DEVICE FOR DETECTING MOTIONS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTIONS

• US 20130133423A1
• Filed: 03/08/2012
• Published: 05/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Byoung Won Hwang, Chang Hyun Kim, Kyung Rin Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Kyung Rin, Hwang, Byoung Won, Kim, Chang Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/415,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20130133423A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/510
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a device for detecting motions and a method for detecting motions. The device for detecting motions includes a sensor detecting motions to output detection result signals; an accumulation operation unit accumulatively summing absolute values of the detection result signals in a preset accumulation period to derive signal accumulation values; a motion determination unit comparing the signal accumulation values with a preset first reference value to determine whether the motions are present; and an output unit outputting motion detection signals according to determination results of the motion determination unit. By this configuration, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can reflect a size of the detection result signals to motion detection while improving inaccuracy of the motion detection according to a fixing of a threshold value.

Claims

1. A device for detecting motions, comprising:

a sensor detecting motions to output detection result signals;

an accumulation operation unit accumulatively summing absolute values of the detection result signals in a preset accumulation period to derive signal accumulation values;

a motion determination unit comparing the signal accumulation values with a preset first reference value to determine whether the motions are present; and

an output unit outputting motion detection signals according to determination results of the motion determination unit.

2. The device for detecting motions according to claim 1, wherein the accumulation operation unit further includes a sampling unit sampling the detection result signals or the absolute values of the detection result signals at a predetermined time interval.

3. The device for detecting motions according to claim 2, wherein the sampling unit further includes a sampling interval determination unit determining a time interval at which the sampling is performed.

4. The device for detecting motions according to claim 1, wherein the accumulation operation unit further includes an accumulation period determination unit determining a size of the accumulation period.

5. The device for detecting motions according to claim 3, further comprising an accumulation period determination unit determining a size of the accumulation period.

6. A device for detecting motions, comprising:

a sensor detecting motions to output detection result signals;

a sampling unit sampling absolute values of the detection result signals at a predetermined time interval;

a fine tremor removing unit comparing values sampled by the sampling unit with a preset second reference value to pass through only a value larger than the second reference value;

an accumulation operation unit accumulatively summing values passing through the fine tremor removing unit in a preset accumulation period to derive signal accumulation values;

a motion determination unit comparing the signal accumulation values with a preset first reference value to determine whether the motions are present; and

an output unit outputting motion detection signals according to determination results of the motion determination unit.

7. The device for detecting motions according to claim 6, wherein the sampling unit further includes a sampling interval determination unit determining a time interval at which the sampling is performed.

8. The device for detecting motions according to claim 6, further comprising an accumulation period determination unit determining a size of the accumulation period.

9. A method for detecting motions, comprising:

(a) detecting motions in a sensor to output detection result signals;

(b) accumulatively summing absolute values of the detection result signals in a preset accumulation period to derive signal accumulation values;

(c) comparing the signal accumulation values with a preset first reference value to determine whether the motions are present; and

(d) outputting motion detection signals according to results determining whether the motions are present.

10. The method for detecting motions according to claim 9, wherein step (c) determines that the motions are present when the signal accumulation values are the first reference value or more, and

determines that the motions end when the signal accumulation values are smaller than the first reference value.

11. A method for detecting motions, comprising:

(A) detecting motions in a sensor to output detection result signals;

(B) sampling absolute values of the detection result signals at a predetermined time interval;

(C) comparing sampled values with a preset second reference value to pass through only a value larger than the second reference value;

(D) accumulatively summing the passing values at step (C) in a preset accumulation period to derive signal accumulation values;

(E) comparing the signal accumulation values with a preset first reference value to determine whether the motions are present; and

(F) outputting motion detection signals according to results determining whether the motions are present.

12. The method for detecting motions according to claim 11, wherein step (E) determines that the motions are present when the signal accumulation values are the first reference value or more, and

determines that the motions end when the signal accumulation values are smaller than the first reference value.