Patent ID: 6649848
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: G01G,Y10S

Abstract:
A motor vehicle comprising:an on-board vehicle microcomputer having a central processing unit, a memory, a touch-screen display and programmed to provide method of identifying and control of a weight progress of dieter selected from a driver-dieter and at least one passenger-dieter in said vehicle; and an on-board weighing device for monitoring weight progress of said dieter in said vehicle, said microcomputer having: a system initialization routine responsive to accessing of said vehicle by a vehicle operator; a traffic recognition routine for determining whether the vehicle is in a safe state for monitoring weight control; a weight identifier routine for identifying a reason for any changes in weight of a dieter since a prior identification; a clothing and footwear routine for identifying changes in clothing and footwear worn by a dieter since a prior identification; a diet choice routine enabling said dieter to choose a diet plan from a plurality of diet plans stored in said memory; a diverge routine responsive to inputs from said touch screen display for enabling said dieter to register deviations from a planned diet; an exercise routine for suggesting and choosing exercises suitable for the dieter and a selected diet plan; a progress checking routine for comparing results of successive weighings of the dieter with expected results of a selected diet plan; and a plurality of routines for generating menus and exercise suggestions for said dieters in accordance with a weight of the dieter, a selected diet plan and a selected exercise plan.