KR20050009600A - System For Mobile Diet Management And Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for managing a mobile diet and a method therefor are provided to enhance an effect of management of a diet by allowing a user to recognize a meal time so that the user can have meals on a regular basis at a designated time. CONSTITUTION: A mobile terminal(320) receives the amount of meals and recognizable quantity of motion from a user(310) and stores them. A relay unit(330) installed at a large building or the like detects a daily moving distance of the mobile terminal(320) and transmits a corresponding signal. A base station(340) relays the transmission signal of the relay unit(330). A communication provider server(350) receives the daily moving distance of the mobile terminal(320) from the base station(340) and transmits it to a diet server(360). The diet server(360) transmits the daily moving distance received from the communication provider server(350) to a computer(370) of the user(310). The computer(370) receives the amount of meals and the recognizable amount of motion, calculates the amount of meals into a caloric intake, calculates the recognizable amount of motion into a recognizable amount of consumed calories, calculates the non-recognizable amount of motion received from the diet server(360) into a non-recognizable amount of consumed calories, subtracts the sum of the recognizable amount of consumed calories and the non-recognizable amount of consumed calories from the caloric intake to determine whether the caloric intake is high or low, and calculates a moving speed in consideration of the daily moving distance and the moving time.

Description

Mobile Diet Management System and Method {System For Mobile Diet Management And Method Thereof}

The present invention relates to a mobile diet management system and a method thereof, and in particular, a mobile diet management system that can determine the magnitude of the exercise amount by comparing the amount of exercise unconsciously measured by the user as well as the input meal amount It is about a method.

In general, diet management systems through a communication network such as the Internet calculate the calories of the meal based on the information input by the user terminal, convert the amount of exercise input into the amount of calories burned, then compare the two results to compare To manage your diet.

Such a conventional diet management system is described in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2001-0044433, and the conventional diet management system will be described in detail with reference to the following.

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional diet system, Figure 2 is a flow chart of the method where the user is connected to the WAP GATEWAY (10) connected to the wireless Internet using a mobile phone or PDA, which is INTERNET WAP SERVER (20) through the ISP Is connected to.

The WAP SERVER 20 is a logic processing unit 50 for interoperating with the member DB 70 and daily input information internally and a screen processing unit 40 for displaying on a small screen such as a mobile phone or a PDA. , SMS transmission unit 80, WAP DB 60 and the member's personal information and daily intake information and exercise amount to send a warning message (Warning Message or Praising Message) as a result of the operation of the logic processing unit 50 It consists of a member DB 70 in which information is stored.

When the user accesses the WAP SERVER 20 through the wireless Internet, the logic processing unit 50 drives the WAP DB 60 to request initial user information input when the user is the first user. The inputted information is sent to the member DB 70. If it is stored and the existing user, go to next step (S4).

Next, the user has completed the user confirmation procedure (S2) or user information input (S3) WAP DB (60) is driven to select the ranking diet program and self diet program (S4). If the user selects a ranking diet program, the user inputs the daily intake and exercise information, and the logic processing unit 50 receives this information and stores it in the member DB 70.

In the next logic processing unit (S8), the intake and exercise amount input by the user as a SMS sending unit when the excess (insufficient) compared with the daily required intake and daily required exercise amount of the program selected by the user (Warning Message or encouragement message ( Praising Message) is transmitted to the character processing unit 80 to select a character having a facial expression and operation according to the situation and transmits the character to be displayed on the user's mobile phone or PDA through the screen processing unit 40.

Next, as a method of displaying the current achievement of the user, the logic processing unit 50 compares the information of the member DB 70 with the amount of intake and exercise of the user who has been input to the present so as to display a character having various expressions and gestures to the user's mobile phone or PDA Transmit it and digitize it. Next, the logic processing unit 50 arranges and ranks the achievements of the program to which the user belongs in the member DB 70, and causes the screen processing unit 40 to display the result. In step S4, the user who selects the self diet program is selected. Inputs daily intake and exercise amount information, and the logic processing unit 50 receives this information and stores it in the member DB. In the next logic processing unit S8, the SMS transmitter sends a warning message or a prompting message when the amount is exceeded (lack), compared to the required exercise amount input by the user, and the character processing unit 80 causes the situation. The character is selected to have a facial expression and motion according to the character and transmits the character to be displayed on the user's mobile phone or PDA through the screen processor 40.

Next, the logic processing unit 50 transmits a character having various expressions and gestures to the user's mobile phone or PDA by comparing the member DB information with the user's intake and exercise amount. The degree is numerically displayed.

However, such a conventional diet management system and method calculates the amount of exercise that depends only on the information input by the user to manage the diet, so the amount of exercise that the user does not recognize is excluded and the diet is managed based on the wrong calorie consumption.

It is determined that the amount of exercise is insufficient even when the amount of exercise that the user does not recognize, there is a problem that can be harmful to health by dieting excessively.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile diet management system and a method for managing a user's diet in consideration of the amount of exercise recognized by the user and the amount of exercise not recognized by the user.

And another object of the present invention is to eat at a designated time, the user to directly enter the amount of the meal to induce a user to eat at a regular time, a mobile diet management system that can increase the effect of the diet and its In providing a method.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a mobile terminal for recognizing a meal time to the user, the amount of meal and the amount of recognizable exercise input by the user, a mobile communication system for detecting the moving distance of the mobile terminal; A diet server for receiving and storing movement distance information of the mobile terminal from the mobile communication system, and receiving and storing meal and recognizable exercise data stored in the mobile terminal connected to the mobile terminal, and accessing the diet server for movement. Receives and stores distance information, calculates calories consumed, recognizable calories, and unrecognized calories using each data, subtracts consumption from daily calorie intake, evaluates the result, and displays it to the user. Its features in composition There is this.

In another aspect, the present invention provides a user input step of inputting a meal amount and a recognizable exercise amount to a mobile terminal; A system input step of detecting movement path information of the mobile terminal and storing it in a diet server; Connecting the mobile terminal and the computer to transmit a meal amount and a recognizable exercise amount stored in the mobile terminal to the computer, and storing the meal amount and the recognizable exercise amount; The computer accesses the diet server, downloads the movement route information, calculates the movement speed in consideration of the movement time, detects the movement means by determining the movement speed, and calculates the amount of unrecognized exercise accordingly. An unrecognized momentum storage step of storing; Calculating calorie balance by calculating the calorie intake by converting the amount of meals into calories in the computer, converting the recognizable amount of exercise and the unrecognized amount of exercise into consumed calories respectively, and calculating the balance of daily calories by subtracting them from the intake calories. It is characterized by its configuration.

1 is a block diagram of a conventional diet management system.

2 is a flow chart of a conventional diet management method.

3 is a block diagram of the present invention mobile diet management system.

Figure 4 is a flow chart of the present invention mobile diet management method.

5 is a detailed flowchart of a meal input step in FIG.

6A and 6B illustrate screen examples of an input process displayed on a mobile terminal.

7 is a detailed flowchart of a process of tracking a moving path of a mobile terminal of FIG. 4.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

310: user 320: mobile terminal

330: repeater 340: base station

350: service provider server 360: diet server

370: computer

When described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings an embodiment of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

3 is a block diagram of a mobile diet management system of the present invention, and the mobile terminal 320 for receiving and storing a meal amount and a recognizable exercise amount input by the user 310; A repeater 330 installed in a large building to detect and transmit a daily moving distance of the mobile terminal 320; A base station (340) for relaying the transmission signal of the repeater (330); A service provider server 350 which receives the daily moving distance of the mobile terminal 320 received by the base station 340 and transmits the daily movement distance to the diet server 360; A diet server 360 for transmitting the daily moving distance received from the telecommunication service provider server 350 to the computer 370 of the user 310 through a communication network such as the Internet; Receives the amount of meal and the amount of recognizable exercise input by the user, converts the amount of meal into intake calories, converts the recognizable amount of exercise into consumed calories, and does not recognize the amount of unrecognized exercise input from the diet server 360. A computer that calculates the moving speed in consideration of the daily moving distance and the moving time by determining the amount of calories consumed by subtracting the sum of the recognized calorie consumption and the unrecognized calorie consumption from the intake calories. 370.

4 is a flowchart of a method for managing a mobile diet according to the present invention, in which the user inputs a meal amount into the mobile terminal 320 as shown in S310; Inputting an exercise amount recognizable by the user 310 into the mobile terminal 320 (S320); Connecting the mobile terminal 320 of the user 310 and the computer 370 to transmit daily meal amount and recognizable exercise amount data of the mobile terminal 320 to the computer 370 (S330); Step S340 of the user 310 accessing the diet server 360 using a computer; Apart from the above step S310 ~ S340, the step of tracking the movement path of the mobile terminal 320 of the user 310 (S410); Transmitting the movement path to the diet server 360 (S420); Storing movement information of the user in the diet server 360 (S430); Downloading the moving distance information stored in the diet server 360 in the computer 370 (S440); Converting the amount of meals into intake calories in the computer 370 and calculating unrecognized calories burned based on the recognizable exercise calories and the moving distance information (S450); Subtracting the sum of the recognized consumption calories and the unrecognized consumption calories from the intake calories and displaying the result (S460); And applying the result of the S360 to the avatar (S470).

Hereinafter, the present invention configured as described above will be described in more detail.

First, in operation S310, the user 310 inputs a meal amount into the mobile terminal 320.

FIG. 5 is a detailed flowchart of step S310 of the user inputting a meal amount into the mobile terminal 320, and determining whether a meal time set by the user has been reached (S311); If the meal time is reached step of notifying the user 310 that the meal time in the mobile terminal (320) (S312); Determining whether the user 310 inputs a meal amount, and if the meal amount is not input, returning to step S312 (S313); If the amount of meal is input as a result of the determination of step S313, the step of storing the amount of meal (S314).

The user 310 may directly input the amount of meal and the amount of recognizable exercise into the computer 370, but most people eat lunch or dinner outside the company or school, and thus the mobile terminal 320 is portable. Is more preferable.

First, through the steps S311 and S312, the mobile terminal 320 may sound an alarm when the set time is set so that the user 310 may have a regular meal, or visually and audibly by using an avatar. ) You can let them know that it's time to eat.

When the avatar is used, the avatar 310 continuously emits a smirking expression and sound until the user finishes the meal and inputs a meal amount, or outputs a message to end the meal.

Next, the user 310 recognizes that the meal time has come and inputs a meal amount into the mobile terminal 320 after the meal.

FIG. 6A is a screen configuration diagram of a mobile terminal 320 having software for managing a diet, and FIG. 6B is a submenu of FIG. 6A, and is a screen configuration diagram of a mobile terminal displaying a menu for inputting a meal amount. As described above, the software necessary for diet management can be downloaded and executed using the mobile terminal 320, and its configuration allows input of a meal, exercise, sleep time, activity amount, and the like.

The meal amount menu has subclasses such as rice, bread, noodles, and meat, and the user inputs the amount of meals into each subclass.

In operation S320, the user 310 inputs an exercise amount recognized by the user into the mobile terminal 320.

That is, when the exercise for a specified time in the gym, etc., input the type or time of the exercise. For example, enter the treadmill 30 minutes, bench place 50kg 100 times.

Next, in step S330, after the user returns home after work, the mobile terminal 320 and the computer 370 are connected through data connection means such as a USB port, and the user 310 is connected to the mobile terminal 320. ) Transmits the data entered during the day to the computer 370.

If the mobile terminal 320 exceeds the designated time without transmitting the data from the mobile terminal 320 to the computer 370, the user recognizes that the time to transmit the data has elapsed, and the user manages the daily diet. It helps to do this.

Next, in step S340, the diet server 360 is accessed using the computer 370.

Apart from the above process, the present invention detects the daily moving distance of the user so that the user can perform diet management in consideration of the amount of exercise that the user does not recognize.

To this end, the repeater 330, the base station 340 and the carrier server 350 in FIG.

That is, in step S410 it tracks the movement path of the mobile terminal 320 of the user 310, which is a repeater 330 for transmitting and receiving signals with the user's mobile terminal 320 as shown in the detailed flow chart of FIG. Confirming (S411); Transmitting mobile terminal movement information detected by the repeater 330 to the telecommunication service provider server 350 (S412); In step S413, the communication service provider server 350 stores information such as a movement path and a stay time of the mobile terminal 320, which will be described in more detail.

First, in step S411 to determine the movement route using the repeater 330.

The repeater 330 is installed in a large building or a subway station in consideration that the signal of the mobile terminal 320 does not reach the base station 340, and is unique to the repeater 330 that detects a signal of the mobile terminal 320. The moving position can be detected using the number.

That is, the repeater 330 serves to hold a fixed frequency constantly while the mobile terminal 320 of the user 310 is in the service area, and the mobile terminal 320 moves to another area to service other repeaters. When moving to an area, it is responsible for passing terminal information to the other repeater.

The repeater 330 service area is one floor in the case of large buildings, and in the case of subway stations are also installed at regular distances in the waiting room, platform, underground operating section.

Based on the characteristics of the repeater 330, the mobile terminal 320 of the user 310 can check the unique number and the movement of the repeater 330 responding to know the moving position of the user 310, the movement The computer 370, which has received the information on the location, calculates the moving speed in consideration of the moving time, and checks whether the user is walking or boarding the vehicle according to the moving speed.

This can calculate the calories burned by the user according to the distance traveled in consideration of the calories burned when walking and moving in a vehicle.

Next, in step S412, the user's moving position information relayed through the repeater 330 by the operation of the base station 340 is transmitted to the communication service provider server 350.

Next, in step S413, the communication service provider server 350 that receives the movement path information of the mobile terminal 320 stores the movement path information.

Next, in step S420, the movement path of the user stored in the service provider server 350 is transmitted to the diet server 360.

In operation S430, the movement path information of the user is stored in the diet server 360.

This process is to check the movement path of the user to detect the consumption of calories that the user does not recognize.

Next, in step S440, the user 320 accesses the diet server 360 using the computer 370 in the above state, and receives information about a daily moving path stored in the diet server 360. .

At this time, the user 320 undergoes a process of determining whether the user is a legitimate member, which is made in order to guarantee the confidentiality of the individual.

Next, the computer 370 calculates speed information for each section using the movement route and the movement time.

In operation S450, the computer 370 receives the daily meal amount of the user and data of the recognizable exercise amount from the mobile terminal 320, and receives the daily movement path information, which is an exercise amount not recognized from the diet server 360. ) Calculates the daily calorie intake of the user, the calories consumed by the user, and calories consumed by the user.

Next, in step S460 by subtracting the calories consumed by the exercise that the user recognizes from the intake calories ingested by the user during the day, the calories consumed by the exercise that the user does not recognize, the balance of calories during the day Check it.

At this time, if the calories consumed compared to the total calories consumed was evaluated as having a problem in the day's diet management, and if the total consumed calories were the same or equal to the day's diet management was evaluated as successful.

This evaluation step can be further subdivided, and even if there is excessive calorie consumption by receiving information such as the health status of the user in advance, it is possible to make various evaluations such as evaluating failure of diet management.

In operation S470, the evaluation result of the diet management is applied to the avatar.

The avatar may be an avatar displayed on the mobile terminal 320 or may be an avatar displayed when the diet server 360 is accessed using the computer 370.

The present invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and has ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains without departing from the concept of the present invention. Various changes and modifications are possible by the user.

As described above, the present invention automatically detects the amount of exercise in everyday life that the user cannot recognize other than the amount of exercise recognized by the user, and enables the accurate management of the diet by directly using the detection result in diet management. It works.

In addition, the user can have a regular meal at a specified time, by recognizing the meal time, there is an effect of improving the effect of diet management.

Claims (6)

A mobile terminal for recognizing a meal time to a user and storing a meal amount and a recognizable exercise amount input by the user; A mobile communication system for detecting a moving distance of the mobile terminal; A diet server for receiving and storing moving distance information of a mobile terminal from the mobile communication system; It is connected to the mobile terminal and receives and stores the amount of meal and recognizable exercise data stored in the mobile terminal, and accesses the diet server to download the movement distance information in consideration of the movement distance and time to calculate the amount of exercise data that the user does not recognize After calculating, using each data to calculate the calorie intake, recognizable consumption calories, non-recognized calories burned, the mobile consisting of a computer that reduces the consumption from the intake of daily calories, evaluates the results and displays them to the user Diet management system. The mobile diet management system of claim 1, wherein when the set meal time is reached, the mobile terminal displays an avatar on the screen, and notifies the user that the meal time is reached by using the facial expression and an alarm of the avatar. The mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication system comprises: a plurality of repeaters installed in a large building and the like to transmit and receive a recognition signal with the mobile terminal to detect a moving path of the mobile terminal; A plurality of base stations for relaying detection information transmitted from repeaters within a communication range of the plurality of repeaters; Mobile diet management system characterized in that it is configured as a communication provider server for storing the movement path information of the mobile terminal relayed through the base station and transmits the information to the diet server. A user input step of inputting a meal amount and a recognizable exercise amount to a mobile terminal by a user; A system input step of detecting movement path information of the mobile terminal and storing it in a diet server; Connecting the mobile terminal and the computer to transmit a meal amount and a recognizable exercise amount stored in the mobile terminal to the computer, and storing the meal amount and the recognizable exercise amount; The computer accesses the diet server, downloads the movement route information, calculates the movement speed in consideration of the movement time, detects the movement means by determining the movement speed, and calculates the amount of unrecognized exercise accordingly. An unrecognized momentum storage step of storing; Calorie balance calculating step of calculating calorie intake by converting the amount of meals into calories in the computer, converting the recognizable exercise amount and the unrecognized exercise amount into consumption calories respectively, and summing them and then subtracting from the intake calories to calculate the daily calorie balance; Mobile diet management method comprising the step of displaying the evaluation of the daily diet management to the user in consideration of the calculation result and the user's health status. The method of claim 4, further comprising: a first step of determining whether a meal amount input in the user input step is a meal time set in a mobile terminal; A second step of notifying the user of the meal time when the meal time comes as a result of the determination; A third step of repeating the second step if it is determined that the user inputs a meal amount and the meal amount is not input; And a fourth step of storing the meal amount if the meal amount is input as a result of the determination of the third step. The method of claim 4, wherein the system input step comprises: a detecting step of detecting a moving path of the mobile terminal using a repeater of the mobile communication system; A repeating step of repeating, by the base station, a movement path detected by the repeater and a time in the communication area of the repeater; A mobile diet management method comprising a movement path storage step of receiving and storing the movement path of the mobile terminal in the communication provider server, and transmits it to the diet server.