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Body movement detecting apparatusBody movement detecting apparatus description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090143199, Body movement detecting apparatus. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a body movement detecting apparatus which detects a body movement of an user and calculates energy consumed by the body movement. 2. Description of the Related Art In the related art, there are pedometers as one of the body movement detecting apparatus, and specifically those having a consumption energy calculating function added thereto are widely used. Such pedometers are adapted to count the number of steps made by the walking exercise of the user, and calculate the consumption energy according to the number of steps. As other types of body movement detecting apparatus, for example, the one disclosed in JP-A-2002-191580 is proposed. However, even when the user makes some movements, the pedometer in the related art cannot calculate the consumption energy consumed by such movements unless it is not counted as the steps made by the walking exercise of the user. The period that a person make an exercise harder than the walking exercise per day might not be much in many cases, and hence if the accurate calculation of the consumption energy relating to the body movement from which the number of steps is not counted, or is hardly counted (for example, house work such as cleaning of the house or gardening) is not achieved, the total consumption energy of the user cannot be seen accurately. As shown in JP-A-2002-191580, even when a plurality of body movement sensors whose direction of movement detected thereby is different from each other are arranged, signals other than signals generated by the walking exercise are eliminated from output signals from the body movement sensors (see paragraph [0037]), the output signals are eventually not more than representing the walking exercise as the body movement, and hence the above-described problem is not solved. In this manner, in the body movement detecting apparatus in the related art, the body movement to be detected is needed to be the walking exercise, and hence the user cannot calculate the energy that the user consumes in the action including not only the walking exercise, but also other daily exercises totally. Therefore, the apparatus cannot be considered to be sufficient for other objects such as daily health care administration, dieting, and so on. In view of such problems, it is an object of the invention to provide a body movement detecting apparatus which is able to discriminate a walking exercise and exercises other than the walking exercise and calculate consumption energies according to the mode of the exercise, so that an energy consumed by an user including the energy consumed by the exercises other than the walking exercise is calculated totally accurately. In order to solve the above-described problem, a body movement detecting apparatus in the invention includes a body movement data acquiring unit that acquires body movement data relating to a body movement of a user; a body movement discriminating unit that discriminates whether the body movement is a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data; and a computing unit that calculates a consumption energy during the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data of the body movement which is discriminated as the walking exercise from among the body movement data by the body movement discriminating unit, calculates a consumption energy at the time of exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data of the body movement which is discriminated as the exercise other than the walking exercise from among the body movement data by the body movement discriminating unit, and calculates a consumption energy by the body movement of the user by adding these consumption energy from among the body movement data by the body movement discriminating unit. Preferably, the body movement data includes a body movement strength and a body movement pitch of the user at every certain elapsed time, and the body movement discriminating unit discriminates the movement of the user between a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement strength and the body movement pitch. Preferably, the body movement data includes a difference between an upper peak value and a lower peak value of the body movement strength at every certain elapsed time and the body movement pitch, and the body movement discriminating unit discriminates the movement of the user between a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement strength and the body movement pitch. In the body movement detecting apparatus, the body movement data includes acceleration values generated by the body movement, and the body movement discriminating unit includes an accelerator sensor which outputs different output values according to the acceleration values. Preferably, a biological data acquiring unit that acquires a biological data of the user is provided, and the computing unit calculates the consumption energy consumed by the body movement of the user using a calculation formula having the biological data acquired by the biological data acquiring unit and the body movement data as parameters. Preferably, calculation of the consumption energy during the walking exercise is achieved by using a calculation formula including parameters at least such as a body weight as the biological data and a coefficient and a number of steps corresponding to the body movement pitch of the user as the body movement data. Preferably, calculation of the consumption energy during exercises other than the walking exercise is achieved by using a calculation formula including parameters at least such as a body weight and a lean body mass as the biological data and data relating to acceleration values generated by the body movement as the body movement data. Preferably, the consumption energy consumed by the body movement of the user is calculated assuming that a running exercise is included in the walking exercise. According to the invention, not only the energy consumed by the walking exercise, but also the energy consumed by the exercises other than the walking exercise can be calculated, so that the energy consumed by the user is calculated totally and accurately. Continue reading about Body movement detecting apparatus... Full patent description for Body movement detecting apparatus Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Body movement detecting apparatus patent application. Patent Applications in related categories: 20090270227 - Systems, methods, and devices for simulating real world terrain on an exercise device - An exercise system includes one or more exercise devices that communicate via a network with a communication system. The communication system stores and/or generates exercise programming for use on the exercise device. The exercise programming is able to control one or more operating parameters of the exercise device to simulate ... ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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