KR20060036253A - Method and system for providing location based diet care service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a diet management service using a positioning technology, and more particularly, to measure a moving distance of a user using a positioning technology through a mobile terminal having a GPS chip, and to measure the measured movement. It relates to a method and system for providing a location-based diet management service for calculating the amount of exercise and calorie consumption for the distance and the food intake of the user. Therefore, the service user can know the amount of exercise and calorie consumption for the distance traveled in everyday life as well as exercise, and the service user can maintain a healthy diet through the diet schedule generated through the exercise amount and calorie consumption It works.

Mobile terminal, GPS, calories, diet

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED DIET CARE SERVICE}

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a location-based diet management service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a detailed block diagram of a location-based diet management service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a schematic diagram of a location-based diet management service providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a detailed configuration diagram of a system for providing a location based diet management service according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flow chart of a location-based diet management service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of embodying a moving distance setting step in FIG. 5.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

100: mobile terminal 110: diet information input unit

120: position measuring unit (mobile terminal) 130: moving distance calculator (mobile terminal)

135: movement path generation unit (mobile terminal) 140: calorie calculation unit (mobile terminal)

150: GPS Chip 200: Diet Management Server

210: diet information management unit 220: calorie calculation unit (location management server)

240: diet schedule management unit 300: location management server

      320: location measuring unit (location management server)

340: moving distance calculation unit (location management server)

345: movement path generation unit (location management server)

400: communication network 500: GPS satellites

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a diet management service using a positioning technology, and more particularly, to measure a moving distance of a user using a positioning technology through a mobile terminal having a GPS chip, and to measure the measured movement. The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a location-based diet management service that provides a diet schedule that allows the user to maintain a healthy eating habit by calculating distance and calorie consumption for the food intake of the user.

The rapid development of modern science is making society increasingly bleak, while the recent rise in well-being culture has raised interest in health. Well-being means well-being, well-being and happiness. Therefore, it is a health culture that is being pursued by modern people with a new lifestyle that pursues well-being culture, healthy body and healthy spirit.

In particular, people's eating habits are changing, such as the preference for healthy foods such as organic products, and thus the interest in diet is also increasing. In other words, diet is now becoming a routine for improving people's diets, not for treating obese patients.

For this reason, various various diet-related services are provided, and the development of mobile terminals and related technologies and an increase in the Internet penetration rate make it more popular to provide more professional diet information.

However, until now, in order to receive the service, the user has to input his / her exercise amount as well as input his / her weight, height, and diet information directly to the terminal.

However, it is impossible to accurately measure the amount of calories consumed according to the total amount of exercise per day according to food intake because the amount of exercise can not be accurately measured through daily life, and can only be measured through the exercise equipment. There is a problem.

In addition, there is a problem that the diet service provider does not provide a more efficient diet schedule.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to measure the moving distance of the mobile terminal through the location tracking of the mobile terminal using the positioning technology of the mobile terminal with a GPS chip, It is to provide a method and system for providing a location-based diet management service that provides a diet schedule suitable for the health state of the user by calculating the exercise amount and calorie consumption of the user through the moving distance and the diet information of the service user.

In the method for providing a location-based diet management service according to the present invention for achieving the above object, in a method in which a diet management server provides a diet management service to a mobile terminal, A-1) a moving distance measurement time of the mobile terminal Receiving diet information including weight of the service user and food intake;

A-2) calculating a moving distance corresponding to the moving distance measuring time based on the position information of the mobile terminal and the moving distance measuring time; A-3) calculating the amount of exercise and calorie consumption for the moving distance based on the calculated moving distance and the diet information; And A-4) providing information on the calculated amount of exercise and calorie consumption.

In addition, the location-based diet management service providing system according to the first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in the system in which the diet management server provides a diet management service to the mobile terminal, the movement distance measurement of the mobile terminal A diet information input unit for receiving diet information including time, weight of a service user, and food intake, a position measuring unit for measuring a position of a mobile terminal with a built-in GPS chip, and position information of the mobile terminal measured through the position measuring unit Movement distance calculation unit for calculating the movement distance of the mobile terminal through the diet information input unit receives the diet information and the movement distance from the movement distance calculation unit receives the movement amount corresponding to the movement distance measurement time And calorie consumption The mobile terminal including a calorie calculation; And a diet schedule management unit which receives the diet information and calorie consumption from the mobile terminal and prepares a diet schedule of a user.

In addition, the location-based diet management service providing system according to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in a system in which the diet management server provides a diet management service to the mobile terminal, the movement distance measurement of the mobile terminal A mobile terminal including a diet information input unit and a GPS chip for receiving diet information including time, weight of a service user, and food intake; Receiving information for measuring the position of the mobile terminal from the mobile terminal to measure the position of the mobile terminal, the movement to calculate the moving distance of the mobile terminal based on the position information of the mobile terminal measured by the position measuring unit A location management server including a distance calculator; And a calorie calculator configured to calculate an exercise amount and a calorie consumption amount for the movement distance through the diet information received from the mobile terminal and the movement distance received from the location management server.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments will be described in detail a method and system for providing a location-based diet management service according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used for the same or similar components.

First, a location-based diet management service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

In addition, the embodiments are classified according to whether the position measurement is possible in the mobile terminal itself. That is, Figures 1 and 2 is a case where the position measurement is possible in the mobile terminal itself, Figure 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a location-based diet management service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is Detailed configuration of the location-based diet management service providing system according to an embodiment.

1 and 2, the location-based diet management service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a mobile terminal 100 and a diet management server 200.

The mobile terminal 100 is a GPS mobile terminal having a Global Positioning System (GPS) chip 150, which performs a positioning technology by mutually communicating with the GPS satellite 500, and performs a diet management server through the communication network 400. 200 and all of the mobile terminal 100 capable of exchanging information.

In addition, the service user carries the mobile terminal 100, the mobile terminal 100 measures the moving distance of the user carrying the mobile terminal 100 through the positioning technology.

On the other hand, the positioning technology is a technology for obtaining the location of the device using mobile communication, there are a handset-based technology, network-based technology and hybrid-based technology.

The handset-based technology is a method using a mobile terminal 100 having a GPS chip 150, the network-based technology is a cell-ID, AOA, TOA and TDOA method using a base station and a wireless network, the hybrid The technology includes an OTD and an E-OTD method combining the handset-based technology and the network-based technology, but since this is a known technology, a detailed description of measuring the position of the mobile terminal 100 using the location positioning technology is omitted. Let's do it.

In addition, the mobile terminal 100 may measure the position of the mobile terminal 100 using the handset based technology or the hybrid based technology, that is, the GPS based location positioning technology.

Hereinafter, the mobile terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile terminal 100 includes a diet information input unit 110, a position measuring unit 120, a moving distance calculator 130, and a calorie calculator 140.

The diet information input unit 110 receives diet information including a moving distance measuring time of the mobile terminal 100, a weight of a service user, and a food intake amount.

In addition, the diet information further includes the user's gender, age, height, BMI (body mass index) index, and eating habits information, which are reference data for generating a diet schedule of the user in the diet management server 200.

The position measuring unit 120 uses the GPS chip 150 and communicates with the GPS satellite 500 to measure the position of the mobile terminal 100.

At this time, the position measuring unit 120 collects the position information of the mobile terminal 100 by measuring the position measurement at the predetermined time interval during the movement distance measurement time.

The movement distance calculation unit 130 receives the position information from the position measurement unit to calculate the movement distance of the mobile terminal 100. That is, the movement distance calculation unit 130 includes a movement path generation unit 135 to generate a movement path of the mobile terminal 100 based on the position information collected by the position measurement unit 120, and generates the movement path. Measure the travel distance for the travel path.

On the other hand, the movement path includes only the movement path, the movement speed of the position change of the mobile terminal 100 measured below the preset reference speed.

Here, the moving speed may be a moving speed of the user, and the moving speed of the user may be known through a moving speed of the user such as a stop state, a walking state, and a moving state of the vehicle.

Accordingly, the moving distance calculator 130 sets a reference speed that is a reference for measuring the moving distance in advance, so that the moving distance calculation unit 130 exceeds the reference speed such as a stationary state where the reference speed is '0' and the vehicle moving state. Calculate the travel distance except the travel path.

The calorie calculation unit 140 uses the diet information received from the diet information input unit 110 and the movement amount and calories for the movement distance corresponding to the movement distance measurement time through the movement distance calculated by the movement distance calculation unit 130. Calculate the consumption.

The mobile terminal 100 transmits the calculated exercise amount and calorie consumption amount to the diet management server 200 through the communication network 400.

Hereinafter, the diet management server 200 will be described.

The diet management server 200 includes a diet schedule manager 240 to provide a diet management service to the mobile terminal 100.

That is, the diet schedule manager 240 receives the diet information, the exercise amount and calorie consumption amount from the mobile terminal 100 and prepares a diet schedule suitable for the exercise state of the user.

In addition, the diet management server 200 stores the diet information in a database to manage the user's diet information.

The prepared diet schedule is provided to the mobile terminal 100.

Hereinafter, a case in which the position measurement is not possible in the mobile terminal 100 itself will be described. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system for providing a location based diet management service according to another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a detailed configuration diagram of a system for providing a location based diet management service according to another embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4, the location-based diet management service providing system according to another embodiment of the present invention further includes a location management server 300 in addition to the mobile terminal 100 and the diet management server 200. .

The mobile terminal 100 includes a diet information input unit 110 and a GPS chip 150, and the location management server 300 includes a location measuring unit 320 and a moving distance calculator 340.

The diet management server 200 includes a calorie calculator 240 and a diet schedule manager 240.

In the following description, only differences from the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described.

That is, the position measuring unit 120 and the moving distance calculator 130 of the mobile terminal 100 described in the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2 are moved to the position measuring unit 320 and the moving unit of the location management server 300. The distance calculator 340 performs the calorie calculator 140 of the mobile terminal 100 by the calorie calculator 220 of the diet management server 200.

Accordingly, the diet management server 200 receives diet information from the mobile terminal 100 and receives the moving distance of the mobile terminal 100 from the location management server 300 to calculate the exercise amount and calorie consumption for the moving distance. do.

Next, a location-based diet management service method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a location-based diet management service method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method embodying a moving distance setting step in FIG. 5.

As shown in Figure 5, location-based diet management service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a diet information receiving step (S100), moving distance calculation step (S200), exercise amount and calorie consumption calculation step (S300) and It provides a diet schedule step (S400).

In the diet information receiving step (S100), the diet management server 200 receives diet information from the mobile terminal 100.

On the other hand, the diet information includes the moving distance measurement time of the mobile terminal 100, the weight and food intake information of the service user, and the like.

The moving distance calculating step (S200) is a step of calculating the moving distance of the mobile terminal corresponding to the moving distance measuring time, the position measuring step (S210), the moving path generation step (S220), the moving distance measuring step (S230), The movement distance transmission step S240 and the movement distance setting step S250 are performed.

In the location measurement step (S210) using the GPS positioning technology, the position of the mobile terminal 100 is measured at a predetermined time interval during the movement distance measurement time.

In the movement path generation step (S220), the movement path of the mobile terminal 100 is generated through the measured position of the mobile terminal 100.

In the movement distance measuring step S230, the movement distance of the mobile terminal 100 is measured through the generated movement path.

In this case, the moving distance is measured except for the moving path when the moving speed of the mobile terminal 100 is '0' or exceeds a preset reference speed.

In the movement distance transmission step (S240), the measured movement distance is transmitted to the diet management server 200.

On the other hand, the position measurement step (S210), the movement path generation step (S220), the movement distance measurement step (S230) and the movement distance transmission step (S240) finally using the GPS positioning technology of the mobile terminal 100 The mobile terminal 100 or the location management server 300 performs according to where the location information is generated.

In the movement distance setting step (S250), the movement distance received from the mobile terminal 100 or the location management server 300 is set to a movement distance corresponding to the movement distance measurement time.

As such, the diet management server 200 performs the next step after the movement distance is set.

That is, the exercise amount and calorie consumption calculation step (S300) calculates the exercise amount and calorie consumption amount of the user corresponding to the moving distance measurement time through the diet information and the moving distance.

The diet schedule providing step (S400) provides a diet schedule suitable for the user's health state based on the calculated exercise amount and calorie consumption amount.

On the other hand, the diet schedule, if the amount of exercise and calorie consumption is calculated based on the daily travel distance, includes the desired amount of exercise and food information to be ingested in the next day, if the travel distance before lunch, to dinner Appropriate food information and exercise information corresponding to the amount of calories to be consumed.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention belongs to the present invention without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the following claims. Anyone skilled in the art will have the technical idea of the present invention to the extent that various changes or modifications can be made.

As described above, according to the present inventor's method and system for providing a location-based diet management service, by calculating the moving distance of the mobile terminal using the positioning technology, the moving distance in the daily life as well as when the service user is exercising It is effective to know the amount of exercise and calorie consumption.

In addition, the user has the effect of maintaining a healthy diet through a diet schedule generated through the exercise amount and calorie consumption.

Claims (23)

In the diet management server provides a diet management service to a mobile terminal, A-1) receiving diet information including a moving distance measuring time of the mobile terminal, a weight of the service user and food intake; A-2) calculating a moving distance corresponding to the moving distance measuring time based on the position information of the mobile terminal and the moving distance measuring time; A-3) calculating the amount of exercise and calorie consumption for the moving distance based on the calculated moving distance and the diet information; And A-4) Method of providing a location-based diet management service comprising the step of providing information on the calculated exercise amount and calorie consumption. The method of claim 1, wherein after step A-4) And generating a diet schedule based on the calculated amount of exercise and calorie consumption, and providing the generated diet schedule to the mobile terminal. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the step A-2) A-2-1) measuring the position of the mobile terminal at a predetermined time interval during the movement distance measurement time; A-2-2) generating a moving path of the mobile terminal through the measured position of the mobile terminal, and measuring the moving distance of the mobile terminal through the moving path; A-2-3) transmitting the measured moving distance to the diet management server; And A-2-4) wherein the diet management server receives the movement distance and sets the movement distance corresponding to the movement distance measurement time. The method of claim 3, wherein the movement path of the mobile terminal is A method of providing a location-based diet management service, characterized in that the movement speed of the movement of the position movement of the mobile terminal is measured at a predetermined reference speed or less. The method of claim 4, wherein Wherein step A-2-1) to step A-2-3) is a mobile terminal or a location management server, characterized in that the location-based diet management service providing method. The method of claim 5, wherein the diet schedule Method for providing a location-based diet management service, characterized in that it comprises a supplementary exercise amount of the user and food information to be supplemented intake based on a predetermined daily exercise amount and calorie consumption. The method of claim 6, wherein the diet information Location-based diet management service providing method further comprises the user's gender, age, height, BMI index and eating habits information. The method of claim 4, wherein the mobile terminal Location-based diet management service providing method characterized in that the GPS mobile terminal comprising a GPS chip. The method of claim 8, wherein the mobile terminal Location-based diet management service providing method further comprises a location measuring application for measuring the location of the mobile terminal. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile terminal The apparatus further includes a calorie calculation application that calculates a moving distance of the mobile terminal through the location information of the mobile terminal measured by the location measuring application, receives the diet information, and calculates an exercise amount and calorie consumption for the calculated moving distance. How to provide location-based diet management services, characterized in that. In the system for providing a diet management service to the mobile terminal, the diet management server, Diet information input unit for receiving diet information including the moving distance measurement time of the mobile terminal, the weight of the service user and food intake, a position measuring unit for measuring the position of the mobile terminal with a built-in GPS chip, measured by the position measuring unit A moving distance calculator for calculating a moving distance of the mobile terminal using location information of the mobile terminal; receiving the diet information from the diet information input unit and receiving the moving distance from the moving distance calculator; A mobile terminal including a calorie calculator configured to calculate an exercise amount and a calorie consumption amount for a moving distance; And Location-based diet management service providing system consisting of a diet management server comprising a diet schedule management unit for receiving the diet information and calorie consumption from the mobile terminal to create a diet schedule of the user. The method of claim 11, wherein the position measuring unit Location-based diet management service providing system, characterized in that for measuring the location of the mobile terminal at a predetermined time interval. The method of claim 11 or 12, wherein the moving distance calculation unit The apparatus may further include a movement path generation unit configured to generate a movement path of the mobile terminal through location information of the mobile terminal measured at the time interval. The moving distance calculator provides a location-based diet management service system, characterized in that for measuring the moving distance of the mobile terminal through the moving path. The method of claim 13, wherein the movement path of the mobile terminal Location-based diet management service providing system, characterized in that consisting of a movement path measured by the movement speed of the position change of the mobile terminal is less than a predetermined reference speed. The method of claim 11 or 12, wherein the diet schedule is Location-based diet management service providing system, characterized in that it comprises a supplementary exercise amount of the user and food information to be ingested on the basis of a predetermined daily exercise amount and calorie consumption. The method of claim 11 or 12, wherein the diet information Location-based diet management service providing system further comprises the user's gender, age, height, BMI index and eating habits information. In the system for providing a diet management service to the mobile terminal, the diet management server, A mobile terminal including a diet information input unit and a GPS chip for receiving diet information including a moving distance measuring time of the mobile terminal, a weight of a service user, and food intake; Receiving information for measuring the position of the mobile terminal from the mobile terminal to measure the position of the mobile terminal, the movement to calculate the moving distance of the mobile terminal based on the position information of the mobile terminal measured by the position measuring unit A location management server including a distance calculator; And Providing a location-based diet management service consisting of a diet management server comprising a calorie calculation unit for calculating the exercise amount and calorie consumption for the moving distance through the diet information received from the mobile terminal and the moving distance received from the location management server system. The method of claim 17, wherein the position measuring unit And receiving the movement distance measurement time from the diet management server to measure the position of the mobile terminal at a predetermined time interval during the movement distance measurement time. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the moving distance calculator The apparatus may further include a movement path generation unit configured to generate a movement path of the mobile terminal through location information of the mobile terminal measured at the time interval. The moving distance calculator provides a location-based diet management service system, characterized in that for measuring the moving distance of the mobile terminal through the moving path. 20. The method of claim 19, wherein the movement path of the mobile terminal is Location-based diet management service providing system, characterized in that consisting of a movement path measured by the movement speed for the movement of the position of the mobile terminal is less than a predetermined reference speed. 21. The method according to any one of claims 17 to 20, wherein the diet management server is And a diet schedule manager configured to prepare a diet schedule of the user through the calorie consumption received from the calorie calculator and the diet information received from the diet information manager. The method of claim 21, wherein the diet schedule Location-based diet management service providing system, characterized in that it comprises a supplementary exercise amount of the user and food information to be supplemented intake based on a predetermined daily exercise amount and calorie consumption. The method of claim 21, wherein the diet information Location-based diet management service providing system further comprises the user's gender, age, height, BMI index and eating habits information.

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