Patent ID: 7503476

Claim:
A pedometer comprising: a handheld housing; a set of input controls disposed on the housing for manually inputting a fixed numerical value for each of a user's height, weight, and stride length, and for a desired exercise time interval; a memory unit disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the input controls for storing the fixed numerical values; a timer disposed within the housing for measuring time elapsed; a step counter disposed within the housing for measuring total number of steps by the user during the time elapsed after start of exercise; a microprocessor disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the memory unit, the timer, and the step counter, the microprocessor being configured to receive the inputted numerical values therefrom, the time elapsed after start of exercise, and the total number of steps by the user, wherein the microprocessor is programmed and limited to selectively calculate a linear ambulatory distance traveled by the user during the time elapsed after start of exercise solely from the inputted fixed numerical value of the user's stride length and the total number of steps, total calories burned by the user during the time elapsed after start of exercise solely from the inputted fixed numerical value of the user's weight and the total number of steps, and remaining time for exercise solely from the inputted fixed numerical value of the desired exercise time interval and the time elapsed after start of exercise; and a power supply disposed within the housing for supplying power to the input controls, the memory unit, the timer, the step counter, and the microprocessor.