Patent ID: 7102531

Claim:
A remote controller for a television/video recorder having a function of measuring a body fat which is capable of selecting a desired receiving/recording channel of the television broadcasting, comprising: an electrode section including a pair of current electrodes which feed a current across the body of a user to be examined for the body fat and a pair of measurement electrodes which detect an electric signal generated by the current being fed across the body of the user; an impedance measuring circuit which feeds the current between the current electrodes of the electrode section and measures an impedance across the body of the user to determine the body fat of the user from the electric signal detected by the measurement electrodes; a physical data setting section which is operated by the user for registering physical data including the weight, the height, the sex, and the age of the user; a body fat calculator which calculates the body fat of the user from the impedance across the body of the user measured by the impedance measuring circuit and the physical data of the user registered by the physical data setting section; a display which displays a resultant measurement of the body fat calculated by the body fat calculator and a message questioning whether or not the user carries a medical device including a pacemaker; a reply entry section operated by the user for entering a reply to the message; and a control section which directs the display to display the message prior to the measurement of the body fat of the user, inhibits the measurement of the body fat when a reply is received from the reply entry section indicating that the user carries a specific medical device including a pacemaker, and enables the measurement of the body fat when a reply is received from the reply entry section indicating that the user carries non of a specific medical device including a pacemaker.