Dive information management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11780546-B2
Application number	US-202117216703-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2021
Priority date	Mar 31, 2020
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising memory configured to store a dive log, at least one processing core configured to receive the dive log from a dive computer, the dive log comprising information concerning a dive, the received dive log not including a location where the dive took place, obtain a geographic location of the apparatus, and add the location where the dive took place to the dive log based at least in part on the geographic location, and/or provide the dive log and the geographic location of the apparatus to a server.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising: memory configured to store a dive log; and at least one processing core configured to: receive the dive log from a dive computer over a short range wireless connection, the dive log comprising information concerning a dive, the received dive log not including a location where the dive took place; obtain a geographic location of one of: the apparatus or the dive computer, and add the location where the dive took place to the dive log based at least in part on the geographic location, and/or provide the dive log and the geographic location of the apparatus to a server, wherein the apparatus is configured to use an estimate, based on inertial sensor data, of how the dive computer has moved after ending the dive and before providing the dive log to the apparatus, the apparatus being configured to perform the adding of the location where the dive took place based at least in part on the estimate, the estimate and/or the inertial sensor data being comprised in the dive log.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus comprises a satellite positioning receiver, and the apparatus is configured to obtain the geographic location using the satellite positioning receiver.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured to upload the dive log to a cloud service after adding the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured to upload the dive log to a second apparatus after adding the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured to receive a second geographic location from a further device, and to include in the dive log the location where the dive took place based at least in part on the second geographic location.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein dive log is received from the dive computer and the apparatus is configured to accept the dive log from the dive computer only in case the apparatus has previously been paired with the dive computer.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to reduce an accuracy of the geographic location before using the geographic location to add the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information concerning the dive comprises at least one of the following: time, depth information, pressure information, salinity information, information on ambient light, audio information, video information, magnetic heading information, inertial information, water temperature, air temperature and barometric pressure.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured to perform the providing of the dive log and the geographic location of the apparatus to the server, and wherein the apparatus is subsequently configured to receive the dive log, at least in part, from the server in encrypted form, the encrypted form being based on an encryption key derived from an identity of the dive computer.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to store the dive log while the apparatus lacks a data connection to the server, and to provide the dive log to the server responsive to the data connection becoming available.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to provide the dive log to at least one of a user device and the dive computer after adding the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the apparatus is configured to perform the providing by providing the dive log to at least one of the user device and the dive computer in encrypted form, the encrypted form being based on an encryption key derived from an identity of the dive computer.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the dive log is received form the dive computer.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the geographic location is a geographic location of the apparatus.

15. A method in an apparatus, comprising: receiving, from a dive computer, over a short range wireless connection, a dive log comprising information concerning a dive, the received dive log not including a location where the dive took place; obtaining a geographic location of the apparatus, and adding the location where the dive took place to the dive log based at least in part on the geographic location and/or providing the dive log and the geographic location of the apparatus to a server, and including in the dive log an indication of how much time has elapsed between ending of the dive and the receiving of the dive log from the dive computer, wherein the method comprises using an estimate, based on inertial sensor data, of how the dive computer has moved after ending the dive and before providing the dive log to the apparatus, wherein the adding of the location where the dive took place is based at least in part on the estimate, the estimate and/or the inertial sensor data being comprised in the dive log.

16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the apparatus comprises a satellite positioning receiver and the method comprises obtaining the geographic location using the satellite positioning receiver.

17. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising uploading the dive log to device cloud service after adding the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

18. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising uploading the dive log to a second apparatus after adding the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

19. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising receiving a second geographic location from a further device, and including in the dive log the location where the dive took place based at least in part on the second geographic location.

20. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising accepting the dive log from the dive computer only in case the apparatus has previously been paired with the dive computer.

21. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising reducing an accuracy of the geographic location before using the geographic location to add the location where the dive took place to the dive log.

22. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the information concerning the dive comprises at least one of the following: time, depth information, pressure information, salinity information, information on ambient light, audio information, video information, magnetic heading information inertial information, water temperature, air temperature and barometric pressure.

23. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of computer readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause an apparatus to at least perform the method of claim 13 .

24. An apparatus comprising: memory configured to store a dive log; and at least one processing core configured to: compile the dive log by including information collected by the apparatus during a dive, the information collected during the dive not including a location where the dive takes place; receive, after the dive, over a short range wireless communication connection, from a user device a geographic location, and add the location where the dive takes place to the dive log based at least in part on the geographic location, wherein the apparat

Assignees

• Amer Sports Digital Services Oy
• Suunto Oy

Inventors

• Reivo Tuomas
• Vuorento Lasse
• Lindman Erik

Classifications

• B63C11/26 Primary

  Communication means, {e.g. means for signalling the presence of divers}(electric communication in general H04) · CPC title

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• H04W4/027 Primary

  using movement velocity, acceleration information · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title