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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 respo... | 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... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072164 | EXERCISE MODE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION METHOD An exercise mode automatic identification method is provided. The automatic identification method includes the following steps. A step count taken by a user is obtained. A horizontal transient speed at which the user moves at the end of a predetermined period is obtaine... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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 ax... | 02/16/2012 |
| 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 ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 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 ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 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 ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110251822 | 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 representin... | 10/13/2011 |
| 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... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SELF-POWERED RFID-READABLE PEDOMETER A device, system and method for analyzing a user's motion using a piezoelectric film to generate a plurality of deformation signals based upon an associated plurality of deformations, an EEPROM to record data associated with the plurality of deformation signals, and a t... | 09/15/2011 |
| 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 an... | 07/28/2011 |
| 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 sens... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110071003 | PORTABLE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SENSING SYSTEM A portable system retrieves one or more exercise programs from a remote communication system that provides motivational content for a user exercising upon an exercise mechanism. The exercise program further includes at least one control signal that controls one or more ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 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 fo... | 03/03/2011 |
| 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 c... | 02/10/2011 |
| 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 (1) includes: an X-axis direction body movement sensor (11), a Y-axis direction body movement sensor (12), and a Z-axis direction body movement sensor (13) for detecting accelerations in a plurality of directions; a scalar... | 01/27/2011 |
| 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 dete... | 01/06/2011 |
| 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 se... | 12/09/2010 |
| 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... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100256950 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING DEVICE HAVING MOTION SENSING FUNCTION, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM DIRECTED THERETO, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE An information processing system including a device capable of sensing motion and providing various outputs, such as a pedometer, is provided. In addition, a storage medium storing a program directed to the device included in such an information processing system and an... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100256949 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING DEVICE HAVING MOTION SENSING FUNCTION, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM DIRECTED THERETO, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE An information processing system including a device capable of transmitting sensing information in accordance with a result of sensing of motion and receiving data for performing various types of processing in accordance with the sensing information is provided. In a ch... | 10/07/2010 |
| 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 measur... | 09/09/2010 |
| 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 coeffi... | 05/13/2010 |
| 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 representin... | 03/04/2010 |
| 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 moti... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100056208 | Electronic Device and Control Program Thereof In a mobile phone device 1 including a three-axial direction vibration sensor 16 for detecting the walking of a user carrying the mobile phone device 1 and counting the number of walking steps, when an incoming call is received, vibrations due to a ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100036639 | Shoes and Garments Employing One or More of Accelerometers, Wireless Transmitters, Processors Altimeters, to Determine Information Such as Speed to Persons Wearing the Shoes or Garments A shoe is improved by including: at least one accelerometer for generating acceleration signals and a processor configured to process the acceleration signals to determine one or both of speed and distance traveled of a person wearing the shoe. A shoe and a garment are ... | 02/11/2010 |
| 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... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090323888 | STEP COUNT MEASURING SYSTEM A step count measuring system includes a pedometer and a step count managing apparatus which are able to communicate, with each other. In the pedometer, a step count value sequentially detected for each unit of time is stored, and a time counted in the pedometer is stor... | 12/31/2009 |
| 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 c... | 12/03/2009 |
| 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 ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 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 longitud... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090240461 | BODY MOVEMENT DETECTOR, BODY MOVEMENT DETECTION METHOD AND BODY MOVEMENT DETECTION PROGRAM A vertical component is extracted from an acceleration vector corresponding to body movement of a user from a three-axis acceleration sensor, and the vertical-component is separated by a high-band/low-band separating unit into a high-band component and a low-band compon... | 09/24/2009 |
| 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 uni... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090177437 | Indoor navigation system and method This document discusses, among other things, a portable device that generates position and orientation data to facilitate movement within a building. The device can be, for example, handheld or affixed to a cane. Data for navigation is derived from reflections from inte... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090150178 | Method And System For Tracking Physical Metrics In A Social Commerce System A method and system for tracking physical metrics in a social commerce system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the physical metric tracking system comprises a data registering unit that receives activity data by a user, a data processing unit that validates th... | 06/11/2009 |
| 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 coeffi... | 06/04/2009 |
| 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 ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090082994 | Headset With Integrated Pedometer and Corresponding Method A headpiece (101) has at least one pedometer accelerometer (102) integrally disposed with respect to the headpiece (101) and a personal communications device interface (103) operably supported by the headpiece (101). By one approach, t... | 03/26/2009 |
| 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 un... | 03/12/2009 |
