ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT FITNESS GAMING SYSTEM

• US 20150120023A1
• Filed: 10/28/2014
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James Richard Terrell, II
• Original Assignee: James Richard Terrell, II
• Inventors: TERRELL, James Richard II
• Application Number:
  US14/526,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20150120023A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/91
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/46 Computing the game score
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/61 using advertising information
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/816 Athletics, e.g. track-and-field sports

Abstract

A method for correlating fitness workouts to entertainment content includes providing a workout game corresponding to entertainment content presented to a user, receiving information corresponding to an entertainment content segment viewed or otherwise consumed by the user, receiving information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment. The workout game includes a plurality of cues, and each cue of the plurality of cues corresponds to a workout move to be performed by the user. The method further includes identifying a plurality of events in the entertainment content segment, wherein each event of the plurality of events corresponds to a particular cue of the plurality of cues, and correlating the plurality of cues with the information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment.

Claims

1. A method for correlating fitness workouts to entertainment content, comprising:

providing a workout game corresponding to entertainment content presented to a user, wherein the workout game comprises a plurality of cues, and each cue of the plurality of cues corresponds to a workout move to be performed by the user;

receiving first information, the first information corresponding to an entertainment content segment viewed or otherwise consumed by the user;

receiving second information, the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment;

identifying, at a workout manager, a plurality of events in the entertainment content segment, wherein each event of the plurality of events corresponds to a particular cue of the plurality of cues; and

correlating, at the workout manager, the plurality of cues with the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the entertainment content segment comprises an audio or video segment from a television show, a televised sporting event, a radio broadcast, a video game, a social network hangout, or a podcast.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the plurality of events in the entertainment content segment comprises at least one of manually identifying the events, using crowd-sourced identification of events by correlating recorded workout moves for multiple users of the entertainment content segment, or automatically identifying the events using a classifier.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a plurality of workout moves performed by the user using the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising correlating the plurality of workout moves with advertising segments in the entertainment content segment.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein correlating the plurality of cues with the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment comprises applying an alignment algorithm that searches for the closest match between the plurality of cues and the plurality of workout moves performed by the user.

7. A system for correlating fitness workouts to entertainment content, comprising:

at least one computer including at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one computer configured to;

provide a workout game corresponding to entertainment content presented to a user, wherein the workout game comprises a plurality of cues, and each cue of the plurality of cues corresponds to a workout move to be performed by the user,

receive first information, the first information corresponding to an entertainment content segment viewed or otherwise consumed by the user,

receive second information, the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment,

identify a plurality of events in the entertainment content segment, wherein each event of the plurality of events corresponds to a particular cue of the plurality of cues,

identify a plurality of workout moves performed by the user using the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment, and

associate each cue of the plurality of cues with a workout move of the plurality of workout moves.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one computer is further configured to calculate a workout game score using at least one of a comparison of each cue of the plurality of cues with the associated workout move of the plurality of workout moves, or a workout intensity determined using the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one computer is further configured to compute a team score using workout game scores for a plurality of users.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one computer is further configured to compute a first team score using workout game scores for a first plurality of users and compute a second team score using workout game scores for a second plurality of users, wherein the first plurality of users performs physical activity during a first shift and the second plurality of users performs physical activity during a second shift.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one computer is further configured to present an award to the user based at least on part on the workout game score.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one computer is further configured to present a comparison of the workout game score to a previous workout game score.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one computer is further configured to cause audio to be presented to the user to instruct the user to perform workout moves.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform actions comprising:

providing a workout game corresponding to entertainment content presented to a user, wherein the workout game comprises a plurality of cues, and each cue of the plurality of cues corresponds to a workout move to be performed by the user;

receiving first information identifying a plurality of events in an entertainment content segment viewed or otherwise consumed by the user, wherein each event of the plurality of events corresponds to a particular cue of the plurality of cues;

receiving second information, the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment; and

correlating the plurality of cues with the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment comprises heart rate information, one or more images, or one or more videos.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment comprises heart rate recovery information.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment comprises manual indications provided by the user.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the actions further comprise:

receiving third information, the third information corresponding to a location of the user; and

using the third information corresponding to the location of the user to compute a workout game score or to determine if the user was present during presentation of an advertisement.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the third information corresponding to a location of the user includes video or audio captured by a user device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the actions further comprise:

generating game summary information based on results of correlating the plurality of cues with the second information corresponding to physical activity of the user while consuming the entertainment content segment; and

causing the game summary information to be published on a social networking website.