ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

• US 20160151673A1
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ASICS Corporation, Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: ASICS Corporation, Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Shinayama, Ryota, Tagawa, Takehiro, Sugai, Yoshinori
• Granted Patent: US 10,046,201 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0078 Exercise efforts programmed as a function of time
• 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 24/0075 Means for generating exercise programs or schemes, e.g. computerized virtual trainer, e.g. using expert databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/22 in connection with sports or games
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes: a control unit that, in an interval training in which a high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise are repeated, calculates one or both of a high intensity exercise time for performing the high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise time for performing the low intensity exercise based on input time information.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a control unit that, in an interval training in which a high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise are repeated, calculates one or both of a high intensity exercise time for performing the high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise time for performing the low intensity exercise based on input time information.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit uses, as the time information, the best record when a user runs a predetermined distance or a time requested by the user and calculates one or both of the high intensity exercise time and the low intensity exercise time.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the control unit calculates, based on the time information, a running level that is an index of running and calculates the high intensity exercise time based on the calculated running level.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, comprising:

a first storage unit that stores first information in which the running level is associated with the high intensity exercise time; and

a second storage unit that stores second information in which the time information is associated with the low intensity exercise time, wherein

the control unit calculates the high intensity exercise time based on the calculated running level and the first information and calculates the low intensity exercise time based on the time information and the second information.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 or wherein

the control unit calculates the running level based on the time information and an input gender of the user.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the control unit calculates the high intensity exercise time based on the running level and an input number of repetitions of the high intensity exercise and the low intensity exercise.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

a relationship between the high intensity exercise time and the number of repetitions in each running level is approximated by two or more formulas of straight lines.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the control unit detects that a setting of the input number of repetitions is switched and recalculates the high intensity exercise time in response to the detected result.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the control unit detects that a setting of the input time information is switched and recalculates the low intensity exercise time, the running level, and the high intensity exercise time in response to the detected result.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the control unit detects that a setting of the input gender of the user is switched and recalculates the running level and the high intensity exercise time in response to the detected result.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 connected via a network to a terminal used by a user, the electronic apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires, via the network, the time information input through the terminal; and

a transmission unit that transmits, to the terminal, one or both of the high intensity exercise time and the low intensity exercise time calculated by the control unit, wherein

the control unit calculates one or both of the high intensity exercise time and the low intensity exercise time based on the time information acquired by the acquisition unit.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

an input unit to which the time information is input; and

a display unit that displays a result calculated by the control unit, wherein

the control unit calculates one or both of the high intensity exercise time and the low intensity exercise time based on the time information input through the input unit.

13. A program for causing a computer of an electronic apparatus to execute:

in an interval training in which a high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise are repeated, calculating one or both of a high intensity exercise time for performing the high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise time for performing the low intensity exercise based on input time information.