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
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsCurtis A. Vock, Dennis Darcy, Peter Flentov
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Abstract
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 provided with a wireless transmitter, to provide information about the shoe/garment or a person wearing same.
Claims19
A system for determining one or both of speed and distance traveled of a moving person, comprising:
- a shoe;
- at least one accelerometer configured within the shoe for generating acceleration signals;
- a processor configured within the shoe to process the acceleration signals to determine at least one of the speed and distance traveled of a person wearing the shoe;
- a wireless receiver to be worn or operated by the person, the wireless receiver carried by a band configured to be worn on a wrist of the person;
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- a wireless transmitter configured within the shoe to transmit information indicative at least one of the speed and distance traveled to the wireless receiver, to provide at least one of speed and distance traveled to the person, wherein the wireless receiver has a display, the display providing to the person at least one of the speed and distance traveled by the person.
In a garment to be worn by a person, the improvement comprising a wireless transmitter for transmitting information about the garment, or a person wearing the garment, to a remote location, further comprising an altimeter to determine altitude of the garment, the information comprising the altitude.
A system for determining one or both of speed and distance traveled of a moving person, comprising:
- a shoe;
- at least one accelerometer configured within the shoe for generating acceleration signals;
- a processor configured within the shoe to process the acceleration signals to determine at least one of the speed and distance traveled of a person wearing the shoe;
- a wireless receiver to be worn or operated by the person, the wireless receiver comprising a watch to be worn by the person;
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- a wireless transmitter configured within the shoe to transmit information indicative at least one of the speed and distance traveled to the wireless receiver, to provide at least one of speed and distance traveled to the person, wherein the watch provides at least one of the speed and distance traveled to the person via a display of the watch, wherein the watch is configured to transfer at least one of the speed and distance traveled to a remote location.
A system for determining one or both of speed and distance traveled of a moving person, comprising:
- a shoe;
- at least one accelerometer configured within the shoe for generating acceleration signals;
- a processor configured within the shoe to process the acceleration signals to determine at least one of the speed and distance traveled of a person wearing the shoe;
- a wireless receiver carried by a band configured to be worn by the person;
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- a wireless transmitter configured within the shoe to transmit information indicative at least one of the speed and distance traveled to the wireless receiver, to provide at least one of speed and distance traveled to the person, the wireless receiver having a chronograph and capable of providing music to the person as well as audible information including one or both of speed and distance traveled to the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.