Movement analyzer, movement analysis method, and program storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10830607-B2
Application number	US-201815907760-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2018
Priority date	Mar 23, 2017
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

A movement analyzer includes a position information acquiring device, a memory, and a processor. The processor executes a program to perform operations including acquiring position information of the movement analyzer with the position information acquiring device, determining whether or not a moving state of the movement analyzer is a specific moving state, and recording the position information corresponding to the specific moving state in the memory as a path of the specific moving state when a determination result indicates that the moving state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A movement analyzer, comprising:
a position information acquiring device;
a memory; and
a processor,
wherein the processor executes a program to perform operations comprising:
acquiring position information of the movement analyzer with the position information acquiring device;
determining whether or not a direction of a movement path of the movement analyzer is within a predetermined angle range with respect to a predetermined traveling direction;
determining whether or not a moving state of the movement analyzer is a specific moving state, wherein the processor determines that the moving state is the specific moving state when the direction of the movement path is within the predetermined angle range with respect to the predetermined traveling direction, and wherein the processor determines that the moving state is not the specific moving state when the direction of the movement path is not within the predetermined angle range with respect to the predetermined traveling direction; and
recording the position information corresponding to the specific moving state in the memory as a path of the specific moving state when the processor determines that the moving state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state.

2. The movement analyzer according to claim 1 , wherein the movement analyzer is configured to be used in a water sport.

3. The movement analyzer according to claim 1 , further comprising a display unit,
wherein the processor sets a traveling direction of a wave and a direction of a coast or a sea with respect to a direction of a display screen of the display unit, the traveling direction of the wave being set as the predetermined traveling direction.

4. The movement analyzer according to claim 3 , wherein the processor sets the traveling direction of the wave and the direction of the coast or the sea with respect to the direction of the display screen of the display unit in response to an operation of a user.

5. The movement analyzer according to claim 3 , wherein the processor determines whether or not a user holding the movement analyzer is in a riding state or in a state of wave waiting or paddling based on the set traveling direction of the wave and the direction of the movement path of the movement analyzer.

6. The movement analyzer according to claim 3 , wherein the processor determines whether or not the direction of the movement path of the movement analyzer is a direction toward the sea, a direction toward the coast, or a direction parallel to the coast based on the set direction of the coast or the sea.

7. The movement analyzer according to claim 1 , wherein the processor detects a moving speed of the movement analyzer and determines whether or not it is in the specific moving state based on a result of the detection.

8. A movement analysis method of recording position information executed by a processor of a movement analyzer, the movement analysis method comprising:
acquiring position information of the movement analyzer;
determining whether or not a direction of a movement path of the movement analyzer is within a predetermined angle range with respect to a predetermined traveling direction;
determining whether or not a moving state of the movement analyzer is a specific moving state, wherein the processor determines that the moving state is the specific moving state when the direction of the movement path is within the predetermined angle range with respect to the predetermined traveling direction, and wherein the processor determines that the moving state is not the specific moving state when the direction of the movement path is not within the predetermined angle range with respect to the predetermined traveling direction; and
recording the position information corresponding to the specific moving state in a memory as a path of the specific moving state when the moving state of the movement analyzer is determined to be the specific moving state.

9. The movement analysis method according to claim 8 , wherein the movement analyzer includes a display unit, and
the movement analysis method further comprises setting a traveling direction of a wave and a direction of a coast or a sea with respect to a direction of a display screen of the display unit, the traveling direction of the wave being set as the predetermined traveling direction.

10. The movement analysis method according to claim 9 , wherein the traveling direction of the wave and the direction of the coast or the sea with respect to the direction of the display screen of the display unit is set in response to an operation of a user.

11. The movement analysis method according to claim 9 , wherein acquiring the position information of the movement analyzer comprises acquiring map information around a current position and causing the display unit to display the map information as a background.

12. The movement analysis method according to claim 11 , wherein when the map information is displayed, a range of a map is set so that the path of the specific moving state is displayed on a center portion of the map information displayed on the display screen of the display unit.

13. The movement analysis method according to claim 8 , wherein the movement analysis method is executable in a state in which a user holding the movement analyzer is surfing, and the specific moving state is a riding state from takeoff to wipeout.

14. The movement analysis method according to claim 8 , wherein the position information corresponding to the specific moving state is transmitted to an external device, and the external device is caused to generate the path of the specific moving state.

15. The movement analysis method according to claim 8 , wherein determining whether or not the moving state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state comprises determining whether or not a user holding the movement analyzer is in a state of wave waiting based on a set traveling direction of a wave and the direction of the movement path of the movement analyzer, the traveling direction of the wave being set as the predetermined traveling direction.

16. The movement analysis method according to claim 8 , wherein determining whether or not the moving state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state comprises determining whether or not a user holding the movement analyzer is in a riding state, based on a set traveling direction of a wave and the direction of the movement path of the movement analyzer, the traveling direction of the wave being set as the predetermined traveling direction.

17. The movement analysis method according to claim 8 , wherein determining whether or not the movement state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state comprises determining whether or not a user holding the movement analyzer is in a state of paddling based on a set traveling direction of a wave and the direction of the movement path of the movement analyzer, the traveling direction of the wave being set as the predetermined traveling direction.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that is executable by a computer of a movement analyzer, the program being executable to cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
acquiring position information of a movement analyzer;
determining whether or not a direction of a movement path of the movement analyzer is within a predetermined angle range with respect to a predetermined traveling direction;
determining whether or not a moving state of the movement analyzer is a specific moving st

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Okada Takeshi

Classifications

• G01C22/006 Primary

  Pedometers · CPC title

• A63B69/18

  for skiing · CPC title

• G01P13/02

  Indicating direction only, e.g. by weather vane · CPC title

• G01C23/00 Primary

  Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration · CPC title

• A63B71/0622 Primary

  Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user · CPC title