Patent ID: 7297088

Claim:
An electronic pedometer comprising: walk detecting means having a walk sensor mountable on a user's body for outputting a walk signal corresponding to a walk of a user detected by the walk sensor; and counting means for counting the number of steps based on the walk signal from the walk detecting means by counting each signal within a first reference cycle range of signals from the walk detecting means as the number of steps for one step, and counting a predetermined number of signals as a predetermined number of steps when the predetermined number of signals each within a second reference cycle range of the signals each beyond the first reference cycle range are continuously outputted from the walk detecting means, the counting means comprising first cycle judging means for judging whether or not each signal from the walk detecting means is a signal within the first reference cycle range, second cycle judging means for judging whether or not each signal judged to be beyond the first reference cycle by the first cycle judging means among the signals from the walk detecting means is a signal within the second reference cycle range, and step number counting means for counting each signal judged to be a signal within the first reference cycle range by the first reference cycle judging means among the signals from the walk detecting means as the number of steps for one step, and for, when the second reference cycle judging means judges that a predetermined number of signals each within the second reference cycle range are continuously outputted from the walk detecting means, counting the predetermined number of signals thus continuously outputted as the predetermined number of steps.