KR20190041578A - System and method for providing personalized body weight management service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing an individual weight management service which collect bio-information and activity information from a plurality of individuals, check a trend of a weight change of an individual in accordance with an activity amount of each individual to calculate a basal metabolic rate and an energy amount of each individual and provide a personalized weight management service to the individual based on the calculated basal metabolic rate and energy amount of each individual. Therefore, a user can receive a professional personalized weight management service in the trend of the weight change of the user.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONAL WEIGHT MANAGEMENT SERVICE [0001]

The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing personal weight management services. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for providing personal weight management services, which collect bio-information and activity information from a plurality of individuals and check the individual change in body weight according to individual activities, Weight, and amount of energy based on the calculated individual basal metabolic rate and amount of energy, thereby providing the user with a personalized weight management service that allows the user to receive a professional customized weight management service according to his / To a system and method for providing a weight management service.

The prevalence of obesity has increased markedly in recent 30 years due to increased consumption of animal food, lack of exercise, and stress. Obesity, which leads to the accumulation of excess fatty tissue in the body, is becoming a global problem that warns that the World Health Organization is calling for long-term disease.

In particular, obesity is not simply a cosmetic problem but acts as a direct cause of metabolic syndrome, leading to various diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, stroke and osteoarthritis. In fact, obese people are 28% higher in mortality, 2.9 times more likely to have diabetes, and 5.6 times more likely to develop hypertension than normal people.

As such, obesity itself is becoming a fatal disease. As a result, interest and efforts in weight management have been increasing in society as a whole. As a measure, self-management through diet and exercise, dietary food intake, And inhalation procedures.

On the other hand, in the case of self-management in which the body weight is continuously measured and the change in body weight is to be recognized and recorded, it is not easy and troublesome due to the busy life pattern of modern people, and a systematic counseling from the weight- There was a problem, and most of the cases were caused by a decrease in will or motivation, neglect of management, and failure.

In addition, in the case of dietary food intake, there are numerous types and medicinal plants of different kinds are used as raw materials, and it is difficult to discriminate foods for their own constitutional characteristics and eat foods that have not been tested for their safety There is a problem that severe side effects occur, and drug administration and treatment are relatively expensive, resulting in a cost burden.

Meanwhile, recently, as interest in dieting has increased due to personal or medical reasons, a program for managing user status information has been continuously developed and released.

For example, in recent years, devices and systems have been developed and used that transmit weight and body fat of a user measured through a smart scales to a server, and allow a user to access a server and check information on body weight and body fat change of a user at a glance have. Meanwhile, in the case of such devices and systems, there is an advantage that the user can easily grasp the changes in his / her body weight and body fat. However, in order to check the data, the user has to access the server.

In addition, recently, devices such as a smartphone have been developed and applications for managing user's weight information through a smart phone have been developed and released, but this is also a level of simply managing weight information.

Therefore, in order to maintain a systematic diet, most of the patients are enrolled in health clubs and receive individual training, weight management is performed through dietary therapy, medical measures, etc. Therefore, And the failure to continue weight management due to the decline of will and motivation was still occurring.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0189995 Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0100909

It is an object of the present invention to provide a personalized weight control service by checking a user's eating habit and activity amount without registering an expensive personal training or a diet program so that a plurality of users can easily manage their own weight easily and easily And to provide a personal weight management service providing system and method.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a system and method for providing a personal weight management service which enables a user to more effectively manage a self weight by making it possible for a plurality of users to receive customized information necessary for weight management from an expert will be.

In addition, the object of the present invention is to collect bio-information and activity information from a plurality of individuals, to calculate an individual basic metabolism amount and energy amount by checking an individual's body weight change according to individual activity amount, The present invention provides a system and method for providing a personal weight management service that allows a user to provide a professional response based on a change in body weight by continuously checking the change in body weight according to a change in body weight and providing weight management information to a user.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for comparing weighted information of a cumulative user and current weight information, To a user terminal, thereby providing a system and a method for providing a personal weight management service that can induce a user's effective weight loss.

A system for providing personal weight management services according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a bio-signal collector for collecting biometric information of a user, a user terminal for receiving activity information from a user, an information providing server for receiving the biometric information and activity information, And an information use management server for extracting the biometric information and activity information from the information providing server and analyzing the extracted biometric information and activity information to generate feedback information.

In one embodiment, the user terminal transmits the biometric information and activity information collected from the bio-signal collector in cooperation with the bio-signal collector to the information providing server, and transmits the feedback information from the information use management server to the information providing server .

In one embodiment, the personal weight management service providing system may be configured to access the information utilization management server to browse the biometric information and the activity information, and transmit the expert feedback information based on the change in the biometric information of the user according to the activity information The information processing apparatus may further include an expert terminal that generates information, and the feedback information may include the expert feedback information.

In one embodiment, the information providing server receives the biometric information and the activity information based on a predetermined information reception period, and may store the received biometric information and activity information based on the reception time point.

In one embodiment, the information use management server extracts the biometric information and the activity information stored at the first and second time points, which are different from each other, from the information providing server, Biometric information and activity information may be compared with each other to generate the feedback information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a personal weight management service, including collecting biometric information of a user at a bio-signal collector, receiving activity information from a user at a user terminal, The information management server extracting the biometric information and the activity information from the information providing server and analyzing the extracted biometric information and activity information; And generating feedback information based on the analysis result.

In one embodiment, the method for providing a personal weight management service includes: a step in which the user terminal and the bio-signal collector are interlocked; and the step of providing the biometric information and the activity information collected from the bio- Transmitting the feedback information from the information use management server to the user terminal; and transmitting the feedback information from the information use management server to the user terminal.

In one embodiment, the method for providing a personal weight management service includes the steps of: accessing the information utilization management server from an expert terminal to browse the biometric information and activity information; The method may further include generating expert feedback information based on a change in information, and the feedback information may include the expert feedback information.

In one embodiment, the step of receiving the biometric information and the activity information in the information providing server includes receiving the biometric information and the activity information based on a predetermined information receiving period, and receiving the received biometric information and activity information Can be stored based on the time point.

In one embodiment, the step of analyzing the biometric information and the activity information to generate the feedback information may include extracting the biometric information and the activity information stored at the first and second time points, which are different from the information providing server, And generate the feedback information by comparing the biometric information and the activity information at the first and second time points.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a personalized weight control service is provided by checking a user's eating habit and activity amount even if an expensive personal training or a diet program is not registered, so that a plurality of users can easily and easily manage their own weight A system and a method for providing personal weight management services are provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a personal weight management service providing system that allows a plurality of users to receive personalized information necessary for weight management from an expert, Method is provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for collecting bio-information and activity information from a plurality of individuals, calculating an individual basic metabolic rate and energy amount by checking an individual's body weight change according to an individual activity amount, There is provided a system and method for providing a personal weight management service that enables a user to provide a professional response according to a change in body weight by continuously checking the change in body weight according to the individual activity amount and the amount of activity and providing the user with weight management information .

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for adjusting a weight of a user, comprising the steps of: comparing a previous weight information of a cumulative user with a current weight information, There is provided a system and method for providing a personal weight management service capable of inducing effective weight loss of a user by providing benefit information related to a user to a user terminal.

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a system for providing personal weight management services according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a personal weight management service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, a repeated description, a known function that may obscure the gist of the present invention, and a detailed description of the configuration will be omitted. Embodiments of the present invention are provided to more fully describe the present invention to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the shapes and sizes of the elements in the drawings and the like can be exaggerated for clarity.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as " comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

Further, the term " part " in the description means a unit for processing one or more functions or operations, which may be implemented by hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software.

FIG. 1 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a system 100 for providing a personal weight management service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

However, the personal weight management service providing system 100 shown in FIG. 1 is according to one embodiment, and the constituent elements thereof are not limited to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, Changed or deleted.

1, a system 100 for providing personal weight management services according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a bio-signal collector 110, a user terminal 120, an information providing server 130, and an information use management server 140 And may further include an expert terminal 150 connectable to the information use management server 140 as a component.

Meanwhile, the information providing server 130 and the information use management server 140 constituting the system 100 for providing a personal weight management service according to an embodiment of the present invention can be implemented through one or more processors and one or more recording media The information providing server 130 and the information use management server 140 implemented as described above are provided with a web page and an application program accessible from the user terminal 120 and the expert terminal 150 (for example, a smart phone, a tablet, etc.) It should be noted that the present invention is not limited thereto.

First, referring to FIG. 1, the bio-signal collector 110 will be described. The bio-signal collector 110 may collect the bio-information of the user. In order to collect bio-information from the user, , A body temperature measuring sensor, and a heart rate measuring sensor, but it should be noted that the present invention is not limited thereto.

Here, the biometric information may mean information including the user's weight information, height information, heart rate / pulse rate information, blood pressure information, and the like, but is not limited thereto. Note that the information included in the above-described biometric information is only an example, so that the information included in the biometric information is not limited to the above-described one.

Next, the user terminal 120 receives activity information from a user, and interacts with the bio-signal collector 110 to transmit bio-information collected from the bio-signal collector 110 to an information providing server 130 It can play a role of transmitting.

Here, the user terminal 120 transmits the biometric information to the information providing server 130 may mean transmitting using wireless communication, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, the user terminal 120 transmits biometric information to the information providing server 130 by connecting to the information providing server 130 through an application accessible from the user terminal 120 to the information providing server 130 And upload biometric information.

Note that, at this time, the user terminal 120 may be implemented as a smart phone, a smart watch, a tablet, a notebook, or the like capable of receiving activity information from a user, but is not limited thereto.

In addition, the user terminal 120 may receive activity information from a user, but may directly collect activity information of a user using a GPS function or the like. For example, the user terminal 120 may be configured to measure the movement distance and the number of steps of the user. In this case, the activity information of the user may be directly collected and transmitted to the information providing server 130 .

Note that, at this time, the activity information may mean information including information related to a physical activity of the user and information related to a meal activity, but is not limited thereto. Note that the information included in the above-described activity information is an example, and therefore, it should be noted that the information included in the activity information is not limited to the above-described one.

Next, the information providing server 130 may receive biometric information and activity information from the user terminal 120 and store the biometric information and the activity information. When the bio-signal collector 110 has a communication function, the information providing server 130 may receive biometric information directly from the bio-signal collector 110 as well as the user terminal 120.

Also, at this time, the information providing server 130 may store the biometric information and the activity information based on the time of receiving the biometric information and the activity information. Therefore, the biometric information and the activity information can be accumulated and stored at the time when the information providing server 130 receives the biometric information and the activity information.

The information providing server 130 may receive biometric information and activity information from the bio-signal collector 110 and the user terminal 120 based on a time set by the user. That is, the information providing server 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention can prevent the biometric signal collector 110 and the user terminal 120 from receiving biometric information and activity information unnecessarily and indiscriminately have.

Next, the information use management server 140 extracts and analyzes biometric information and activity information from the information providing server 130 and generates and provides feedback information including the user's weight management information.

More specifically, the information use management server 140 can analyze the change in the biometric information according to the extracted biometric information, the activity information, and the activity information to calculate the basic metabolism amount and the energy amount of the user, Based on the energy amount, feedback information including information for effective weight management of the user can be generated and provided.

Also, biometric information and activity information stored at the first and second time points, which are different from each other, are extracted from the information providing server 130 and analyzed to analyze the user's weight change trend between the first and second time points , The user's weight change can be analyzed according to the period, thereby making it possible to create and provide a more effective user-customized weight management countermeasure.

At this time, the information use management server 140 may provide the feedback information to the user through the user terminal 120. [ The user terminal 120 can access the information use management server 140 through the subscription process provided by the information use management server 140 and can receive the feedback information from the information use management server 140 You can create an account.

At this time, the subscription process refers to, for example, providing an input screen for inputting user information such as e-mail information and password information requested by the information use management server 140 to the user terminal 120, It should be noted that the present invention is not limited thereto, but may be a process of creating a user account based on receiving the user information.

That is, the information use management server 140 may provide feedback information to the user through the user terminal 120, but may provide the feedback information only to the user terminal 120 logged in as the user account.

In addition, the information use management server 140 can easily manage individual biometric information and activity information by creating and assigning user accounts.

Next, the expert terminal 150 accesses the information utilization management server 140 to browse the biometric information and the activity information of the user, and based on the biometric information and the activity information, And can generate the expert feedback information. Here, the expert feedback information may be included in the feedback information, and the feedback information including the expert feedback information may be provided to the user terminal 120, so that the user can easily receive the weight management from the expert.

The expert terminal 150 may also be connected to the information use management server 140 through the subscription process of the information use management server 140 and may be an expert who can generate expert feedback information in the information use management server 140 You can create an account.

That is, the expert terminal 150 accesses the information use management server 140 to browse the user's biometric information and activity information, and can generate expert feedback information based on the biometric information and the activity information, The biometric information and the activity information of the user can be browsed and the expert feedback information can be generated based on the biometric information and the activity information.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating a process of a method 100 for providing a personal weight management service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

However, the process of providing the personal weight management service in FIG. 2 is according to an embodiment, and the process is not limited to the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and some processes may be added, changed or deleted as needed Please note.

Referring to FIG. 2, a method of providing a personal weight management service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes collecting biometric information of a user in a bio-signal collector 110 (S201) After receiving the activity information from the user (S202) in the user terminal (120), the biometric information and activity information are transmitted to the information providing server (130).

At this time, when the bio-signal collector 110 is formed to have a communication function, the bio-information can be directly transmitted from the bio-signal collector 110 to the information providing server 130.

Then, the information providing server 130 receives the biometric information and the activity information from the user terminal 120 (S203) and stores the same. At this time, the information providing server 130 can accumulate and store the received biometric information and activity information at the time of reception, thereby allowing the user to more easily view biometric information and activity information at a specific time.

Meanwhile, the information use management server 140 extracts and analyzes biometric information and activity information from the information providing server 130 (S204), and generates feedback information (S205).

At this time, the generated feedback information can be transmitted to the user terminal 120 or can be viewed by the logged-in user terminal 120, thereby allowing the user to transmit customized feedback information for his or her body weight management through the user terminal 120 (S206).

Meanwhile, when the information utilization management server 140 extracts and analyzes the biometric information and the activity information to generate feedback information (S204), the biometric information and the activity information extracted from the expert terminal 150 logged in as the expert account are read The expert feedback information including the opinion of the expert for weight management can be generated, and the generated expert feedback information can be included in the feedback information and provided to the user.

Therefore, the user can receive customized information for his / her body weight management through the user terminal 120, and can also receive advice from an expert for weight management, thereby achieving more effective weight management .

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be taken as limitations. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

100: Personal weight management service providing system
110: bio-signal collector
120: User terminal
130: Information providing server
140: Information utilization management server
150: Expert terminal

Claims (10)

A bio-signal collector for collecting bio-information of a user;
A user terminal for receiving activity information from a user;
An information providing server for receiving the biometric information and the activity information; And
And an information use management server for extracting the biometric information and activity information from the information providing server and analyzing the extracted biometric information and activity information to generate feedback information.
Personal weight management service delivery system. The method according to claim 1,
The user terminal comprises:
And transmits the biometric information and activity information collected from the bio-signal collector to the information providing server in cooperation with the bio-signal collector, and receives the feedback information from the information utilizing management server.
Personal weight management service delivery system. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the personal weight management service providing system comprises:
Further comprising an expert terminal connected to the information utilization management server to browse the biometric information and activity information and generate expert feedback information based on a change in the biometric information of the user according to the activity information,
Wherein the feedback information includes:
And said expert feedback information.
Personal weight management service delivery system. The method according to claim 1,
The information providing server,
Wherein the biometric information and the activity information are received based on a predetermined information reception period and the received biometric information and activity information are stored based on a reception time point.
Personal weight management service delivery system. 5. The method of claim 4,
The information use management server includes:
Extracting the biometric information and the activity information stored at the first and second time points, which are different from each other, from the information providing server, comparing the biometric information and the activity information at the first and second time points, ≪ / RTI >
Personal weight management service delivery system. Collecting biometric information of a user in a bio-signal collector;
Receiving activity information from a user at a user terminal;
Receiving biometric information and activity information from an information providing server;
Extracting the biometric information and the activity information from the information providing server in the information use management server, and analyzing the extracted biometric information and activity information; And
And generating feedback information based on the analysis result of the biometric information and the activity information.
How to provide personal weight management services. The method according to claim 6,
The method of providing a personal weight management service,
Interfacing the user terminal and the bio-signal collector;
Transmitting the biometric information and the activity information collected from the bio-signal collector at the user terminal to the information providing server; And
Further comprising the step of transmitting the feedback information from the information use management server to the user terminal.
How to provide personal weight management services. The method according to claim 6,
The method of providing a personal weight management service,
Accessing the information use management server from an expert terminal to browse the biometric information and activity information; And
Further comprising the step of generating expert feedback information in the expert terminal based on the change in the biometric information of the user according to the activity information,
Wherein the feedback information includes:
And said expert feedback information.
How to provide personal weight management services. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the receiving of the biometric information and the activity information from the information providing server comprises:
Wherein the biometric information and the activity information are received based on a predetermined information reception period and the received biometric information and activity information are stored based on a reception time point.
How to provide personal weight management services. 10. The method of claim 9,
Analyzing the biometric information and activity information to generate feedback information,
Extracting the biometric information and the activity information stored at the first and second time points, which are different from each other, from the information providing server, comparing the biometric information and the activity information at the first and second time points, ≪ / RTI >
How to provide personal weight management services.

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