Athletic performance monitoring system and method
First Claim
1. An athletic monitoring system, comprising:
- a music file player operable to store and play a music file;
a wireless transceiver communicatively coupled to the music file player and operable to receive a wireless communication from a motion sensor located remote from the music file player, wherein the wireless communication includes information about a step of a user;
a pedometer element operable to utilize the information about the step to generate a performance metric;
a performance engine operable to provide the user with an indication of the performance metric, wherein the indication comprises an audible message; and
an audio output mechanism operable to simultaneously output a song represented by the music file and the audible message.
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Abstract
An athletic performance monitoring system and method are disclosed that assist a user in monitoring an athletic endeavor. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a local area wireless transceiver capable of receiving a signal from a motion sensor. A performance engine may be communicatively coupled to the local area wireless transceiver. In operation, the performance engine may utilize the signal from the motion sensor to generate a performance metric like average speed or distance traveled. The system may also include an output mechanism such as an audio device capable of presenting the performance metric to a user in an audible message while also being capable of playing an audio representation of music to the user.
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29 Claims
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1. An athletic monitoring system, comprising:
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a music file player operable to store and play a music file;
a wireless transceiver communicatively coupled to the music file player and operable to receive a wireless communication from a motion sensor located remote from the music file player, wherein the wireless communication includes information about a step of a user;
a pedometer element operable to utilize the information about the step to generate a performance metric;
a performance engine operable to provide the user with an indication of the performance metric, wherein the indication comprises an audible message; and
an audio output mechanism operable to simultaneously output a song represented by the music file and the audible message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A performance tracking method, comprising:
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(a) receiving an input from a user indicating a desire to begin playing an audio file;
(b) outputting an audio signal to a speaker assembly in response to the input;
(c) receiving a local area wireless signal from a sensor comprising information associated with a step of the user;
(d) generating a performance metric from the local area wireless signal; and
(e) communicating an audible message comprising the performance metric to the user via the speaker assembly while continuing to output the audio signal. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A performance monitoring system, comprising:
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a music file player having a performance engine and an RF input device, the RF input device operable to receive a motion signal representing movement of a human body part and the performance engine operable to generate a performance metric in response to receipt of the motion signal; and
an output device for the music file player operable to output a signal to a speaker assembly, the signal representing an audible representation of a played music file and a spoken reporting of the performance metric. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A performance monitoring method, comprising:
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receiving an accumulation of athletic performance information from a music file player having a performance engine and an RF input device, the RF input device operable to receive a motion signal representing movement of a human body part and the performance engine operable to generate at least a portion of the accumulation in response to receipt of the motion signal; and
incorporating a representation of the accumulation within a graphical display accessible at a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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