Polar Electro Oy

Pertti Puolakanaho

Pekka Rytky

Elias Pekonen

Mika Erkkila

Juha Sorvala

Matti Korpela

Erkki Loponen

Matti Sipola

Niclas Granqvist

Markku Karjalainen

Juhani Kemppainen

Ville Majava

Jukka Jaatinen

Tero Posio

Marko Tilvis

Burton H Birnbaum

Esa Tuulari

Juho Rahko

Mika Erkkilä

Jukka Happonen

Jonna Puurunen

Topi Korhonen

Urpo Niemel&auml;

Nuutti Santaniemi

Kaisu Martinmäki

Seppo Nissil&aring;

Kari Säynäjäkangas

A system for monitoring muscle load, is configured to perform operations including: obtaining, from at least one sensor, measurement data on an exerciser; determining, based on the measurement data, a number of repetitions of a macroscopic movement performed during a physical exercise; determining, based on a conversion entry corresponding to a type of the physical exercise, muscle load coefficient of one or more muscles loaded in the physical exercise; utilizing the muscle load coefficient of the one or more muscles and the number of repetitions in determining muscle load data indicating muscle specific muscle load caused by the physical exercise performed by the exerciser; and outputting the muscle load data.

Muscle load monitoring

A bicycle computer for monitoring performance of a user of a bicycle includes a processing circuitry; a user interface; an attaching unit for arranging the bicycle computer in an attached position; and at least one integrated proximity sensor arranged and dimensioned to measure, in the attached position, proximity data being indicative of a distance to a body part. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain the proximity data from the at least one integrated proximity sensor and to process the proximity data into one or more cycling metric. The user interface is configured to output the one or more cycling metric.

Bicycle computer

A computer-implemented method estimates sleep quality of a user. A related computer system, a computer program product, and a data structure are also described. The method includes receiving measurement data measured by at least one sensor device during a time interval; detecting from the measurement data one or more restless sleep signal patterns indicating a restless sleep interval longer than a first threshold duration and computing a number of the detected one or more restless sleep signal patterns; detecting, from the measurement data, one or more continuous sleep intervals not including any one of the one or more restless sleep signal patterns within a time interval longer than a second threshold duration and computing a total length of the one or more continuous sleep intervals; computing a sleep quality metric as a function of the number of the detected one or more restless sleep signal patterns and the total length of the detected one or more continuous sleep intervals, wherein the sleep quality metric indicates a quality of the user's sleep during the time interval; and outputting the sleep quality metric.

Measuring and estimating sleep quality

This document discloses a portable system comprising a physical activity monitoring device comprising: a wireless proximity detection module configured to detect a proximity of an input control entity with respect to the physical activity monitoring device and output a control signal as a response to the detection, wherein the proximity is a non-zero distance between the input control entity and the training computer; and a user interface controller configured to generate, as a response to the control signal from the wireless proximity detection module, at least one of an audio control function and a display control function.

User interface control in portable system

A wrist-worn apparatus control with fingerprint data includes a physical activity-related measurement sensor interface, a fingerprint sensor, one or more processors, and one or more memories including computer program code. The one or more memories and the computer program code are configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus at least to receive fingerprint data from a user with the fingerprint sensor, identify the fingerprint data as matching with one finger of the user on the basis of a comparison between the fingerprint data and reference data of a plurality of fingers of the user stored in the memory, and select a function of a physical activity-related measurement on the basis of the identified finger.

Wrist-worn apparatus control with fingerprint data

Interaction between a portable apparatus and a personal exercise area is disclosed. A method comprises: transferring wirelessly information between a personal exercise area and a portable apparatus; detecting proximity of the portable apparatus to the personal exercise area by utilizing the transferred information; and configuring the portable apparatus in relation to an exercise performed within the personal exercise area by a user of the portable apparatus.

Portable apparatus

The present document discloses an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to: trigger a start of a physical exercise; in response to said triggering, start a measurement mode in which the apparatus receives measurement data of the physical exercise wirelessly from at least one sensor device and analyzes the received measurement data; detect a predetermined event in the received measurement data during the physical exercise; and in response to detecting said predetermined event, cause transmission of a reconfiguration message to at least one of the at least one sensor device to reconfigure at least one parameter of said at least one of the at least one sensor device.

Reconfigurable sensor devices monitoring physical exercise

An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a communication interface unit configured to receive reference biosignal data, and a wireless interface unit configured to receive a plurality of candidate biosignal transmissions from candidate biosignal transmitters. A comparison unit of the apparatus is configured to compare the reference biosignal data with the candidate biosignal transmissions, thus resulting in comparison data. The wireless interface unit is configured to execute a pairing protocol with a candidate biosignal transmitter of a candidate biosignal transmission by utilizing the comparison data.

Communication between portable apparatus and counterpart apparatus

Dot matrix for liquid crystal display

The invention relates to an electronic wrist-worn device, such as a heart rate monitor, a sportsman's watch or a diving computer, and its control method. The outside of the casing of the device comprises a bottom surface to be placed against the wrist, a top surface ( ), and a side surface ( ) between the bottom surface and the top surface ( ). On the top surface ( ) of the casing there is provided a first display ( ) connected to the control electronics. On the side surface ( ) of the casing there is provided a second display ( ) connected to the control electronics. The best viewing angle of the first display ( ) and the best viewing angle of the second display ( ) are at an angle of 60 to 120 degrees with respect to each other.

Electronic wrist-worn device and method of controlling the same

The invention relates to a measuring device ( ) carried by a user during exercise for measuring non-invasively at least one signal from the body, e.g. a wireless heart rate monitor, and to a method of controlling same. The measuring device comprises a user interface ( ). The user interface comprises selection means ( ), e.g. push buttons ( ), and display means ( ), e.g. a liquid crystal display. The user interface ( ) displays different operating modes, e.g., a watch mode ( ), a set mode ( ) and an operating mode ( ) for measuring a signal from the body. The operating modes have different sub-operating modes for displaying parameter associated with exercising. In accordance with the invention, the user is shown specified operating modes and sub-operating modes. There is also a special help operating mode, which, when being switched on, allows each selection means available in said operating mode or sub-operating mode to be indicated to the user by automatic stepping, and the function to be performed by selecting said selection means to be specified.

Measuring device and method of controlling same

The invention relates to a method applied in connection with a personal non-invasive heart rate measuring arrangement. In the method, information is supplied to the heart rate measuring arrangement to form several heart rate limit alarm pairs, each of which comprises a lower limit and an upper limit for the heart rate. Time information on each heart rate limit pair is also supplied in the method, the time information indicating a time period during which a heart rate limit alarm pair or at least one of the heart rate limits of a heart rate limit alarm pair is effective during the exercise, controlling the exercise. A heart rate limit alarm sequence progressing in accordance with the time information on the heart rate limit alarm pairs is formed in the method from the heart rate limit alarm pairs, and the heart rate limit alarm sequence is used during the exercise to control the exercise.

Method in connection with personal non-invasive heartrate measuring arrangement with alarm

The invention relates to a measuring device ( ) carried by a user during exercise for measuring non-invasively at least one signal from the body, e.g. a wireless heart rate monitor, and to a method of controlling same. The measuring device comprises a user interface ( ). The user interface comprises selection means ( ), e.g. push buttons ( ), and display means ( ), e.g. a liquid crystal display. The user interface ( ) displays different operating modes, e.g. a watch mode ( ), a set mode ( ) and an operating mode ( ) for measuring a signal from the body. The operating modes are arranged as a main loop sequence ( - - - ). The operating modes have different sub-operating modes for displaying parameters associated with exercising. The sub-operating modes are arranged as sub-loop sequences ( - - - ) under each operating mode. In accordance with the invention, the user is able to configure the sub-loop sequence ( - - - ) by the selection means ( ).

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