WALKING CONDITION DETERMINING DEVICE AND METHOD

摘要

A device and a method for easily and correctly determining a walking condition irrespective of a difference in a floor touching place at a sole of a walker or the size of legs. A measuring means 12 of this device 1 measures a parameter indicating the displacement speed or the displacement acceleration of a lower leg end part of the walker with respect to that of the other lower leg end part. A first storage means 111 stores and keeps the pattern of the plot in a determination space corresponding to the parameter and the walking condition of the walker in a conjunction with each other. In addition, a generating means 13 generates the plot identified by the parameter measured by a measuring means 11 in the determination space. A determining means 14 determines the walking condition of the walker based on the pattern of the plot stored and kept by the first storage means 111 in conjunction with the walking condition and the pattern of the plot generated by the generating means 13.