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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald David Slusky, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377-5 ;
Abstract
A global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver is used in an electronic lap counter which maintains a lap count and which increments the lap count upon 'observing' via the GPS receiver that the user, having gone away from an initial 'start' location (e.g., an end of a pool or the start line of a closed loop running track), has returned to that location. A user-supplied indication, such as the pressing of a push button, serves as an indication to the lap counter that the lap counter's then current location is to be used as the start location.