Physical activity amount meter

Abstract

The pedometer is equipped with a physical activity amount-acquiring unit (11) that acquires the amount of physical activity of the person being measured, an indicator-acquiring unit (15) that acquires an indicator pertaining to the amount of physical activity, and an indicator-outputting unit (18) that outputs the acquired indicator. The indicator-acquiring unit (15) comprises a physical activity age-acquiring unit (16) for acquiring, using somatic information about the person being measured, the physical activity age, which represents the standard age of people having the same amount of physical activity as the amount of physical activity acquired in a unit period of time. An indicator for achieving a target physical activity age is acquired on the basis of the acquired physical activity amount.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to an activity meter for measuring the physical activity of a measured person, in particular to an activity meter that outputs indicators related to the physical activity. Background technique [0002] As an activity meter, a method is disclosed in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-204446) and Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-258870), which uses an acceleration sensor to Measures the intensity of physical activity or calories burned. In the activity meter of Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2006-204446), the standard deviation Sw of the acceleration at a fixed time tw is calculated based on the output signal of the acceleration sensor, and the standard deviation Sw is used based on the standard deviation Sw. Conversion formula to calculate exercise intensity wi. In addition, in the device of Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2001-258870), ...

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Problems solved by technology

In this regard, in the active mass meter of Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2006-204446) or Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2001-258870), although the active mass of the person to be measured is expressed as The output is in the form of calories consumed, but it is difficult to know whether the calories consumed are more or less, and it is equivalent to the calories consumed by people of what age.

[0008] In Patent Document 3 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2010-17525), although the user's activity state is calculated to which age's activity pattern corresponds, it does not present an index related to the activity to achieve the target activity pattern.

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