Adidas Ag

Friedrich-alexander-universitaet Erlangen-nuernberg

Swiss Timing Ltd

Portabiles Healthcare Technologies Gmbh

Friedrich-alexander-universitat Erlangen-nürnberg

Bjoern Michael Eskofier

Robert Frank Kirk

Constantin Zwick

Dominik Schuldhaus

Christian DiBenedetto

Iain James Sabberton

Peter Georg Laitenberger

Eva Andrea Dorschky

Thomas Kautz

Sebastian Scholz

Harald Körger

Maike Petra Stöve

Jürgen Winkler

Ralph Steidl

Jochen Klucken

Julius Hannink

Jens Barth

Described are shoes for ball sports including an upper having an outer surface. An actuator is configured to change at least one surface property of a portion of the outer surface of the upper, and a sensor is configured to be sensitive to movements of the shoe. A processing unit is connected to the actuator and the sensor and configured to process sensor data retrieved from the sensor and to cause the actuator to change the at least one surface property of the portion of the outer surface of the upper if a predetermined event is detected in the sensor data.

Shoes for ball sports

The present invention relates to methods for analyzing gait of a subject. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for analyzing gait of a subject, said method comprising: providing data representing the 3D-movement of a foot of said subject over time; identifying within said data first data segments that each represent of at least one stride; determining one or more stride features for each of said first data segments; and defining one or more clusters on the basis of at least one stride feature of said one or more stride features. Each of the defined clusters represents a class of strides, e.g. a class may represent the typical stride of a subject. The present invention also provides for corresponding systems that are configured to perform the methods of the present invention and the use of these systems for analyzing in assessing gait of a subject, preferably a subject suffering from a movement-impairment.

Method and system for analyzing human gait

A method for calibrating a time difference of arrival-based local positioning system for k&#x2212;D localization, k=2 or 3, includes collecting N sets of time difference of arrival measurements related to a mobile node, N&#x2265;2, each nset of measurements being performed by Bn beacon nodes among B beacon nodes of the positioning system while the mobile node is located is a nposition within a region covered by the positioning system, Bn&#x2265;k+2, and determining optimal beacon positions that minimize an objective function depending on N residual error vectors, the calculation of each nposition of the mobile node using beacon positions and the nset of measurements, the calculation allowing the calculation of the nresidual error vector.

Method for calibrating a local positioning system based on time-difference-of-arrival measurements

A method for calculating a position of an object of interest in an environment. The method includes: predicting a position and an orientation of the object of interest in the environment; selecting a subset of base stations among a set of base stations located within the environment, by using the predicted position and orientation, and a radiation pattern of a system including the object of interest and a mobile transponder attached to the object of interest; and calculating an actual position of the object of interest, using time of arrival or time difference of arrival measurements between the base stations of the subset and the mobile transponder.

Method for calculating a position of an object of interest

Described are methods and systems for associating frames in a video of an activity of a person with an event. The methods include recording a video of an activity of a person; storing a time-series of a plurality of sensor data () obtained from a sensor assembly () of at least one sensor () coupled to the person while the person is performing the activity; synchronizing the video with the sensor data (); detecting an event in the time-series; and associating the event with at least one corresponding frame in the video showing the event.

Method and device for associating frames in a video of an activity of a person with an event

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Erlangen, Germany

Bjoern Michael Eskofier