Patent ID: 8059863

Claim:
A work movement analysis method for causing a processing unit having a display unit and a storage unit to perform a work movement division processing in order to divide a worker's work movement acquired as a moving picture into a plurality of movement sections, the method comprising the processing unit performing steps of: defining a plurality of movement section classification buttons each of which movement section identification information for identifying a of movement sections is allocated to and providing the movement section classification buttons to an operator, wherein the plural types of movement sections include a preparation movement, a valid movement, and an invalid movement; reading the acquired moving picture of the worker's work movement from the storage unit, the acquired moving picture being taken in advance and stored in the storage unit, and reproducing the acquired moving picture in the display unit; receiving movement section identification information allocated to a specific movement section classification button selected by the operator; defining a portion of the moving picture, reproduced before the reception of the movement section identification information and after a previous reception of movement section identification information, as a current movement section and allocating the received movement section identification information to the current movement section; storing a position in the moving picture reproduced upon the reception of the movement section identification information in the storage unit as an end position of the current movement section; and storing an end position of a previous movement section stored in the storage unit as a start position of the current movement section.