Activity Meter Food Icon Conversion for Diet Progress
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of body movement amount measuring apparatuses, such as pedometers and activity meters, face difficulty in intuitively understanding their diet progress, as existing methods fail to clearly convey the relationship between target and actual body movement, making it hard to assess diet effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A body movement amount measuring apparatus that calculates and displays the excess amount of body movement in relation to calorie intake, using a converted value representing the excess movement as icons of food items, allowing users to intuitively understand their diet progress by visualizing the calories burned in terms of food items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the excess amount of body movement is displayed by numerical representation, graphical representation, or using a figure that is suggestive of a daily event, then the relationship between target and accumulated amount can be understood as an achievement rate, but it is difficult to intuitively and specifically understand to what extent the effect of the diet is achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces food icons as an intermediary element to translate abstract numerical data (excess body movement) into concrete, relatable visual representations. Each food icon represents a specific calorie amount, serving as a mediator between the measured physical activity data and the user's dietary goals, making the diet progress intuitively understandable without complex displays
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the parameter representation from abstract numerical values to visual icon quantities. By converting the excess body movement amount into an equivalent calorie value and then representing it as a number of food icons, the system changes the parameter form from numerical to visual-countable, enhancing intuitive comprehension of diet effectiveness
2Ease of operation
If conventional display methods are used to show accumulated body movement, then the measurement data can be presented, but users cannot specifically understand how hard they are working on their diet
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the total excess body movement into discrete, countable food icon units. By dividing the continuous measurement data into individual icon representations (each representing a standard calorie amount), users can specifically understand their diet effort through simple counting, making the abstract concept of 'diet effectiveness' concretely visible and easily comprehensible
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AI summary
An activity meter includes a body movement detecting unit, a display unit, a target activity amount acquiring unit, an accumulated activity amount calculation unit, an excess activity amount calculation unit, a converted value calculation unit that calculates a converted value representing an excess amount of activity by dividing burned calories corresponding to the excess amount of activity by a unit calorie count, where a standard calorie count of a predetermined food is the unit calorie count, and a display operation control unit that controls a display operation of the display unit such that the display unit displays a measurement result using the converted value.