Method and apparatus for providing personalised audio-visual instruction
First Claim
1. A method of providing a personalized audio-visual instructional aid for assisting a person to emulate preferred positions and/or movements in undertaking an activity, said method including the steps of capturing position and/or movement data of said person or part of said person or an object associated with and controlled by said person whilst said person undertakes said activity using position and/or movement sensing means attached to or worn by said person or attached to said object, analyzing and comparing said captured data with pre-stored data relating to a preferred positions and/or movement in undertaking said activity, generating a visual presentation based on the differences between the captured position and/or movement of said person or object and said preferred positions and/or movement and adding to said generated visual presentation, audio instructional comments relating to said differences to assist a person to emulate said preferred positions and/or movement.
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Abstract
A method of and apparatus (10) for providing a personalized audio-visual instructional aid for assisting a person (11) to emulate preferred positions and/or movements in undertaking an activity by capturing position and/or movement data of the person (11) or an object associated with and controlled by the person undertaking the activity using position and/or movement sensing devices such as MEMS sensors (13) on the person (11) or object and using a computer (16) to analyze and compare the captured data with pre-stored data relating to preferred positions and/or movement in undertaking the activity and generating a visual presentation (19) based on the differences between the captured position and/or movement of the person or object and the preferred positions and/or movement and adding to the generated visual presentation, audio instructional comments relating to the differences.
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25 Claims
- 1. A method of providing a personalized audio-visual instructional aid for assisting a person to emulate preferred positions and/or movements in undertaking an activity, said method including the steps of capturing position and/or movement data of said person or part of said person or an object associated with and controlled by said person whilst said person undertakes said activity using position and/or movement sensing means attached to or worn by said person or attached to said object, analyzing and comparing said captured data with pre-stored data relating to a preferred positions and/or movement in undertaking said activity, generating a visual presentation based on the differences between the captured position and/or movement of said person or object and said preferred positions and/or movement and adding to said generated visual presentation, audio instructional comments relating to said differences to assist a person to emulate said preferred positions and/or movement.
- 14. Apparatus for providing a personalized audio-visual instructional aid for assisting a person to emulate a preferred movement during an activity, said apparatus including position and/or movement sensing means adapted to be attached to or worn by said person or part of said person or attached to an object associated with and controlled by said person for capturing position and/or movement data of said person or object whilst said person undertakes said activity, means for analyzing and comparing said captured t data with pre-stored data relating to preferred positions and/or movement in undertaking said activity, means for generating a visual presentation based on the differences between the captured positions and/or movement of said person or object and said preferred positions and/or movements, and means for adding to said generated visual presentation, audio instructional comments relating to said differences to assist a person to emulate said preferred positions and/or movements.
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25. A method for providing a personalized audio-visual instructional aid for assisting a person to emulate preferred actions in undertaking an activity in relation to an object controlled by said person, said method including the steps of capturing position and/or movement data of said object whilst said person undertakes said activity using position and/or movement sensing means on said object, analyzing and comparing said captured data with data of preferred positions and/or movements in relation to said activity, generating a visual presentation based on the differences between the captured positions and/or movements of said object and said preferred positions and/or movements and adding to said generated visual presentation, audio instructional comments relating to said differences to assist a person to emulate said preferred actions in said activity.
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