Correlation coefficient correction method, exercise analysis method, correlation coefficient correction apparatus, and program

• US 10,240,945 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2015
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Uchida, Shuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Raymond, Edward
• Application Number:
  US15/128,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20180180442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/165 combined with non-inertial navigation instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/183 Compensation of inertial measurements, e.g. for temperature effects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 21/02 of speedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 7/00 Measuring speed by integrating acceleration measuring travelled distance by double integration of acceleration G01C21/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/25 Recognition of walking or running movements, e.g. gait recognition

Abstract

Disclosed are a correlation coefficient correction method, a correlation coefficient correction apparatus, and a program, capable of improving estimation accuracy of a walking velocity or a stride of a moving object, and an exercise analysis method capable of analyzing a user'"'"'s exercise with high accuracy. In one aspect, the correlation coefficient correction method includes calculating a reference velocity by using a detection result in a first sensor, calculating characteristic information regarding walking of a moving object by using a detection result in a second sensor mounted on the moving object, and correcting a correlation coefficient in a correlation expression indicating a correlation between the characteristic information and a walking velocity or a stride of the moving object by using the reference velocity.

Claims

1. A correlation coefficient correction method comprising:

calculating a reference velocity by using a detection result in a first sensor, wherein the first sensor includes a positioning sensor mounted on a first portion of a moving object;

calculating characteristic information regarding walking of the moving object by using a detection result in a second sensor, wherein the second sensor includes an inertial sensor mounted on a second portion of the moving object; and

correcting a correlation coefficient in a correlation expression indicating a correlation between the characteristic information and a walking velocity or a stride of the moving object by using the reference velocity, wherein the walking velocity or the stride of the moving object is determined using the corrected correlation coefficient.

2. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a walking cycle of the moving object by using the detection result in the second sensor,

wherein the characteristic information is calculated in synchronization with the walking cycle.

3. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 2,

wherein the walking cycle is detected by using a vertical movement acceleration of the moving object.

4. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 2,

wherein a vertical movement velocity of the moving object is detected by using the detection result in the second sensor, and the walking cycle is detected by using the vertical movement velocity of the moving object.

5. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 2,

wherein the characteristic information is the amplitude of the vertical movement acceleration of the moving object in the walking cycle.

6. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 1,

wherein a reference stride is calculated by using the reference velocity, and the correlation coefficient in the correlation expression indicating the correlation between the characteristic information and the stride is corrected by using the reference stride.

7. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 1,

wherein the positioning sensor includes a sensor which receives a signal from a positioning satellite.

8. The correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 1,

wherein the inertial sensor includes an acceleration sensor.

9. An exercise analysis method comprising:

correcting the correlation coefficient by using the correlation coefficient correction method according to claim 1;

calculating the walking velocity or the stride of the moving object by using the corrected correlation coefficient;

estimating errors of indexes indicating a state of the moving object by using the calculated walking velocity or stride;

correcting the indexes by using the estimated errors; and

analyzing exercise of the moving object by using the corrected indexes.

10. A correlation coefficient correction apparatus comprising:

a reference velocity calculation section that calculates a reference velocity by using a detection result in a first sensor, wherein the first sensor includes a positioning sensor mounted on a first portion of a moving object;

a walking characteristic information calculation section that calculates characteristic information regarding walking of a moving object by using a detection result in a second sensor, wherein the second sensor includes an inertial sensor mounted on a second portion of the moving object; and

a correlation coefficient correction section that corrects a correlation coefficient in a correlation expression indicating a correlation between the characteristic information and a walking velocity or a stride of the moving object by using the reference velocity, wherein the walking velocity or the stride of the moving object is determined using the corrected correlation coefficient.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform:

calculating a reference velocity by using a detection result in a first sensor, wherein the first sensor includes a positioning sensor mounted on a first portion of a moving object;

calculating characteristic information regarding walking of the moving object by using a detection result in a second sensor, wherein the second sensor includes an inertial sensor mounted on a second portion of the moving object; and

correcting a correlation coefficient in a correlation expression indicating a correlation between the characteristic information and a walking velocity or a stride of the moving object by using the reference velocity, wherein the walking velocity or the stride of the moving object is determined using the corrected correlation coefficient.