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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2011
Applicant:
Ulf Meriheinä, Söderkulla, FI;
Inventor:
Ulf Meriheinä, Söderkulla, FI;
Assignee:
VTI Technologies Oy, Vantaa, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 22/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a device for measuring the progress of a moving person. The method calculating at least one of the following quantities describing the progress of the moving person: speed, step rate, step count, step length, distance and way of progress, based on values of a vertical acceleration of a body of the moving person measured by an acceleration sensor over a measured time.