Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the first axis, and determines a rotation angle about the second axis in a state where a pitch angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal pitch angle. Then, in a state where the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, the sensor section is pressed against the body surface, and a pulse wave is detected in this state based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements, and vital information is calculated based on the detected pulse wave.

Abstract: The pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section in which two element rows consisting of a plurality of pressure detecting elements arranged in a direction B are arranged in a direction A perpendicular to the direction B, and an air bag pressing the sensor section to a body surface in a state that the direction B intersects a direction in which an artery below the body surface of a living body. An arrangement interval between the two element rows in the direction A is 5 mm or more and 15 mm or less.

Abstract: A pulse wave detector includes: a body portion; a band which is wound around a wrist while the band is engaged with the body portion; a basal-end engaging portion which is disposed on one end portion of the body portion in a circumferential direction of the wrist, and with which a basal end portion of the band is engaged; an arbitrary-position engaging portion which is disposed on another end portion of the body portion in the circumferential direction, and with which an arbitrary position between the basal end portion and a tip end portion of the band is engaged in a folded back state; and an engagement member which causes the tip end portion to be detachably engaged with the band or the body portion in a state where the band which is folded back in the arbitrary-position engaging portion and the basal end portion overlap with each other.

Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the second axis and a rotation angle about the first axis in a state where a roll angle of the sensor section is controlled to the optimal roll angle. Then, the control unit, presses the sensor section against the body surface in a state where the sensor section is controlled into the optimal roll angle and the optimal pitch angle, detects a pulse wave based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements during the increase, and calculates vital information based on the detected pulse wave.

Abstract: A diagnosis assistance device assists a diagnosis, by using a plurality of sets of biological information that are measured from a subject, and that are stored in a storage medium. The diagnosis assistance device includes an achievement status determining section and a notification processing section. The achievement status determining section determines an achievement status of a predetermined condition related to biological information that is measured from the subject, based on the plurality of sets of biological information stored in the storage medium. The notification processing section performs a process of notifying of the achievement status. The condition is that the pattern of a change of biological information which is stored in the storage medium contains, threshold or more times, a specific pattern. The specific pattern is extreme-dipper, non-dipper, or riser.

Abstract: A diagnosis assistance apparatus acquires a predetermined period's worth of biological information measured from a living body every heartbeat, from a storage unit storing the biological information, divides the biological information into multiple segments, generates fluctuating state information indicating the fluctuating state of the biological information in each segment, and displays a graph indicating the fluctuating state information of each segment on a display unit. Furthermore, if a certain piece of fluctuating state information is selected in the graph displayed on the display unit, the diagnosis assistance apparatus displays a graph indicating the biological information belonging to the segment corresponding to the selected piece of fluctuating state information on the display unit.

Abstract: A blood pressure correction information generating device includes: a wrist position change time period detecting section which detects a change time period when a position of a wrist of a person is changed at a degree equal to or greater than a threshold based on information according to a motion of the wrist of the person to whom a blood pressure measurement device is attached, the blood pressure measurement device including a pulse wave detecting section which detects a pulse wave, and a blood pressure information calculating section which calculates blood pressure information; and a blood pressure correction information generating section which generates blood pressure correction information for correcting the blood pressure information which is calculated after the change time period, based on first blood pressure information which is calculated before the change time period, and second blood pressure information which is calculated after the change time period.

Abstract: A storage unit (M12) stores correspondence information in which at least two pieces of information among environment information, person information, and the device information detected by at least one of a plurality of devices (U1-n) and external information provided by an external device and autonomous operation information including operation information of the plurality of devices and notification information representing notification using a sound, a light, or an image of the plurality of devices are associated with each other. A control unit (M11) acquires the at least two pieces of information. The control unit (M11) determines the autonomous operation information based on the correspondence information and the at least two pieces of information.

Abstract: A blood pressure analyzing apparatus includes: a blood pressure variation determiner determining whether first blood pressure information varies a threshold or more from second blood pressure information or not, the first blood pressure information corresponding to an arbitrary beat, the second blood pressure information corresponding to a previous beat to the arbitrary beat; a blood pressure variation cause determiner determining whether a blood pressure variation is caused by the move of the wrist or by another reason than the move of the wrist, based on, wrist move information detected in a detection period of a pulse wave serving as a calculation source of the first blood pressure information, when it is determined that the first blood pressure information varies the threshold or more from the second blood pressure information; and a recording controller recording a determination result and the first blood pressure information in association with each other.

Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a housing accommodating a pulse wave detection sensor and to be wound along a circumferential direction of a wrist. The housing includes: a back-side portion to be wound around a back side of a hand; and a palm side portion to be wound around a palm side of the hand. In an attachment state, a position in a direction of a part: which is in a hand side end portion that is an end portion of the housing, the end portion being on a side of the hand in the direction; and which constitutes the back-side portion, is closer to an arm than a position in the direction of a part: which is in a portion that constitutes the palm side portion; and which is closest to the side of the hand, the direction being perpendicular to the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A biological information measurement apparatus includes: a pressure sensor including a pressure detecting element; a pressing mechanism which presses the pressure sensor against an artery in a living body; a press controller which controls a pressing force of the pressing mechanism; a blood flow sensor; a blood flow information measurer which measures blood flow information based on output of the blood flow sensor; a pressing force decider which decides a first pressing force based on blood flow information measured during a pressing force control time period when the pressing force is changed in one direction, and information of a pressure pulse wave detected during the pressing force control time period; and a record controller which records a pressure pulse wave detected in a first state where the pressing force is controlled to the first pressing force, and blood flow information measured in the first state.

Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device is to be used while being attached to a wrist of a subject. The pulse wave detecting device includes a housing which accommodates a pulse wave detection sensor for detecting a pulse wave from a radial artery, the housing includes: a first housing portion; and a second housing portion which is lower in rigidity than the first housing portion, the pulse wave detection sensor is accommodated in the first housing portion, and a region of the housing is configured by at least the second housing portion, the region being contacted with a styloid process of a radius of the wrist in a state where the housing is attached to the wrist.

Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus includes: a triaxial acceleration sensor; an information output section which outputs information for guiding an arm of the person on which the blood pressure measuring apparatus is worn, to a pair of a first posture and a second posture between which a position of the wrist is different; a posture determiner which determines that the arm has been in each of the pair of the postures, based on an output signal of the triaxial acceleration sensor after the output of the information; and a physical feature information calculator which calculates physical feature information of the person based on moving acceleration information detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor in a period between when the arm is in one of the pair of the postures and when the arm is in the other of the pair of the postures.

Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes: a pressure pulse wave detector which is configured to press a pressing surface in which a pressure detecting element is formed, against a radial artery under a skin of a wrist of a subject, and which is configured to detect a pressure pulse wave from the radial artery; and a housing which accommodates the pressure pulse wave detector in a state where the pressing surface is exposed toward the wrist. The housing is configured so that a compression pressure which is exerted by the housing in an attachment state where the housing is attached to the wrist, and which is applied onto the radial artery is smaller than a compression pressure which is exerted by the pressing surface in the attachment state, and which is applied onto the radial artery.

Abstract: A diagnosis assistance apparatus, a diagnosis assistance method, a diagnosis assistance program, and a bodily information measurement apparatus, assist diagnosis by outputting information that is useful for the diagnosis. A bodily information measurement apparatus includes a data acquisition unit that acquires data for analysis in which bodily information measured from a measurement subject and position information of the measurement subject at the time of measuring the bodily information are associated; an index generation unit that, based on bodily information associated with position information that is included in the data and belongs to multiple pieces of pre-registered location information, generates numerical value indices for determining a bodily state of the measurement subject with respect to the respective pieces of location information; and an output unit that performs output based on the numerical value indices generated for the multiple pieces of location information.

Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes a cuff and a control unit. The cuff includes a first securing portion, provided on one surface of the cuff, for securing the cuff to the measurement area in a wrapped state, and a second securing portion, provided on another surface of the cuff, for securing the cuff to the measurement area in a wrapped state. At least one of the first securing portion and the second securing portion includes an electromagnet portion. The control unit secures the cuff to the measurement area by controlling a magnetic force emitted from the electromagnet portion and causing the second securing portion to be attracted to the first securing portion.

Abstract: The embodiment provides a control unit for measuring living body information on the basis of pressure pulse waves detected by pressure sensors in a state that the pressure sensors are pressed toward a radius artery by an air bag and display units which are arranged around a wrist in the state that the pressure sensors are pressed toward the radius artery. The control unit performs display controls on the display units. One of the display units is disposed on the palm side of the wrist in the state that the pressure sensors are pressed toward the radius artery. The other one of the display units is disposed on the hand back side of the wrist in the state that the pressure sensors are pressed toward the radius artery.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to improve operability in an input operation that involves use of two or more fingers. The present invention comprises: a detection unit (1) configured to detect a contact position of a first finger of the user on an outer edge of a casing of a terminal device (10); and a setup unit (22) configured to set up, by using as a reference a position opposite from the contact position of the first finger of the user detected by the detection unit (1), a second input area where an input made with a second finger of the user is received.

Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with an air bag drive unit, a pressing surface formed with pressure sensors, and a control unit which calculates first blood pressure values on the basis of a first pressure pulse wave that was detected by the pressure sensors, generates calibration data using the first blood pressure values, and calculates second blood pressure values by calibrating, using the calibration data, a second pressure pulse wave that is detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing force is set at an optimum pressing force. The control unit performs the processing of calculating second blood pressure values by calibrating the second pressure pulse wave if detection conditions of the second pressure pulse wave coincide with detection conditions of a pressure pulse wave used for generation of the calibration data.

Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction and an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in the one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body, a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in a radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that are detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing surface is pressed against the living body by the air bag, and a rotational drive unit for performing driving to rotate the pressing surface about each of axes that are perpendicular to a pressing direction of the air bag.