CN112902983A

CN112902983A - Step counting method and device and electronic equipment

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Publication number: CN112902983A
Application number: CN202110105490.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王丰; 周思源
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-01-26
Filing date: 2021-01-26
Publication date: 2021-06-04
Anticipated expiration: 2041-01-26
Also published as: WO2022161219A1; CN112902983B

Abstract

The application discloses a step counting method and device and electronic equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method is applied to first electronic equipment, the first electronic equipment is any one of a plurality of pieces of electronic equipment carried by a user, and the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a first step number and N second step numbers counted in a target step counting period, wherein the first step number is the step number counted by first electronic equipment, the second step number is the step number counted by second electronic equipment, the second electronic equipment is the electronic equipment except the first electronic equipment in the plurality of electronic equipment, and N is a positive integer; generating a first correction step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers; and updating the step number counted by the first electronic equipment from the first step number to a first correction step number. The method for counting the number of steps can reduce the possibility of deviation in step counting of the first electronic device, and further improve the accuracy of step counting of the first electronic device.

Description

Step counting method and device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a step counting method, a step counting device and electronic equipment.

Background

With the rapid development of electronic technology, electronic devices such as mobile phones, watches, earphones, glasses and the like gradually realize intellectualization, and have become popular as an indispensable part of people's daily life. The step counting function is used as a basic function of the intelligent electronic equipment, and can count the steps generated in the motion process of the user under the condition that the user carries the intelligent electronic equipment so that the user can know the motion condition of the user in time. However, in the conventional electronic device with a step counting function, a step counting error is likely to occur in the step counting process, so that the step counting accuracy of the electronic device is reduced.

Therefore, the problem of accuracy rate of step counting precision exists in the step counting process of the conventional electronic equipment.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application aims to provide a step counting method, a step counting device and electronic equipment, and the method, the device and the electronic equipment can solve the problem that the step counting precision accuracy rate exists in the step counting process of the conventional electronic equipment.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a step count statistics method, which is applied to a first electronic device, where the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, and the method includes:

acquiring a first step number and N second step numbers counted in a target step counting period, wherein the first step number is the step number counted by first electronic equipment, the second step number is the step number counted by second electronic equipment, the second electronic equipment is the electronic equipment except the first electronic equipment in the plurality of electronic equipment, and N is a positive integer;

generating a first correction step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers;

and updating the step number counted by the first electronic equipment from the first step number to the first correction step number.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an apparatus for counting steps, which is applied to a first electronic device, where the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, and the apparatus includes:

a step number obtaining module, configured to obtain a first step number and N second step numbers counted in a target step counting period, where the first step number is the step number counted by the first electronic device, the second step number is the step number counted by a second electronic device, the second electronic device is an electronic device other than the first electronic device in the multiple electronic devices, and N is a positive integer;

a step number correction module for generating a first corrected step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers;

and the step number updating module is used for updating the step number counted by the first electronic equipment from the first step number to the first correction step number.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, the program or instructions implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect.

In this embodiment of the application, the first electronic device generates a first corrected step number according to a first step number counted by the first electronic device in a target step counting period and N second step numbers counted by N second electronic devices in the target step counting period, and updates the step number counted by the first electronic device from the first step number to the first corrected step number.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for counting steps according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for counting steps according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is one of the hardware structure diagrams of the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a second schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate so that embodiments of the present application can be implemented in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and the objects identified as "first", "second", etc. are generally in one category and do not limit the number of objects, e.g., the first photographic object may be one or more. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The method for counting the number of steps provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings by specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for counting steps, where the method for counting steps is applied to a first electronic device, and the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, as shown in fig. 1, the method for counting steps includes the following steps:

step 101, obtaining a first step number and N second step numbers counted in a target step counting period, wherein the first step number is the step number counted by first electronic equipment, the second step number is the step number counted by second electronic equipment, the second electronic equipment is the electronic equipment except the first electronic equipment in the plurality of electronic equipment, and N is a positive integer;

102, generating a first correction step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers;

and 103, updating the step number counted by the first electronic equipment from the first step number to the first correction step number.

Here, the first electronic device generates a first correction step number according to a first step number counted by the first electronic device in a target step counting period and N second step numbers counted by N second electronic devices in the target step counting period, and updates the step number counted by the first electronic device from the first step number to the first correction step number.

In the step 101, in the case that the user simultaneously carries a plurality of electronic devices with a step counting function to exercise (such as walking, running, or walking race, etc.), each of the plurality of electronic devices may count the number of steps taken by the user in the target step counting period through a step counting model set therein.

The first electronic device may be any one of the plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, and the N second electronic devices may be at least one of the plurality of electronic devices other than the first electronic device.

In this embodiment of the application, the obtaining, by the first electronic device, the N second steps may be performed through wireless communication connection (for example, bluetooth connection, infrared connection, or wireless high fidelity connection) between the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, and when each of the N second electronic devices obtains the second step counted in the target step counting period, each of the N second electronic devices transmits the counted second step to the first electronic device through wireless communication connection with the first electronic device.

The first electronic device counts a first step number and the N second electronic devices respectively count a second step number, which may be the step numbers counted by the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices using different step counting models; or, specifically, the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model, that is, the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are provided with the same step counting model (that is, the target step counting model), so that the accuracy of step counting of the first electronic device can be further improved.

In addition, the target step counting period may be a time period occupied by a statistical period closest to the current time in the process of counting the number of steps by the electronic devices with a preset time length as a period, and the preset time length may be set according to an actual requirement or a step counting parameter of the step counting model, and is not limited herein.

For example, in the process of walking outside when a user wears a smart watch, smart glasses with a step counting function and carries a mobile phone in a trouser pocket, step counting models of the smart watch, the smart glasses and the mobile phone all use 10s as a counting period, and the smart watch, the smart glasses and the mobile phone are all 12: 00: 00, starting step counting, if the current time is 12: and 05:10, if the mobile phone is the first electronic device, the mobile phone can acquire that the step-counting model is in a range from 12: counting the number of steps (namely, the first step number) in a time period (namely, a target step counting period) of 05:00-12:05:10, and receiving the number of steps counted by the smart watch and the smart glasses (namely, the N second electronic devices) through the Bluetooth module in a step counting mode of 12: the number of steps counted (i.e., the second number of steps) over a period of time (i.e., the target step count cycle) from 05:00 to 12:05: 10.

In step 102, after the first electronic device obtains the first step number and the N second step numbers, the first electronic device may generate a first correction step number for correcting the first step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers.

In this embodiment of the application, the correcting the first step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers to obtain the first corrected step number may be directly taking an average value of the first step number and the N second step numbers as the first corrected step number; alternatively, the first step number and the N second step numbers may be compared, the step number having a large deviation is determined among the first step number and the N second step numbers, the step number having the large deviation is eliminated, and finally, the average value of the remaining step numbers is used as the first correction step number, and so on.

Or, specifically, the step 102 may include:

calculating the sum of the absolute values of the deviations of the first step number and the N second step numbers, wherein the sum of the absolute values of the deviations is as follows: the first step number and the N second step numbers are subtracted from each other respectively to obtain the sum of absolute values;

generating a comparison result based on the magnitude relation between the sum of the absolute deviation values and a preset threshold value;

and correcting the first step number according to a correction mode corresponding to the comparison result to obtain a first correction step number.

Here, the first electronic device may correct the first step number according to a comparison result between a sum of absolute values of deviations of the first step number and the N second step numbers and a preset threshold, and a correction manner corresponding to the comparison result, so that the comparison result may be corrected in different correction manners at different times, and accuracy of step counting of the first electronic device in different scenes is improved.

And calculating the sum of the absolute values of the deviations of the first step number and the second step number, subtracting the first step number and the N second step numbers in pairs before the first step number and the N second step numbers by the first electronic equipment, and taking the sum of the absolute values of the values obtained after subtracting the first step number and the N second step numbers in pairs as the sum of the absolute values of the deviations.

For example, in the process that a user wears a smart watch with a step counting function, smart glasses and goes out to take a walk by carrying a mobile phone in a trouser pocket, if the mobile phone is in a state of 12: the statistical step number in the time period of 05:00-12:05:10 is 11 steps, and the intelligent glasses count in 12: the number of the counted steps in the time period of 05:00-12:05:10 is 10, and the smart watch counts the number of the counted steps in the time period of 12: the number of the statistical steps in the time period of 05:00-12:05:10 is 6, and the sum of the absolute values of the deviations is |11-10| + |11-6| + | 10.

It should be noted that the preset threshold may be a preset fixed value; alternatively, the preset threshold may be a dynamically adjusted value.

Specifically, the preset threshold may be a product of a sum of the first step number and the N second step numbers and a preset ratio, for example, the preset ratio may be set to 20%, and in a case where the sum of the absolute values of the deviations is 10, the preset threshold may be (11+10+6) × 20% — 5.4.

Alternatively, the value may be determined according to the number of electronic devices with a step counting function carried by the user, for example, the preset threshold value is 3 when N is 1, and the preset threshold value is 5 when N is 2.

In addition, the first electronic device may be preset with at least two calibration methods, and when the comparison result is different, the first electronic device may select a different calibration method of the at least two calibration methods to calibrate the first step number.

Specifically, the obtaining the first corrected step number by correcting the first step number according to the correction mode corresponding to the comparison result may include:

and determining the average value of the first step number and the N second step numbers as a first correction step number under the condition that the sum of the absolute deviation values is less than or equal to the preset threshold value.

Here, the first electronic device may directly use an average value of the step counts respectively counted by the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices as the corrected step count of the first step count when the fluctuation between the step count counted by the first electronic device and the step count counted by the N second electronic devices carried by the user is small, so that not only may the possibility of step counting deviation occurring in the first electronic device be reduced, but also the efficiency of the first electronic device in correcting the step count may be improved.

For example, if the handset is in 12: the statistical step number in the time period of 05:00-12:05:10 is 11 steps, and the intelligent glasses count in 12: the number of the counted steps in the time period of 05:00-12:05:10 is 10, and the smart watch counts the number of the counted steps in the time period of 12: if the number of statistical steps in the time period from 05:00 to 12:05:10 is 9, the sum of absolute values of the deviations is |10-11| + |10-9| + |11-9| + | 4, and if the preset threshold is 5, the mobile phone may be switched between 12: the number of steps counted over a period of 05:00-12:05:10 was corrected to (11+10+ 9)/3-10.

Or, in a case that the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model, obtaining the first corrected step number according to a correction manner corresponding to the comparison result may include:

under the condition that the sum of the absolute deviation values is larger than the preset threshold, respectively acquiring the carrying positions of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices;

respectively determining error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices in M error categories, wherein the error category of each electronic device corresponds to a carrying position of the electronic device, and the M error categories are as follows: classifying the types of the step counting precision information of the target step counting model at different carrying positions in advance, wherein M is an integer larger than 1;

and correcting the first step number according to a target correction mode based on the first step number and the N second step numbers to obtain a first correction step number, wherein the target correction mode is associated with the error categories of the first electronic equipment and the N second electronic equipment.

Here, in a case where the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices carried by the user are both configured with the target step counting model, the first electronic device may determine a target correction manner according to error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, and correct the first step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers according to the target correction manner to obtain a first corrected step number, so that correction of the first step number is associated with a carrying position of each electronic device, and step counting accuracy of the first electronic device at different carrying positions may be further improved.

In this embodiment of the application, the obtaining of the carrying positions of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices may be that the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices respectively detect the parts carried on the body of the user through their own inertial sensor data in the target step counting period, and use the detected parts as carrying positions, and the N second electronic devices respectively transmit their carrying positions to the first electronic device through the wireless communication module, so that the first electronic device can detect their carrying positions and receive the carrying positions of the N second electronic devices.

Before the step 102, the electronic device (terminal or server, etc.) may collect a large amount of acceleration sensor data, classify the collected acceleration sensors according to different carrying positions, respectively input the acceleration sensors in different carrying positions into the optimized target step-counting model, obtain step-counting accuracy information (including errors and probability distribution) of the target step-counting model in each carrying position, and divide a scene in which the user carries the electronic device in different carrying positions into M error categories according to the different step-counting accuracy information.

For example, the server may classify the following four error types from the large amount of sensor data:

type 1, the position of carrying of electronic equipment are for taking on the hand or wearing on the wrist (if electronic equipment is cell-phone, wrist-watch or bracelet etc.), and error and distribution condition are: one oscillation period of the acceleration sensor data is actually two steps, but the target step counting model can be missed to count one step, and the probability of 10% -20% can be less than half the step number;

type 2, the carrying position of the electronic device is placed in a trouser pocket (if the electronic device is a mobile phone, etc.), and the error and distribution conditions are as follows: actually, two steps are formed by adding a shorter wave crest and a higher wave crest to acceleration sensor data, and the accuracy rate of the algorithm is about 99%;

type 3, the carrying position of the electronic device is to be the waist belt, put in the pocket of the jacket or wear on the nose bridge (if the electronic device is a mobile phone or smart glasses, etc.), and the error and distribution condition is: one oscillation period of the acceleration sensor data is actually one step, the error caused by interference action or noise is about 2%, and the algorithm accuracy rate is about 98%;

type 4, the carrying position of the electronic device is to put in an outer pocket or a backpack (for example, the electronic device is a mobile phone, etc.), and the errors and the distribution conditions are: the two oscillation periods of the acceleration sensor data are actually 1 step, and may be more than 2 steps, and the probability of 10% -20% is more than one step.

It should be noted that the acquired acceleration sensor data may include data acquired under the conditions of different people, different scenes, different actions, different carrying positions, different movement speeds, and the like, so that the accuracy of error category classification can be ensured.

In addition, when the first electronic device acquires the carrying positions of the first electronic device and the carrying positions of the N second electronic devices, the first electronic device may determine, according to the carrying positions associated with the M error categories, error categories associated with the carrying positions of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, as the error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, respectively.

For example, when the user carries a mobile phone, a watch, and glasses, if the mobile phone is a first electronic device and is located in a coat pocket of the user, the error category of the first electronic device is type 4, the error category of the second electronic device is type 1, and the error category of the second electronic device is type 3.

In this embodiment of the application, when the first electronic device determines the error type of the first electronic device and the error types of the N second electronic devices, the first electronic device may determine a target correction manner according to the error types of the first electronic device and the error types of the N second electronic devices, and correct the first step number according to the target correction manner to obtain the first correction step number.

Wherein, the correcting the first step number according to the first correcting step number may include: when the error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices have a first error category and a second error category, the first electronic device eliminates the step numbers of the electronic devices having the first error category from the first step numbers and the N second step numbers, and uses an average value of the step numbers of the electronic devices having the second error category as the first correction step number, wherein the first error category is an error category with an accuracy rate smaller than a preset threshold value, and the second error category is an error category with an accuracy rate greater than or equal to the preset threshold value.

It should be noted that the preset threshold may be an accuracy preset in the first electronic device.

For example, in a case where the user has a mobile phone (i.e., a first electronic device) carried in the pants pocket and wears a watch and smart glasses (i.e., 2 second electronic devices), the mobile phone may determine that the error type of the mobile phone is type 2, the error type of the watch is type 1, and the error type of the smart glasses is type 3, and then the mobile phone may use an average value of the counted number of steps (i.e., a first number of steps) of the mobile phone and the counted number of steps (i.e., a second number of steps) of the smart glasses as the first comparison positive number of steps, and reject the counted number of steps of the watch.

Alternatively, the correcting the first step number according to the target correction method based on the first step number and the N second step numbers to obtain a first correction step number may include:

and determining the average value of the first step number and the N second step numbers as a first correction step number when the error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are the same.

Here, when the error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are the same, the first electronic device may directly use an average value of the first step number and the N second step numbers as the first correction step number, so that the step counting accuracy of the first electronic device may be ensured, and the efficiency of step counting correction of the first electronic device may be improved.

For example, in a case where a user carries a mobile phone (i.e., a first electronic device) and smart glasses (i.e., a second electronic device), and one mobile phone is located in a pocket of a jacket, error types of the mobile phone and the smart glasses are both type 3, and at this time, the mobile phone may use an average value of the counted number of steps and the counted number of steps of the smart glasses as the first correction number of steps.

under the condition that error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are different, determining a target electronic device and i electronic devices in the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, wherein the accuracy of the error category of the target electronic device is greater than or equal to a preset threshold value, the accuracy of the error category of each electronic device in the i electronic devices is smaller than the preset threshold value, and i is a positive integer less than or equal to N;

respectively correcting the statistical step numbers of the i pieces of electronic equipment based on the statistical step number of the target electronic equipment to obtain i second corrected step numbers, wherein the statistical step number is the step number counted by the target step counting model in the target step counting period;

taking an average value of the i second correction steps and the statistical steps of the j electronic devices as a first correction step, wherein the j electronic devices are as follows: the electronic devices other than the i electronic devices among the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices.

Here, in the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, when there are a target electronic device whose error category accuracy is greater than or equal to the preset threshold and i electronic devices whose error category accuracy is less than the preset threshold, the first electronic device corrects the step count counted by the electronic devices whose error category accuracy is less than the preset threshold, and then takes an average value of the step count counted by the electronic devices whose error category accuracy is greater than or equal to the preset threshold and the correction step count of the i electronic devices as the first correction step count, so that the accuracy of the first correction step count can be further improved, and the accuracy of the first electronic device step count is further improved.

In this embodiment, in the above-mentioned determining the target electronic device and the i electronic devices in the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, one electronic device with an error category accuracy greater than or equal to a preset threshold may be determined as the target electronic device, and all electronic devices with an error category accuracy less than the preset threshold may be determined as the i electronic devices.

For example, in a case where the preset accuracy is 90%, assuming that the M error types include types 1 to 4, the first electronic device may determine one electronic device having an error type of type 2 or type 3 as the target electronic device, and determine all electronic devices having error types of type 1 and type 4 as i electronic devices.

It should be noted that, in the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, when there are at least two electronic devices whose error category accuracy is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, the first electronic device may randomly select any one of the at least two electronic devices as the target electronic device; alternatively, the electronic device with the highest error category accuracy may be selected as the target electronic device, and so on.

In addition, the above-mentioned correcting the statistical step numbers of the i electronic devices based on the statistical step number of the target electronic device to obtain i second corrected step numbers may be performed by correcting the statistical step numbers of the i electronic devices by the first electronic device using the statistical step number of the target electronic device as a reference standard. For example, the statistical step count of i electronic devices may be updated to the statistical step count of the target electronic device, and so on.

Specifically, the aforementioned correcting the statistical step counts of the i electronic devices based on the statistical step count of the target electronic device to obtain i second corrected step counts may include:

acquiring a target ratio between the statistical step number of the third electronic equipment and the statistical step number of the target electronic equipment;

and determining the product of the statistical step number of the target electronic equipment and the target correction quantity associated with the target ratio as the statistical step number of the third electronic equipment.

It should be noted that the correction amount associated with the ratio may be determined by a corresponding relationship between a preset ratio and the correction amount; alternatively, a correspondence relationship between the ratio range and the correction amount may be preset, and the correction amount having a correspondence relationship with the ratio range in which the target ratio is located may be determined as the target correction amount, or the like.

For example, assuming that the user carries a mobile phone (a first electronic device) and a watch (N second electronic devices), and the mobile phone is located in a trouser pocket, the error type of the mobile phone is type 2, and the error type of the watch is type 1, if the ratio of the statistical step number of the mobile phone (i.e., a target electronic device) to the statistical step number of the watch (i.e., i electronic devices) is [1.9,2.1] in the target statistical period (e.g., 10 s), it indicates that an error of counting half steps missed by the watch may occur, at this time, the mobile phone takes the statistical step number of the watch multiplied by 2 as a real step number (i.e., a second correction step number), and takes the average value of the statistical step number of the mobile phone and the calculated real step number of the watch as a correction step number (i.e., a first correction step number) of the mobile phone;

or, assuming that the user carries a mobile phone (a first electronic device) and glasses (N second electronic devices), and the mobile phone is located in a backpack, the error type of the mobile phone is type 4, and the error type of the glasses is type 3, if the ratio of the statistical step number of the mobile phone (i.e., i electronic devices) to the statistical step number of the glasses (i.e., target electronic devices) is [1.9,2.1] in the target statistical period, it indicates that an error that the watch counts twice as many steps may occur, at this time, the mobile phone divides the statistical step number by 2 to be the actual step number (i.e., the second correction step number), and uses the average value of the calculated actual step number of the mobile phone and the statistical step number of the glasses to be the correction step number of the mobile phone (i.e., the first correction step number);

and so on.

It should be noted that, after the first electronic device updates the counted step number from the first step number to the first corrected step number, the first corrected step number may be counted in the total step number counted by the first electronic device, so that the total step number counted by the first electronic device during the exercise process is accurate.

It should be noted that, in the method for counting steps provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution subject may be a device for counting steps, or a control module of the method for counting steps in the device for counting steps. In the embodiment of the present application, a method for performing step counting by using a step counting device is taken as an example to describe the step counting device provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Referring to fig. 2, an embodiment of the present application provides a step counting apparatus, which is applied to a first electronic device, where the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, and as shown in fig. 2, the step counting apparatus 200 includes:

a step number obtaining module 201, configured to obtain a first step number and N second step numbers counted in a target step counting period, where the first step number is a step number counted by the first electronic device, the second step number is a step number counted by a second electronic device, the second electronic device is an electronic device other than the first electronic device in the plurality of electronic devices, and N is a positive integer;

a step number correction module 202, configured to generate a first corrected step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers;

a step number updating module 203, configured to update the step number counted by the first electronic device from the first step number to the first corrected step number.

Here, the step counting apparatus 200 generates a first corrected step number according to a first step number counted by the first electronic device in the target step counting period and N second step numbers counted by the N second electronic devices in the target step counting period, and updates the first step number to the first corrected step number.

Optionally, the step number correction module 202 includes:

a calculating submodule, configured to calculate a sum of absolute deviation values of the first step number and the N second step numbers, where the sum of absolute deviation values is: the first step number and the N second step numbers are subtracted from each other respectively to obtain the sum of absolute values;

the comparison result generation submodule is used for generating a comparison result based on the magnitude relation between the sum of the absolute values of the deviations and a preset threshold value;

and the step number corrector sub-module is used for correcting the first step number according to a correction mode corresponding to the comparison result to obtain a first correction step number.

Here, the step counting device 200 may correct the first step number according to a comparison result between a sum of absolute values of deviations of the first step number and the N second step numbers and a preset threshold, and according to a correction method corresponding to the comparison result, so that different correction methods may be adopted to correct the comparison result when the comparison result is different, thereby improving accuracy of step counting of the first electronic device in different scenes.

Optionally, the step number correction submodule is specifically configured to:

Here, in a case where the fluctuation between the step count counted by the first electronic device and the step count counted by the N second electronic devices carried by the user is small, the step count counting apparatus 200 directly uses the average value of the step counts counted by the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, respectively, as the corrected step count of the first step count, so that not only the possibility of step counting deviation occurring in the first electronic device can be reduced, but also the efficiency of the first electronic device in correcting the step count can be improved.

Optionally, the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model.

Here, the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are provided with the same step-counting model (i.e., target step-counting model), so that the accuracy of step counting of the first electronic device can be further improved.

Optionally, when the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model, the step number correction submodule includes:

a carrying position obtaining unit, configured to obtain carrying positions of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices respectively when a sum of the absolute values of the deviations is greater than the preset threshold;

an error category determining unit, configured to determine error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices respectively in M error categories, where an error category of each electronic device corresponds to a carrying location of the electronic device, and the M error categories are: classifying the types of the step counting precision information of the target step counting model at different carrying positions in advance, wherein M is an integer larger than 1;

and the step number correction unit is used for correcting the first step number according to a target correction mode based on the first step number and the N second step numbers to obtain a first correction step number, wherein the target correction mode is associated with the error categories of the first electronic equipment and the N second electronic equipment.

Here, in a case where the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are both configured with the target step counting model, the step counting apparatus 200 may determine a target correction manner according to error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, and correct the first step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers according to the target correction manner to obtain a first corrected step number, so that correction of the first step number is associated with a carrying position of each electronic device, and step counting accuracy of the first electronic device at different carrying positions may be further improved.

Optionally, the step number correction unit is specifically configured to:

Here, when the error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are the same, the step counting apparatus 200 may directly use the average value of the first step number and the N second step numbers as the first corrected step number, thereby ensuring the step counting accuracy of the first electronic device and improving the efficiency of step counting correction of the first electronic device.

Optionally, the step number correcting unit includes:

the device determining subunit is configured to determine, in the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices, a target electronic device and i electronic devices when error categories of the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices are different, where accuracy of the error category of the target electronic device is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, accuracy of the error category of each of the i electronic devices is smaller than the preset threshold, and i is a positive integer smaller than or equal to N;

the first syndrome unit is used for correcting the statistical step numbers of the i pieces of electronic equipment respectively based on the statistical step number of the target electronic equipment to obtain i second corrected step numbers, wherein the statistical step number is the step number counted by the target step counting model in the target step counting period;

a second correction subunit, configured to use an average value of the i second correction steps and statistical steps of j electronic devices as a first correction step, where the j electronic devices are: the electronic devices other than the i electronic devices among the first electronic device and the N second electronic devices.

Here, in the case where there are a target electronic device having an error category accuracy rate greater than or equal to a preset threshold value and i electronic devices having an error category accuracy rate less than the preset threshold value, the step number counting apparatus 200 corrects the step number counted by the electronic device having an error category accuracy rate less than the preset threshold value, and then takes an average value of the step number counted by the electronic device having an error category accuracy rate greater than or equal to the preset threshold value and the corrected step number of the i electronic devices as the first corrected step number, so that the accuracy of the first corrected step number can be further improved, and the accuracy of the first electronic device in counting steps can be further improved.

The step counting device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in a terminal. The device can be mobile electronic equipment or non-mobile electronic equipment. By way of example, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine or a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not particularly limited.

The step counting device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and embodiments of the present application are not limited specifically.

The device for counting the number of steps provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented in the embodiment of the method in fig. 1, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 3, an electronic device 300 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, where the electronic device is a first electronic device in the method embodiment of fig. 1, and the electronic device 300 includes a processor 301, a memory 302, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 302 and capable of running on the processor 301, and when the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 301, the process of the step counting method embodiment is implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and details are not repeated here to avoid repetition.

It should be noted that the first electronic device in the embodiment of the present application includes the mobile electronic device and the non-mobile electronic device described above.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application. The electronic device 400 is a first electronic device in the method embodiment of fig. 1, and the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user.

The electronic device 400 includes, but is not limited to: radio unit 401, network module 402, audio output unit 403, input unit 404, sensor 405, display unit 406, user input unit 407, interface unit 408, memory 409, and processor 410.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 400 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 410 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 4 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description is omitted here.

Wherein, the processor 410 is configured to:

Here, the electronic device 400 generates a first corrected step number according to the first step number counted by the electronic device in the target step counting period and N second step numbers counted by N second electronic devices in the target step counting period, and updates the first step number to the first corrected step number, so that, according to the embodiment of the present application, the electronic device 400 can correct the step number counted by itself through the step numbers counted by a plurality of electronic devices carried by the user in the exercise process, thereby reducing the possibility of deviation in step counting of the electronic device 400, and further improving the accuracy of step counting of the electronic device 400.

Optionally, the processor 410 is specifically configured to:

Here, the electronic device 400 may correct the first step number according to a comparison result between a sum of absolute values of deviations of the first step number and the N second step numbers and a preset threshold, and a correction manner corresponding to the comparison result, so that different correction manners may be adopted to correct the comparison result when the comparison result is different, and accuracy of step counting of the electronic device 400 in different scenes is improved.

Optionally, the processor 410 is specifically configured to:

Here, in a case where the fluctuation between the number of steps counted by the electronic device 400 and the number of steps counted by the N second electronic devices carried by the user is small, the electronic device 400 directly takes the average value of the number of steps counted by the electronic device 400 and the number of steps counted by the N second electronic devices, respectively, as the corrected number of steps of the first number of steps, so that not only the possibility of occurrence of a step counting deviation in the electronic device 400 can be reduced, but also the efficiency of the electronic device 400 in correcting the step counting can be improved.

Here, the electronic apparatus 400 and the N second electronic apparatuses are provided with the same step-counting model (i.e., the target step-counting model), so that the accuracy of counting steps by the electronic apparatus 400 can be further improved.

Optionally, under the condition that the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model, the processor 410 is specifically configured to:

Here, in the case where the electronic device 400 and the N second electronic devices are configured with the above-described target step counting model, the electronic device 400 may determine a target correction manner according to error categories of the electronic device and the N second electronic devices, and correct the first step number based on the first step number and the N second step numbers according to the target correction manner to obtain a first corrected step number, so that correction of the first step number is associated with a carrying position of each electronic device, and the step counting accuracy of the electronic device 400 in different carrying positions may be further improved.

Optionally, the processor 410 is specifically configured to:

Here, when the error categories of the electronic device 400 and the N second electronic devices are the same, the electronic device 400 may directly use the average value of the first step number and the N second step numbers as the first correction step number, so that the step counting accuracy of the electronic device 400 may be ensured, and the efficiency of step counting correction of the electronic device 400 may be improved.

Optionally, the processor 410 is specifically configured to:

Here, in the electronic device 400 and the N second electronic devices, when there are a target electronic device having an error category accuracy greater than or equal to a preset threshold and i electronic devices having an error category accuracy smaller than the preset threshold, the electronic device 400 corrects the step count counted by the electronic device having an error category accuracy smaller than the preset threshold, and then uses an average value of the step count counted by the electronic device having an error category accuracy greater than or equal to the preset threshold and the correction step count of the i electronic devices as the first correction step count, so that the accuracy of the first correction step count can be further improved, and further the accuracy of counting steps by the electronic device 400 is improved.

It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 404 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 4041 and a microphone 4042, and the Graphics processor 4041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 406 may include a display panel 4061, and the display panel 4061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 407 includes a touch panel 4071 and other input devices 4072. A touch panel 4071, also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 4071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 4072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 409 may be used to store software programs as well as various data including, but not limited to, application programs and an operating system. The processor 410 may integrate an application processor, which primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc., and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 410.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implements each process of the method for counting the number of steps, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The processor is the processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and so on.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction to implement each process of the method for counting steps, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip, system-on-chip or system-on-chip, etc.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Further, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order illustrated or discussed, but may include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the functions involved, e.g., the methods described may be performed in an order different than that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A step counting method is applied to a first electronic device, wherein the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, and the method comprises the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating a first corrected number of steps based on the first number of steps and N of the second numbers of steps comprises:

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said correcting the first step number in a correction manner corresponding to the comparison result to obtain a first corrected step number comprises:

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein, in a case where the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model, the correcting the first step number in a correction manner corresponding to the comparison result to obtain a first corrected step number includes:

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said correcting the first number of steps in a target correction manner based on the first number of steps and N second numbers of steps to obtain a first number of correction steps comprises:

6. An apparatus for counting steps, applied to a first electronic device, where the first electronic device is any one of a plurality of electronic devices carried by a user, the apparatus comprising:

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the step number correction module comprises:

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the step number correction submodule is specifically configured to:

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein in the case that the first step number and the N second step numbers are both the step numbers counted by the target step counting model, the step number correction submodule comprises:

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the step number correction unit comprises:

11. An electronic device comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method of correcting step statistics according to any one of claims 1-5.