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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Xing Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung A. Pham, Oakland, CA (US);
Richard Channing Moore, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander Singh Alvarado, Mountain View, CA (US);
Umamahesh Srinivas, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mrinal Agarwal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Edith Merle Arnold, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A fitness tracking device configured to be worn by a user obtains a plurality of physical characteristics of the user including a first age and a sex of the user. The fitness tracking device maps each physical characteristic of the user to a corresponding index, wherein the first age of the user is mapped to a first age index of a first age range of a plurality of age ranges, and wherein the sex of the user is mapped to a first sex index. The fitness tracking device selects, from a memory of the fitness tracking device, a first calorimetry model of a plurality of calorimetry models, wherein the first calorimetry model is associated with each corresponding index, including the first age index and the first sex index of the user. The fitness tracking device estimates an energy expenditure rate using the first calorimetry model.