METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING BODY FAT

Patent №

US 6,468,209

Granted

2002-10-22

Filed 2000

Owner

TANITA CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09579014

The body fat percentage for a person is estimated from the BMI of the person by employing a multiple regression analysis using the reciprocal of the BMI (1/BMI) as the independent variable. In other embodiments, potentially independent and easily obtained variables such as age, sex, and ethnicity are also used in conjunction to provide precise estimates of the body fat percentage. Devices for estimating the body fat percentage can be implemented as calculators, smart scales, and Internet web sites.

Natural languageEvolutionary computationAI hardwareA61B 5/4872A61B 5/0537A61B 5/107A61B 5/0022A61B 5/742

AI classification

AI hardware0.89
Natural language0.72
Evolutionary computation0.53
Knowledge representation0.22
Machine learning0.02
Vision0.01
Planning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

TANITA CORPORATION

assignment · 108520985

Assignors

HEYMSFIELD, STEVEN B., IWABUCHI, TAMOTSU, KODAMA, MIYUKI

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