Personal fitness system

• US 20060040244A1
• Filed: 08/19/2004
• Published: 02/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meira Kain
• Original Assignee: Meira Kain
• Inventors: Kain, Meira
• Application Number:
  US10/921,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20060040244A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/247
• 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: G09B 9/00 Simulators for teaching or training purposes for the use of weapons F41; computing aspects G06; protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

A method for operating a physical fitness program, including providing an animated database containing graphical images of a physical fitness program, at least some of the graphical images including animated characters, and creating a sequence of the graphical images in accordance with real-time interaction with a user as a function of user preferences and capabilities. Audio content may be created along with the sequence of graphical images. The sequence of the graphical images may be displayed on a display screen, or may be recorded on a recording medium.

Claims

1. A method for operating a physical fitness program, comprising:

providing an animated database containing graphical images of a physical fitness program, at least some of the graphical images comprising animated characters; and

creating a sequence of said graphical images in accordance with real-time interaction with a user as a function of user preferences and capabilities.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising creating audio content along with said sequence of graphical images.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying the sequence of said graphical images on a display screen.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising recording the sequence of said graphical images on a recording medium.

5. The method according to claim 2, further comprising interactively modifying at least one of the sequence of said graphical images and the audio content.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the modifying comprises at least one of choosing language of the audio content, music, animated characters, graphic settings and audio settings.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sequence of said graphical images is created by analyzing and taking into consideration at least one of user'"'"'s health and fitness levels, individual preferences, habits, available equipment and goal.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the sequence of said graphical images comprises displaying how a physical fitness movement is accomplished correctly.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the physical fitness movement is displayed with skeletal and muscle graphics.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein the audio content comprises verbal instructions how a physical fitness movement is accomplished correctly.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising interactively evaluating performance of a user performing the physical fitness program.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said evaluating is based on monitoring and sensing with a biosensor.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising psychologically motivating a user to adopt new health and fitness habits by rewarding the user with a reward.