US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on Aug. 4 for "Step measurement device, measurement method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,981, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Step measurement device, measurement method, and storage medium" was invented by Naoya Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device includes: an accelerometer; a storage; and at least one processor. In accordance with instructions stored in the storage, the processor acquires data of an acceleration waveform during walking or running of a user from the accelerometer, identifies a time width between a first timing and a second timing based on the acceleration waveform, and counts steps based on the acceleration waveform. The acceleration wa...