Unitless activity assessment and associated methods
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsCurtis A. Vock, Perry Youngs
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Abstract
A system assesses activity and displays a unitless activity value. A detector senses activity of a user. A processor reads sensed activity data from the detector. A display displays the unitless activity value. An enclosure houses the detector and the processor. The processor periodically reads the sensed activity data from the detector and processes the data to generate an activity number, the number being used to generate the unitless activity value based upon a maximum number and a display range.
Claims26
A method of assessing activity of a user of an electronic system comprising a detector and a processor, the method comprising:
- detecting, with the detector, activity data indicative of activity by the user during an activity period;
- processing, with the processor, the detected activity data to determine a number representative of the detected activity data during the activity period;
- and
- generating, with the processor, a value based on a comparison of the determined number and a set number for the activity period.
A system comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense use data indicative of use over a use duration of time;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine a number representative of the sensed use data over the use duration of time;
- and
- generate a value based on the determined number and a pre-defined number for the use duration of time.
A method of assessing data, comprising:
- detecting data;
- sampling the detected data during a time period;
- processing the sampled data to determine a number representative of the sampled data for the time period;
- adding the number to an accumulator number to provide an updated accumulator number;
- and
- determining a value based upon the updated accumulator number and another number set prior to the detecting, wherein the determining the value comprises:
- determining a ratio based on a comparison of the updated accumulator number and the other number;
- and
- multiplying the determined ratio by a range number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.