Dance training method and system using sensor-equipped shoes and portable wireless terminal

• US 20070231778A1
• Filed: 02/09/2007
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jong Hyun, Hong, Hyun Su
• Application Number:
  US11/704,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20070231778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/250
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0012 Comparing movements or motion sequences with a registered reference
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/063 Spoken or verbal instructions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/30 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/36 Speed measurement by electric or magnetic parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/836 Sensors arranged on the body of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2244/22 Dancing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00

Abstract

Provided are a method and a system for providing dance training by using a portable wireless terminal in communication with sensor-equipped shoes capable of sensing a user'"'"'s foot motion. While the terminal executes a dance training program having step information, sensing modules embedded in the shoes sense a user'"'"'s foot motion and transmits related data to the terminal through a short-distance wireless communication unit. Then the terminal compares the foot motion data with the step information and outputs comparison results by using a display unit and/or an audio unit.

Claims

1. A dance training method using a foot motion sensing module and a portable wireless terminal, the method comprising:

executing a dance training program including step information stored in the portable wireless terminal;

sensing foot motion data by the foot motion sensing module;

transmitting the sensed data from the foot motion sensing module to the portable wireless terminal;

comparing the foot motion data with the step information of the dance training program stored in the portable wireless terminal; and

outputting results of the comparing in the portable wireless terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step information includes an order of dance steps and locations of feet in each step.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the foot motion data includes locations of feet and an order of dance steps.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dance training program includes at least one of a dance item selection, an exhibition dance preview, a partial dance exercise, by stage, and a complete dance exercise.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after the executing of the dance training program, executing a partial dance exercise, by stage, in the portable wireless terminal; and

transmitting a request for the sensing of the foot motion from the portable wireless terminal to the foot motion sensing module.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the sensed data is executed via a short-distance wireless communication unit of the foot motion sensing module.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing of the foot motion data with the step information includes receiving data through a short-distance wireless communication unit of the portable wireless terminal, and extracting the foot motion data from the received data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing of the foot motion data with the step information includes comparing a location of a foot by same step in the dance training program.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the outputting of the comparing results includes simultaneously showing the foot motion data and the step information in different types of image on a display unit of the portable wireless terminal.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the outputting of the comparing results includes informing of the comparing results in a voice or a sound via an audio unit of the portable wireless terminal.

11. A dance training system comprising:

a foot motion sensing module perceiving a foot motion and transmitting data of the foot motion; and

a portable wireless terminal executing a dance training program including step information, receiving the foot motion data from the foot motion sensing module, comparing the foot motion data with the step information, and outputting results of the comparing.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the foot motion sensing module includes a sensor unit perceiving the foot motion and calculating therefrom the foot motion data, and a short-distance wireless communication unit transmitting the foot motion data to the portable wireless terminal.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the sensor unit includes at least one of a geomagnetic sensor, an accelerometer and a gyroscope.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the portable wireless terminal includes a short-distance wireless communication unit receiving data, a foot motion perception unit extracting the foot motion data from the received data, a comparator comparing the foot motion data with the step information, and an output unit outputting the comparing results.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the output unit includes a display unit and an audio unit.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the foot motion sensing module is embedded in a shoe.

17. A portable terminal for display of a dance training program, the terminal comprising:

a short distance wireless communication unit for communicating with first and second sensing modules respectively embedded in right and left shoes of a user of the dance training program;

a memory storing the dance training program;

a controller for comparing foot motion data received from the sensing modules with step information of the dance training program; and

a display for outputting results of the comparing, wherein the foot motion data and step information are simultaneously displayed.