326 results about "Pedometer" patented technology

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.

An implantable pedometer for measuring the amount of joint use is disclosed. The implantable pedometer includes a sensor adapted for detecting indicators of joint usage. A counter is configured for storing count data corresponding to the number of indicators detected by the sensor and a telemetry circuit is configured for transmitting the count data outside of the body.

A pedometer navigator system is carried by a pedestrian, the pedometer system providing present position data as the pedestrian walks across terrain to be surveyed. The body frame is coupled to the pedestrian. An Euler Angle Measuring Subsystem (EAMS) coupled to a body frame measures and outputs the Euler angles of a fixed coordinate system with respect to an earth fixed navigational coordinate system. A left and right sensor is mounted on the pedestrian's respective left and right foot. An SBPMS (short baseline position measuring subsystem) is coupled to the body frame and has a position measuring coordinate system. The SBPMS measures and provides a respective left vector {right arrow over (rho)}leftp and a right vector {right arrow over (rho)}rightp characterizing the position of the left and right sensors with respect to the position measuring coordinate system origin. A computer and algorithm means responds to the Euler angles of the body frame coordinate system with respect to the earth fixed navigational coordinate system and the left vector and the right vector by determining an interval during which the left or right foot is stationary and for providing a transition vector referenced to the earth fixed navigational coordinate system characterizing the movement of the SBPMS origin during the interval the respective foot is stationary. A navigation algorithm adds each transition vector to the previous present position of the navigation reference system to obtain a next present position of the position measuring subsystem.

A system is provided that is configured to be transported, carried or worn by a user, such as a portable personal training device or sports watch. The system comprises a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver arranged to obtain the location and/or speed of the user and a pedometer for counting steps made by the user. Data from the GNSS receiver is used to calibrate the pedometer each time the user is determined to travel a distance greater than a predefined distance value during a period of time in which signals obtained by the GNSS receiver meet the one or more accuracy and/or reliability criteria.

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.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a gait recognition method and a corresponding pedometer. The gait recognition method comprises the following steps: acquiring acceleration signals during wrist movement, wherein the acceleration signals comprise a first sensitive shaft signal and a second sensitive shaft signal; selecting one of the first sensitive shaft signal and the second sensitive shaft signal as the current gait recognition signal according to the moving state of the previous gait; determining whether the current gait is complete or not by judging the conversion between a wave peak section and a wave trough section of the current gait recognition signal based on the dynamic threshold value preset for the previous gait. The gait recognition method is capable of effectively recognizing running and other walking modes, thus improving the step-counting accuracy.

Techniques for mobile devices to subscribe and share raw sensor data are provided. The raw sensor data associated with sensors (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, pedometers, pressure sensors, audio sensors, light sensors, barometers) of a mobile device can be used to determine the movement or activity of a user. By sharing the raw or compressed sensor data with other computing devices, the other computing devices can determine a motion state based on the sensor data. Additionally, in some instances, the other computing devices can determine a functional state based on the sensor data and the motion state. For example, functional state classification can be associated with each motion state (e.g., driving, walking) by further describing each motion state (e.g., walking on rough terrain, driving while texting).

The present invention in one embodiment is a combination of a personal device with a tether that connects the personal device with items of interest, especially security cards or identity badges, credit cards, lunch cards, library cards, keys, group identifiers, mottos, motivational or inspirational messages, pictures, colorful indicia, designs, pill containers, money clips, pouches, cases, purses, envelopes, pocket protectors, pens, pencils, pictures, loyalty cards, note paper, games, lotions, glasses, business cards or any other object that may be desirable to have on the user's person. In another embodiment, the invention includes the combination of a pedometer with other personal devices. One embodiment of the invention includes a method of using a pedometer-tether combination as part of a health promotion program.

An exercise system carrying kit. The kit includes: a housing member, a physical exercise device, an audio/video provider module, a power module, a control module, a display module, an exercise accessory, and a receiving mechanism. The exercise device enables a user to perform physical exercises. There is a removable handle having wheels. The audio/video provider module provides entertaining information. The control module alters a magnitude of energy provided by the power module to the audio/video provider module. The exercise accessory assists a user in performing physical exercises, and is an accessory selected from the group of accessories consisting of: an eye chart, a hand weight, a foot weight, a body weight, a reading rack stand, a pedometer, a timer, a clock, a calculator, a media, a hydration bottle, a jump rope, a balance bar, a pad, an aromatherapy device, and an instruction module. The receiving mechanism stores the exercise device and exercise accessory in the housing member.

The invention relates to a network pedometer based on Bluetooth. The network pedometer comprises a microcontroller, and is characterized in that an input terminal of the microcontroller is connected with a three-axis acceleration sensor, the microcontroller is connected with a Bluetooth sending module, and the network pedometer sends step calculation data to an intelligent terminal through the Bluetooth sending module. A step calculation method provided by the invention comprises the following steps: (a) collecting acceleration magnitudes; (b) selecting a calculating datum axis; (c) enabling digital filtering to be real-time; (d) storing acceleration values; (e) calculating real-time dynamic thresholds; (f) judging that whether acceleration changes are greater than predefined accuracy or not; (g) judging that whether acceleration is greater than the dynamic thresholds or not; (h) judging that whether the slope of an acceleration curve is positive or not. According to the network pedometer and the step calculation method provided by the invention, the axis with the largest average value is selected as the calculating datum axis, so that the accuracy of step forwarding judgment is ensured. By judging that whether the predefined precision, the dynamic thresholds and the slope of the acceleration curve are positive or not, the accuracy of step judgment is ensured.

A method of reducing power consumption of a radio badge in a localization system is disclosed, in which the radio badge is carried by a tracked target and is provided with a pedometer for detecting a footstep count of the tracked target. The method includes: estimating a velocity of the radio badge according to the footstep count detected by the pedometer; calculating a sleep time from the velocity of the radio badge; and controlling the radio badge to discontinue emitting radio signals during the sleep time. An indoor localization system that performs the method is also disclosed.

Present invention discloses a intelligent pedometer implementation method in handset. Said method first converts user's displacement variation to level signal through pedometer chip inducting user active data information, transferring said signal to computation module, computation module proceeding lowpass processing and sampling noise removing, judging whether user shifting one-step, calculating effectively movement step number according to effective movement time. Said invented also discloses handset to realize above-mentioned method, including handset basic body, memory module, display module, pedometer module, control module and computation module.

A monitoring device with a pedometer is disclosed herein. The monitoring device preferably comprises an article, an optical sensor, an accelerometer and processor. The optical sensor preferably comprises a photodetector and a plurality of light emitting diodes. A sensor signal from the optical sensor is processed with a filtered accelerometer output signal from the accelerometer to generate a pedometer function.

The invention discloses a health wrist strap device which comprises a wrist strap main body and a data terminal used for processing and displaying data. The wrist strap main body comprises a central processing unit, a blood pressure detection module, an ambulatory blood pressure detection module, a cardiotachometer module, a pedometer module, a global position system (GPS) module, a storage unit and a communication unit. The health wrist strap device can detect a plurality of health data such as blood pressure, temperature and the heart rate of human bodies simultaneously, and can obtain health data of the detected human bodies in real-time detection and offline detection modes. A health monitoring method can be used for analyzing and assessing the plurality of health data so that people can visually obtain the health states of the detected human bodies. Especially when the health data of the detected human bodies are abnormal, the abnormal position can be located, prompts or alarms can be given through the data terminal, and therefore timely response measures taking is facilitated.

A game system includes a plurality of pedometers. The plurality of step count data respectively counted by the plurality of pedometers are acquired in the game apparatus. In the game apparatus, by utilizing the plurality of step count data, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game. Alternatively, in a server, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed by utilizing the plurality of step count data, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game in the game apparatus. For example, game processing depending on the number of players walking in the same time slot is executed, or game processing according to the totalized value of the accumulated total step count values of the plurality of pedometers is executed.

A shoe suited for walking or running includes a shoe sole, a shoe upper attached to the shoe sole, and a pedometer integrated into one of the shoe sole and the shoe upper. The pedometer includes structure configured for monitoring a remaining useful life of the shoe, and structure configured to alert a user when the remaining useful life is approaching or has reached an end. The shoe indicates when it should be replaced to protect against skeletal, bone, shin, internal and other user injury resulting from running/walking on shoes that have diminished shock absorbency.

A repair device for measurement, sampling device and waveform analysis device, which can analyze the waveform which is sampled from an output signal of a sensor, is provided to restrict the power consumption of the repair device for measurement. A repair device for measurement comprises an acceleration sensor(44) and a control member. The acceleration sensor outputs the acceleration value showing the acceleration. The control member controls two measurement states and operation states. The control member has the first control member and the second control member. The first control member reiterates acceleration value capturing, a fixed captured value, and the relation of threshold value for a fixed time. The second control member determines that the walk of the step using the acceleration value of the fixed number and the acceleration value from the acceleration sensor.

A Health Tracking Program of the invention is software that can read exercise equipment devices such as pedometers, weight scales, pulse monitors and calorie meters. User data is imported and exported to the software where it is displayed in a useful manner to indicate how a user is progressing. Users can input their own information such as weight, caloric intake, caloric expenditure, body mass index and activities performed. Software can upload selected user data to the internet.