Patent ID: 8457732

Claim:
A biometric apparatus for measuring body composition data of a measured person comprising: a platform on which the measured person gets on; a sensor unit for acquiring the body composition data of the measured person and outputting a signal indicating a status of whether the measured person is on or off the platform; a display for displaying the body composition data acquired by the sensor unit; and a control unit for determining, after having acquired the body composition data of the measured person, whether or not the measured person is still on the platform on the basis of the signal from the sensor unit, and displaying the acquired body composition data on the display in one of different manners according to the determination thereof, wherein: when the control unit determines that the measured person is still on the platform, the control unit causes the display to display the acquired body composition data in one of the different manners based on the signal received from the sensor unit, and, when the control unit determines that the measured person is not on the platform, the control unit causes the display to display the acquired body composition data in another one of the different manners based on the signal received from the sensor unit, wherein characters indicating the acquired body composition data displayed on the display are larger in the one of the different manners than characters indicating the acquired body composition data displayed on the display in the another one of the different manners, and wherein the control unit switches between the different manners in response to the signal indicating that said status has changed.