Pedometer for use with pregnant woman

• Main Authors: NAKAYAMA YURIKO, INOUE NORIKO, HARIMA SHINICHI, SANO KAZUMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.01.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DIAGNOSIS; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; SURGERY; SURVEYING; TESTING

Disclosed is a pedometer for use with a pregnant woman, comprising: a fat deposition related factor acquisition unit; a term-after-pregnancy acquisition unit; a number-of-activity step acquisition unit; an activity energy consumption calculation unit; a proper energy consumption storage unit; a comparison and assessment unit; and a comparison and assessment result output unit. According to the present invention said fat deposition related factor acquisition unit acquires a factor related to fat deposition of the pregnant woman, said term-after-pregnancy acquisition unit acquires a term that has elapsed after pregnancy, and said number-of-activity step acquisition unit acquires the number of activity steps taken by the pregnant woman. Furthermore, said activity energy consumption calculation unit calculates activity energy consumption caused by said number of activity steps acquired, and said proper energy consumption storage unit stores proper energy consumption for the pregnant woman. Moreover, said comparison and assessment unit compares the activity energy consumption calculated by said activity energy consumption calculation unit with the corresponding proper energy consumption stored in said proper energy consumption storage unit for assessing the activity energy consumption, and said comparison and assessment result output unit outputs the result of comparison and assessment for the activity energy consumption made by said comparison and assessment unit.