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US 2011/0022357 A1Published application
Location determining system
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsCurtis A. Vock, Dennis Darcy, Peter Flentov
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Abstract
A location measurement system comprises: a GPS receiver for attachment to a person and for determining earth location of the person; a display for attachment to the person; memory for storing map data; a processor configured to process earth location and the map data to instruct display the person's current location with a map on the display.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a presentation device;
- and
- a processor configured to at least:
- detect contact with ground based upon movement over the ground;
- determine a first vertical drop based upon the movement over the ground during at least one time interval in which lack of contact with the ground is detected followed by the detection of the contact with the ground;
- compare the first vertical drop to a second vertical drop;
- and
- cause the presentation device to present the comparison.
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A method comprising:
- detecting contact with ground based upon movement over the ground;
- determining, by a processor, a first vertical drop based upon the movement over the ground during at least one time interval in which lack of contact with the ground is detected followed by the detection of the contact with the ground;
- comparing the first vertical drop to a second vertical drop;
- and
- causing the presentation device to present the comparison.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.