Abstract: A Nordic walking pole has a transmission device attached thereto and a switch thereof is pushed to transmit a signal indicating the start or end of Nordic walking. A pedometer receives the signal from the transmission device to thereby detect that the start or end of Nordic walking is instructed (S107). Assuming that the Nordic mode is specified when the current walking mode is a normal walking mode, the parameter for Nordic walking is set as a parameter for the arithmetic operation (S111). Assuming that the normal walking mode is specified when the current walking mode is a Nordic mode, the parameter for the normal walking mode is set as a parameter for the arithmetic operation (S113).

Abstract: A pedometer can be equipped with a sensor unit including a sensor for detecting motion by detecting acceleration of a displacement of a main body. Detected acceleration can be compared with a threshold value to determine whether the acceleration corresponds to body motion or to a setting operation. Various setting operations can be performed based on shaking of the pedometer.

Abstract: A body fat measuring apparatus includes: an upper limb unit including a hold portion that can be held in a hand of a subject and a main portion; and a lower limb electrode to be contacted with a lower limb of the subject. The hold portion includes an upper limb electrode, and the main portion includes a first surface to be contacted with a surface of an abdomen of the subject as well as a pair of first electrodes and a pair of second electrodes arranged at the first surface. The body fat measuring apparatus calculates a visceral fat amount of the subject based on two types of potential differences that are detected respectively in a case where an electric current is applied via a pair of the upper and lower limb electrodes and a case where an electric current is applied via the pair of second electrodes as well as physical data of the subject.

Abstract: A body composition measuring instrument for measuring a body composition of a whole body of a subject includes a detecting section for detecting a plurality of potential differences at each of a plurality of body sites including a whole body, both hands, and both feet by using hand electrodes and foot electrodes; first and second body composition calculating units for calculating the body composition of the whole body based on at least one of the potential differences detected by the detecting section and body information of the subject; and an informing unit for informing the information related to the body site to be detected of the potential difference used in the calculation of the body composition of the whole body.

Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus displays measurement results in various display modes. The biological information measuring apparatus includes an input unit which feeds display mode data used to determine the display modes of a plurality of items of biological information, a storage unit in which the display mode data is stored, a measuring unit which measures the items of biological information, a display unit which determines the display mode of the biological information measured by the measuring unit and a control unit 10 which causes the display unit to display the measured biological information according to the display mode data stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: A server selects one of a predetermined display specification programs based on at least one of attribute information related to an attribute of the user, purpose information related to a usage purpose of the user, and measurement data of the user input from a communication terminal capable of exchanging data with a body composition measuring instrument. The selected display specification program is transferred to the body composition measuring instrument via the communication terminal. As a result, the display specification program of the body composition measuring instrument is updated.

Abstract: The blood pressure detecting device includes a blood pressure meter, a physiological detector, and a processing unit. The processing unit stores an equation to convert the value of the physiological data to the corresponding blood pressure value. To determine the equation during calibration, the patient's physiological data is measured several times in the course of normal activities in order to obtain an actual blood pressure value for each patient. To determine the equation during measurement mode, the patient measures the physiological data value as above, and then a customized equation stored in memory will convert the physiological value to the patient's blood pressure value. Therefore, the more calibration data are collected for an individual patient, the more accurate the equation will be made, and thus a more accurate measurement will be made.