MANAGING PHYSIOLOGICAL EXERCISE DATA

• US 20150196801A1
• Filed: 01/16/2014
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
• Original Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
• Inventors: Erkkila, Mika, Rae, Riikka, Thurlin, Tomi, Korva, Tuomo, Manninen, Tony
• Granted Patent: US 9,855,463 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0619 Displays, user interfaces and indicating devices, specially adapted for sport equipment, e.g. display mounted on treadmills
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A method includes acquiring physiological exercise data from a plurality of physiological exercise sensors applied by a group of exercisers; determining a performance metric for each exerciser on the basis of the acquired physiological exercise data; detecting whether or not a predetermined common target is met on the basis of the performance metrics; and triggering an event upon detecting that the predetermined common target is met.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising;

acquiring physiological exercise data from a plurality of physiological exercise sensors applied by a group of exercisers;

determining a performance metric for each exerciser on the basis of the acquired physiological exercise data;

detecting whether or not a predetermined common target is met on the basis of the performance metrics; and

triggering an event upon detecting that the predetermined common target is met.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

detecting whether or not each of the performance metrics fulfills the predetermined common target simultaneously; and

triggering the event upon detecting that the predetermined common target is met by each of the performance metrics simultaneously.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

averaging the performance metrics of the exercisers;

detecting whether or not the averaged performance metric fulfills the predetermined common target; and

triggering the event upon detecting that the predetermined common target is met by the averaged performance metric.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein there is a plurality of different common targets, and wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further perform operations comprising:

triggering different events upon meeting different common targets.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

measuring the accumulated time during which the predetermined common target is met; and

upon detecting that the accumulated time fulfills a predetermined duration threshold, trigger a second event.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined common target requires that the value of the performance metric is required to be within a common target performance zone.

7. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the common target performance zone is defined on the basis of the performance metric of one of the following:

a plurality of members of the group, an individual member of the group, an instructor of the group.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the performance metric represents at least one of the following:

heart activity, distance elapsed, pedalling speed, power output of a used exercise device, cadence, energy consumption rate, consumed energy, training effect, skin temperature, pedal index, left-right balance, running index, fluid balance, blood pressure.

9. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is operatively coupled to a display, and wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

changing the view of the display when the event is triggered.

10. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, from each of the physiological exercise sensors, information indicating a user account corresponding to the exerciser applying the physiological exercise sensor, wherein the user account is located in a predetermined server in the network; and

causing a storage of the acquired physiological exercise data in the indicated user account.

11. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a server computer, and wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

providing a web service to a client device;

receiving the physiological exercise data via a network from the web service of the client device; and

transmit a command to a display control unit of the client device via the network, wherein the display control unit is, as a response to the command, configured to cause the event to be activated on the display viewable by the exercisers.

12. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus further to perform operations comprising:

determining at least one of the following on the basis of the physiological exercise data;

which exerciser has the greatest variation of the performance metric during the training session, which exerciser has the fastest recovery with respect to the performance metric, which exerciser meets the predetermined common target longest, which two exercisers have the most similar behaviour of the performance metrics; and

outputting an identifier of the determined exerciser or exercisers via the display.

13. A method, comprising:

acquiring physiological exercise data from a plurality of physiological exercise sensors applied by a group of exercisers;

determining a performance metric for each exerciser on the basis of the acquired physiological exercise data;

detecting whether or not a predetermined common target is met on the basis of the performance metrics; and

triggering an event upon detecting that the predetermined common target is met.

14. A computer program product embodied on a distribution medium readable by a computer and comprising program instructions which, when loaded into an apparatus, cause the apparatus to execute a method comprising:

acquiring physiological exercise data from a plurality of physiological exercise sensors applied by a group of exercisers;

determining a performance metric for each exerciser on the basis of the acquired physiological exercise data;

detecting whether or not a predetermined common target is met on the basis of the performance metrics; and

triggering an event upon detecting that the predetermined common target is met.