JP6528402B2 - Portable terminal and activity amount management system using the same - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal provided with activity amount measuring means and an activity amount management system using the same.

  In order to maintain or improve health, it is widely practiced to wear an activity meter that measures the number of steps and the like, and to record daily activities. Some health institutions, etc., provide life guidance to persons who bring records of activity amounts, as to whether the activity amount is sufficient or whether the activity time is appropriate.

  In addition, a system has been proposed in which the number of steps measured by the activity meter is made to point and products or services can be obtained by the accumulated points (Patent Document 1). According to this system, motivation to continue exercise can be maintained, and maintenance or improvement of health can be realized.

  On the other hand, in order to improve life for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases etc., it is effective not only to continue exercise by self-management but also to obtain appropriate advice from experts regarding the amount of activity in daily life. An interval of one week to one month is preferable for receiving advice from experts.

JP 2003-141260 A

  According to the description in Patent Document 1, the daily activity amount is measured with the activity meter, and it is made to point to it so that goods or services can be obtained so that the user of the activity meter can exercise continuously Even then, the user can not be encouraged to go for expert advice at intervals of one week to one month.

  On the other hand, the subject of the present invention is to use a portable terminal for guiding the user's behavior so that the user of the activity meter visits a predetermined place such as a store providing advice on the activity amount at appropriate intervals. To provide a system that

  The inventor of the present invention finally goes to the advice offer site so that the user of the portable terminal provided with the activity measure means visits the advice offer site where the advice on the activity quantity is offered every predetermined period. After a predetermined period of time from when the information on the amount of activity is not displayed on the portable terminal, in that case, it is considered effective that it is possible to display the information on the amount of activity again when going to the advice provider. The present invention has been completed.

That is, the present invention provides an activity amount measuring means,
Storage means for readably storing information on the amount of activity measured by the means for measuring activity amount;
A portable terminal comprising a display and control means for controlling display on the display,
The control means hides the information on the amount of activity on the display when a predetermined period elapses from when the information on the amount of activity is last read out from the storage means, and thereafter, when the information on the amount of activity is read from the storage means Provided is a portable terminal capable of displaying information on the amount of activity.

Further, the present invention is a portable terminal provided with an activity amount measuring means, and a storage means for readably storing information of the activity amount measured by the activity amount measuring means,
Activity amount server, which stores activity amount information for each mobile terminal user,
An information reading terminal which is installed at an advice provider where advice about activity is provided by an advisor, reads out information on activity stored in storage means of the portable terminal, and transmits it to an activity server.
Activity amount management system equipped with
An active mass management system is provided that includes the above-described portable terminal as a portable terminal.

  According to the portable terminal of the present invention, the information of the amount of activity stored in the portable terminal is the portable type when the predetermined period has elapsed since the last reading of the information of the amount of activity from the portable terminal After the information on the amount of activity is read out from the portable terminal, the information on the amount of activity can be displayed on the display after the information is read out from the portable terminal. It is induced to take an action of reading out the activity information from the terminal.

  On the other hand, according to the activity management system of the present invention, the information reading terminal reads the information of the activity from the portable terminal of the present invention, transmits the information to the activity server, and the activity server is the portable terminal. Since the information on the amount of activity is stored for each user, the advisor can provide the user with advice on the amount of activity based on the storage. Here, the information reading terminal is installed at an advice providing place where advice is provided from the advisor, while the user is guided to take an action of reading out the activity amount information from the portable terminal before the predetermined period has elapsed. As a result, they will come to the advice site.

  Therefore, by setting this predetermined period to a preferred interval for managing the amount of activity in terms of prevention of lifestyle-related diseases, etc., it becomes possible for the user to receive advice on the amount of activity from the advisor at a preferred interval. Since the activity amount information of the user is surely accumulated in the activity amount server, the advice given to the user becomes accurate based on the accumulated activity amount.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a health solution service system provided with the activity amount management system of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of a display of the portable terminal. FIG. 3A is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of a display of the portable terminal. FIG. 3B is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of a display of the portable terminal. FIG. 4 is an example of an evaluation sheet describing the advice.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, the same reference numerals denote the same or equivalent constituent elements.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of an activity management system 1 using a portable terminal 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The activity amount management system 1 involves a system provider who operates the activity amount management system, a user of the portable terminal 10 provided with the activity amount measuring means 11, a store serving as an advice providing site, a facility, and the like. In this activity amount management system 1, the adviser provides the user with advice on the activity amount from the adviser in order to enable the user to wear the portable terminal 10 and to increase or maintain the activity amount healthily. In order to increase the motivation for the user who wears the mobile terminal 10 to visit the advice site and receives advice, the mobile terminal 10 has information on the amount of activity as will be described later. Is provided with a characteristic configuration that makes it impossible to display or enable display. Further, in the illustrated example of the activity amount management system 1, points are given to the activity amount in order to further enhance the user's motivation to increase or maintain the activity amount in a healthy manner. Therefore, as the portable terminal 10, one provided with a point giving means 12 for giving points to the amount of activity measured by the amount of activity measuring means 11 is used. In the present invention, the point giving means 12 can be incorporated into the portable terminal 10 as required.

  The system provider distributes the portable terminal 10 provided with the activity amount measuring means 11 and the point giving means 12 to the user free of charge or at a low price. In addition, the system provider has an activity amount server 20A that stores information of activity amounts for each user, and a server 20 that includes a point management server 20B that manages points given to the activity amounts. Here, the point given to the activity amount may have a value that can be used for exchange with a predetermined product or service, or discount of the product or service.

  Furthermore, the system provider is a database that associates the quality (eg, walking speed, continuous walking time status) and amount (eg, number of steps, consumed calories, etc.) of activities in daily life with advice for them. It has 21. The activity amount server 20A transmits the advice on the activity amount of daily life from the database 21 to the information reading terminal 30 installed at the advice providing site based on the information of the activity amount of each user accumulated therein.

  The advice providing place is a place where the information reading terminal 30 for reading out the information of the amount of activity and the point of each user stored in the portable terminal 10 and transferring the information to the server 20 of the system provider is installed. As the information reading terminal 30, a personal computer provided with a communication function can be used. The advice site also provides advice on the quality and quantity of the user's activity based on the activity quantity adviser (ie, the user's activity quantity information or advice information sent from the activity quantity server 20A). A person who can explain the contents exists.

  As a place to be an advice providing site, stores such as pharmacies participating in activity amount management system 1, elderly facilities such as day care centers, municipal related facilities such as municipal health centers, fitness facilities, health consultation facilities in private enterprises You can raise it.

  In addition, as a person who becomes an adviser, a sales clerk who received instruction about activity amount and health from a system provider, a health instruction qualified person such as a pharmacist, a sports instructor, a health exercise instructor or an elderly person physical fitness support person, a physical therapist Etc can be raised. The advisor may perform an operation of reading the information of the user's activity from the portable terminal 10 using the information reading terminal 30, and transferring the information to the system provider's activity server 20A.

  The user is a person who has distributed the portable terminal 10 provided with the activity amount measuring means 11 from the system provider. The user uses the portable terminal 11 to measure the amount of activity in daily life. Note that distribution of the portable terminal 10 to the user may be performed at the advice providing site.

  In this activity amount management system 1, the user measures the amount of activity in daily life with the portable terminal 10, and travels to an advice providing site. In the advice providing location, the information on the activity stored in the user's portable terminal 10 is read by the information reading terminal 30, transferred to the activity server 20A, and the points stored in the user's portable terminal 10 It is read and transferred to the point management server 20B.

  When the information of the user's activity is transmitted from the information reading terminal 30, the activity server 20A stores the information of the user's activity. Then, the activity amount server 20A adds up the information of the user's activity amount accumulated so far, and transmits to the information reading terminal 30 the advice information on the daily life output from the database 21 based on the information of the activity amount. On the other hand, when the user's point information is transmitted, the point management server 20B updates the total value of the user's points stored in the server 20B. The aggregation information of points can also be transmitted to the information reading terminal 30.

  The adviser gives the user easy-to-understand information on the amount of activity information and advice information sent at the advice site, and explains it. At this time, the transmitted information on the amount of activity and advice may be output on paper as in the evaluation sheet 40 shown in FIG. 4 and handed over to the user. This evaluation sheet 40 describes the walking speed, average number of steps, average calories consumed, target value and average value of average wearing time (that is, average time when activity was recognized), achievement level, etc. in a predetermined period. The combined evaluation is represented on each date of the calendar by the rank of A, B, C, D, and the comprehensive evaluation is also represented by the rank of A, B, C, D, and the wording of the advice is described. As a result, the user can easily explain the expert advice from the advisor regarding the amount of activity of the user, and can deepen communication with the advisor. So, the user comes to visit the offer destination repeatedly.

  In addition, when the advice provider site is, for example, a store such as a pharmacy, the user repeatedly visits the store, thereby promoting the sale of products in the store and improving the sales. Therefore, in this activity amount management system 1, even if the system provider distributes the portable terminal 10 to the user free of charge, and the store serving as the advice providing site pays the service provider to the system provider. Well, if the system provider manufactures a product related to maintenance and improvement of health, the product may be handled at a store.

  In addition, when the site for providing advice relates to welfare facilities for elderly people such as day care centers, it becomes easier for the facility to grasp the health condition of the elderly by the elderly people who are users coming to the facility repeatedly. In turn, it can prevent illness. Therefore, the facility may pay the fee for using the service system, or the fee may be paid at a public expense.

  As described above, according to the activity amount management system 1 shown in FIG. 1, there is an advantage that the portable terminal 10 is distributed to the user, and advice can be received on daily activity amounts. There is an advantage that goods and services can be obtained by the points granted. A store, a facility, or the like serving as an advice providing site has an advantage that the sales of the store can be improved or the user's health can be easily grasped by the user coming to the store. Furthermore, the system provider has the advantage of being able to obtain a fee for using this service system from the store, facility or the like that is the advice providing site, or the product of the system provider is handled at the advice providing site.

  Here, in order to make the activity management system 1 more effective, the user visits the advising site at a preferred interval (for example, an interval of one week to one month) to receive advice on the activity. It is preferable to induce Therefore, the portable terminal 10 of the present invention used in the activity amount management system 1 stores the information of the activity amount measured by the activity amount measuring means 11 in addition to the activity amount measuring means 11 in a readable manner. , A display 14 and a control means (CPU) 15 for controlling display on the display 14, and may also include a communication means 16, a clock for recognizing the current time and date, point giving means 12 and the like. Then, the control means 15 hides the information on the amount of activity on the display 14 when a predetermined period elapses from when the information on the amount of activity is finally read from the storage means 13, and then the information on the amount of activity is stored in the storage means 13 When it is read out, the information on the amount of activity can be displayed on the display 14. As a result, when the activity amount information is not displayed, the user of the portable terminal 10 visits the advice providing site so that the activity amount information is displayed on the display 14 again, and the activity from the portable terminal 10 is performed. It is strongly urged for the information reading terminal 30 to read out the amount of information. Therefore, the user of the portable terminal 10 receives advice on the amount of activity by visiting the advice providing site immediately before or after the information on the amount of activity is not displayed on the display 14. You will receive advice on the amount of activity from the advisor in an appropriate period.

  In the present invention, the portable terminal 10 can be provided with the point giving means 12 as described above, in which case the control means 15 starts with the last reading of the information on the activity amount from the storage means 13. The information on the points on the display 14 may not be displayed when the predetermined period has elapsed, and thereafter, the information on the points may be displayed when the information on the amount of activity is read from the storage unit 13. As a result, the user of the portable terminal 10 visits the advice providing site for a period of time that is appropriate for receiving advice on the amount of activity before the predetermined period has elapsed, and receives advice on the amount of activity from the advisor.

  More specifically, the configuration of the portable terminal 10 includes an acceleration sensor for measuring the acceleration of three axes as the activity amount measuring means 11, and the activity amount is calculated based on the measurement value of the acceleration by the acceleration sensor, Use one that can be output as consumed calories, daily walking speed, number of steps, or activity time. As such an activity amount measuring means, for example, a day calorie EW-NK10 manufactured by Panasonic Corporation can be used.

  The storage unit 13 stores the amount of activity measured by the activity amount measuring unit 11, the point calculated by the point giving unit 12, and the date and time when the amount of activity is read by the information reading terminal 30. Even when the information on the amount of activity on the display 14 is not displayed by a predetermined period of time since the information on the amount of activity is read last from the storage means 13, the information on the amount of activity is not displayed before Similarly to the above, the storage unit 13 keeps storing the information of the activity amount. The storage amount can be, for example, information of one month's worth of activity. As a result, when the user of the portable terminal 10 visits the advice providing site and causes the information reading terminal 30 to read the information on the activity amount stored in the storage unit 13, the latest one month stored in the storage unit 13 It is possible to receive advice on the amount of activity based on the information on the amount of activity.

  Information on activity amounts and points stored in the storage means 13 is read by the information reading terminal 30 and transmitted to the server 20 by the information reading terminal 30, but this reading is not performed by any information reading device 30. In order to be performed by the information reading terminal installed at the advice providing site, the information reading terminal 30 which can be read may be registered in the portable terminal 10 in advance.

  Further, in the storage unit 13, the information read by the information reading terminal 30 may be deleted. As a result, it is possible to prevent the information accumulated in the server 20 from being transmitted again from the storage unit 13 and the server 20 from adding and storing the amount of activity and points in duplicate. As a more specific configuration for this, for example, the CPU controlling the storage unit 13 reads from the clock the date and time when the point and the activity amount were read by the information reading terminal 30, and stores them. It is possible to make the value of the writing area of points and activity amounts zero.

  The display content of the display 14 is controlled by the control unit 15, and the amount of activity or the amount of activity is determined depending on whether or not a predetermined period has elapsed since the information on the amount of activity was last read from the storage unit 13. Display or hide points to be awarded. In addition, the date and time etc. of that time are displayed as appropriate.

  In this case, it is preferable not to display the information on the activity amount or the point suddenly after the predetermined period has elapsed but to display a message prompting you to visit the advice providing site before the predetermined period has elapsed. For example, two weeks is set as the most preferable period from receiving the advice last time to receiving the next advice, and the information on the amount of activity is read last in a predetermined period when the amount of activity is not displayed on the display 14 Set to 3 weeks, and when the store or facility name of the advice provider is ○, automatically display "Please come to ○" the day before and two weeks before the passage of time. . This display is performed, for example, 0.5 seconds every 5 seconds until 2 weeks before, and 1 second every 3 seconds after 2 weeks until 3 weeks. Then, three weeks after the information on the amount of activity is read last, the amount of activity and points are not displayed.

  In addition, the display which urges you to go to the advice providing place such as “Please come to ○” may not be displayed by the use function of the portable terminal 10 at that time. For example, when the display content on the display 14 can be switched by pressing the button 17 in the portable terminal 10, when the number of steps in a certain section is displayed on the display 14, the button 17 is continuously pressed. ○ Make it possible to display the number of steps without being displayed.

  Further, as described above, when the information on the amount of activity is not displayed on the display 14 of the portable terminal 10 or the information on points is also not displayed in addition to that, the display 14 is to go to the advice providing site. It is preferable to display a prompting mark or phrase. As a result, the user of the portable terminal 10 visits the advice providing site and is notified that it is time for the information reading terminal 30 to read out the activity amount information from the portable terminal 10. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, on the normal screen on the display 14, the activity amount 14a stored in the portable terminal 10, the date and time 14b at that time, and the points 14c given to the activity amount 14a are displayed In the case where a predetermined period of time has elapsed, as shown in FIG. 3A, "Go" may be displayed as a display 14d prompting you to go to the advice offer site, and you may be prompted to go to the adbus offer site. As shown in FIG. 3B, the user of the portable terminal 10 is associated with displaying “touch” and causing the portable terminal 10 to touch the information reading terminal 30, and the information of the activity amount is read out from the portable terminal 10 You may be encouraged to

  On the other hand, the point giving means 12 is realized by an arithmetic unit incorporated in the portable terminal 10. The point giving means 12 gives points to the amount of activity measured by the amount of activity measuring means 11. Also regarding this point grant, in order to urge the user of the mobile terminal to visit the advice offer site before the predetermined period, the point is read according to the period up to the present time since the information on the activity amount was finally read at the advice offer site. You may change the ratio to give.

  The present invention can take various aspects. For example, in the above-described activity point management system, the point giving means 12 may be incorporated into the information reading terminal 30, and the information of the points may be transmitted from the information reading terminal 30 to the server 20. It may be incorporated in the server 20. When the point giving means 12 is incorporated in the information reading terminal 30 or the server 20, the point given to the amount of activity stored in the portable terminal 10 at that time can be confirmed by the portable terminal 10 The information reading terminal 30 or the server 20 may be appropriately accessed from the portable terminal 10 by the communication means, and the point information may be transmitted to the portable terminal 10. Also in this case, as described above, it is preferable that the points be displayed or not displayed depending on whether or not a predetermined period has passed since the information on the amount of activity was last read from the storage means.

  Also, management of the amount of activity of the user is performed by the information reading terminal 30, and the database 21 in which the quality and quantity of activities are associated with advice for them is connected to the information reading terminal 30, and advice is outputted from the information reading terminal 30 You may do so.

  The database 21 may be omitted, and the adviser may provide advice on the information on the user's activity sent from the activity server 20A.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 activity amount management system 10 portable terminal 11 activity amount measuring means 12 point giving means 13 storage means 14 display 14 a activity amount display 14 b date and time display 14 c point display 14 d point for prompting to go to an advice providing place 15 control means 20 Server 20A Activity Server 20B Point Management Server 21 Database 30 Information Reading Terminal 40 Evaluation Sheet with Advice

Claims (6)

Activity measurement means,
A storage unit that readably stores information of the activity measured by the activity measuring unit with respect to the information reading terminal ;
A portable terminal comprising a display and control means for controlling display on the display,
Control means, when the activity amount of information is a predetermined period has elapsed since the last read from the storage means to the information reading device as well as to hide the activity amount of information in the display, in its non-display state, the information reading A portable terminal for displaying on a display a mark or a phrase prompting the terminal to read out, and thereafter displaying the information on the amount of activity on the display when the information on the amount of activity is read from the storage means to the information reading terminal. An information reading terminal installed at an advice provider where advice from the advisor is provided by the advisor to read out the activity amount information related to display or non-display of activity amount information on the display from the storage means to the information reading terminal The portable terminal according to claim 1 performed by The portable terminal has a communication means,
When the communication means receives the information of the point given to the activity amount read from the storage means to the information reading terminal , the storage means stores the information of the point,
The control means hides the point information on the display when a predetermined time period has elapsed from when the activity amount information was last read from the storage means to the information reading terminal, and thereafter, the activity amount information is read from the storage means The portable terminal according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the information of the point can be displayed on the display when read out by the terminal. A portable terminal comprising an activity measuring means, and a storage means for readably storing information of the activity measured by the activity measuring means with respect to the information reading terminal.
Activity amount server, which stores activity amount information for each mobile terminal user,
An information reading terminal which is installed at an advice provider where advice about activity is provided by an advisor, reads out information on activity stored in storage means of the portable terminal, and transmits it to an activity server.
Activity amount management system equipped with
The active mass management system provided with the portable terminal in any one of Claims 1-3 as a portable terminal. With a database that links the quality and quantity of activities in daily life with advice for them,
The activity server connects to the database when information on the user's activity is sent from the information reading terminal, and based on the information on the user's activity stored in the activity server, the activity server receives an advice on the activity from the database. The activity amount management system according to claim 4 , wherein the information is transmitted to the information reading terminal. The point providing means for giving points to the amount of activity read from the portable terminal, and the point management server for managing the points given by the point giving means,
A portable terminal according to claim 3 as a portable terminal,
The activity amount management system according to claim 4 or 5 , wherein the information reading terminal transmits the information of the point given by the point giving means to the portable terminal.

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