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    • 专利摘要:
    The invention relates to a device (1) for measuring energy expenditure, for a watch (2), comprising: control means (10) associated with storage means (4) storing parameters, during initial events and final, the physical parameter values measured by a sensor (5) or stored in an interface memory, an altitude evaluation means (7) or / and an algebraic altitude difference evaluation means (8). Said storage means (4) stores a value of the user's mass, measured or entered into memory at said interface, and said control means (10) calculates and displays on display means (20): the algebraic altimetric difference between said initial and final events, a first energetic estimate of the potential energy supplied or received by the user during a race between said initial and final event.
    公开号:CH711684A2
    申请号:CH01561/15
    申请日:2015-10-27
    公开日:2017-04-28
    发明作者:Germiquet Christophe；Nicolas Cédric
    申请人:Swatch Group Res & Dev Ltd；
    IPC主号:
    专利说明:

    Description: [0001] The invention relates to a device for measuring energy expenditure, for a watch, comprising: control means associated with means for storing parameters storing, during initial and final events, the values of physical parameters measured by a sensor or entered into memory at an interface, an altitude evaluation means and / or an algebraic altitude difference evaluation means.
    The invention also comprises a watch comprising at least one such device.
    The invention relates to the field of timepieces having altimetric functions, and in particular capable of calculating and displaying absolute or relative altitudes relative to reference points.
    BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0004] TISSOT "T-TOUCH" watches have altimetric functions, and are capable of calculating and displaying absolute or relative altitudes relative to reference points. These watches also feature a chronograph function. The user thus has information on its position at altitude, and / or on a path between an initial point and an end point, between an initial time and a final moment. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0005] The invention proposes to use certain altimetric functionalities available on watches for calculating and displaying energy expenditure values.
    For this purpose, the invention relates to a device for measuring energy expenditure for a portable device or a watch, according to claim 1.
    The invention also comprises a watch comprising at least one such device.
    BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0008] Other features and advantages of the invention will appear on reading the detailed description which will follow, with reference to the appended drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a watch comprising a clock, a chronograph, and a positive energy consumption measurement device according to the invention, which comprises driving means, storage means, at least one sensor, a user interface , altitude evaluation means, altitude algebraic difference evaluation means, force sensor, inertial sensor, mode selection means, an actuator, a particular control means, and means display, all shown, without limitation, as circuits interconnected by a bus connection; figs. 2 to 6 show, schematically, and in front view, such a watch in different examples of non-limiting display states, which display values of: in FIG. 2, power, work, and a first energy estimate of the potential energy supplied or received by the user; in fig. 3, power, work, initial moment, final time, time difference, initial altitude, final altitude, altitude difference; in fig. 4, power, work, entered user mass value, in fig. 5, QNH and QFE aviation barometric values, in fig. 6, acceleration thresholds for automatic triggering.
    Detailed description of the preferred embodiments; The invention relates to a device 1 for measuring energy expenditure for a portable device or a watch 2. The concept of portable device has a broad sense: for example the device 1, although it is designed essentially for use by humans, and especially to be worn during physical activity, can be used on a mobile, such as vehicle, aircraft, or other. This device 1 comprises control means 10, which are associated with at least one parameter storage means 4 which is arranged to store, at least during an initial event and a final event, physical parameter values. These values are, or measured by at least one sensor 5, and / or stored in a user interface 6.
    The device 1 comprises at least one or an altitude evaluation means 7 for evaluating the altitude of the device 1 at least during the initial event and the final event, and / or a means of altitude algebraic difference evaluation 8 for the evaluation of the algebraic difference in altitude of the device 1 between the initial event and the final event.
    According to the invention, the storage means 4 is further arranged to store at least one MO value of the mass of the user (or the mobile if necessary), measured by at least one force sensor 9 or input in memory at the user interface 6. In a particular non-limiting application, this MO value is measured or entered into memory at least one time between the initial event and the final event. In another application, this mass MO is entered into memory once by the user in a memory, and remains there by default in the absence of a new measurement action or entry into memory by the user.
    And the control means 10 are arranged to calculate: on the one hand the algebraic altimetric difference ΔΖ between the initial event and the final event, and on the other hand a first energy estimate E1 of the energy potential supplied or received by the user during a race between the initial event and the final event, according to the formula: E1 = ΔΖ * MO * g.
    The device 1 further comprises display means 20 for displaying values calculated by the control means 10, arranged to display the first estimate E1 of the potential energy, for each run made by the user between such an initial event and such a final event.
    According to a particular characteristic, the device 1 comprises a clock 3, or constitutes a device for measuring energy expenditure for a watch 2 comprising at least one such clock 3. The control means 10 are then associated with at least one such device. means 4 for storing parameters, which is arranged to store, at least at an initial time T1 and at a final instant T2, the values of physical parameters measured by at least one such sensor 5, or / and stored in memory at the level of such a user interface 6, at the initial time T1 and at the final time T2.
    And, more particularly, the storage means 4 is further arranged to store at least one MO value of the user's mass, measured by at least one force sensor 9 or memory input at the interface level. user 6, at least one time between the initial time T1 and the final time T2.
    The control means 10 are then arranged to calculate: the algebraic altimetric difference ΔΖ between the initial instant T1 and the final instant T2, the time lapse ΔΤ elapsed between the initial instant T1 and the instant final T2, and a first estimate P1 of the algebraic power supplied or received by the user between the initial instant T1 and the final instant T2, according to the formula: P1 = ΔΖ * MO * g / ΔΤ.
    The display means 20 are arranged to display at least the first estimate P1 of the algebraic power, for each race made by the user between such an initial event and such a final event. More particularly, they also display the results of the various calculations, for example ΔΖ and ΔΤ.
    In a particular embodiment, the device 1 comprises at least one inertia sensor! 11, of accelerometer or gyrometer type, arranged to detect a change of pace of the user between an acceleration lower than a first threshold G1 and an acceleration greater than a second threshold G2, and the control means 10 are arranged to interpret a transition between the first threshold G1 and the second threshold G2 as such an initial event or such a final event, and to automatically trigger the taking of initial and final altitude information, in the absence of intervention of the user on the user interface 6 to force the triggering of the initial event and / or the final event.
    More particularly, the control means 10 are then arranged to interpret a passage between the first threshold G1 and the second threshold G2 as such an initial instant T1 or such a final instant T2, and to trigger automatically the taking of information of initial and final altitude in relation to the initial instant T1 and the final instant T2, in the absence of intervention of the user on the user interface 6 to force the triggering of the initial instant T1 or / and the final moment T2.
    More particularly, the control means 10 are arranged to integrate the acceleration measurements made by the inertia sensor! 11 between the initial event and the final event, and transform them into an average GO acceleration value, and the display means 20 are arranged to display the average GO acceleration value, for each race made by the user between such an initial event and such a final event, and / or translate it into a graphical and / or digital visualization of effort.
    In a particular variant, the control means 10 are arranged to split an overall race into a plurality of elementary races during each of which the altitude variation is of the same direction, and to consider as a final event of a first elementary race and as an initial event of a second elementary race any change of direction of the variation of altitude. More particularly, the control means 10 are arranged to calculate, over the overall race, the sum of the positive altitude variations, or / and the sum of the negative altitude variations, or / and the algebraic sum of all altitude variations. More particularly, the control means 10 are further arranged to calculate, over the entire global race, and / or on each elementary race, the algebraic climbing speed. Naturally, the display means 20 are arranged to display any type of result calculated by the control means 10.
    In a particular embodiment, the control means 10 are arranged to receive at least one instruction given by the user at the user interface 6, by a mode selection means 12, which is arranged to allow the user to select an active or inactive mode of the energy estimate, and select one of these two modes as active or inactive by default.
    More particularly, in the active mode of the energy estimate, the control means 10 are arranged to perform, according to an instruction thus given by the user, an accumulation of the measured values or / and calculated on each such elementary race. component of the overall race, which aggregate is either algebraic in a first sub-mode, or in absolute value in a second sub-mode, and the mode selection means 12 is arranged to allow the user to select the first sub-mode or the second sub-mode by default.
    In a particular embodiment, the altitude evaluation means 7 is of the barometric type, and measures a pressure that the control means 10 transform into an altitude.
    In a particular variant embodiment, the control means 10 are arranged to receive, by an external signal or by an introduction at the level of the user interface 6, a reference pressure for a known altitude point, way to perform a barometric correction to calculate the absolute altitude in relation to the sea level.
    The features of the device 1 make it usable for other purposes than for the sole measure of energy expenditure. For example, in a particular variant embodiment, more particularly for an aeronautical use, the control and display means 20 are arranged to receive or calculate, and display, the QNH and the QFE: display of the geographical altitude when the device 1 is calibrated to the QNH (barometric pressure corrected for instrumental errors, temperature and gravity and returned to mean sea level), or display the relative height relative to an altitude and pressure reference point known instant when the device 1 is keyed on the QFE which is the atmospheric pressure measured at the reference point.
    In a particular embodiment, the altitude evaluation means 7 is of the GPS type and directly measures an altitude coordinate.
    In a particular variant embodiment, the control means 10 are arranged to calculate, between two instants determined by the user at the level of the user interface 6, or determined by a clock 3 that the device 1 comprises, or that comprises a watch 2 in which is integrated the device 1, or the curvilinear distance traveled by the user, or the theoretical distance as the crow flies and independently of the relief, between the two positions occupied by the user to these two moments.
    More particularly, the control means 10 are arranged to calculate, for the overall race, or the overall curvilinear distance traveled by the user, or a minimum distance traveled estimate constituted by the sum of the elementary distances calculated by the piloting means 6 for the elementary races whose accumulation constitutes the overall race.
    In a particular embodiment, the storage means 4 is arranged to store at least one stroke profile entered in memory at the user interface 6, for example with a memory card or a connection with a transmitting device. data, or whatever. And the control means 10 are then arranged to process the race profile, and to decompose the overall race into a plurality of theoretical elementary courses during each of which the altitude variation is theoretically of the same direction, and to consider as an event final of a first elementary race and as an initial event of a second elementary race any change of direction of the theoretical variation of altitude.
    In a particular embodiment, the device 1 comprises at least one force sensor 9 arranged to estimate the mass MO of the user, in absolute terms, or compared to a standard mass.
    For example, more particularly, the device 1 comprises such a force sensor 9 under each shoe of the user. In a particular application, wired or wireless transmission means are arranged to transmit the measured values by the force sensor 9. In another application, this force sensor 9 comprises a data output to a memory medium, such as a key USB, SIM card, or the like, this memory medium being integrable in a reader connected to the control means 10 for the transmission of measured and stored values. And the control means 10 are arranged to add the ground support force values taken at the same instant by each of these force sensors 9, and to calculate the mass MO as a function of a measured gravitational acceleration value. or stored in the storage means 4.
    In a particular embodiment, the user interface 6 comprises at least one actuator 13 dedicated to a validation of a start event or / and end for the energy estimate.
    More particularly, at least one such actuator 13 is tactile and is arranged to transmit to the control means 10 the information of a support performed by the user on a screen surface or structure that includes the device 1 , or that includes a watch 2 in which the device 1 is integrated.
    权利要求:
    Claims (26)
    [1]
    1. Device (1) for measuring energy expenditure for a portable device or a watch (2), said device (1) comprising control means (10) associated with at least one means of storage (4) of arranged parameters for storing, at least during an initial event and a final event, the physical parameter values measured by at least one sensor (5) or stored in memory at a user interface (6), said device ( 1) comprising at least one or an altitude evaluation means (7) for evaluating the altitude of said device (1) at least during said initial event and said final event, or / and an algebraic difference evaluation means of altitude (8) for the evaluation of the altitude algebraic difference of said device (1) between said initial event and said final event, characterized in that said storage means (4) is further arranged to store at least one value ( MO) of the user's mass, measured by at least one force sensor (9) or input into memory at said user interface (6), and in that said control means (10) are arranged to calculate on the one hand, the algebraic altimetry difference (ΔΖ) between said initial event and said final event, and, on the other hand, a first energy estimate (E1) of the potential energy supplied or received by the user during a race between said initial event and said final event, according to the formula: E1 = (ΔΖ * MO * g), said device (1) further comprising display means (20) for displaying values calculated by said means of control (10), arranged to display said first estimate (E1) of the potential energy, for each run made by the user between an said initial event and a said final event.
    [2]
    2. Device (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that said device (1) comprises a clock (3) or is a device for measuring energy expenditure for a watch (2) comprising at least one said clock (3) said control means (10) being associated with at least one said parameter storage means (4) arranged to store, at least at an initial time (T1) and at a final time (T2), the physical parameter values measured by at least one said sensor (5) or inputs into memory at a said user interface (6) at said initial time (T1) and at said final time (T2), and characterized in that said memory means (4) ) is further arranged to store at least one value (MO) of the user's mass, measured by at least one force sensor (9) or input into memory at said user interface (6), to at least one instant between said initial instant (T1) and said final instant (T2) , and in that said control means (10) are arranged to calculate said algebraic altimetric difference (ΔΖ) between said initial instant (T1) and said final instant (T2), the lapse of time (ΔΤ) elapsed between said initial instant (T1) and said final instant (T2), and a first estimate (P1) of the algebraic power supplied or received by the user between said initial instant (T1) and said final instant (T2), according to the formula: P1 = (ΔΖ * MO * g) / AT, and in that said display means (20) are arranged to display said first estimate (P1) of the algebraic power, for each run made by the user between an said initial event and a said final event.
    [3]
    3. Device (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said device (1) comprises at least one inertial sensor (11) accelerometer type or gyrometer arranged to detect a change of pace of the user between a acceleration lower than a first threshold (G1) and an acceleration greater than a second threshold (G2), and in that said control means (10) are arranged to interpret a passage between said first threshold (G1) and said second threshold ( G2) as a so-called initial event or a said final event, and to automatically trigger the taking of initial and final altitude information, in the absence of intervention of the user on said user interface (6) to force the triggering said initial event and / or said final event.
    [4]
    4. Device (1) according to claims 2 and 3, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to interpret a passage between said first threshold (G1) and said second threshold (G2) as a said initial time ( T1) or a said final instant (T2), and to automatically trigger the taking of initial and final altitude information in relation to said initial instant (T1) and said final instant (T2), in the absence of intervention of the user on said user interface (6) to force the triggering of said initial instant (T1) and / or said final instant (T2).
    [5]
    5. Device (1) according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to integrate the acceleration measurements made by said inertial sensor (11) between said initial event and said final event, and transforming them into an average acceleration value (GO), and that said display means (20) is arranged to display said average acceleration value (GO), for each user-made run between a said initial event and a so-called final event, and / or to translate it into a graphical and / or numerical visualization of effort.
    [6]
    6. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to split an overall race in a plurality of elementary courses during each of which the altitude variation is from same meaning, and to consider as a final event of a first elementary race and as an initial event of a second elementary race any change of direction of the variation of altitude.
    [7]
    7. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to receive at least one instruction given by the user at said user interface (6) by means mode selection circuit (12), which is arranged to allow the user to select an active or inactive mode of the energy estimate, and to select one of these two modes as active or inactive by default.
    [8]
    8. Device (1) according to claims 6 and 7, characterized in that, in said active mode of energy estimation, said control means (10) are arranged to perform, according to an instruction given by the user at the level of said user interface (6) by a mode selection means (12), an accumulation of the measured values or / and calculated on each said elementary race composing said global race, which accumulation is either algebraic in a first sub-mode , or in absolute value in a second sub-mode, and said mode selection means (12) is arranged to allow the user to select said first sub-mode or said second sub-mode by default.
    [9]
    9. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said altitude evaluation means (7) is of the barometric type and measures a pressure that said control means (10) transform into an altitude.
    [10]
    10. Device (1) according to claim 9, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to receive, by an external signal or by an introduction at said user interface (6), a reference pressure for a point of known altitude, so as to perform a barometric correction to calculate the absolute altitude with respect to the sea level.
    [11]
    11. Device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that said altitude evaluation means (7) is of the GPS type and directly measures an altitude coordinate.
    [12]
    12. Device (1) according to claim 11, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to calculate, between two instants determined by the user at said user interface (6), or determined by a clock (3) that comprises said device (1) or a watch (2) in which is integrated said device (1), or the curvilinear distance traveled by the user, or the theoretical distance as the crow flies and regardless of relief, between the two positions occupied by the user at said two moments.
    [13]
    13. Device (1) according to claims 6 and 11, characterized in that said control means (10) are arranged to calculate, for said overall race, or the overall curvilinear distance traveled by the user, or an estimate minimum distance traveled constituted by the sum of the elementary distances calculated by said control means (6) for the elementary races whose accumulation constitutes said overall race.
    [14]
    14. Device (1) according to claim 6 and any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said storage means (4) is arranged to store at least one stroke profile entered in memory at said user interface ( 6), and in that said control means (10) are arranged to process said stroke profile and to decompose said overall race into a plurality of theoretical elementary strokes during each of which the altitude variation is theoretically of the same direction, and to consider as a final event of a first elementary race and as an initial event of a second elementary race any change of direction of the theoretical variation of altitude.
    [15]
    15. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said device (1) comprises at least one said force sensor (9) arranged to estimate said mass (MO) of the user, in absolute terms, or compared to a standard mass.
    [16]
    16. Device (1) according to claim 15, characterized in that said device (1) comprises a said force sensor (9) under each shoe of the user, and in that said control means (10) are arranged for adding the ground support force values taken at the same time by each of said force sensors (9), and for calculating said mass (MO) as a function of a gravitational acceleration value measured or stored in said means memorisation (4).
    [17]
    17. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said user interface (6) comprises at least one actuator (13) dedicated to a validation of a start event or / and end for said estimate energy.
    [18]
    18. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said user interface (6) is arranged to use at least one particular control means (14) that comprises said device (1) or a watch (2). ) in which said device (1) is integrated, said particular control means (14) being arranged to control a particular function, which is different from said energy estimation function, and in that said control means (10) are arranged to identify an energy estimation mode selected by the user at said user interface (6), wherein said energy estimation mode said at least one particular control means (14) is used for validation by the user of a start or / and end event for said energy estimate.
    [19]
    19. Device (1) according to claim 18, characterized in that, when said energy estimation mode is selected, said at least one particular control means (14) is dedicated to a validation of a start event or / and end for said energy estimate, and is unusable for controlling said particular function.
    [20]
    20. Device (1) according to claim 18, characterized in that, in said energy estimation mode, said at least one particular control means (14) is used both for a validation of a start event or and end for said energy estimate, and for a control of said particular function.
    [21]
    21. Device (1) according to claim 17, characterized in that at least one said actuator (13) is tactile and is arranged to transmit to said control means (10) the information of a support performed by the user on a screen or structure surface that comprises said device (1) or a watch (2) in which said device (1) is integrated.
    [22]
    22. Device (1) according to one of claims 18 to 20, characterized in that at least one said particular control means (14) is tactile and is arranged to transmit to said control means (10) the information of a support performed by the user on a screen surface or structure that comprises said device (1) or a watch (2) in which is integrated said device (1).
    [23]
    23. Device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said display means (20) are arranged to permanently display the energy balance of a race in progress and / or at least one race preceding, or / and, when said device (1) comprises a clock (3) or is a device for measuring energy expenditure for a watch (2) comprising at least one said clock (3), an elementary race carried out on a predetermined time interval or chosen by the user at said user interface (6).
    [24]
    24. Watch (2) comprising at least one device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 23.
    [25]
    25. Watch (2) according to claim 24, and comprising a clock (3), characterized in that said clock (3) is arranged to cooperate with said control means (10) for communicating to them temporal information and for providing them with signals at a predetermined frequency or selected by the user at said user interface (6).
    [26]
    26. Watch (2) according to claim 24 or 25, and comprising a chronograph system (30), characterized in that said chronograph system (30) is used for the acquisition of said initial event and said final event, when completion of a race by the user.
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