Researchers Submit Patent Application, “Health Management System”, for Approval (USPTO 20210343393): Patent Application

2021 NOV 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventor NAKAMURA, Kozo (Minamiminowa, JP), filed on October 14, 2019, was made available online on November 4, 2021.

No assignee for this patent application has been made.

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Advice is offered to improve dietary lifestyle. For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a system that analyzes dietary information or vital data to offer advice.”

As a supplement to the background information on this patent application, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent application: “SUMMARY:

“Technical Problem

“However, the system disclosed in Patent Literature 1 necessitates the preparation of advice in the form of a database in advance, so making it difficult to consider the individual difference.

“The present invention is made in view of such a situation and is intended to provide a technology capable of managing health considering the individual difference.

“Solution to Problem

“A primary invention of the present invention to solve the above problem is a health management system including a vital data acquisition unit configured to acquire vital data of a user, a dietary ingredient acquisition unit configured to acquire a dietary ingredient that the user ingests, an analysis processing unit configured to analyze a relationship between an intake of the dietary ingredient and improvement or deterioration of the vital data, and a dietary ingredient output unit configured to output the dietary ingredient of improving the vital data and the dietary ingredient of deteriorating the vital data.

“The above and other problems and solutions thereto disclosed herein will become apparent from preferred embodiments and drawings of the invention.

“Advantageous Effects of Invention

“According to the present invention, it is possible to manage health in consideration of the individual difference.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A health management system comprising: a vital data acquisition unit configured to acquire vital data of a user; a dietary ingredient acquisition unit configured to acquire a dietary ingredient; an analysis processing unit configured to analyze a relationship between an intake of the dietary ingredient and improvement or deterioration of the vital data; and a dietary ingredient output unit configured to output the dietary ingredient of improving the vital data and the dietary ingredient of deteriorating the vital data.

“2. The health management system according to claim 1, wherein the analysis processing unit estimates, in a statistical model using a measured value of the vital data as a response variable and the intake of the dietary ingredient as an explanatory variable, a coefficient of the explanatory variable by multivariate analysis.

“3. The health management system according to claim 2, further comprising: a target value input unit configured to receive an input of a target value of the vital data; and an intake determination unit configured to determine the intake of the dietary ingredient in such a way that the vital data matches the target value.

“4. The health management system according to claim 3, further comprising: a reference value storage unit configured to store a reference value of the intake, wherein the intake determination unit determines the intake in such a way that a deviation value from the reference value falls in a predetermined range.

“5. The health management system according to claim 1, wherein the intake determination unit determines the intake of the dietary ingredient for a plurality of the users in such a way that the vital data is closest to the target value.

“6. The health management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a menu information storage unit configured to store menu information; and a menu creation unit configured to determine a menu including the dietary ingredient of the determined intake by referring to the menu information.

“7. The health management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a supplementary food recommendation unit configured to recommend a supplementary food including the dietary ingredient that improves the vital data in a case where the dietary ingredient is not ingested by the user.

“8. The health management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a menu information acquisition unit configured to acquire the menu information input from the user, wherein the dietary ingredient acquisition unit specifies and acquires the dietary ingredient from the menu information.

“9. The health management system according to claim 8, wherein the menu information includes at least foodstuff information and quantity information.

“10. The health management system according to claim 1, wherein the vital data is a result measured by a blood pressure monitor.

“11. The health management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a lifestyle information input unit configured to receive an input of lifestyle information indicating a lifestyle of the user, wherein the analysis processing unit analyzes a relationship between the lifestyle and the intake of the dietary ingredient and improvement or deterioration of the vital data.”

For additional information on this patent application, see: NAKAMURA, Kozo. Health Management System. Filed October 14, 2019 and posted November 4, 2021. Patent URL: https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220210343393%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20210343393&RS=DN/20210343393

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