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.
Claims20
A method of assessing physical metric data of a user of an electronic system comprising a wearable detector and a processor, the method comprising:
- detecting, with the wearable detector, physical metric data of the user during a defined time period that is determined based on an activity of the user;
- processing, with the processor, the detected physical metric data to determine a number representative of the detected physical metric data during the defined time period;
- and
- generating, with the processor, a value based on a comparison of the determined number and a maximum number for the defined time period.
A system comprising:
- a sensor configured to sense use data indicative of use over a defined time period that is determined based on an activity of a user;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine a number representative of the sensed use data over the defined time period;
- and
- generate a value based on the determined number and a maximum number for the defined time period.
A method of assessing physical metric data, comprising:
- detecting the physical metric data;
- sampling the detected physical metric data during a defined time period that is determined based on an activity of a user;
- processing the sampled physical metric data to determine a number representative of the sampled physical metric data for the defined 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.