Activity information processing method and electronic device supporting the same

• US 10,275,200 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2016
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Jeong Gwan, Lee, Byung Jun, Seo, Yun Hwa, Park, Sun Young, Shin, Seung Hyuck, Hong, Hyun Su
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dahir, Bille M
• Application Number:
  US15/227,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046108A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

An electronic device may measure a user'"'"'s exercise or other activity and output intuitive information regarding the activity. The electronic device may include a sensor that senses a movement of the electronic device. A processor may determine types of activity states of specified unit times, and determine a specific activity state as a representative activity state of a specified time range based on distribution of the activity states of the specified unit times. The processor may output information corresponding to a determined representative activity state. Short bursts of secondary activity which occur during the specified time range may be omitted in the output information.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a housing;

a sensor included in the housing and configured to sense a movement of the electronic device;

a processor electrically connected to the sensor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

receive, from the sensor during a first time period, first sensing data indicating occurrence of a first activity of a user of the electronic device;

receive, from the sensor during a second time period, second sensing data indicating occurrence of a second activity of the user, wherein the second activity is different from the first activity; and

output information indicating that the first activity, without the second activity that is different from the first activity, has occurred throughout a third time period encompassing the first and second time periods, if the processor determines that the first activity was the most prevalent activity throughout the third time period.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second time period is shorter than the first time period, the first activity corresponds to a first rate of exercise activity, and the second activity is defined by a second rate of exercise activity.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

a display electrically connected to the processor,

wherein the instructions cause the processor to;

display, on the display, a user interface for displaying an activity of the user; and

display, on the user interface, occurrence of the first activity during the second time period based on the information.

4. The electronic device of claim 3,

wherein the user interface displays an item including a line, a band, or a curve extending as a function of time, and

wherein the instructions cause the processor to display occurrence of the first activity during the first and second time periods displayed on the item.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first sensing data represents activity values larger than a first threshold value, and the second sensing data represents activity values smaller than the first threshold value, respectively.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the first threshold value is variable based at least partially on information of the user.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the instructions cause the processor to:

receive, from the sensor, a plurality of sensing data during a selected period of time;

determine a first number indicating a number of data points having a value equal to or larger than the first threshold value and a second number indicating a number of data points having a value equal to or smaller than the first threshold value among the plurality of sensing data; and

select one of the first activity and the second activity as a representative activity during the selected period of time at least partially based on the determination.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein only information indicative of the representative activity is output on a display of the electronic device, in association with the selected period of time.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first activity comprises a running activity of the user, and the second activity comprises a walking activity of the user.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the instructions cause the processor to determine a representative detailed item of the first activity according to a pattern of sensing data of the first activity, and output information corresponding to a determined representative detailed item.

11. A method for processing activity information of an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving, from a sensor during a first time period, first sensing data indicating occurrence of a first activity of a user of the electronic device;

receiving, from the sensor during a second time period, second sensing data indicating occurrence of a second activity of the user, wherein the second activity is different from the first activity; and

outputting information indicating that the first activity, but not the second activity that is different from the first activity, has occurred throughout a third time period encompassing the first and second time periods, if the first activity was the most prevalent activity throughout the third time period.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the second time period is shorter than the first time period, the first activity corresponds to a first rate of exercise activity, and the second activity is defined by a second rate of exercise activity.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying, on a display, a user interface for displaying an activity of the user; and

displaying, on the user interface, occurrence of the first activity during the second time period based on the information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the displaying comprises at least one of:

displaying an item including at least one of a line, a band, or a curve extending according to a time; and

displaying occurrence of the first activity during the first period of time and the second period of time displayed on the item.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising classifying sensor information received from the sensor as the first sensing data if the sensing data is equal to or larger than a specified threshold value and classifying the sensor information received from the sensor as the second sensing data if the sensing data is smaller than the threshold value.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising changing the specified threshold value at least partially based on information of the user.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, from the sensor, a plurality of sensing data during a selected period of time;

determining a first number indicating a number of data points having a value equal to or larger than the first threshold value and a second number indicating a number of data points having a value equal to or smaller than the first threshold value among the plurality of sensing data; and

selecting one of the first activity and the second activity as a representative activity during the selected period of time at least partially based on the determination.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the selecting comprises:

comparing the first number with the second number; and

selecting one of the first activity and the second activity as the representative activity during the selected period of time at least partially based on a result of the comparison.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the outputting comprises determining a representative detailed item of the first activity according to a pattern of sensing data of the first activity and outputting information corresponding to a determined representative detailed item.

20. An electronic device comprising:

a housing;

a sensor included in the housing and configured to sense a movement of the electronic device;

a processor electrically connected to the sensor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

divide, when sensor information corresponding to occurrence of an activity having at least a specified magnitude is collected during a specified time range, the collected sensor information by a specified unit time;

determine types of activity states of the specified unit times;

determine a specific activity state as a representative activity state of the specified time range based on distribution of the activity states of the specified unit times; and

output information corresponding to a determined representative activity state, wherein the output information comprises information based on the sum of an application of a weight to the representative activity state and application of another weight to another representative activity.