| CPC G01P 15/08 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4504 (2013.01); A61B 5/7235 (2013.01); G01P 13/00 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method for measuring movement of a user with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) comprising:
determining, with a plurality of accelerometers in the IMU, a plurality of high bit-rate acceleration data in response to a movement by the user;
determining, with a processor in the IMU, a plurality of low bit-rate acceleration data in response to the plurality of acceleration data;
computing, with the processor in the IMU, a plurality of gravity vector data in response to the plurality of low bit-rate acceleration data;
computing, with the processor in the IMU, a plurality of jerk data in response to the plurality of high bit-rate acceleration data; and
outputting, with the IMU, the plurality of gravity vector data and the plurality of jerk data to an external processing unit.
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