STATE DETECTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130138394A1
• Filed: 11/23/2012
• Published: 05/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: SHIGA, Koki
• Application Number:
  US13/684,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20130138394A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/160
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers

Abstract

A state detecting device includes: an acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration detection value from an acceleration sensor; an average acceleration calculating unit that calculates an average acceleration in each predetermined period based on the acceleration detection value; a reference information acquiring unit that acquires a reference average acceleration and a reference step length; and a step length estimating unit that estimates a step length based on a ratio of the average acceleration to the reference average acceleration as well as the reference step length.

Claims

1. A state detecting device comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration detection value from an acceleration sensor;

an average acceleration calculating unit that calculates an average acceleration in each predetermined period based on the acceleration detection value;

a reference information acquiring unit that acquires a reference average acceleration and a reference step length; and

a step length estimating unit that estimates a step length based on a ratio of the average acceleration to the reference average acceleration as well as the reference step length.

2. The state detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a step detecting unit,

wherein the reference information acquiring unit acquires the reference step length based on input distance information and the number of steps detected by the step detecting unit in a reference information acquisition period.

3. The state detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the reference information acquiring unit acquires the reference average acceleration based on the average acceleration acquired in the reference information acquisition period and the number of steps.

4. The state detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein when the reference average acceleration is NA, the reference step length is NS, a coefficient is C, and the average acceleration acquired at a predetermined point in time is An, the step length estimating unit calculates the step length Sn corresponding to a point in time when the average acceleration An is acquired according to an expression Sn−

C×

(An/NA)×

NS.

5. The state detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the input distance information is information input by a user or external data.

6. The state detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the reference information acquiring unit calculates reference average acceleration candidates based on the average acceleration in a signal value acquisition period and the number of steps detected in the signal value acquisition period, and

when a reference information acquisition instruction is received, the reference information acquiring unit acquires the reference average acceleration candidate correlated with the reference step length in the signal value acquisition period as the reference average acceleration.

7. The state detecting device according to claim 6,

wherein when the reference information acquisition instruction is received, the reference information acquiring unit acquires the reference distance information of the running or the walking in the signal value acquisition period.

8. The state detecting device according to claim 7,

wherein the reference distance information is information input by a user or external data.

9. The state detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein the average acceleration calculating unit calculates the average acceleration in each of the predetermined periods set based on a point in time when steps are detected by the step detecting unit.

10. The state detecting device according to claim 9, further comprising:

a filtering unit that performs a band-pass filtering process on the acceleration detection value; and

a control unit that changes filter characteristics of the band-pass filtering process of the filtering unit,

wherein the step detecting unit detects step cycle information based on the acceleration detection value after the band-pass filtering process, and

the control unit adaptively changes the filter characteristics of the band-pass filtering process based on the step cycle information detected by the step detecting unit.

11. The state detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a distance information calculating unit that calculates distance information of running or walking based on the step length estimated by the step length estimating unit.

12. The state detecting device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a determining unit that determines whether the acceleration detection value indicates a running state or a walking state,

wherein when the determining unit determines that the acceleration detection value indicates the running state, the distance information calculating unit calculates the distance information based on the step length estimated by the step length estimating unit, and when the determining unit determines that the acceleration detection value indicates the walking state, the distance information calculating unit calculates the distance information based on a predetermined step length.

14. An electronic apparatus comprising the state detecting device according to claim 1.

15. An electronic apparatus comprising the state detecting device according to claim 2.

16. An electronic apparatus comprising the state detecting device according to claim 3.

17. An electronic apparatus comprising the state detecting device according to claim 4.

18. An electronic apparatus comprising the state detecting device according to claim 5.

13. A state detecting device comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration detection value from an acceleration sensor;

an average speed calculating unit that calculates an average speed in each predetermined period based on the acceleration detection value;

a reference information acquiring unit that acquires a reference average speed and a reference step length; and

a step length estimating unit that estimates a step length based on a ratio of the average speed to the reference average speed as well as the reference step length.

19. A program for causing a computer to function as:

an acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration detection value from an acceleration sensor;

an average acceleration calculating unit that calculates an average acceleration in each predetermined period based on the acceleration detection value;

a reference information acquiring unit that acquires a reference average acceleration and a reference step length; and

a step length estimating unit that estimates a step length based on a ratio of the average acceleration to the reference average acceleration as well as the reference step length.

20. A program for causing a computer to function as:

an acquiring unit that acquires an acceleration detection value from an acceleration sensor;

an average speed calculating unit that calculates an average speed in each predetermined period based on the acceleration detection value;

a reference information acquiring unit that acquires a reference average speed and a reference step length; and

a step length estimating unit that estimates a step length based on a ratio of the average speed to the reference average speed as well as the reference step length.