Pace Calculation Watch

• US 20100217559A1
• Filed: 05/04/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Schrock, Allan M., Boyd, Edward L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,948,834 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/149
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/30 Speed
• 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: G04G 9/0064 in which functions not related to time can be displayed digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/24 Race time-recorders

Abstract

A watch that advantageously allows an athlete, such as a runner, to conveniently and instantly calculate a pace at which a distance was traveled. The watch includes a chronographic process and a pace calculation process. In order to determine a pace, the athlete enters the travel distance into the pace calculation process. The athlete then initiates a count by the chronographic process when he or she starts traveling the designated distance. When the athlete finishes traveling the designated distance, he or she stops the count, so that the chronographic process measures the total elapsed time required to travel the designated distance. The pace calculation process then obtains the total elapsed time from the chronographic process, and divides the designated travel distance by the total elapsed time to calculate the pace at which the distance was traveled.

Claims

1. A device for calculating a pace, comprising:

a chronograph for measuring an elapsed time;

a distance memory containing a distance; and

a pace calculation process which calculates a pace by dividing the distance contained in the distance memory by an elapsed time provided by the chronograph.

2. The device recited in claim 1, further comprising a display which displays the calculated pace.

3. The device recited in claim 1, further comprising a chronometer.

4. The device recited in claim 1, further comprising an input device that allows a user to input the distance into the distance memory.