Musical personal trainer

• US 20060111621A1
• Filed: 11/03/2005
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Plain Sight Systems Incorporated (Water Intelligence Plc)
• Original Assignee: Plain Sight Systems Incorporated (Water Intelligence Plc)
• Inventors: Coppi, Andreas, Fateley, William G., Berger, Jonathan, Geshwind, Frank, Coifman, Ronald R.
• Application Number:
  US11/267,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20060111621A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/222 combined with detection or measurement of physiological parameters, e.g. heart rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/00 Measuring physiological parameters of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0091 Means for obtaining special acoustic effects combined with modulation G10H1/043
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/40 Rhythm
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/076 for extraction of timing, tempo; Beat detection
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/155 Musical effects
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/385 Speed change, i.e. variations from preestablished tempo, tempo change, e.g. faster or slower, accelerando or ritardando, without change in pitch
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/351 Environmental parameters, e.g. temperature, ambient light, atmospheric pressure, humidity, used as input for musical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/371 Vital parameter control, i.e. musical instrument control based on body signals, e.g. brainwaves, pulsation, temperature or perspiration; Biometric information
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/395 Acceleration sensing or accelerometer use, e.g. 3D movement computation by integration of accelerometer data, angle sensing with respect to the vertical, i.e. gravity sensing
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/056 MIDI or other note-oriented file format
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/081 Genre classification, i.e. descriptive metadata for classification or selection of musical pieces according to style
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/085 Mood, i.e. generation, detection or selection of a particular emotional content or atmosphere in a musical piece
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/435 Gensound percussion, i.e. generating or synthesising the sound of a percussion instrument; Control of specific aspects of percussion sounds, e.g. harmonics, under the influence of hitting force, hitting position, settings or striking instruments such as mallet, drumstick, brush or hand
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 5/007 Real-time simulation of G10B, G10C, G10D-type instruments using recursive or non-linear techniques, e.g. waveguide networks, recursive algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs

Abstract

Systems and methods for sonification, user influence through sound, and biofeedback, sonification of motion and physiological parameters during physical exercise and the use of music and sound in order to influence the emotional, psychological and physiological state of an exerciser, and the use of sonification and influence in a feedback loop to create a particular exercise experience for a user. A digital music player comprises physiological sensors, a controller, a user interface, a music decoder, a music playback modulator, and an audio data store. The user interface allows a user to specify target values for the physiological sensors as a function of time, the controller selects a playlist of audio data based on the target values, the music decoder decodes the audio data in a sequence corresponding to the playlist, and the music playback modulator causes the sequence and/or the decoding to be modified according to the values of the physiological sensor.

Claims

1. A digital music player comprising:

a physiological sensor;

a controller;

a user interface;

a music decoder;

a music playback modulator; and

an audio data store; and

wherein said user interface allows a user to specify target values for said physiological sensor as a function of time for at least one value of time;

wherein said controller selects a playlist of audio data stored in said audio data store based at least in part on said target values;

wherein said music decoder decodes said audio data in a sequence wherein said sequence corresponds to said playlist; and

wherein said music playback modulator causes said sequence or said decoding to be modified according to the values of said physiological sensor.

2. The digital music player of claim 1, wherein said modification of said sequence of said decoding comprises the evaluation of diffusion coordinates of said audio data.