Technologies for pedometric sensing in footwear
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMohsin Y. Ahmed, Suraj Sindia
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Abstract
Technologies for pedometric sensing in footwear include a step tracker compute device. The step tracker compute device is to receive acceleration data indicative of movement of a foot of a user, generate energy contour data indicative of energy levels over time, based on the received acceleration data, determine dynamic energy thresholds indicative of peaks in the energy contour data, and detect steps of the user based on the dynamic energy thresholds and the energy contour data to generate step data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims25
A step tracker compute device for tracking steps of a user, comprising:
- a data communication module to receive acceleration data indicative of movement of a foot of the user;
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- a step detector module to (i) generate, based on the received acceleration data, energy contour data indicative of energy levels over time, (ii) determine dynamic energy thresholds indicative of peaks in the energy contour data, and (iii) detect steps of the user based on the dynamic energy thresholds and the energy contour data to generate step data.
One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions that, when executed by a step tracker compute device, cause the step tracker compute device to:
- receive acceleration data indicative of movement of a foot of the user;
- generate, based on the received acceleration data, energy contour data indicative of energy levels over time;
- determine dynamic energy thresholds indicative of peaks in the energy contour data;
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- detect steps of the user based on the dynamic energy thresholds and the energy contour data to generate step data.
A method for tracking steps of a user, comprising:
- receiving, by a step tracker compute device, acceleration data indicative of movement of a foot of the user;
- generating, by the step tracker compute device and based on the received acceleration data, energy contour data indicative of energy levels over time;
- determining, by the step tracker compute device, dynamic energy thresholds indicative of peaks in the energy contour data;
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- detecting, by the step tracker compute device, steps of the user based on the dynamic energy thresholds and the energy contour data to generate step data.
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