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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2019
Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Shigeta, Tokyo, JP;
Shiro Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To reduce false counts of a device that counts a user's step count. A pedometer device, a step counting method, and a recording medium are provided. The pedometer devices includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a sensor signal output by a sensor carried by a user; an extracting unit that extracts a feature quantity from the sensor signal; a storage unit that stores a walking model which represents walking motions, the walking model being formed based on a feature quantity extracted from a sensor signal corresponding to a predetermined number of steps of walking; a comparing unit that compares the feature quantity extracted at the extracting unit with the walking model; and a deciding unit that decides whether the user has walked a predetermined number of steps, based on a result of the comparison performed by the comparing unit.