed by a user in accordance with a selection condition set for each user or a user's preference condition extracted from a user's past ingested product. In the product proposal server according to claim 7 or 8,
The product suggestion server, wherein the product information creation means adds information on cooking examples using the product to information on the product to be taken by the user. In the product proposal server according to claim 7 or 8,
The product proposal server, wherein the product information creation unit adds privilege information when purchasing a product of a specific store to information on a product to be taken by the user. The product proposal server according to claim 10,
The product proposal server characterized in that the privilege information added by the product information creating means includes information on discounts on product prices and point reduction information. A mobile terminal that receives a product proposal for improving a user's eating habits from a product proposal server connected via a network,
An excess / deficiency nutrient calculating means for calculating a nutrient excess / deficiency amount from a difference from a nutrient that the user has consumed so far with reference to a reference value of a nutrient to be consumed by the user;
Transmitting means for transmitting the calculated excess / deficiency of nutrients to the product proposal server;
A portable terminal comprising: receiving means for receiving, from the product proposal server, information relating to a product to be consumed by the user according to the transmitted nutrient excess / deficiency information. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein
Product identification ID acquisition means for acquiring a product identification ID of a product ingested by a user;
A mobile terminal comprising: a nutrient information acquisition unit that sends the acquired product identification ID to a nutrient data server and acquires nutrient information of the product. The mobile terminal according to claim 13,
The mobile terminal characterized in that the product identification ID acquisition means reads an RF-ID or barcode attached to the product and acquires the product identification ID of the product.

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