| US 7,596,450 B2 | ||
| Stride-based route guiding apparatus and method | ||
| Hyun-Su Hong, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 11, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/329,613. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0011636 (KR), filed on Feb. 11, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0184320 A1, Aug. 17, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 701—209 [701/200; 701/213; 701/201; 340/996; 342/357.06] | 22 Claims |
| 1. A stride-based route guiding apparatus, comprising:
a route information providing unit for calculating a traveling distance to a specific position in terms of a number of steps;
and
a control unit for performing a route guidance using the number of steps output from the route information providing unit
during the route guidance,
wherein the route information providing unit, comprises:
a sensor for sensing a stride of a pedestrian;
a stride detecting unit for detecting the stride by extracting a feature repeated at the stride of the pedestrian from an
output pattern of the sensor; and
a pace setting unit for estimating a pace of the pedestrian using a stride frequency according to a size of variance of the
sensor value and a result of stride detection.
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