ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20150168438A1
• Filed: 11/13/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: TSUBATA, Keisuke, NAKAMURA, Hisao, HASEGAWA, Takanori, IHASHI, Tomohiro, MUGISHIMA, Katsuya, KATO, Kazuo, TAKAKURA, Akira
• Application Number:
  US14/540,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20150168438A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 5/06 by using barometric means
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/62 Devices characterised by the determination or the variation of atmospheric pressure with height to measure the vertical components of speed measuring pressure in general G01L

Abstract

To provide an electronic device, a data processing method and a data processing program capable of measuring a stable ascending/descending velocity on which the most recent ascending/descending state is reflected. The electronic device includes an altitude measurement unit measuring altitudes, an altitude change determination unit determining an altitude change state based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a predetermined first time interval until a current time and an ascending/descending velocity calculation unit calculating an ascending/descending velocity based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a second time interval until the current time, which is equal to the first time interval or longer than the first time interval.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

an altitude measurement unit measuring altitudes;

an altitude change determination unit determining an altitude change state based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a predetermined first time interval until a current time; and

an ascending/descending velocity calculation unit calculating an ascending/descending velocity based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a second time interval until the current time, which is equal to the first time interval or longer than the first time interval.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the altitude change determination unit determines that the altitude change state has been changed, the ascending/descending velocity calculation unit sets the second time interval so as to be equal to the first time interval at the time of calculating the ascending/descending velocity.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2,

wherein, after the altitude change determination unit determines that the altitude change state has been changed, the ascending/descending velocity calculation unit increases the second time interval in accordance with a lapse of time until reaching the predetermined maximum value of the second time interval at the time of calculating the ascending/descending velocity.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the altitude change determination unit determines that the altitude change state has been changed, the ascending/descending velocity calculation unit sets the second time interval so as to be shorter than the first time interval temporarily at the time of calculating the ascending/descending velocity.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the altitude change determination unit determines the altitude change state by comparing a distribution of altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within the predetermined first time interval until the current time with a predetermined range of altitudes around an altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit at present.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the altitude change determination unit determines the altitude change state by comparing an altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit at a time prior to the current time by the first time interval with an altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit at present.

7. A data processing method in an electronic device, comprising the steps of:

determining an altitude change state based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a predetermined first time interval until a current time; and

calculating an ascending/descending velocity based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a second time interval until the current time, which is equal to the first time interval or longer than the first time interval.

8. A data processing program of an electronic device for executing the steps of:

determining an altitude change state based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a predetermined first time interval until a current time; and

calculating an ascending/descending velocity based on altitudes measured by the altitude measurement unit within a second time interval until the current time, which is equal to the first time interval or longer than the first time interval.

9. An electronic device comprising:

an input unit receiving an input to a controller;

an altitude measurement unit measuring altitude;

an altitude change determination unit in the controller determining an altitude change state whether to ascending or descending based on altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit within a predetermined first period until the point the input unit receiving the input;

an velocity calculation unit in the controller calculating a velocity based on altitude measured by the altitude measurement unit within a second period until the point the input unit receiving the input, which is equal to the first period or longer than the first period; and

a display unit displaying the output the altitude change determination unit and the velocity calculation unit output.