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20080243431 | MONITORING SYSTEM - A monitoring system ( | 10-02-2008 |
20080243432 | Pedometer - It is made possible to reduce electric power consumption while suppressing an occurrence of a walking detection leak. By a cycle operation section and a cycle comparison section in a CPU, if it is judged that a walking signal from a detection circuit is within a predetermined cycle, the walking signal is counted as a step number by a step number count section. In a case where the walking signal within the predetermined cycle is not detected for a predetermined time by the cycle comparison section, a walking stop detection section judges to be a walking stop, an electric source control processing section controls an electric source control circuit to thereby switch the detection circuit to an intermittent drive from a continuous drive, and thereafter gradually prolongs a pause time of the intermittent drive for a predetermined time at a time in every time the walking signal within the predetermined cycle is not detected for the predetermined time. | 10-02-2008 |
20080249740 | Device to Determine the Road Followed By a Person on Foot - Device to determine the road followed by a person on foot, comprising at least three inertia sensors attached to the body of the person, one sensor to the torso and one sensor to each leg respectively, and which measure the absolute orientation of the part of the body concerned to which they are attached; a device which make it possible to determine the instant at which the person concerned takes a step; an arithmetic unit with which the sensors and the above mentioned means are connected, with arithmetic unit comprises a first algorithm which makes it possible, on the basis of a number of body dimensions of the person concerned and on the basis of the signals coming from the above mentioned sensors, to determine at least the step distance for every step as well as the cumulative step distance as of a certain starting point. | 10-09-2008 |
20080255800 | Method and device for measuring the progress of a moving person - The invention relates to measuring devices to be used in physical measuring, and more particularly, to a method and a device for measuring the progress of a moving person. In the solution according to the invention the quantities describing the progress of the moving person are being calculated based on step cycle-specific acceleration stage characteristic accelerations a+ and step cycle-specific braking stage characteristic acceleration a− obtained from acceleration values measured by means of an acceleration sensor, and on the measured time. The invention aims at providing a solution, better and simpler than prior solutions, for measuring the progress of a moving person, which solution is applicable for use in a multitude of measuring solutions for ways of locomotion of various types. | 10-16-2008 |
20080262790 | Pedometer - To be able to measure a step number without carrying out an operation processing for selecting a walking sensor in a pedometer using a plurality of walking sensors having sensitivity axes different from each other. OR means converts walking signals inputted in parallel from walking detecting circuits into a synthesized walking signal. CPU calculates the step number by detecting the walking signal inputted to an input port. At this occasion, in detecting the walking signal, CPU alternately carries out a detecting operation of detecting the walking signal and a mask operation which does not detect walking at mask time immediately thereafter at each time of detecting each walking signal. | 10-23-2008 |
20080275669 | Pedometer - To enable to select a walking sensor suitable for detecting walking by short time by a simple constitution in a pedometer using a plurality of walking sensors sensitivity axes of which differ from each other, CPU | 11-06-2008 |
20080275670 | HANG TIMER FOR DETERMINING TIME OF FLIGHT OF AN OBJECT - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems and methods for detecting, calculating, and displaying the time-of-flight or hang-time of a moving and jumping object such as a skier or snowboarder by using at least one accelerometer secured within a small wearable device. In one embodiment, the device comprises: a static acceleration detection means for detecting the static acceleration of the object over at least first, second, and-third periods of time as the object respectively moves, jumps in at least first, second, and third trajectories, and lands at least first, second, and third times along the surface thereby defining at least respective first, second, and third time-of-flight events; a calculating means for determining the approximate time-of-flight of the object during the first, second, and third time-of-flight events; and a display means for displaying in a readable format the approximate time-of-flights associated with the first, second, and third time-of-flight events. | 11-06-2008 |
20090018797 | Measuring method, measuring apparatus and computer readable information recording medium - A measuring apparatus has a walking determining part configured to determine a walking state of a to-be-measured person, a moving state determining part configured to determine a moving state in a specific direction of the to-be-measured person, a measurement result output determining part configured to determine whether or not measurement information concerning a movement of the to-be-measured person is to be output, based on a determination result of the walking state of the to-be-measured person by said walking determining part and a determination result of the moving state of the to-be-measured person by the moving state determining part. | 01-15-2009 |
20090063090 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HYDRATION STATUS - The invention relates to a device and method that provide an individualized guideline for fluid replacement during normal activity or inactivity. Preferred embodiments calculate the user's fluid loss using the equation: {[(% humidity | 03-05-2009 |
20090070067 | Method and device for recording a distance - A pedometer and a method for recording a distance covered. The pedometer includes an acceleration sensor by which the movement of the pedometer is recorded. In order to be able to ascertain the number of paces and the distance covered from the movement, an evaluation unit is provided which evaluates the signals of the acceleration sensor. If the carrier of such a pedometer is moving not only in one plane, but also uphill and downhill, inaccuracies occur in the ascertainment of the route which cannot be rectified only by an acceleration sensor. For this purpose, a pressure sensor is integrated into the pedometer, by which the evaluation unit is also able to take into account the influence of the change in altitude during the movement, whereby the route covered is able to be ascertained more accurately. | 03-12-2009 |
20090082994 | Headset With Integrated Pedometer and Corresponding Method - A headpiece ( | 03-26-2009 |
20090082995 | Electronic pedometer - To provide an electric pedometer of low cost which is not erroneously operated by an external force exerted to a pedometer case thereof without using an acceleration sensor of a special structure and without executing a signal processing for removing a disturbance by a software, a circuit board contained in a module containing portion of a pedometer case of an electronic pedometer is constituted by two sheets of a main board mounted with an electronic circuit element for executing a signal processing and a sub board mounted with an acceleration sensor. The sub board is formed by a flexible circuit board and is fixed to the main board by a fixing member having flexibility. Further, an electric connection between the sub board and the main board is carried out by soldering terminal region in a projected shape formed by partially extending the sub board of the flexible circuit board. | 03-26-2009 |
20090144020 | Storage medium having step count calculation program stored therein, step count calculation apparatus, and step count calculation system - By repeatedly obtaining acceleration data, a gravity direction acceleration acting in a gravity direction of a housing and a horizontal direction acceleration acting in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the gravity direction are calculated. By using a first coefficient, a first step count in accordance with a change in the gravity direction acceleration is calculated and by using a second coefficient which is different from the first coefficient, a second step count in accordance with a change in the horizontal direction acceleration is calculated. Based on a predetermined condition, one of the first step count and the second step count is selected as a user's step count. | 06-04-2009 |
20090192759 | FOOTWEAR BASED INFORMATION DISPLAY CASE DESIGN - The present invention is directed to an information display unit containing a power source, a program for gathering and calculating information and a display means on an upper surface for displaying the information. A side or lower surface of the information display unit is provided with a means for releasably attaching the display case to a shoe. Preferably, the information gathered and calculated by the program and displayed on the display means includes one or more of the distance traversed, calories burned, the amount of steps taken, speed traverse, altitude attained or geographical location. | 07-30-2009 |
20090254304 | Pedometer for running - To be able to downsize and to be able to accurately measure a step number in running in a pedometer of measuring the step number by wearing at least a step number sensor to the wrist, a step number sensor of detecting running is arranged such that an angle of a longitudinal direction of a strap and a sensitivity axis of the step number sensor is disposed within a range from 10 degrees to 33 degrees in the clockwise direction relative to the longitudinal direction of the strap. A user of the pedometer for running mounts a pedometer main body to the back side of the left wrist of one's own by the strap, starts a pedometer measuring processing by inputting means and starts measuring a step number by starting running. Measured step number and time are displayed on displaying means. | 10-08-2009 |
20090271147 | Pedometer - Power savings are aimed by controlling display of a step count with no additional hardware. An acceleration sensor detects that a user is taking a step through an amplifier circuit, and outputs a walking signal corresponding to the step to a CPU. The CPU counts walking signals, and displays the accumulated number of steps on a display unit. When the CPU determines that the user is taking steps based on the walking signals, the CPU stops drive power from a battery to the display unit, and controls the display unit to stop displaying a step count. | 10-29-2009 |
20090299691 | MOBILE APPARATUS - According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile apparatus including: a vibration sensor; an acquisition module configured to periodically acquire the number of vibration in a time period as a detected step count value; a first determination module configured to determine whether there is a possibility that the detected step count value is due to walking or running based on the detected step count value; and a calculation module configured to count the detected step count value as an interim step count. The first determination module determines the detected step count value is due to continuous walking or running of a user when the detected step count value satisfies a certain condition. The calculation module calculates total of the interim step count when the first determination module determines the detected step count value is due to the continuous walking or running. | 12-03-2009 |
20100010774 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR MONITORING PHYSICAL EXERCISE - A person's exercise monitored by using an accelerometer to detect and count the steps of the person. Furthermore, acceleration profiling distinguishes walking from running and total distance covered in the exercise is estimated using different stride lengths for walking and running. The person's pace may be maintained using a music playback unit capable of adjusting the rate of the playback so as to influence the person by the music tempo. | 01-14-2010 |
20100057397 | BODY MOTION DETECTION DEVICE HAVING FEWER NUMBER OF SWITCHES NECESSARY FOR A SETTING OPERATION - A pedometer can be equipped with a sensor unit including a sensor for detecting motion by detecting acceleration of a displacement of a main body. Detected acceleration can be compared with a threshold value to determine whether the acceleration corresponds to body motion or to a setting operation. Various setting operations can be performed based on shaking of the pedometer. | 03-04-2010 |
20100057398 | MONITORING ACTIVITY OF A USER IN LOCOMOTION ON FOOT - One disclosed method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to automatically measure amounts of time taken by the user to complete respective distance intervals. During the outing, data representing the automatically measured amounts of time may be automatically stored in memory of the least one device. Another disclosed method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to automatically identify occasions on which a user completes respective distance intervals. During the outing, the at least one device may display at least one of an average pace of the user since a most recently completed distance interval, an average speed of the user since the most recently completed distance interval, and a projected time to complete a current distance interval based on monitored performance since the most recently completed distance interval. Yet another disclosed method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to monitor a distance traveled by the user. An input to the at least one device may be received that specifies a goal distance for the outing, and the at least one device may determine a remaining distance to be traveled to complete one of the specified goal distance for the outing and a calculated fraction of the specified goal distance for the outing. | 03-04-2010 |
20100121605 | Storage medium having step count calculation program stored therein, step count calculation apparatus, and step count calculation system - By repeatedly obtaining acceleration data, a gravity direction acceleration acting in a gravity direction of a housing and a horizontal direction acceleration acting in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the gravity direction are calculated. By using a first coefficient, a first step count in accordance with a change in the gravity direction acceleration is calculated and by using a second coefficient which is different from the first coefficient, a second step count in accordance with a change in the horizontal direction acceleration is calculated. Based on a predetermined condition, one of the first step count and the second step count is selected as a user's step count. | 05-13-2010 |
20100228520 | ACTIVITY MONITOR - An activity monitor that has a sensor for sensing movement, a processor for processing sensed data and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to use the sensed data to determine the number of steps taken for each of a plurality of epochs and to determine a measure of the fraction of each epoch spent stepping, the monitor being configured to record in a long term part of the memory at least two of the number of steps; the measure of the fraction of each epoch spent stepping and a measure of cadence calculated using the number of steps and the fraction of each epoch spent stepping. | 09-09-2010 |
20100280792 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION OF DYNAMIC PARAMETERS OF PEDESTRIAN LOCOMOTION - The disclosed subject matter relates to a portable and autonomous device and corresponding method for the measurement, recording and calculation of dynamic parameters of the pedestrian locomotion of its bearer. The method hereby disclosed allows determining the distance effectively travelled, the velocity of displacement and the pressures exerted on the contact surface of the lower limb with the ground, during the pedestrian locomotion, according to its different phases. Through sensors strategically placed, accelerations, angular velocities and pressures are measured and recorded on the control unit. The device disclosed includes a processing unit that implements the method disclosed and a communication unit to transfer to an external unit the calculated parameters. The disclosed invention can be used in applications that involve monitoring parameters of the locomotion activity or daily ambulation of its bearer, in the areas of health and sports or in any physical and occupational activities. | 11-04-2010 |
20100312521 | Electronic pedometer - To realize miniaturization and detection of a walk state in which no arm is swung in an electronic pedometer in which at least a walk sensor is used in a state of being worn on a wrist. An acceleration sensor is disposed so that a sensitivity axis of the acceleration sensor is located in a range of 30° or smaller in a counterclockwise direction from the direction of 90° with respect to a longitudinal direction of a belt. A user of an electronic pedometer wears the electronic pedometer on his/her left wrist using the belt and starts processing for counting the number of steps by manipulating a manipulation portion, and also starts to walk, thereby starting counting the number of steps. The user checks the counted number of steps and the measured time period based on displayed contents on a step number display portion and a time display portion of a display portion. | 12-09-2010 |
20110004440 | PEDOMETER - A pedometer of the invention includes an acceleration sensor, and the pedometer is able to switch between a measurement mode in which user's steps are counted based on a waveform obtained from the acceleration sensor and a learning mode in which a criterion used to determine one step in the measurement mode is learned. The pedometer is characterized by including criterion setting means for causing the user to perform learning walking in the learning mode and setting the criterion based on a reference number of steps indicating the number of steps in the learning walking and a reference waveform obtained from the acceleration sensor during the learning walking. | 01-06-2011 |
20110022352 | BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE, MOBILE PHONE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE, BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH THE BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A portable terminal ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110035185 | Sensor-based Tracking of Variable Locomotion - The invention relates to a method, device and system for the sensor-based tracking of a variable locomotion, and, in particular, to a method, device and system for acceleration-sensor based measurement of the highly erratic movement of a team sports player. The method comprises continuously measuring acceleration values corresponding to the locomotion of a person. For a single step of the person, a type of locomotion is determined by analyzing a temporal sequence of acceleration values of a portion of the acceleration values corresponding to the single step. Further, a swing time and at least one characterizing acceleration value are determined from the acceleration values for the single step and the step length is determined based on the type of locomotion, the swing time and the at least one characterizing acceleration value. | 02-10-2011 |
20110054838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN PEDOMETER MODES - Systems and methods are provided that allow steps to be counted in multiple pedometer modes. For example, a pedometer application on an electronic device can count steps in an ambient mode of operation and a session mode of operation. By maintaining separate counters for each pedometer mode and continuously monitoring the desired mode of operation, the pedometer application can accurately count the number of steps during a certain time period. In response to detecting a change in the desired mode, the pedometer application can seamlessly switch to the corresponding mode counter. In some embodiments, the pedometer application can display graphical representations of historical step information for one or more pedometer modes. | 03-03-2011 |
20110119027 | Pedometer with shoe mounted sensor and transmitter - A pedometer has first and second signal generators mounted along the inner margin of a first shoe and separated by a fixed distance. A sensor and transmitter assembly is mounted along the inner margin of a second shoe. The sensor and transmitter assembly includes a sensor, a microcontroller unit and a wireless transmitter. A pair of impulses is received by the microcontroller unit each time the shoes pass in close proximity to each other. The microcontroller unit generates various pedestrian performance data based on the impulses. The pedestrian performance data is wirelessly transmitted to a display unit carried by the pedestrian. | 05-19-2011 |
20110184693 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE PROGRESS OF A MOVING PERSON - Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a device for measuring the progress of a moving person. The method calculating at least one of the following quantities describing the progress of the moving person: speed, step rate, step count, step length, distance and way of progress, based on values of a vertical acceleration of a body of the moving person measured by an acceleration sensor over a measured time. | 07-28-2011 |
20110231152 | NUMBER-OF-STEP DETECTION SYSTEM, NUMBER-OF-STEP DETECTING METHOD, AND ACTIVITY METER - An object of the present invention is to provide a number-of-step detection system, a number-of-step detecting method, and a pedometer capable of accurately detecting the number of steps in correspondence with the walking characteristics of an individual. Vibration data acquired with a vibration data acquiring unit of a pedometer is transmitted from the pedometer to a server with a communication unit, and number-of-step decision criterion data suited for measuring the number of steps is calculated with the calculation unit of the server based on the vibration data. The number-of-step decision criterion data calculated in the server is transmitted from the server to the pedometer, and the number-of-step decision criterion data stored in the pedometer is updated to the number-of-step decision criterion data calculated by the server to accurately count the number of steps in correspondence with the walking characteristics of the individual. | 09-22-2011 |
20110264407 | INERTIAL DEVICE WITH PEDOMETER FUNCTION AND PORTABLE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE INCORPORATING SAID INERTIAL DEVICE - An inertial device that is integratable in a portable electronic device includes: an inertial sensor for generating at least one raw acceleration signal in response to accelerations caused by movements of walking and running of a user of the pedometer; and a processing unit, associated to the inertial sensor for counting a number of steps of the user of the pedometer on the basis of the raw acceleration signal. The inertial sensor and the processing unit are both encapsulated within a single package for integrated circuits, which can be coupled to a circuit board of an electronic device and is provided with at least one connection terminal for making the number of steps available to the outside world. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ADVANCED PEDOMETER - Systems and methods are provided for an advanced pedometer, which may include: a first accelerometer for providing first acceleration information for a first direction; a second accelerometer for providing second acceleration information for a second direction; a third accelerometer for providing third acceleration for a third direction; a clock for providing time information associated with the first acceleration information, the second acceleration information, and the third acceleration information; and a processing module comprising one or more processors. The processing module may be to execute computer-executable instructions to: determine fourth level acceleration information for a plane using the first acceleration information for the first direction, and the second acceleration information for the second direction, where the plane is defined by the first direction and the second direction; and estimate a distance traveled using the fourth level acceleration information, the third acceleration information, and at least a portion of the time information. | 11-03-2011 |
20110313723 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SAVING POWER IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for reducing power consumption are provided. In a method for a pedometer function in a portable terminal, when acceleration determination data is less than a threshold, an acceleration determination data loading frequency is lowered to a lower limit frequency. Acceleration determination data are loaded according to the lower limit frequency. When the acceleration determination data loaded according to the lower limit frequency is equal to or greater than the threshold, an acceleration determination data loading frequency is raised to a determination frequency. | 12-22-2011 |
20120041713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE WALK OF A PERSON - A system for detecting the walk of a person has a housing (BT) with at least a biaxial movement sensor (CM). The housing is attached to the upper portion of the body of the person, so that a first measurement axis of the sensor (CM) coincides with the anteroposterior axis (AP) or the vertical axis (VT) of the body and so a second measurement axis of said sensor (CM) coincides with the mediolateral axis (ML) of the body. An analysis means (MA) analyzes the measurements delivered by the sensor (CM). The analysis means includes a processing means (MT) for processing over a time window the measurement signals delivered by the sensor (CM), which includes means for searching for a dominant frequency (MRFD) in said signals. The analysis means also includes a detection means (MD) for detecting the walk of the person when a ratio between the dominant frequency of the signal of the first measurement axis and the dominant frequency of the second measurement axis, or between the dominant frequency of a Euclidian norm of the vector of measurements transmitted by the sensor (CM) and the dominant frequency of the signal of the second measurement axis, is substantially equal to two. | 02-16-2012 |
20120084053 | PORTABLE MONITORING DEVICES AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable monitoring device comprising (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user, (ii) a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect motion of the user and, in response thereto, to generate motion data, (iii) an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to sample an altitude of the user in response to a sample signal, wherein, in response to sampling the altitude of the user, the altitude sensor generates change in altitude data, and (iv) processing circuitry, disposed in the housing, to: generate the sample signal using the motion data, and calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the motion data and the change in altitude data. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084054 | PORTABLE MONITORING DEVICES AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable monitoring device comprises (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user, (ii) a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect motion of a user and, in response thereto, to generate motion data, (iii) an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect a change in altitude of the user and, in response thereto, to generate change in altitude data, and (iv) processing circuitry, disposed in the housing, to: (a) calculate a change in elevation of the user using the motion data and the change in altitude data, and (b) a state of an avatar (which is a graphical representation of the user) using the motion data and/or the change in altitude data, and (vi) a display to output state of avatar data. | 04-05-2012 |
20120116719 | BODY MOVEMENT DETECTION DEVICE - Information representing an activity intensity computed from a measured step count is transmitted from a first pedometer to a second pedometer as step count-related information. In the second pedometer, walking compatibility is determined based on the difference between the activity intensity in the first pedometer and the activity intensity in the second pedometer, and the determination result is displayed on both pedometers. | 05-10-2012 |
20120123735 | WALKING SITUATION DETECTION DEVICE, WALKING SITUATION DETECTION METHOD, AND WALKING SITUATION DETECTION PROGRAM - A walking situation detection device includes an acquisition unit which acquires an acceleration value according to an action of a user in a predetermined cycle, an interval detection unit which detects a first time interval and a second time interval from the acceleration value, a determination unit which determines a position where the user carries a terminal in his or her body based on a ratio of the first time interval to the second time interval, and a number of steps determination unit which determines the number of steps of the user based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 05-17-2012 |
20120150488 | Number of steps counting apparatus, electronic apparatus, pedometer, and program - The invention provides a number of steps counting apparatus, an electronic apparatus, a pedometer, and a program which achieve reduction of power consumption. In the pedometer having a walking detecting unit configured to output a walking signal indicating a walking state and a calculating unit configured to calculate the number of steps, the walking detecting unit repeats actions of operating for a first period and stopping for a second period during the operation of the pedometer. | 06-14-2012 |
20120191410 | PEDOMETER HAVING AUTOMATIC STEP LENGTH ADJUSTMENT, METHOD FOR OPERATING A PEDOMETER AND APPLICATION OF SAID PEDOMETER - A pedometer for determining the length of a route traveled on foot includes an acceleration sensor for ascertaining a number of steps as well as a pressure sensor for ascertaining a change in geographic elevation, and an evaluation unit being configured to adapt the step length to the measured average elevation change per step. | 07-26-2012 |
20120203503 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PEDOMETER, AND PROGRAM - To allow reliable input of a switch based on an acceleration signal from a user during walking. An electronic device includes a display section displaying information on a display section, a first acceleration sensor detecting acceleration in a direction perpendicular to the display face, and an input detection section detecting input based on the acceleration detected by the first acceleration sensor. | 08-09-2012 |
20120226471 | Portable Monitoring Devices and Methods of Operating Same - A portable monitoring device to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user, in one aspect, comprising a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the body of the user, a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to sample motion of the user in response to a motion sample signal and generate data which is representative thereof; an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to sample an altitude of the user in response to an altitude sample signal and generate data which is representative thereof; and processing circuitry, disposed in the housing to: (i) generate the altitude sample signal using the data which is representative of motion of the user, and (ii) determine a change in altitude of the user using the data which is representative of a change in altitude of the user. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226472 | Portable Monitoring Devices and Methods of Operating Same - An activity monitoring system, in one aspect, comprises a portable activity monitoring device comprising a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body; a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect motion of a user and to generate data representative thereof; an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect a change in altitude of the user and to generate data which is representative thereof; and processing circuitry, disposed in the housing, to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the motion data and change in altitude data. The system also includes a display to output data of a badge and/or metric wherein such badge and/or metric describes the number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user. | 09-06-2012 |
20120296603 | SENSOR ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT WITH RESPECT TO PEDESTRIAN MOTION DIRECTION - Systems and methods are described for measuring orientation of sensors associated with a mobile device with respect to pedestrian motion of a user of the mobile device. An example technique described herein includes obtaining acceleration information associated with the mobile device, partitioning the acceleration information according to respective detected pedestrian steps of the user, identifying a forward motion direction of the user of the mobile device based on the acceleration information and the detected pedestrian steps, and computing a misalignment angle between the forward motion direction of the user of the mobile device and an orientation of the mobile device. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303319 | PEDOMETER DEVICE AND STEP DETECTION METHOD - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: generating a first processed accelerometer sample signal from a first accelerometer sample signal; determining a step event from the first processed accelerometer sample signal; and controlling processing of a second accelerometer sample signal for a first time period. | 11-29-2012 |
20120330608 | STEP COUNTING SYSTEM AND STEP COUNTER - A step counting system includes a portable terminal and a step counter. The portable terminal includes a processor and a first communication interface. The step counter includes a motion sensor, a step detector, a controller, and a second communication interface. The second communication interface communicates with the first communication interface. The motion sensor senses motion of a user carrying the step counter. The detector detects whether a step motion is sensed by the motion sensor. The controller transmits an increment by one signal to the processor each time a step is detected by the detector. The processor updates its display of the number of steps by increasing the number of steps by one each time the processor receives the increment by one signal from the controller. | 12-27-2012 |
20130066591 | PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO ASSIST A USER IN DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING AN OPTIMAL FITNESS WALKING ROUTINE - A portable personal electronic pedometer, including a display, a storage memory, an input-mode, a pace-mode, and a workout-mode. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073254 | PORTABLE MONITORING DEVICES AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable activity monitoring device to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by a user, the monitoring device comprising (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the body of the user, (ii) an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect a change in altitude of the user and, in response thereto, to generate data which is representative of the change in altitude of the user, and (iii) processing circuitry, disposed in the housing and coupled to the motion sensor and the altitude sensor, to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the data which is representative of a change in altitude of the user. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073255 | Portable Monitoring Devices and Methods of Operating Same - The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable activity monitoring device adapted to couple to a body of a user, comprising a housing having a physical size/shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body, an altitude sensor to detect a change in altitude of the user and to generate data which is representative of the change in altitude of the user, and processing circuitry to calculate: (i) a number or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the data which is representative of a change in altitude of the user, and (ii) a state of an avatar using the data which is representative of the number or flights of stairs traversed by the user. The device also includes a display to output data which is representative of the state of the avatar. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080113 | Portable Monitoring Devices and Methods of Operating Same - The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable activity monitoring device having a physical size/shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body, a plurality of sensors including: (i) an altitude sensor to detect a change in altitude and to generate data which is representative of the change in altitude, and (ii) a first motion sensor to detect motion and to generate data which is representative of motion. A user interface having a display. Processing circuitry detects a user input using data from one or more of the plurality of sensors, and calculates data which is representative of a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the data which is representative of the change in altitude. | 03-28-2013 |
20130132028 | Activity Identification - Systems and method for calculating energy expenditure values and activity points are provided. One or more devices may use an accelerometer and/or other sensors to monitor activity of a user. The user may identify the activity via one of the devices, a mobile phone, a computer device or another device. Activity points or energy expenditure values may be calculated from data received from sensors and the identification provided by the user. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138394 | STATE DETECTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A state detecting device includes: an acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration detection value from an acceleration sensor; an average acceleration calculating unit that calculates an average acceleration in each predetermined period based on the acceleration detection value; a reference information acquiring unit that acquires a reference average acceleration and a reference step length; and a step length estimating unit that estimates a step length based on a ratio of the average acceleration to the reference average acceleration as well as the reference step length. | 05-30-2013 |
20130151196 | Portable Monitoring Devices and Methods of Operating Same - A portable activity monitoring device comprising a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body, a plurality of sensors, disposed in the housing, to generate sensor data which is representative of activity of the user, processing circuitry, disposed in the housing and electrically coupled to the plurality of sensors, to calculate the one or more activity metrics of the user using the sensor data, wherein the processing circuitry calculates a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the sensor data. | 06-13-2013 |
20130191069 | Adaptive Step Detection - A pedometer with a three-axis accelerometer provides reliable step counts while worn on the wrist. Three-axis accelerometer data is combined into a single combined data stream. Each positive slope region around an inflection point in the combined data stream that has positive slope, a magnitude that exceeds an amplitude threshold value and that spans a time period that exceeds a time threshold value is identified. Each negative slope region around an inflection point in the combined data stream that has negative slope, a magnitude that exceeds an amplitude threshold value and that spans a time period that exceeds a time threshold value is identified. A step count is incremented for each occurrence of an identified positive slope region that is separated by an identified negative slope region as a step. | 07-25-2013 |
20130268236 | Portable Monitoring Devices and Methods of Operating Same - The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to an activity monitoring system including a portable activity monitoring device comprising a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body, a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to generate data which is representative of the user's motion, and an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to generate data which is representative of the change in the user's altitude. The system further includes a display to output data which is representative of a badge, wherein the badge is representative of an achievement computed using motion and/or altitude sensor data. The monitoring device may also include a physiological sensor to generate data which is representative of a user's physiological condition. Here, the display outputs data which is representative of a badge wherein the badge is representative of a physiological achievement. | 10-10-2013 |
20130311133 | METHOD FOR STEP DETECTION AND GAIT DIRECTION ESTIMATION - A method for detecting a human's steps and estimating the horizontal translation direction and scaling of the resulting motion relative to an inertial sensor is described. When a pedestrian takes a sequence of steps the displacement can be decomposed into a sequence of rotations and translations over each step. A translation is the change in the location of pedestrian's center of mass and a rotation is the change along z-axis of the pedestrian's orientation. A translation can be described by a vector and a rotation by an angle. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311134 | METHOD FOR STEP DETECTION AND GAIT DIRECTION ESTIMATION - A method for detecting a human's steps and estimating the horizontal translation direction and scaling of the resulting motion relative to an inertial sensor is described. When a pedestrian takes a sequence of steps the displacement can be decomposed into a sequence of rotations and translations over each step. A translation is the change in the location of pedestrian's center of mass and a rotation is the change along z-axis of the pedestrian's orientation. A translation can be described by a vector and a rotation by an angle. | 11-21-2013 |
20130325396 | Methods and Systems for Metrics Analysis and Interactive Rendering, Including Events Having Combined Activity and Location Information - A method includes receiving location data of a monitoring device when carried by a user and receiving motion data of the monitoring device. The motion data is associated with a time of occurrence and the location data. The method includes processing the received motion data to identify a group of the motion data having a substantially common characteristic and processing the location data for the group of the motion data. The group of motion data by way of processing the location data provides an activity identifier. The motion data includes metric data that identifies characteristics of the motion data. The method includes transferring the activity identifier and the characteristics of the motion data to a screen of a device for display. The activity identifier being a graphical user interface that receives an input for rendering more or less of the characteristics of the motion data. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332108 | EMBEDDED HARDWARE STATE MACHINE FOR CONTEXT DETECTION INTEGRATED WITH A SENSOR CHIP - Hardware state machine is embedded with sensing element to generate movement context values and context information. Mobile device includes applications processor (AP), data storage, and sensor integrated circuit (IC) package. Data storage includes operating system (OS), and an application program to display a step count. Sensor IC package includes sensing element, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), embedded hardware state machine, and communications interface. Sensing element provides a sensor signal indicating the mobile device's movement. ADC samples the sensor signal. Hardware state machine filters the sampled sensor data, matches the filtered sensor data with one of several predetermined sensor data patterns (e.g. recognized pattern), and then generates a context value, e.g. walking, and a context information, e.g., step count, based on the recognized pattern. The context value and the context information are then provided via the communication interface to the OS (running on the AP.) Other embodiments are also described. | 12-12-2013 |
20130346021 | MONITORING USE OF A SINGLE ARM WALKING AID - A method, system or computer usable program product for monitoring single arm walking aid use of a user including providing a sensor on at least one of a left shoe, a right shoe and a single arm walking aid, using the sensor, determining a relative position of a set of footsteps by a left foot, a set of footsteps by a right foot, and a set of placements of the single arm walking aid, and using the relative position data, determining whether the user is practicing correct single arm walking aid use. | 12-26-2013 |
20140012539 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONGESTION DEGREE MAP GENERATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a pitch of walking from oscillation detection data, and a congestion determination unit configured to determine a congestion degree based on a difference between the pitch acquired by the acquisition unit and a pitch during normal walking which is calculated based on the oscillation detection data of a past. | 01-09-2014 |
20140074431 | Wrist Pedometer Step Detection - In some implementations, optimizations for detecting steps when a pedometer is worn at a user's wrist are described. In some implementations, a threshold crossing step detection method can be enhanced for wrist locations by counting the number of positive peaks between comparison threshold crossings, adjusting a minimum peak-to-peak threshold for qualifying threshold crossings, and inferring a second step based on the amount of time between threshold crossings. In some implementations, the pedometer can automatically determine that the pedometer is being worn on a user's wrist. | 03-13-2014 |
20140088917 | STEP COUNTER DEVICE WITH ENERGY-SCAVENGING FUNCTIONALITY, AND STEP-COUNTING METHOD - A step-counter device detects and counts user steps. The device includes a transducer configured to generate an electrical transduction signal in response to user stepping. An energy-scavenging system is coupled to the transducer to generate a power supply voltage in response to the electrical transduction signal. A processing unit is powered by the power supply voltage. The processing unit is further configured to sense the electrical transduction signal and determine whether a user step has occurred and in response to that determination increment a step counter. | 03-27-2014 |
20140129177 | Systems and Methods for Frequency-Based Stride Length Correction in a Pedometer Device - A pedometer or other stride-detection device ( | 05-08-2014 |
20140172361 | MULTI-POSTURE STRIDE LENGTH CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDOOR POSITIONING - A multi-posture stride length calibration system for indoor positioning includes: at least an inertial measurement unit, configured to sense at least a signal; a signal preprocessing unit, connected to the inertial measurement unit to process sensed signal; a multi-posture determination unit, configured to determine at least a posture based on processed signal; a step-computing decision unit, configured to compute a number of steps and a step frequency based on processed signal; a map feature calibration unit, configured to receive the number of steps, step frequency and posture to determined a stride length and decide whether the stride length matching a criterion; a step-computing threshold adjustment unit, configured to adjust a step-computing threshold if stride length not matching the criterion; and a stride length regression unit, configured to update a stride length regression curve for posture based on step frequency and stride length if stride length matching the criterion. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172362 | Methods, Systems and Devices for Generating Real-Time Activity Data Updates to Display Devices - Methods, systems and devices are provided for displaying monitored activity data in substantial real-time on a screen of a computing device. One example method includes capturing motion data associated with activity of a user via an activity tracking device. The motion data is quantified into a plurality of metrics associated with the activity of the user. The method includes connecting the activity tracking device with a computing device over a wireless data connection, and sending motion data from the activity tracking device to the computing device for display of one or more of the plurality of metrics on a graphical user interface of the computing device. At least one of the plurality of metrics displayed on the graphical user interface is shown to change in substantial real-time based on the motion data. | 06-19-2014 |
20140188431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING WHETHER STEPS HAVE OCCURRED - A filter processes acceleration magnitude signals from an accelerometer device to output spectral content related to walking and running. A device containing the accelerometer determines steps by qualitatively analyzing the processed acceleration signals to determine whether increased acceleration magnitude results from a step impact from running or walking activity. The device may analyze the acceleration signals to determine crossings of an axis at zero magnitude, which crossings typically correspond to a person's foot impacting the ground, and may analyze the period between the zero crossings. The step count can indicate whether the device, in a height determination mode, is moving in a vehicle; if analysis of accelerometer signals indicates no stepping or running, but another circuit of the device indicates rapid movement, the device assumes it is moving in a vehicle, and resets a height above ground value to zero upon determining resumption of walking or running activity. | 07-03-2014 |
20140249774 | Methods and Systems for Identification of Event Data Having Combined Activity and Location Information of Portable Monitoring Devices - Systems and methods for segmenting a period of time into identification of locations of a user who performs activities are described. One of the methods includes detecting activity of a monitoring device worn by the user. The activity includes an amount of movement of the monitoring device. The activity is performed for a period of time. The method further includes obtaining geo-location data for the monitoring device and storing, during the period of time, the detected activity and corresponding geo-location data. The method also includes analyzing the detected activity and the corresponding geo-location data to identify one or more events. Each event is associated with a group of activity data and one or more of the groups of activity data is associated with an identifier, which is obtained using the geo-location data. | 09-04-2014 |
20140278229 | USE OF GYROSCOPES IN PERSONAL FITNESS TRACKING DEVICES - Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques for utilizing gyroscopes in biometric monitoring devices are provided. Such techniques may, in some implementations, involve obtaining swimming metrics regarding stroke cycle count, lap count, and stroke type. Such techniques may also, in some implementations, involve obtaining performance metrics for bicycling activities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278230 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN PEDOMETER MODES - Systems and methods are provided that allow steps to be counted in multiple pedometer modes. For example, a pedometer application on an electronic device can count steps in an ambient mode of operation and a session mode of operation. By maintaining separate counters for each pedometer mode and continuously monitoring the desired mode of operation, the pedometer application can accurately count the number of steps during a certain time period. In response to detecting a change in the desired mode, the pedometer application can seamlessly switch to the corresponding mode counter. In some embodiments, the pedometer application can display graphical representations of historical step information for one or more pedometer modes. | 09-18-2014 |
20140309964 | Internal Sensor Based Personalized Pedestrian Location - Step detection and step length estimation techniques may include detecting salient points in sensor data of one or more sensors. A step frequency may be used to estimate the length of a step according to a step length estimation model. The step length estimation model may be adjusted based at least in part on landmark data to better estimate a step length of the user. Additionally or alternatively, an adjusted step length estimation model may be readjusted over time to account for changes in a user, conditions, or both. | 10-16-2014 |
20140336982 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING A DIGITAL CIRCUIT HAVING AN ACTIVITY SENSOR, AND CORRESPONDING DIGITAL CIRCUIT - A system for designing a digital circuit including: a digital circuit simulator based on a file containing a functional description of the digital circuit; a mechanism estimating an output variable from the digital circuit when executing a test bench supplied to the simulator; event counters, events being detected using control signals provided by the simulator when executing the test bench; and a mechanism building at least one calculation model of the digital circuit output variable based on a sequence of estimation data of the output variable and output data of the event counters. The building mechanism can assign a plurality of possible modes to the output variable and build a different output variable calculation model for each possible mode. | 11-13-2014 |
20140365169 | Adjusting Step Count to Compensate for Arm Swing - In some implementations, a mobile device can receive a motion signal from a motion sensor on the mobile device. The mobile device can determine a step count based on the motion signal. The mobile device can transform the motion signal from a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal. The mobile device can determine a dominant peak and harmonic peaks of the motion signal within a pedestrian frequency band. The mobile device can determine that the dominant peak corresponds to an arm swing of a user and adjust the step count to compensate for the arm swing. | 12-11-2014 |
20140379297 | ACCOMPANIMENT DETERMINATION APPARATUS, ACCOMPANIMENT DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An accompaniment determination apparatus includes a sensor information receiver configured to receive from sensors worn by two or more users sensor information that associates observation information acquired by the sensors with time point information indicating a time point at which the observation information is acquired, a similarity information calculation unit configured to calculate similarity information related to similarity in a set of observation information, corresponding to the time point information at a determination time point to determine whether the two or more users are accompanying, an accompaniment determination unit configured to determine that the two or more users wearing the sensors having acquired the observation information used to calculate the similarity information are accompanying each other if the similarity information is similar enough to satisfy a predetermined condition, and an output unit configured to output information indicating a determination result determined by the accompaniment determination unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20150051867 | Pedometer apparatus with tone code technology for wireless data transmission function - A pedometer apparatus with wireless data transmission function includes a transmitting member and a receiving member. The transmitting member includes a step counting means, a first microprocessor and an audio transmitter. The receiving member includes a microphone module, a second microprocessor and a data output means. The present invention is susceptible to low production costs, requires low power consumption and is easy and convenient to use. | 02-19-2015 |
20150088457 | Methods And Systems For Identification Of Event Data Having Combined Activity And Location Information Of Portable Monitoring Devices - Systems and methods for segmenting a period of time into identification of locations of a user who performs activities are described. One of the methods includes detecting activity of a monitoring device worn by the user. The activity includes an amount of movement of the monitoring device. The activity is performed for a period of time. The method further includes obtaining geo-location data for the monitoring device and storing, during the period of time, the detected activity and corresponding geo-location data. The method also includes analyzing the detected activity and the corresponding geo-location data to identify one or more events. Each event is associated with a group of activity data and one or more of the groups of activity data is associated with an identifier, which is obtained using the geo-location data. | 03-26-2015 |
20150127298 | ACTIVITY DETECTION AND ANALYTICS - A method and system for activity detection and analytics are disclosed. The method comprises determining a context and providing the determined context and one or more outputs from at least one sensor to an analytics engine to provide analytics results. The system includes at least one sensor and a processing system coupled to the at least one sensor, wherein the processing system includes an analytics engine that is configured to receive a determined context and one or more outputs from at least one sensor to provide analytics results. | 05-07-2015 |
20150338236 | GPS Features and Functionality in an Athletic Watch System - Athletic performance monitoring systems include GPS data to enhance various features of the workout as well as the post-workout data analysis. Such features include using output from multiple sensors to determine the most accurate data available for providing distance measurements for individual segments of a route. The most accurate data for each route segment, from whatever source, then is used to provide the overall route distance and as the basis for making other calculations, such as pace, calorie burn, etc. Another feature relates to the ability to both input and output geographically tagged messages while moving along a route during an athletic performance. | 11-26-2015 |
20150345985 | ADAPTIVE LIFESTYLE METRIC ESTIMATION - Systems and methods for estimating lifestyle metrics with a wearable electronic device are disclosed herein. One disclosed system may include the wearable electronic device comprising a processor and a sensor system providing inputs to the processor. The sensor system may include a high power sensor and a low power sensor. The processor may operate in a high power mode in which both sensors are operational and a low power mode in which the high power sensor is not operational. In the high power mode, the processor may compute a lifestyle metric about a user for a first time period based on first data from the high power sensor. In the low power mode, the processor may compute the lifestyle metric for a second time period based on second data from the low power sensor and the first data and/or a derivative of the first data. | 12-03-2015 |
20150362330 | Method and System for Varying Step Length Estimation Using Nonlinear System Identification - The present disclosure relates to a method and system for estimating varying step length for on foot motion (such as for example walking or running). The present method and apparatus is able to be used in anyone or both of two different phases. In some embodiments, the first phase is used. In some other embodiments, the second phase is used. In a third group of embodiments, the first phase is used, and then the second phase is used. The first phase is a model-building phase done offline to obtain the nonlinear model for the step length as a function of different parameters that represent human motion dynamics. A nonlinear system identification technique is used for building this model. In the second phase the nonlinear model is used to calculate the step length from the different parameters that represent human motion dynamics used as input to the model. These parameters are obtained from sensors readings from the sensors in the apparatus. This second phase is the more frequent usage of the present method and apparatus for a variety of applications. | 12-17-2015 |
20160001131 | Accurate Step Counting Pedometer for Children, Adults and Elderly - The present invention related to the area of lifestyle devices, particularly to pedometers used for exercise tracking. This invention aims at accurate recording of steps, speeds, distances, type of motion (walk and run) and calories expenditure, independently of the personal characteristics (age, gender, weight and height). The invention uses sub-band decomposition filters that produce non-distorted sine wave regardless of personal traits and the type of walking or running. Low-complexity zero-crossing step detection is subsequently applied, and the step length and energy expenditure information is then extracted. The method for goals tracking is included for independent types of goals: steps, energy, distance and duration. | 01-07-2016 |
20160018242 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FITNESS DEVICE - A ring shaped structure having a ring shaped inner channel, and a ball which is located inside the ring shaped structure and which rolls in the ring shaped channel. The ring shaped structure may be comprised of a first ring shaped structure and a second ring shaped structure which are attached together to form the ring shaped structure. The ring shaped structure may have an inner diameter; and the apparatus may further include a handle which spans the inner diameter of the ring shaped structure. The apparatus may further include a first attachment device; and a second attachment device; wherein the first attachment device connects to the second attachment device inside of the handle to attach the first ring shaped structure to the second ring shaped structure. The apparatus may include a device for measuring movement of the ball. The device for measuring movement of the ball includes an accelerometer. | 01-21-2016 |
20160025513 | MULTI-SENSOR PEDOMETER - A multi-sensor pedometer is provided. The multi-sensor pedometer may include a first housing having a plurality of sidewalls forming an encased compartment. The plurality of sidewalls may provide at least one strap, a display and a sensing film. The compartment may house a control circuitry, a piezo-electric sensor and a power source. The control circuitry may provide an accelerometer and a step counting system including a step counter. A user may secure the multi-sensor pedometer around at least a portion of a predetermined muscle used during their exercise by connecting the at least one strap so that the sensing film operably interfaces the predetermined muscle. When the user prepares to exercise, the muscle contraction/bulge is conveyed through the sensing film to the electromechanically connected piezo-electric sensor, resulting in the step signal being sent to the control circuitry. The accelerometer transmits a motion signal to the control circuitry when it is detecting proper motion. The counting system counts at least one identifiable step when receiving the motion signal within a predetermined time of receiving any step signal. The control circuitry may electronically represent the summation of the at least one identifiable step and an associated plurality of exercise data on the display. | 01-28-2016 |
20160069679 | Electronic Devices with Pressure Sensors for Characterizing Motion - An electronic device may include a motion sensor for detecting movement of the electronic device and a pressure sensor for detecting changes in elevation of the electronic device. Applications that run on the electronic device such as health and fitness applications may use motion sensor and pressure sensor data to track a user's physical activity. For example, processing circuitry in the electronic device may use the motion sensor to track a user's steps and the pressure sensor to track changes in the user's elevation. The processing circuitry may determine whether the user is climbing stairs based on the user's step rate and the user's changes in elevation. When the processing circuitry determines that the user is climbing stairs, the processing circuitry may use the pressure sensor and motion sensor to track and store the number of flights of stairs climbed by the user. | 03-10-2016 |
20160131500 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN PEDOMETER MODES - Systems and methods are provided that allow steps to be counted in multiple pedometer modes. For example, a pedometer application on an electronic device can count steps in an ambient mode of operation and a session mode of operation. By maintaining separate counters for each pedometer mode and continuously monitoring the desired mode of operation, the pedometer application can accurately count the number of steps during a certain time period. In response to detecting a change in the desired mode, the pedometer application can seamlessly switch to the corresponding mode counter. In some embodiments, the pedometer application can display graphical representations of historical step information for one or more pedometer modes. | 05-12-2016 |
20160151669 | WRIST-WORN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
20160161281 | DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COUNTING THE NUMBER OF CYCLES OF A PERIODIC MOVEMENT OF A SUBJECT - The present invention relates to device, system and method for counting the number of cycles of a periodic movement of a subject, e.g. for step counting of a person. To enable more precisely counting the number of cycles of a periodic movement of a subject based on discontinuous accelerometer data the proposed device comprises an input unit ( | 06-09-2016 |
20160169703 | Method and System for Characterization Of On Foot Motion With Multiple Sensor Assemblies | 06-16-2016 |
20160377450 | PEDOMETER SYSTEM - A pedometer system comprises a pedometer and a portable electronic device. The pedometer is located on a garment and comprises a sensor, a battery, a first transmission unit and a microcontroller. The sensor senses a number of completed paces of a user which walks or runs. The portable electronic device comprises a second transmission unit, a display screen, a processor and a storage device. The storage device is connected to the processor and stores a pedometer application program which has a number of target paces. When the number of completed paces greater than the number of target paces, the pedometer application program displays a preferential certificate by the display screen. Through the pedometer system, the present invention can increase motive of using pedometer regularly, then accomplish the purpose of maintaining health. | 12-29-2016 |
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