MULTI-MEDIA TECHNOLOGY FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION AND DIET PLANNING

摘要

The nature and substance of this invention includes a method and an apparatusfor displaying information relating to a characteristic of an object whichcomprises a storage means (70) containing data for displaying images ofdifferent kinds of objects and for each kind of object relating to differentsizes of each of the kinds of objects; a database (54) containing datarelating to different kinds of characteristics in appropriate units ofmeasurement of each of the kinds of objects and for each kind ofcharacteristic relating to different sizes of each of the kinds of objects.The objects (202, 204, 206, 208) may be different kinds of food respectivelyin different portion sizes, and the characteristics may be respectivemeasurements of nutrients for each food portion size.