Patent ID: 7246033

Claim:
An attachable pet pedometer, for measuring a number of steps and distance traveled by a walking and running pet, comprising: a three-axes accelerometer; at least one amplifier wherein the amplifier amplifies analog output from the three-axes accelerometer; at least one analog-to-digital converter wherein the amplified analog signals are converted to digital signals; at least one central processing unit; at least one solid state digital memory device; at least one display; at least one manual control wherein the central processing unit may be accessed and the display may be varied; a central processor having at least one processor program, fixed in its solid state memory device wherein digital signal information which expresses a motion of the attachable pet pedometer in three-dimensions wherein this motion may be Fourier transformed into frequency space, from time space, and the amplitudes of different frequencies for each of three-dimensions can be ranked and maximum amplitudes timed wherein this information can be expressed as a number of “steps” or maximum amplitudes encountered by the attachable pet pedometer; at least one central processing unit program, fixed in the solid state memory device, wherein the output of the three-axes accelerometer is converted to a number of steps a pet has taken and wherein the display is operated to show said number of steps taken and equivalent distance; and an attachment device wherein the pet pedometer may be attached to a pet.