阅读说明：本技术 以自动方式确定血糖单位的血糖测定装置及方法 (Blood glucose measuring device and method for automatically determining blood glucose unit ) 是由 李荣旭 于 2019-06-28 设计创作，主要内容包括：提供一种以自动方式确定血糖单位的血糖测定装置以及方法,血糖测定装置能以装置所在的地区以及用户输入为基础,可确定需要向用户提供的血糖单位,并且,根据确定到的血糖单位,用显示器可向用户提供血糖数据。(A blood glucose measuring device and method for automatically determining a blood glucose unit are provided, the blood glucose measuring device being capable of determining the blood glucose unit to be provided to a user based on the region where the device is located and user input, and providing blood glucose data to the user based on the determined blood glucose unit using a display.)

1. A blood glucose assay method for determining blood glucose units in an automated manner, comprising:

detecting changed country information from a blood glucose measuring device by monitoring at least one of a region where the blood glucose measuring device is located and a user input;

a step of determining a blood glucose unit corresponding to the changed country information in response to detection of the changed country information; and

a step of providing the measured blood glucose data to the user using the determined blood glucose units.

2. The blood glucose measurement method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1, wherein said step of detecting altered country information comprises:

and changing the country information to a country indicated by the region in response to a change in the country indicated by the location of the blood glucose level determining device.

3. The blood glucose measurement method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1, wherein said step of detecting altered country information comprises:

calculating position estimation information on the blood glucose measuring device; and

and specifying the changed country information based on a comparison between the position estimation information and a previous position of the blood glucose measuring device.

4. The blood glucose test method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 3, wherein said step of calculating information related to said location estimate comprises:

receiving a global navigation satellite system signal;

and calculating the position estimation information of the blood sugar measuring device based on the received global navigation satellite system.

5. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 3,

the step of calculating the position estimation information includes:

a step of identifying internet protocol address information assigned to a computer network in response to connection of the blood glucose measuring device to the computer network; and

and calculating the position estimation information based on the identified internet protocol address information.

6. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1,

the step of detecting the changed country information includes:

changing country information of the blood glucose measuring device to a country corresponding to the changed geographical location in response to a case where a time period for which the changed geographical location of the blood glucose measuring device is reserved exceeds a time limit.

7. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1,

the step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

a step of determining a unit of flag corresponding to a country in which the blood glucose measuring device is located as the blood glucose unit within a predetermined period of time near the present time.

8. The blood glucose measurement method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 3, wherein said step of detecting altered country information comprises:

a step of recognizing a country code from the test paper in response to input of the inserted test paper; and

and detecting the changed country information based on a comparison between the identified country code and the current location of the blood glucose measuring device.

9. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1,

the step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

obtaining a target blood glucose value from a user input;

and determining a blood glucose unit based on the obtained target blood glucose value.

10. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 9,

the step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

a step of determining a first unit as said blood glucose unit in response to said obtained target blood glucose value having a number of digits exceeding a first threshold number of digits; and

in response to the obtained target blood glucose value being within a second range having a difference from the first range, determining a second unit having a difference from the first unit as the blood glucose unit.

11. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 9,

the step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

determining the blood glucose unit based on the obtained number of digits of the target blood glucose value.

12. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 9,

the step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

a step of determining a first unit as said blood glucose unit in response to said obtained target blood glucose value having a number of digits exceeding a first threshold number of digits; and

in response to said obtained target blood glucose value exceeding a second threshold number of bits, determining a second unit as said blood glucose unit.

13. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1,

the step of detecting the changed country information includes:

a step of recognizing optical recognition information on the test paper; and

and detecting the changed country information based on the optical identification information.

14. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1, wherein said step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

a step of requesting tag unit definition information corresponding to the changed country information from a server; and

a step of determining the blood glucose unit using the marker unit location information in response to a case where the marker unit definition information defines a marker unit of blood glucose.

15. The blood glucose measurement method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 3, wherein said step of detecting altered country information comprises:

and a step of detecting the changed country information based on at least one of a network service provider, a user identification card, and a user setting language to which the blood glucose measuring device is connected.

16. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1, wherein said step of determining blood glucose units comprises:

a step of determining one of a plurality of blood glucose units based on user input in response to a changed country supporting the plurality of blood glucose units; and

a step of determining the selected units as the blood glucose units.

17. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1, further comprising:

initializing the blood glucose data when the blood glucose measuring device first senses the blood glucose data.

18. The blood glucose assay method of automatically determining blood glucose units of claim 1,

the step of providing the blood glucose data comprises:

sensing blood glucose data measured for the user from a strip inserted into a blood glucose measuring module connected to the blood glucose measuring device; and

a step of visualizing said sensed blood glucose data using said determined blood glucose units.

19. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer-readable recording medium,

one or more computer programs storing instructions for performing a method comprising any of claims 1 to 18.

20. A blood glucose test device for determining blood glucose units in an automated manner, comprising:

a processor for detecting changed country information from the blood glucose measuring device by monitoring at least one of a region where the blood glucose measuring device is located and a user input, and determining a blood glucose unit corresponding to the changed country information in response to detecting the changed country information; and

and an output unit for providing the measured blood glucose data to the user by using the specified blood glucose unit.

Technical Field

Hereinafter, a blood glucose measuring technique which is automatically changed is provided

Technical Field

Recently, due to western dietary habits, more and more modern people are suffering from so-called adult diseases such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, blood clots, and the like. In young women, the number of people with iron deficiency anemia is rapidly increasing due to excessive weight loss. One simple way to understand the severity of these adult diseases is to measure the biological components in the blood. The measurement of biological components can measure the amounts of many components included in blood, such as blood sugar, anemia, blood coagulation, and the like, and thus, an ordinary person can easily determine whether there is an abnormal phenomenon, such as whether the value of a specific component is within a normal region or an abnormal region, without looking at a doctor.

A simple method for measuring a biological component is a method in which blood collected from a fingertip is injected into a test strip inserted into a biosensor, and then an output signal is quantitatively analyzed by an electrochemical or photometric method. Since the amount of the corresponding component can be displayed on the measuring device by this method, it is suitable for ordinary people who are not specialized.

Each country expresses blood glucose units in different blood glucose units. Therefore, there is a need for a technique that can provide the measured blood sugar amount in units prescribed by the corresponding country in an automatic manner without additional operations.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical subject

According to the blood glucose measuring device of one embodiment, the geographical information may be used to determine the blood glucose units.

According to the blood glucose measuring device of one embodiment, the network address can be used to determine the blood glucose unit.

According to one embodiment of the blood glucose measuring device, the test strip code may be used to determine the blood glucose unit.

According to the blood glucose measuring apparatus of one embodiment, the blood glucose unit can be determined using the target blood glucose value input by the user.

Technical scheme

A blood glucose determination method for automatically determining blood glucose units according to one embodiment may include:

detecting changed country information from a blood glucose measuring device by monitoring at least one of a region where the blood glucose measuring device is located and a user input; a step of determining a blood glucose unit corresponding to the changed country information in response to detection of the changed country information; and a step of providing the measured blood glucose data to the user using the determined blood glucose units.

The step of detecting changed country information according to one embodiment may include: and changing the country information to a country indicated by the region in response to a change in the country indicated by the location of the blood glucose level determining device.

The step of detecting changed country information according to one embodiment may include: calculating position estimation information on the blood glucose measuring device; and a step of specifying the changed country information based on a comparison between the position estimation information and a previous position of the blood glucose measuring device.

The step of calculating information about the position estimate according to one embodiment may comprise:

a step of receiving a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal; and calculating the position estimation information of the blood sugar measuring device based on the received global navigation satellite system.

The step of calculating the position estimation information according to one embodiment may comprise: a step of recognizing Internet Protocol address information (IP address information) allocated to the computer network in response to connection of the blood glucose measurement device to the computer network; and calculating the position estimation information based on the identified internet protocol address information.

The step of detecting changed country information according to one embodiment may include: changing country information of the blood glucose measuring device to a country corresponding to the changed geographical location in response to a case where a time period for which the changed geographical location of the blood glucose measuring device is reserved exceeds a time limit.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: a step of determining a unit of flag corresponding to a country in which the blood glucose measuring device is located as the blood glucose unit within a predetermined period of time near the present time.

The step of detecting the changed country information may include: a step of recognizing a country code from the test paper in response to input of the inserted test paper; and a step of detecting the changed country information based on a comparison between the identified country code and the current location of the blood glucose measuring device.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: obtaining a target blood glucose value from a user input; and determining a blood glucose unit based on the obtained target blood glucose value.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: a step of determining a first unit as said blood glucose unit in response to said obtained target blood glucose value having a number of digits exceeding a first threshold number of digits; and a step of determining a second unit having a difference from the first unit as the blood glucose unit in response to a case where the obtained target blood glucose value is within a second range having a difference from the first range.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: determining the blood glucose unit based on the obtained number of digits of the target blood glucose value.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: a step of determining a first unit as said blood glucose unit in response to said obtained target blood glucose value having a number of digits exceeding a first threshold number of digits; and determining a second unit as said blood glucose unit in response to said obtained target blood glucose value having a number of bits exceeding a second threshold number of bits.

The step of detecting the changed country information may include: a step of recognizing optical recognition information on the test paper; and a step of detecting the changed country information based on the optical identification information.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: a step of requesting tag unit definition information corresponding to the changed country information from a server; and a step of determining the blood glucose unit using the marker unit location information in response to a case where the marker unit definition information defines a marker unit of blood glucose.

The step of detecting the changed country information may include: and detecting the changed country information based on at least one of a network service provider, a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and a user-defined language to which the blood glucose measuring device is connected.

The step of determining a blood glucose unit may comprise: a step of determining one of a plurality of blood glucose units based on user input in response to a changed country supporting the plurality of blood glucose units; and a step of determining the selected units as the blood glucose units.

The blood glucose measuring method may further include: initializing the blood glucose data when the blood glucose measuring device first senses the blood glucose data.

The step of providing the blood glucose data may comprise: sensing blood glucose data measured for the user from a strip inserted into a blood glucose measuring module connected to the blood glucose measuring device; and visualizing the sensed blood glucose data using the determined blood glucose units.

A computer-readable recording medium according to an embodiment stores one or more computer programs for executing instructions including the above-described method.

A blood glucose measurement device for automatically determining blood glucose units according to one embodiment may include: a processor for detecting changed country information from the blood glucose measuring device by monitoring at least one of a region where the blood glucose measuring device is located and a user input, and determining a blood glucose unit corresponding to the changed country information in response to detecting the changed country information; and an output unit for providing the measured blood glucose data to the user by using the specified blood glucose unit.

Technical effects

According to the blood glucose measuring apparatus of one embodiment, it is possible to detect whether or not a country in which the blood glucose specifying device is used has changed using geographic information, and visualize blood glucose data by a marker unit corresponding to the country.

The blood glucose measuring apparatus according to one embodiment can detect whether a country in which the blood glucose measuring apparatus is used has been changed by using a network address, and visualize blood glucose data by a marker unit corresponding to the country.

According to the blood glucose measuring apparatus of one embodiment, a country in which the blood glucose measuring apparatus is used is identified by identifying a country code implemented in the form of an electrode on a test strip.

According to the blood glucose measuring apparatus of one embodiment, the marker unit of blood glucose can be determined based on the number of digits of the target blood glucose level that the user wants to keep.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing the structure of a blood glucose measuring system according to an embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a test strip inserted into a blood glucose measurement system according to one embodiment;

fig. 3 is a block diagram showing the structure of a blood glucose measuring apparatus according to an embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating a blood glucose determination method according to one embodiment;

fig. 5-7 are flow diagrams illustrating altered country information according to one embodiment; and

FIGS. 8-9 are flow charts illustrating a method of determining blood glucose units based on the number of bits of a target blood glucose value, according to one embodiment.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, the embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments, and the present invention is not limited to the embodiments. All changes, substitutions and alterations to the embodiments are also intended to be embraced by the claims of the present application.

The terms used in the examples are used for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. Unless the singular expression is explicitly stated in the context, it may also be the plural expression. In the specification, the terms "comprising" or "having" or the like are to be understood as indicating the presence of the stated features, numbers, steps, operations, constituent elements, components or the combination thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features or numbers, steps, operations, constituent elements, components or the combination thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein including technical and scientific terms have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Generally, terms used in advance are to be interpreted as having meanings equivalent to those of the related art, and cannot be interpreted as having ideal or excessive meanings unless explicitly defined in the specification.

Furthermore, the method is simple. In the description with reference to the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals regardless of the reference numerals, and redundant description thereof will be omitted. In describing the embodiments, detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted when it is judged that specific descriptions about known techniques unnecessarily obscure the points of the embodiments.

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a blood glucose measuring system according to an embodiment.

The blood glucose measurement system 100 may include a blood glucose measurement device 110 and a blood glucose measurement module 120.

The blood glucose measuring device 110 is a device that can be combined with the blood glucose measuring module 120. The blood glucose measuring device 110 may include a receptacle 111 that may be coupled to a plug 121 of the blood glucose measuring module 120. The blood glucose measuring device 110 may be implemented as a smart device such as a smart phone. Further, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may include a display for displaying the blood glucose measurement result and a power supply for supplying power. For example, the socket 111 of the blood glucose measuring device 110 may be a microphone socket.

The blood glucose measuring device 110 may receive sequence data from the blood glucose measuring module 120 indicating the blood glucose level measured by the blood glucose measuring module 120. The sequence data may display information indicative of blood glucose levels and may include a series of data signals. Sequence data may also be referred to as blood glucose data. The blood glucose measuring device 110 may receive a series of data signals in sequence. The blood glucose meter 110 reads the data signals and determines the bit indicated by each data signal. The bit indicated by each data signal may be a value of "0" or "1".

The blood glucose measuring device 110 may store an application program for measuring blood glucose to process and manage sequence data indicating blood glucose levels.

When the outlet 111 of the blood glucose measuring device 110 is connected to the plug 121 of the blood glucose measuring module 120 for use, the blood glucose measuring module 120 can use all the Input (Input), Output (Output), and power of the blood glucose measuring device 110. Further, the data communication scheme between the blood glucose measuring device 110 and the blood glucose measuring module 120 may be a frequency shift Keying (freqyshiftkeying) scheme. However, the embodiments are not limited thereto. The design of the data communication scheme may vary depending on the purpose and means of use.

For example, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may include a telephone jack 111 that may be coupled to a telephone sleeve plug 121 of the blood glucose measuring module 120 or may be coupled to a Port (Port) of a pin plug 121. However, the type and shape of the socket 111 of the blood glucose measuring device 110 are not limited thereto. In the connection structure using the needle, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may include a plug 121, and the blood glucose measuring module 120 may be constructed in a structure having a socket 111.

The blood glucose measurement module 120 may measure the blood glucose level in the blood absorbed by the strip and, in response to the connection to the blood glucose measurement device 110, may send a data signal to the blood glucose measurement device 110 indicative of the measured blood glucose level. The blood glucose test module 120 may be used in conjunction with the receptacle 111 of the blood glucose test device 110. For example, when the plug 121 of the blood glucose measuring module 120 is connected to the receptacle 111 of the blood glucose measuring device 110, a connection relationship may be established between the blood glucose measuring module 120 and the blood glucose measuring device 110. The blood glucose measuring module 120 may measure and calculate the blood glucose level in the blood absorbed by the strip using the power provided by the power source of the blood glucose measuring device 110 in response to detecting the connection to the blood glucose measuring device 110. The blood glucose measurement module 120 can send sequence data to the blood glucose measurement device 110 that includes information indicative of the blood glucose level.

The blood glucose measuring module 120 may include a body, a strip insertion hole 122, and a plug 121.

The main body of the blood glucose measuring module 120 may include a blood glucose measuring part for measuring a blood glucose level in blood absorbed by the strip and a central processing part for calculating and transmitting a measurement result of the blood glucose level. The main body of the blood glucose measuring module 120 does not need to include a power source and a display, and thus, can be reduced in size and weight.

The strip insertion hole 122 may be formed in a portion of the body, and may have a structure into which a test strip may be inserted. The strip insertion hole 122 may be implemented in a structure in which a strip is inserted inside. However, the structure and design of the present invention are not limited thereto.

The plug 121 may be formed on one end surface of the body and have a structure that can be coupled to the socket 111 of the blood glucose measuring device 110. As described above, the plug 121 may be a telephone plug or a pin plug. However, the embodiments are not limited thereto.

The test strip may be a test strip made of a material that absorbs blood.

For reference, when the blood glucose measuring device 110 is implemented as a smartphone, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may execute an application for measuring blood glucose. After the application for measuring blood glucose is executed, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may determine whether the plug 121 of the blood glucose measuring module 120 is connected to the socket 111. When the blood glucose measuring module 120 and the blood glucose measuring device 110 are connected, the blood glucose measuring module 120 can receive power from the power supply of the blood glucose measuring device 110, and the blood glucose measuring module 120 can perform an internal test. When there is no abnormality in the internal test, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may display a screen requesting insertion of the test strip on the display. In response to the test strip being inserted into the test strip insertion hole 122 of the blood glucose test module 120 by the user, the blood glucose test device 110 may display a screen for checking the expiration of the test strip and check whether the test strip is expired. When the test strip is determined to be normal, the blood glucose measuring device 110 may display a blood injection screen through the display.

In response to injecting the user's blood into the test strip, the blood glucose measurement module 120 may transmit data indicative of the blood glucose level to the blood glucose measurement device 110. The blood glucose meter 110 can display an alarm screen in the blood glucose measurement, and the data received from the blood glucose meter module 120 can calculate the blood glucose measurement result. The blood glucose measuring device 110 may display the blood glucose measurement result and further may store the blood glucose measurement result.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a test strip inserted into a blood glucose measurement system according to one embodiment;

as shown in fig. 2, the blood glucose measuring device 110 of fig. 1 can be coupled to a blood glucose measuring module 120. When the test strip 290 is inserted into the blood glucose determination module 120, the blood glucose determination device 110 may provide the user with blood glucose data sensed by the blood glucose determination module 120 from the test strip 290.

The test strip 290 may be a strip that converts biological substances into an arbitrary signal. Here, the biological substance may be a material related to a biological substance. The biological substance may be a substance to be analyzed. For example, the biological substance may be blood glucose. However, the embodiments are not limited thereto. For example, the test strip 290 may be a sensor that converts an amount of biological material into an electrical signal in response to reacting with the biological material. The test strips 290, for example, may include blood glucose test strips. The blood glucose test strip may be a chemically formed strip for absorbing blood, which may include an enzyme that chemically reacts with blood glucose in the blood. Hereinafter, even the case where the dipstick 290 is a blood glucose test strip is described. However, the embodiments are not limited thereto.

In one example, the electrode part may be formed on one surface of the test strip 290. The electrode part may include a reaction part and a code indication part. The shape of the electrode portion formed on the test strip 290, for example, the shape of the code indicating portion, may indicate an arbitrary code sequence. For example, the test strip 290 may be inserted into a strip insertion hole of the blood glucose measuring device 110 in an insertion direction, and the blood glucose measuring device 110 may automatically recognize the code sequence from the form of the code indication part. The strip insertion hole may include at least one pin to form a connection with the code indicating portion of the test strip 290.

Here, the code sequence may include a sequence of a series of codes. The code may be a bit value of "0" or a bit value of "1". For example, when a code sequence contains n codes, the code sequence may represent n bits. If n is "3", the code sequence may indicate a binary value of "110" when the n codes are "1", and "0", respectively. The binary value "110" corresponds to the decimal number 22+21+20 being "6". n may be an integer greater than or equal to "1". For example, the code sequence may indicate the country code of the country of sale of the strip.

Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing the structure of a blood glucose measuring apparatus according to an embodiment;

the blood glucose measuring device 300 can sense the blood glucose data measured and transmitted by the blood glucose measuring module 301. Further, the blood glucose measuring apparatus 300 may receive expression unit definition information from the server 309. The expression unit definition information may be information defining a blood glucose unit that needs to be used in a predetermined country.

As shown in fig. 3, the blood glucose measuring module 301 may measure the blood glucose level in the blood absorbed by the test strip and may transmit a data signal, such as blood glucose data, indicating the measured blood glucose level to the blood glucose measuring device 300 in response to the connection to the blood glucose measuring device 300.

The server 309 may store the expression-unit defining information as an external server of the blood-glucose measuring apparatus 300. However, the server 309 is not limited thereto, and the server 309 may store information required to specify a blood glucose unit and transmit information requested from the blood glucose measuring apparatus 300 to the blood glucose measuring apparatus 300.

The blood glucose measuring device 300 may include a position estimating section 311, an input obtaining section 312, a processor 320, a memory 330, an output section 340, a communication section 350, and an interface 360.

The position estimating unit 311 may estimate the position of the blood glucose measuring apparatus 300. For example, the position estimating unit 311 may receive Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. The position estimating unit 311 may calculate the position estimation information of the blood glucose measuring device 300 based on the received GNSS signal. The position estimation information may display information estimated for the blood glucose measuring device 300.

The input obtainment section 312 may obtain a user input from the user. For example, the user input may represent an operation of inputting a target blood glucose value. The target blood glucose value may indicate the blood glucose level that the user wants to maintain. In one example, input received through the input obtainer 312 may be converted by the processor 320 into instructions related to the provision of blood glucose data. For example, the instructions related to the provision of blood glucose data may include instructions to indicate a blood glucose unit, instructions to enter a target blood glucose value, and instructions to select a unit from a plurality of blood glucose units. Hereinafter, the input in the present specification may include the input regarding all operations received from the user in the provision of the blood glucose data.

The processor 320 may detect a change in the country information of the blood glucose measuring device 300 by monitoring at least one of the region where the blood glucose measuring device 300 is located or a user input. Further, processor 320 may determine a blood glucose unit corresponding to the changed country information in response to detecting the change in country information. Further, the processor 320 may perform processing required for the operation of the blood glucose measuring device 300. Wherein executing the process may represent executing program code stored in memory 330.

Here, the country information may refer to information of a country in which the blood glucose measuring apparatus is used.

The memory 330 may store a program including instructions for operating the blood glucose measuring device 300. The programs stored in the memory 330 may be executed by the processor 320 as described above. For example, memory 330 may store a blood glucose determination application. Further, memory 330 may store information related to the provision of blood glucose data.

The output 340 may provide the measured blood glucose data to the user using the determined blood glucose units. For example, the output unit 340 may display a screen related to blood glucose measurement for the user. For example, the output 340 may visually represent blood glucose data in determined units of blood glucose.

The communication section 350 can communicate with the server 309. For example, the communication section 350 may communicate with the server 309 using at least one of wireless communication and wired communication. In one example, the communication section 350 may transmit a request for expression unit information to the server 309.

Interface 360 may establish data communication with an external device or module. For example, the interface 360 may be connected to the blood glucose determination module 301 and may receive blood glucose data from the blood glucose determination module 301. In addition, the interface 360 may load data stored in the external memory card from the corresponding memory card.

According to one embodiment, the processor 320 may define information of the tag unit corresponding to the country information changed by the server 309 through the communication part 350. The processor 320 may determine that the tag unit defined by the expression unit definition information determines the blood glucose unit in response to the presentation unit definition information defining the tag unit.

Further, the predetermined country may allow at least two tag units. The processor 320 of the blood glucose unit 300 may select one of the plurality of blood glucose units based on user input in response to the country in which the processor 320 of the blood glucose unit 300 is located supporting the plurality of blood glucose units. Processor 320 determines the selected units as blood glucose units.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating a blood glucose determination method according to one embodiment;

first, in operation 410, the blood glucose measuring device may detect a change in the information of the country by monitoring at least one of a user input and a location where the blood glucose measuring device is located. According to one embodiment, in response to a change of a region in which the blood glucose measuring device is located to a country indicated by the region, the blood glucose measuring device may change the country information to the country indicated by the region. For example, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may specify the region in which the blood glucose measuring apparatus is located based on the position estimation information using GNSS, Internet Protocol (IP) address information, and the like. According to another embodiment, the blood glucose measuring device can directly accept input regarding the region in which the blood glucose measuring device is located based on user input, as will be described in detail below with reference to fig. 5 to 7.

In addition, in operation 420, the blood glucose measuring device may determine a blood glucose unit corresponding to the changed country information in response to detecting the change in the country information. The blood glucose measuring device may store the blood glucose units corresponding to the individual countries in the memory and load the blood glucose units corresponding to the changed countries from the memory. For example, the blood glucose measuring device may store in the memory a list mapping the blood glucose units used by individual countries in the country, wherein the blood glucose units required for use by one country are mapped to the corresponding country. Also, the determination of blood glucose units based on the number of bits of the target blood glucose value will be described in detail below with reference to fig. 8 to 9.

In operation 430, the blood glucose meter device may provide the measured blood glucose units to the user. The blood glucose meter may sense blood glucose data measured relative to the user from a test strip inserted into a blood glucose meter module coupled to the blood glucose meter. The blood glucose measuring device may visualize the sensed blood glucose data using the measured blood glucose units.

According to one embodiment, the blood glucose measuring device may initialize the blood glucose unit when the blood glucose measuring device first detects blood glucose data. For example, when the blood glucose measuring device is first driven, the unit of automatic estimation may be initialized to the blood glucose unit based on the manually input unit or the position information. According to another example, a blood glucose measurement device may determine blood glucose units as default units stored within the device.

Fig. 5-7 are flow diagrams illustrating altered country information according to one embodiment.

Referring to fig. 5, in step 511, the blood glucose measuring device may recognize internet address information. For example, the blood glucose meter device may identify IP address information assigned for the computer network in response to the blood glucose meter device's connection to the computer network.

In step 512, the blood glucose measuring device can determine the country information based on the internet address information. For example, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may estimate a region where the blood glucose measuring apparatus is located based on the internet address information, and may determine a country to which the estimated region belongs as the country information.

Referring to fig. 6, in step 611, the blood glucose measuring device may monitor the location estimation information. The blood glucose measuring device can calculate the position estimation information with respect to the blood glucose measuring device. For example, the blood glucose determining device may receive GNSS signals. The blood glucose measuring device can calculate the position estimation information of the blood glucose measuring device based on the received GNSS signal. According to another example, the blood glucose measuring device may calculate the position estimation information based on a time line.

In operation 612, the blood glucose measuring device can determine country information based on the latest position estimation information. The blood glucose measuring apparatus can determine the change of the country information based on the comparison of the position blood glucose estimation information and the previous position. The blood sugar measuring device can respond to the situation that the position estimation information is different from the former position, and can determine that the country information is changed.

According to one embodiment, a blood glucose measuring device may change country information of the blood glucose measuring device to a country corresponding to a changed geographical location of the blood glucose measuring device in response to a case where the changed geographical location of the blood glucose measuring device is reserved for country information exceeding a time limit, which may be different according to design. The time limit may be set in units of days, and in the case where the retention time of the changed geographical position exceeds the time limit (for example, 7 days or the like), the blood glucose measuring device may request the user for approval of the unit change. If the request for change of the blood glucose unit is approved, the time limit can be reserved; the time limit may be increased if the request for change of blood glucose units is denied. However, the adjustment of the time limit is not limited thereto, and may vary according to design.

The blood glucose measuring device may determine a unit of label corresponding to a country in which the blood glucose measuring device is located within a predetermined period. Therefore, the blood glucose measuring apparatus can determine the country of the user based on the last region where the user is located.

Referring to fig. 7, in operation 711, the blood glucose measuring device may identify the country code of the strip. For example, the blood glucose meter may identify a country code from the strip in response to the input of an inserted strip. The blood glucose measuring device may automatically recognize the form of the code indication part when the test strip is inserted into the blood glucose measuring module, and may read a series of code sequences from the recognized form. The blood glucose measuring device may determine a country code corresponding to the read code sequence.

Also, at 712, the blood glucose measuring device may determine country information based on the country code of the test strip. For example, the blood glucose measuring device may detect a change in the country information by comparing the identified country code with the current country information of the blood glucose measuring device. The blood glucose measuring device may determine the change of the country information in response to the current country information and the country indicated by the country code recognized from the strip being different from each other. The blood glucose measuring device may change the country information to a country corresponding to the country code identified from the test strip.

However, the operation of detecting the change of the country information is not limited to fig. 5 to 7. For example, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may further detect a change in the country information based on at least one of a network service provider connected to the blood glucose measuring apparatus, a SIM card, and a user setting language. The network service provider may represent an entrepreneur that provides a communication network, each country having a different entrepreneur. Therefore, the blood glucose measuring apparatus can identify a country based on the network service provider. The SIM card is provided on the basis of a network service provider of an individual country, and therefore, the blood glucose measuring device can also identify a country based on the SIM card. Further, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may identify a country based on the language set by the user.

According to another example, the blood glucose measuring device may identify optical identification information associated with the test strip. The blood glucose measuring device, for example, may identify a country code printed on the packaging material of the test strip in the form of a Quick Response (QR) code or a bar code. The optical identification information may include a country code provided in the form of a two-dimensional code or a bar code. The blood glucose measuring apparatus can detect a change in the country information based on the optical identification information.

For example, when the blood glucose measuring device optically recognizes a country code according to a user input, the blood glucose measuring device may determine a country corresponding to the recognized country code.

FIGS. 8-9 are flow charts illustrating a method of determining blood glucose units based on the number of bits of a target blood glucose value, according to one embodiment.

First, in step 821, the blood glucose measuring apparatus can obtain a target blood glucose level from the user input.

Then, in step 822, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may determine a blood glucose unit based on the obtained target blood glucose level. For example, the blood glucose measuring device may determine the first unit as a blood glucose unit in response to obtaining a target blood glucose value within a first range. The blood glucose measuring device may determine that a second unit different from the first unit is a blood glucose unit in response to obtaining a target blood glucose value within a second range different from the first range. For example, a first range may be a range above a threshold value and a second range may represent a range below the threshold value. The first unit may be mg/dl and the second unit may be, for example, mmol/l. In the case where the target blood glucose level exceeds the threshold value, the blood glucose measuring apparatus can specify the unit in which the user intends to use mg/dl. The blood glucose measuring apparatus may determine that the user intends to use the unit of mmol/l in the case where the target blood glucose value is less than the threshold value.

Further, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may determine the blood glucose unit based on the number of digits of the obtained target blood glucose level. For example, the digit may be a significant digit or a number represented by an integer part of one or more digits represented by a decimal number. For example, the blood glucose measuring apparatus may determine the first unit as a blood glucose unit in response to the number of bits of the obtained target blood glucose level exceeding a first threshold number of bits.

The blood glucose measuring device may determine the second blood glucose unit in response to obtaining a target blood glucose value having a number of digits less than a second threshold number of digits. The first and second threshold number of bits may be "2". For example, referring to FIG. 9, for a first target blood glucose 910 having a number of digits of 3, the blood glucose measuring device may determine a first unit 931 (e.g., mg/dl) as a blood glucose unit. For a second target blood glucose 920 having a number of digits of 1, the blood glucose measurement device may determine a second unit 932 (e.g., millimoles/liter) as a blood glucose unit. If the amount of human hyperglycemia is expressed in millimoles/liter, 3-digit numbers cannot be found, and therefore, the blood glucose measuring apparatus can express 3 target blood glucose levels in milligrams/deciliter. On the other hand, if expressed in units of mg/dl, the blood glucose level of a human cannot be expressed by the number of 1 digit, and therefore, the blood glucose measuring apparatus can express the target blood glucose level of 1 digit by millimoles/liter.

For convenience of description, the first threshold bit number and the second threshold bit number are provided, but the embodiment is not limited thereto.

In the blood glucose measuring device according to the embodiment, the order of the operations described with reference to fig. 1 to 9 is not limited to the above, and may be changed according to design. Moreover, various acts described in connection with fig. 1-9 may be performed in combination with other acts, and some acts may be omitted. The blood glucose measuring apparatus can specify a plurality of blood glucose units by the respective operations described with reference to fig. 4 to 8. Also, the expression unit with the highest reliability among the plurality of blood glucose units can be determined.

The methods according to the embodiments may be recorded in a computer-readable medium in the form of executable program instructions by various computer means. Computer-readable media may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc., alone or in combination. The media and program instructions may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well known and used by those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer readable media include: magnetic media (magnetic media) such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape; optical media (optical media) such as CD-ROM, DVD; magneto-optical media (magnetic-optical media) such as optical discs (flopticaldisk); and hardware devices that are specially configured to store and carry out program instructions, such as read-only memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), and the like. Examples of the program instructions include both machine code, such as produced by a compiler, and high-level language code that may be executed by the computer using an interpreter. To carry out the operations of the embodiments, the hardware devices may be configured to operate with more than one software module, and vice versa.

The software may comprise a computer program (computer program), code, command (instruction), or a combination of one or more of these, which may instruct the formation of a processing device, either alone or in combination, for desired operation. The software and/or data may be analyzed by the processing device or in order to provide commands or data at the processing device, some type of machine, component, physical device, virtual device, computer storage medium or device, or transmitted signal wave (signal wave) permanent or temporary embodiment (embody). The software is distributed over network-connected computer systems and may be stored or executed in a distributed manner. The software and data may be stored on more than one analyzable computer recording medium.

As described above, although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and those skilled in the art can make various modifications and changes from these apparatuses. For example, the techniques described may be performed in a different order than the methods described, or the components described may be combined or combined in a different manner than the methods described, or substituted or replaced with other components or equivalents to achieve suitable results.

Therefore, other embodiments, examples, and equivalents to the claims are intended to fall within the scope of the claims that follow.

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100 blood sugar measuring system

110 blood sugar measuring device

120 blood sugar measuring module