Systems and methods for fitness and video games

• US 10,493,364 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2018
• Issued: 12/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dugan Health, LLC
• Original Assignee: Dugan Health, LLC
• Inventors: Dugan, Brian M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yoo, Jasson H
• Application Number:
  US16/181,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20190070511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/00 Measuring physiological parameters of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/216 using geographical information, e.g. location of the game device or player using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/332 using wireless networks, e.g. cellular phone networks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/816 Athletics, e.g. track-and-field sports
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/535 for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5546 using player registration data, e.g. identification, account, preferences, game history
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5553 user representation in the game field, e.g. avatar
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

In some aspects, an application is provided that is adapted to execute on at least a first mobile device. The application is adapted to (a) track information regarding a user of the mobile device; (b) create an avatar based on the tracked information; and (c) employ the avatar to provide pre-emptive warnings to assist in avoidance of unwanted behavior by the user. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a mobile device of a user; and

one or more biometric sensors configured to measure biometric data of the user, the one or more biometric sensors operative to communicate measured biometric data to the mobile device of the user, the mobile device of the user operative via a mobile application executing on the mobile device to;

collect first information provided by or about the user, the first information including information about a smoking habit;

collect second information about the user from the one or more biometric sensors;

determine at least one stimulus that is a trigger for engaging in the smoking habit based on the first and second collected information;

communicate a warning to the user to guide future health of the user via an avatar upon recognizing the at least one stimulus based on further second information; and

display visual information to the user indicating degraded life expectancy of the user including the avatar representing a degraded appearance of the user followed by one or more recommended activities to be performed in place of smoking.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more biometric sensors includes at least two biometric sensors that together are configured to monitor two or more of heart rate, perspiration and acceleration.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the first information includes food intake information for the user and wherein the mobile device is operative to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the first information includes travel information for the user and wherein the mobile device is operative to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to track travel of the user using GPS.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to track travel of the user by monitoring internet searches performed by the user on the mobile device.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first information and second information includes sleep information for the user and wherein the mobile device is operative to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the first information includes relationship information of the user and wherein the mobile device is operative to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the mobile device is configured to obtain relationship information of the user from one or more social networking sites.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the first information includes spending of the user and wherein the mobile device is operative to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the mobile device is configured to track spending of the user by tracking payments made using the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein the first information includes information regarding drinking habits of the user and wherein the mobile device is operative to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein the mobile device is configured to recognize at least one stimulus experienced by the user that is a trigger of the user for engaging in a predetermined habit.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the-mobile device is configured to recognize at least one stimulus experienced by the user that is a trigger of the user for engaging in overeating.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the mobile device is configured to alert the user of an occurrence of the trigger.

16. The system of claim 1 wherein the mobile device is configured to track stress levels of the user based on measured biometric data and to obtain future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform based thereon.

17. The system of claim 1 wherein the mobile device is configured to access a calendar of the user on the mobile device, determine when the user should go to bed based on activities to be performed on a subsequent day and alert the user when to go to bed.

18. The system of claim 1 wherein the mobile device is configured to communicate a recommended future behavior by causing a calendar of the user on the mobile device to generate one or more reminders that remind the user to perform the behavior.

19. A system comprising:

a mobile device of a user; and

one or more biometric sensors configured to measure biometric data of the user, the one or more biometric sensors operative to communicate measured biometric data to the mobile device of the user, the mobile device of the user operative via a mobile application executing on the mobile device to;

collect information from the mobile device and the one or more biometric sensors, including information about the user regarding a smoking habit;

determine a stimulus that is a trigger for engaging in the smoking habit based on the collected information;

determine recommended future, health-related behaviors for the user to perform in place of smoking, the recommended future, health-related behaviors based on the collected information; and

communicate recommended future, health-related behaviors to the user in response to recognizing the stimulus to guide future health of the user, including accessing a calendar of the user on the mobile device and generating one or more reminders that remind the user to perform the recommended future, health-related behaviors, the reminders including an avatar representing a degraded appearance of the user with each cigarette smoked; and

display visual information to the user indicating life expectancy of the user wherein the visual information is updated based on further collected information.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the mobile device is configured to access the calendar of the user on the mobile device, determine when the user should go to bed based on activities to be performed on a subsequent day and alert the user when to go to bed.