Activity monitoring systems and methods
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsCurtis A. Vock, Peter Flentov, Dennis M. Darcy
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Abstract
An activity monitor, comprises housing for attachment to a person; at least one accelerometer disposed within the housing; and a processor disposed within the housing, for processing signals from the accelerometer to assess activity of the person. A method assesses activity of a person, including: sensing acceleration at a first location on the person; processing the acceleration, over time, to assess activity of the person; and wirelessly communicating information indicative of the activity to a second location.
Claims15
A receiver for receiving a transducer signal, comprising:
- a receiving element operative to receive the output of a transducer operative to detect movement of a user;
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- a processor operative to:
- assess boundary conditions of the transducer output;
- exclude certain conditions of the transducer output;
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- determine the characteristics of the user's workout from the processed transducer output in real time, wherein the output of the transducer comprises a vibrational spectrum related to movement of the user during a workout.
A system for communicating data associated with a user's workout comprising:
- a transmitter comprising:
- a transducer operative to detect movement of a user during a workout;
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- a transmitting element operative to transmit data related to movement detected by the transducer as the movement is detected;
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- a receiver comprising:
- a receiving element operative to receive the data transmitted by the transmitting element;
- a processor operative to assess boundary conditions of the received data and exclude certain conditions of the received data that correspond to particular movements of the user during a workout to generate characteristics of the user's workout from the received data in real time, wherein the received data comprises a vibrational spectrum related to movement of the user during the workout;
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- a display operative to display the characteristics of the user's workout in real time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.