Method and apparatus for detecting types of exercise
First Claim
1. A method for carrying out exercise type detection, in which method the accelerations caused by a person'"'"'s physical exercise are measured by an exercise type detector (10) in at least one dimension at least two different characteristics describing the accelerations measured are calculated from the measurement results, characterized in that the detection of the type of exercise is carried out by comparing the characteristics calculated from the measurement results to the values of a table saved in the memory of the exercise type detector (10), describing the types of exercise, and by selecting the exercise type, the value of which in the table is closest to the characteristics calculated from the results of the measurement as the exercise type in question.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and device for detecting the type of physical exercise, in which method the accelerations caused by the exercise of a person are measured by an exercise type detector (10) in three dimensions and in which characteristics describing the acceleration, so-called membership degree functions, are calculated from the measurement results, by means of which characteristics the type of exercise is detected. In the method according to the invention, only an identifier indicating the type of exercise is saved in the memory of the exercise type detector, for which reason the memory capacity required in the device is small.
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27 Claims
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1. A method for carrying out exercise type detection, in which method
the accelerations caused by a person'"'"'s physical exercise are measured by an exercise type detector (10) in at least one dimension at least two different characteristics describing the accelerations measured are calculated from the measurement results, characterized in that the detection of the type of exercise is carried out by comparing the characteristics calculated from the measurement results to the values of a table saved in the memory of the exercise type detector (10), describing the types of exercise, and by selecting the exercise type, the value of which in the table is closest to the characteristics calculated from the results of the measurement as the exercise type in question.
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10. An exercise type detector (10), which comprises
means (11) for measuring acceleration in at least one dimension means for calculating (12) at least two different characteristics from the measured acceleration information, and means (12) for saving the exercise type detection, characterized in that the exercise type detector also comprises a table arranged by types of exercise, to the values of which the characteristics calculated from the acceleration measurement have been arranged to be compared in order to perform the detection of the type of exercise.
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19. A computer program product to be used in the exercise type detector (10) for performing the exercise type detection by using acceleration measurements, characterized in that the computer program product comprises
computer readable code means for calculating at least two different characteristics from the accelerations measured computer readable code means for comparing the calculated characteristics to the values of the table saved in the exercise type detector (10), and computer readable code means for selecting the type of exercise, the value of which in said table is closest to the characteristics calculated from the results of the measurement.
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