Electronic pedometer
To provide an electronic pedometer in which there is adapted such that a step number is counted by a walk motion of a user, and the step number is not counted by a motion other than a walk of the user. An electronic pedometer has a timepiece case, a signal processing part having been accommodated in the timepiece case, and an acceleration sensor and a slant sensor, which have been accommodated while holding their horizontal states. The signal processing part judges, in a case where the slant sensor has outputted a horizontality signal, whether or not an acceleration signal, that the slant sensor has generated in a horizontality time till a time at which it has thereafter outputted a slant signal, is a true walk signal, when there has been judged to be the true walk signal, it performs a walk addition and, when there has been judged not to be the true walk signal, it performs a signal processing so as not to perform the walk addition.
1. An electronic pedometer comprising:
a case;
a band connected to the case to enable the case to be worn on the wrist of a user;
an acceleration sensor mounted in the case and that generates an acceleration signal in response to acceleration of the wrist-worn case;
a slant sensor mounted in the case and that discriminates a horizontality degree of the wrist-worn case and outputs a slant signal when the degree of horizonality is equal to or greater than a preset angle and outputs a horizontality signal when the degree of horizontality is less than the preset angle and
a signal processing part mounted in the case and that step-number-counts the acceleration signal as a walk signal when the slant signal is outputted from the slant sensor, that temporarily stops, when the slant sensor has outputted a horizontality signal, a step number count of the acceleration signal of the acceleration sensor to thereby perform a horizontality time count processing of the acceleration signal, that finishes, when thereafter the slant sensor has outputted the slant signal, the horizontality time count processing to thereby shift it to a step number count and evaluates a horizontality time count value having been obtained in the horizontality time count processing and that, in a case where there has been judged to be an accumulated value of the acceleration signal by a true walk, adds the horizontality time count value to the step number count.
2. An electronic pedometer according to claim 1 , wherein the evaluation of the horizontality time count value is performed by comparing a step number count value just before a horizontality time count time or a step number count value just after the same, or a step number count value just before and just after the same with the horizontality time count value.
3. An electronic pedometer according to claim 1 , wherein the evaluation of the horizontality time count value is performed by comparing a step number pitch just before the horizontality time count time or a step number pitch just after the same, or a step number pitch just before and just after the same with a horizontality time count value per unit time of the horizontality time count value.
4. An electronic pedometer according to claim 1 , wherein the evaluation of the horizontality time count value is performed by comparing a previously set walk pitch with a horizontality time count value per minute unit of the horizontality time count value.
5. An electronic pedometer according to claim 1 , wherein the slant sensor outputs a directional slant signal showing the fact that it has slanted in at least one direction having been optionally selected and, in a case where the slant sensor has outputted the directional slant signal, the signal processing part makes the directional slant signal into the slant signal.