Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.

Braun Gmbh

Next11 Technologies

Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg

Jochen Seitz

Hansjörg Reick

Sebastian Kram

Norbert Franke

Mohammad Alawieh

Ingo Vetter

Jörn Thielecke

Andreas Ernst

Stephan Haimerl

Birendra Ghimire

Thorsten Vaupel

Jens-Uwe Garbas

Joern Thielecke

Carl Stückrath

Sylvie Couronné

Marcus Bocksch

Stephen Haimerl

Nikolaj Thomassen

Christian Nickel

Carl Stuckrath

An apparatus for estimating a physical state of a movable object includes a processor receiving or determining a probability mass function including probabilities for each of a first group of at least two movement classes, wherein the movement models of the first group being determined using sensor data from the inertial measurement unit. The processor receives at least one additional probability mass function associated with a second group of at least two movement classes, wherein the additional probability mass function has been obtained using additional information different from the sensor data. The processor combines the probability mass function and the at least one additional probability mass function to obtain a combined probability mass function over the movement classes of the first group and the second group, selects a movement class having the highest probability from the combined probability mass function, and estimates the physical state of the movable object using a movement model of the selected movement class. Each movement class is either a movement state or a movement model.

Apparatus and method for estimating a physical state of a movable object

The invention concerns a method and a system for determining a game scenario in a sports game, the system including a player module being attachable to a player, an equipment module being attachable to a sports equipment to be used in the sports game, and a computing unit. The computing unit may be configured to receive player based data from the player module and equipment based data from the equipment module, the player based data representing an activity profile of the player and the equipment based data representing a motion profile of the equipment. The computing unit may further be configured to determine, based on the activity profile of the player and on the motion profile of the equipment, one of a plurality of game scenarios involving the player and the equipment.

System for determining a game scenario in a sports game

An apparatus for determining a body portion of a user treated by the user using a personal hygienic device. The apparatus includes a camera configured to capture the user to obtain a pictorial representation of the user while treating the body portion using the personal hygienic device; an interface configured to receive sensor data from at least one inertial sensor residing in the personal hygienic device; and an analyzer configured to analyze the pictorial representation and the sensor data to determine the body portion.

Determination of a currently treated body portion of a user

Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile device having a receiver and an orientation determiner. The receiver has a plurality of antennas for receiving a signal from a stationary transmitter. Each antenna of the plurality of antennas is arranged to have a different receiving direction. The receiver is configured to detect a signal strength of the signal received with each antenna in order to obtain a plurality of detected signal strengths. The orientation determiner is configured to determine an orientation of the mobile device relative to the stationary transmitter based on the plurality of detected signal strengths.

Concept for determining an orientation of a mobile device

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Erlangen, Germany

Jochen Seitz