Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods, devices, and systems to identify a user of a wearable fitness monitor using data obtained using the wearable fitness monitor. Data obtained from motion sensors of the wearable fitness monitor and data obtained from heartbeat waveform sensors of the wearable fitness monitor may be used to identify the user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 24, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 9, 2021
Assignee:
Fitbit, Inc.
Inventors:
Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, James Park, Atiyeh Ghoreyshi, Anjian Wu
Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ring-shaped wearable device for detecting biometrics with a light source and a photodetector directed towards a digit wearing the ring-shaped device. The ring can thus detect oxygen saturation of a wearer based on light transmitted through the wearer's finger. The ring can include power saving measures to extend the battery life. A motion sensor can help determine opportune moments for data collection such as when the wearer is still. The motion sensor can be used to remove noise from the data caused by motion. After data is collected or during data collection, the ring can wirelessly communicate the data to another portable electronic device such as a phone or watch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 12, 2019
Date of Patent:
February 16, 2021
Assignee:
FITBIT, INC.
Inventors:
Jaclyn Leverett Wasson, Peter W. Richards, Lindsey Michelle Sunden, Corey Stephen O'Connor, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Xi Zhang, Hamed Vavadi, Chris Hanrahan Sarantos, Peter Colin Dess
Abstract: A wearable device for tracking swim activities of a user is provided. The wearable device may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data, and based on the sensor data, the wearable device may determine swim metrics such as swim stroke count, swim stroke type, swim lap count, and swim speed. The determined swim metrics may be filtered based on one or more swim periods during which the user is likely to have been swimming. The wearable device may determine such swim periods based on the sensor data and/or the determined swim metrics.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2017
Date of Patent:
February 16, 2021
Assignee:
Fitbit, Inc.
Inventors:
Logan Niehaus, Subramaniam Venkatraman, Jonathan Wonwook Kim
Abstract: Various antenna designs are presented that can be used to provide for wireless communication in electronic devices, such as wearable electronic devices. Various embodiments provide antenna structures and designs that can support multiple frequency bands in a relatively compact space. Various embodiments utilize a primary conductive ring embedded in the walls of the housing as antennas for various forms of wireless communication. The conductive ring includes a plurality of conductive elements separated from each other by portions of the housing, the plurality of conductive elements coupled respectively to the one or more signal sources on the PCB. Embodiments may additionally utilize a ground extension element positioned a distance away from the primary conductive ring in an opposite direction from the display module, in which the ground extension element is coupled to a ground connection of the PCB and boosting the antenna signal strength.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignee:
FITBIT, INC.
Inventors:
Yonghua Wei, Faton Tefiku, Christos Kinezos Ioannou, Kevin Li
Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure pertains to a blood pressure measurement device and methods of obtaining pulse information from a blood pressure measurement. An inflatable bladder defines, at least in part, a pressurizable volume. The inflatable bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's appendage and temporarily occlude blood flow in the user's appendage, where the inflatable bladder is inflated to a pressure greater than a maximum amplitude pressure from oscillometric data in a pressure profile. The inflatable bladder may be deflated and then re-inflated to a target pressure and held at the target pressure to generate pulse information, or the inflatable bladder may be deflated to the target pressure and held at the target pressure to generate the pulse information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 27, 2017
Date of Patent:
December 29, 2020
Assignee:
Fitbit, Inc.
Inventors:
Xi Zhang, Keith Adam Wong, Andrew Larsen Axley, Dan Stefan Tudose, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Radu Dobroiu, Alexandru-Mihai Şolot
Abstract: Approaches to determining a sleep fitness score for a user are provided, such as may be based upon monitored breathing disturbances of a user. The system receives user state data generated over a time period by a combination of sensors provided via a wearable tracker associated with the user. A system can use this information to calculate a sleep fitness score, breathing disturbance score, or other such value. The system can classify every minute within the time period as either normal or atypical, for example, and may provide such information for presentation to the user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 2019
Date of Patent:
December 29, 2020
Assignee:
Fitbit, Inc.
Inventors:
Suraj Gowda, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Anjian Wu, Daniel Joel Freschl, Peter W. Richards, Chris H. Sarantos, Jonathan Wonwook Kim
Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for audio pass-through are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of operating a wearable audio device may involve receiving an ambient audio signal, detecting a first audio signal from within the received ambient audio signal, and determining that the first audio signal meets a first metric for pass-through to a user of the wearable audio device. The first metric may be indicative of a first priority level of the first audio signal to the user. The method may further involve isolating the first audio signal based on filtering the ambient audio signal in response to determining that the first audio signal meets the first metric and adjusting playback of the isolated first audio signal for the user via a speaker.
Abstract: An activity monitoring device accumulates a count of steps taken as an individual bearing the activity monitoring device travels by foot along a route, and wirelessly acquires positioning data from a discrete global-positioning device corresponding to a sequence of locations along the route. The activity monitoring device iteratively revises an estimated stride length of the individual based on the positioning data and the step count and iteratively updates a travel distance on a display of the activity monitoring device according to the step count and the estimated stride length as the individual proceeds from one location in the sequence to the next.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 15, 2020
Assignee:
Fitbit, Inc.
Inventors:
Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Timothy M. Roberts, Heiko Gernot Albert Panther, Barry Christopher Burton
Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a portable monitoring device to be affixed to a user. The portable monitoring device including: 1) a set of one or more sensors to generate sensor data indicative of physical activity of a user when the portable monitoring device is affixed to the user; and 2) processing circuitry coupled with the set of sensors, to detect that the user has been sedentary for a period of time, and cause the portable monitoring device to alert the user responsive to the detection to encourage the user to move.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 29, 2017
Date of Patent:
December 8, 2020
Assignee:
Fitbit, Inc.
Inventors:
Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, James Park, Eric Nathan Friedman
Inventors:
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Chadwick John Harber, Brian Dennis Paschke, Derek Jenchia Loh, Eric John Fairbanks, Mark Woolhiser Huang, Jonah Avram Becker
Inventors:
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Brian Dennis Paschke, Eric John Fairbanks, Anthony Gerald Kern, Jonah Avram Becker, Ching-Lung Hsu, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz, Jens Mitchell Nielsen, Christopher Alan Porter
Inventors:
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Chadwick John Harber, Brian Dennis Paschke, Derek Jenchia Loh, Eric John Fairbanks, Mark Woolhiser Huang, Henry Michael Lubowe, Edison Tam King Miguel, Matthew Joseph Kane
Inventors:
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Chadwick John Harber, Brian Dennis Paschke, Derek Jenchia Loh, Eric John Fairbanks, Mark Woolhiser Huang, Henry Michael Lubowe, Edison Tam King Miguel, Matthew Joseph Kane
Inventors:
Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche, Jonah Avram Becker, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Cory William Worth, Chadwick John Harber, Junyong Park
Inventors:
Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche, Jonah Avram Becker, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Cory William Worth, Chadwick John Harber, Junyong Park
Inventors:
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Chadwick John Harber, Brian Dennis Paschke, Derek Jenchia Loh, Eric John Fairbanks, Mark Woolhiser Huang, Henry Michael Lubowe, Edison Tam King Miguel, Matthew Joseph Kane
Inventors:
Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Bernhard Wildner, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan
Inventors:
Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Bernhard Wildner, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan
Inventors:
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Chadwick John Harber, Brian Dennis Paschke, Derek Jenchia Loh, Eric John Fairbanks, Mark Woolhiser Huang, Henry Michael Lubowe, Edison Tam King Miguel, Matthew Joseph Kane