Patent ID: 6869403
Filing Date: 2005-03-22
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A blood-pressure estimating apparatus, comprising: a first-pulse-wave detecting device which detects a first pulse wave from a first portion of a living subject; a blood-pressure measuring device which includes an inflatable cuff adapted to be worn on the first portion of the subject and measures, with the cuff, a diastolic blood pressure and a systolic blood pressure of the first portion of the subject; a mean-blood-pressure estimating means for converting, based on a minimum magnitude and a maximum magnitude of the first pulse wave detected by the first-pulse-wave detecting device and the diastolic blood pressure and the systolic blood pressure measured by the blood-pressure measuring device, a magnitude of a gravity center of an area defined by the first pulse wave into an estimated mean blood pressure of the first portion of the subject; a second-pulse-wave detecting device which detects a second pulse wave from a second portion of the subject; and a systolic-blood-pressure estimating means for converting, based on the diastolic blood pressure measured by the blood-pressure measuring device and the mean blood pressure estimated by the mean-blood-pressure estimating means, a maximum magnitude of the second pulse wave detected by the second-pulse-wave detecting device into an estimated systolic blood pressure of the second portion of the subject.