JP5670071B2 - Mobile device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable terminal, and more particularly to a wristwatch type portable terminal having a fatigue analysis function.

  Fatigue and fatigue are phenomena that many people living in a highly developed modern society face each other and are universal problems. In addition, it is an extension of various stresses in our daily lives, and is a foundation for illness. For this reason, it is important to detect and recognize early before getting sick.

  Recently, research on fatigue has progressed, and a method for easily diagnosing chronic fatigue syndrome (hereinafter referred to as CFS), which has been suddenly attacked by severe fatigue and has an unknown cause that has continued for more than half a year, has been proposed. There has been proposed a method of determining whether a patient is CFS by irradiating blood with infrared rays and determining whether the patient is CFS with a pattern of wavelengths absorbed by the blood.

  It is estimated that there are millions of CFS patients, including potential people, in Japan. Early commercialization of equipment that can easily determine fatigue, recognition of CFS patients, and subsequent establishment of aftercare Is desired.

  Here, referring to Patent Documents 2 and 3, a support system for health management is configured by adding a function of measuring biological information such as a person's pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature to a portable information terminal such as a cellular phone. Examples have been disclosed.

WO06 / 123611 JP 2007-325842 A JP 2004-351184 A

  In the technique disclosed in Patent Document 2, as described above, a function of measuring biological information is added to the portable information terminal. In this case, the measurement target person's device is connected to the pointing device provided in the portable information terminal. Biological information is measured by placing a finger. For this reason, it is conceivable that another person places a finger, and therefore it is necessary to correctly recognize the person to be measured. Therefore, in the portable information terminal in Patent Document 2, a personal authentication function is provided to identify the person to be measured. Therefore, there is a problem that it is necessary to add, and thus high functionality is required, and a simple device cannot be obtained.

  Further, in the technique of Patent Document 3, an adapter for detecting biological information is externally attached to the portable information terminal to the interface unit of the terminal, and thus there is a problem that this is not a simple device. .

  Furthermore, in these systems with health management functions, it is desirable that the user can measure the degree of fatigue without pain and unconsciously, and in a modern nuclear family society, the user himself / herself is in a severe fatigue state. It is desirable to notify the user of the fatigue state with a portable terminal such as a cellular phone device that is most familiar to them because the recognition in the environment and the surrounding recognition tend to be delayed and there is no way to know it. ing.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a wristwatch-type portable terminal that can measure the degree of fatigue unconsciously without a pain and can notify the user of the fatigue state with a simple configuration.

According to the present invention,
An infrared irradiation unit for irradiating infrared rays on the human body,
Fatigue level analysis means for analyzing the fatigue level by reflected light after irradiating the infrared ray ,
Control means for controlling the notification of this analysis result to the user;
A wristwatch-type portable terminal characterized by including:

  According to the present invention, the fatigue analysis function is added to the wristwatch-type mobile terminal, and the fatigue analysis of the user wearing the wristwatch-type mobile terminal is performed and displayed. Thus, there is an effect that the degree of fatigue can be measured and notified in an unconscious manner with a simple configuration and without pain.

It is an external appearance perspective view which shows the outline of the wristwatch-type portable terminal by embodiment of this invention. It is a functional block diagram of a wristwatch type mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart of the fatigue analysis process of the wristwatch type portable terminal by one embodiment of this invention. 1 is a network system configuration diagram considering fatigue care / advice using a wristwatch-type mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. It is a flowchart of the fatigue analysis result display process of the wristwatch type portable terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the fatigue | exhaustion analysis data display preserve | saved / accumulated. It is a figure which shows the other example of the fatigue | exhaustion analysis data display preserve | saved / accumulated. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the care / advice for fatigue improvement. It is a functional block diagram of the wristwatch type portable terminal by other embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic external perspective view of a wristwatch type mobile phone device 100 with a fatigue analysis function according to the present invention. The wristwatch type mobile phone device 100 having the fatigue analysis function according to the present invention irradiates near infrared rays from the near infrared spectroscopic unit mounted on the wrist phone device 100 to the user's arm, and the absorption spectrum thereof. By analyzing the above, the user's fatigue state can be analyzed and notified to the user.

  In addition, it is possible to divide this fatigue state in stages and notify improvement advice to the user. Furthermore, in the case of a fatigue state that is harmful to health, it is notified to hospitals, clinics, etc. via the network. Can be done.

  For this purpose, the wristwatch type mobile phone device 100 shown in FIG. 1 is configured to include functional blocks as shown in FIG. Referring to FIG. 2, the wristwatch-type mobile phone device receives information transmitted from a base station (not shown) via antenna 2, and displays information with radio unit 1 that transmits information to the base station. A display unit 3, an operation unit 4 for performing various operations, a memory unit 5 for storing various types of information, a speaker unit 7, a GPS unit 8 having a GPS (Global Positioning System) function, and a user according to user movements A motion detection unit 9 that detects the living state of the human body, a near-infrared spectroscopic unit 11 that irradiates near-infrared rays and analyzes an absorption spectrum by the reflected light, a fatigue analysis unit 12 that analyzes the analysis results, and controls each part And a control unit (CPU) 6 for performing the above operation.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the fatigue analysis process in the embodiment of the present invention. First, when the fatigue analysis function is activated, a measurement interval timer is set (step 101). When the timer expires (step 102), the current position is measured by the GPS unit 8 (step 103), and the life state of the user is detected by the motion detection unit 9 (step 104).

  Next, the near-infrared spectroscopic unit 11 emits near-infrared rays toward the human body (user) from the inside of the wristwatch-type mobile phone device worn by the user, and the absorption spectrum analysis is performed (step 105). . Thereafter, fatigue analysis of the measurement result is performed in the fatigue analysis unit 12 (step 106), and the measured current position information, the detected living state, and the fatigue analysis result are stored in the memory unit 5 ( Step 107). Since this fatigue analysis is detailed in Patent Document 1 described above, its description is omitted.

  Here, if it is determined in the fatigue analysis result that the fatigue state is harmful to health (step 108), it is determined whether to notify the fact based on the life state of the user detected by the motion unit 9. (Step 109).

  The detection determination of the user's life state in the motion unit 9 will be described. The motion unit 9 is equipped with an angular velocity sensor (gyro sensor) and an acceleration sensor, and recognizes the living state by these sensors.

  For example, an angular velocity sensor (gyro sensor) detects arm swing parallel to the direction of body movement, and an acceleration sensor detects the longitudinal force and movement of the arm. Analyzing algorithms regularly identify complex movements of the entire body as various behavior patterns (sleep, meal, work, commute, bathing, etc.).

The motion detection unit is a technology that has already been developed as shown in the following URL.
http://www.microstone.co.jp/case/technical-03.html

  In the present invention, since it may be difficult to identify an action pattern with only the above-described sensor, the GPS unit 8 is used in combination, and the action pattern identification accuracy is increased from the position information obtained thereby. ing.

  If it is possible to notify the user in step 109, a warning is displayed on the display unit 3 and a sound is output from the speaker unit 7 (step 110), and a severe fatigue state is sent via email to a hospital, clinic, etc. (Step 111).

  If it is not a severe fatigue state, the screen color, wallpaper, ringing, etc. are changed so that the user can easily recognize his / her fatigue state according to the level of the fatigue analysis result (step 112).

  FIG. 4 shows an example of a network configuration in consideration of fatigue care / advice. It is also possible to store the position information, the living state, and the fatigue analysis result at the time of measurement stored in the memory unit 5 shown in FIG. 2 in the personal information server 502 via the networks 504 and 505. The personal information server 502 can be accessed from a hospital, a clinic, or the like 503.

  Next, the display of the fatigue analysis result in the wristwatch type mobile phone device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The position information, the living state, and the fatigue analysis result at the time of measurement stored in the memory unit 5 shown in FIG. 2 are read by the control unit 6 and displayed on the display unit 3 (step 201). 6 and 7 show display examples of fatigue analysis data. FIG. 6 shows a display example when the fatigue state is not severe, and FIG. 7 shows a display example when the fatigue state is severe.

  If the user requests care / advice for the fatigue analysis result (step 202), care / advice information corresponding to the fatigue analysis result is acquired from the care / advice information server 501 via the network 504 shown in FIG. And displayed on the display unit 3 (step 203).

  Next, when the user requests detailed information on care / advice (step 204), the GPS unit 8 measures its own position information and transmits the position information to the care / advice information server 501 (step 205). ) More detailed care / advice information is acquired and displayed on the display unit 3 (step 206).

  FIG. 8 is a display example of care / advice for improving fatigue, and the upper display portion has a fatigue level of “attention”, and an example of care / advice for this “attention” is shown. The lower display portion (recommended menu) is an example of detailed information on care / advice. Based on the current location information of the user, as shown in the figure, restaurant information, sports & exercise information, and entertainment information are displayed as appropriate. As a result, the user can recognize his / her fatigue level and take action to improve fatigue.

  FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of a wristwatch type mobile phone device having a pathological diagnosis function according to another embodiment of the present invention, and the same parts as those in FIG. 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals. In this example, it is known that the result of the absorption spectrum analysis in step 105 in FIG. 3 is useful not only for fatigue disease bodies but also for diagnosis of lifestyle-related diseases and some cancers. In this configuration, the analysis unit 12 is replaced with a pathological diagnosis unit 32.

  As described above, in the wristwatch type mobile phone device with fatigue analysis function according to the present invention, near infrared rays are irradiated from the mobile phone device toward the human body when worn on the arm, and the degree of fatigue can be analyzed from the result of the absorption spectrum analysis. , The user can measure without pain and unconscious.

  Also, in modern nuclear-family societies, there is a tendency for people to recognize themselves and others around them until they become severely fatigued. The telephone device can notify the user of the fatigue condition. Furthermore, the waterproof specification is desirable because it can be always worn even during bathing.

  Recent mobile phone devices are equipped with various functions such as an Internet access function, an imaging function with a camera, and a GPS function, so that various services to users are possible. It is possible to perform care (advice) according to the fatigue state using such various functions. In addition, when it is determined that the fatigue state is a health-damaging level, for example, CFS, more effective care is possible by automatically notifying a hospital or clinic.

  In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the case where the present invention is applied to a mobile phone device has been described. However, it is apparent that the present invention can be widely applied to a wristwatch type mobile terminal that has a communication function and performs information processing.

1 Radio section
2 Antenna
3 Display section
4 Operation part
5 Memory part
6 Control unit
7 Speaker part
8 GPS section
9 Motion detector
11 Near infrared spectroscopy
12 Fatigue analysis department
32 Pathological diagnosis department
100 Wristwatch type mobile phone device
501 Care / advice information server
502 personal information server
503 Hospital, clinic 504,505 network

Claims (4)

An infrared irradiation means for irradiating the human body with infrared rays;
Fatigue level analysis means for analyzing the fatigue level by reflected light after irradiating the infrared ray,
Control means for controlling the notification of this analysis result to the user;
Including
Based on the movement of the user's arm, the complex movement of the whole body is periodically identified as various behavior patterns, and the fatigue level is notified together with the identification result ,
The control means makes a notification according to the fatigue level,
The control means can freely change the color scheme and wallpaper of the display screen according to the degree of fatigue, and further the setting of the warning sound
The wristwatch-type portable terminal , wherein the control means notifies a user and a hospital or clinic via a communication network when the degree of fatigue is at a health-damaging level . Further comprising means for generating location information;
The control means, wherein the position information for each time fatigue measurement, the identification result, a watch type mobile terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that so as to display the degree of fatigue. Care and advice information for fatigue improvement in accordance with the degree of fatigue, obtained from the server via the communication network, means for displaying the advice information to the display unit, or claim 1, further comprising 2. A wristwatch-type mobile terminal according to 2. The wristwatch type mobile terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the wristwatch type mobile terminal is waterproof.

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