US 11,737,685 B2
Posture identifying device, posture identifying system, and posture identifying method
Hiroki Abe, Aichi (JP); Kenji Kawano, Aichi (JP); and Yoshiomi Nishigaki, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/890,297.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-105413 (JP), filed on Jun. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0383610 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. G06T 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/1116 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4561 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A posture identifying device comprising:
a memory that stores instructions; and
a processor, when executing the instructions stored in the memory, that performs operations including:
preparing, on the basis of body data indicating a physical characteristic of a user, a three-dimensional model of a human body according to physique of the user;
obtaining, from a first measuring device, first information which indicates a position of a specific part of a body of the user, the body being supported by a supporting apparatus including a seatback of a seat;
obtaining, from a second measuring device included in the supporting apparatus, second information which indicates a shape of the supporting apparatus;
correcting a posture of the three-dimensional model according to (i) the position of the specific part indicated by the first information and (ii) the shape of the supporting apparatus indicated by the second information;
identifying a posture of the user on the basis of the corrected posture of the three-dimensional model;
identifying the physique of the user on the basis of the body data; and
identifying a favorable posture of the user according to (i) the identified posture of the user and (ii) the identified physique of the user,
wherein the posture identifying device further comprises a storage that stores favorable posture data including a plurality of favorable postures, each favorable posture including pressure distribution of the seatback of the seat and being associated with a combination of (i) one of a plurality of physique types including at least thin, standard and wide, and (ii) one of a plurality of posture types including at least a hunched posture, a standard posture and an arched-back posture,
the processor identifies one of the plurality of physique types as the physique of the user,
the processor identifies one of the plurality of posture types as the posture of the user, and
the processor identifies the favorable posture by referring to the favorable posture data stored in the storage and reading one favorable posture including the pressure distribution of the seatback of the seat corresponding to a combination of the identified one of the plurality of physique types and the identified one of the plurality of posture types, to correct the posture of the user.