DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING A PROGRESSION OF A TRAINING EXERCISE

• US 20160271448A1
• Filed: 11/07/2014
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forsching E.V.
• Original Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forsching E.V.
• Inventors: Edelhaeusser, Thorsten, Witt, Nicolas, Voelker, Matthias, Voll, David, Otto, Stephan, Bretz, Ingmar, Franke, Norbert
• Granted Patent: US 10,682,549 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2505/09 Rehabilitation or training
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1113 Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0028 Tracking the path of an object, e.g. a ball inside a soccer pitch
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0021 Tracking a path or terminating locations
• 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: G09B 19/0038 Sports
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising

Abstract

Embodiments relate to a method for automatically evaluating a progression of a training exercise, including providing a plurality of location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise and providing at least one predetermined exercise target. The plurality of location information is compared to the exercise target and a progression of the training exercise is evaluated based on the result of the comparison.

Claims

1. A method for automatically evaluating a progression of a training exercise, comprising:

Providing a plurality of location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise;

Providing at least one predetermined exercise target;

Providing at least one further piece of location information using a graphical user interface which comprises a graphical representation of an exercise area and a graphical representation of an exercise object corresponding to the at least one further piece of location information in a graphical display, wherein the further piece of location information indicates the position of an exercise object involved in the training exercise within the exercise area or a time-invariant position within the exercise area corresponding to a predetermined progression of the training exercise;

Comparing the plurality of location information to the exercise target; and

Evaluating the progression of the training exercise based on the result of the comparison, wherein providing the at least one predetermined exercise target comprises selecting at least one used determination logic for the location information from a plurality of available determination logics;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, according to the determination logic used, based on the location information a tactical parameter or a technical parameter is determined for a type of sport.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, according to the determination logic used,

based on the location information an athletic parameter is determined for at least one person involved in the training exercise.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a piece of location information for an object in each case indicates a position of the object within a predetermined exercise area.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the position is indicated by the coordinates of the object in any coordinate system associated with the training exercise.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein providing the plurality of location information comprises determining the position of the movable object within the exercise area using a position tracking system at several successive points in time.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the further location information comprises a user input of the position.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the further location information comprises determining a position of an exercise object in the exercise area using a position tracking system.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the further piece of location information comprises moving the graphical representation of the exercise object on the graphical display.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the further piece of location information comprises comparing the position of the graphical representation of the exercise object within the graphical representation of the exercise area to a position of the exercise object determined using a position tracking system within the exercise area.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the graphical representation of the exercise object is changed on the graphical display starting from a predefined initial position such that the position of the graphical representation of the exercise object within the graphical representation of the exercise area corresponds to the position of the exercise object determined using the position tracking system within the exercise area.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein changing comprises shifting the graphical representation of the exercise object relative to the graphical representation of the exercise area, a rotation of the graphical display or a scaling of the graphical display.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein an initial graphical representation of all exercise objects involved in an exercise and of the exercise area is changed such that the positions of the graphical representations of all exercise objects within the graphical representation of the exercise area correspond to the positions of all exercise objects determined using the position tracking system within the exercise area, wherein the initial graphical representation is automatically changed and the automatic changing comprises shifting the graphical representation of exercise objects relative to the graphical representation of the exercise area, a rotation of the graphical display or a scaling of the graphical display.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein a position of the exercise object within the exercise area is changed such that the position of the exercise object determined using the position tracking system within the exercise area corresponds to the position of the graphical representation of the exercise object within the graphical representation of the exercise area.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

Providing an acoustic, visual or haptic signal by the position tracking system which comprises a piece of information about a deviation between the position of the exercise object within the exercise area and the position of the graphical representation of the exercise object within the graphical representation of the exercise area.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the predetermined exercise target comprises defining parameters which are determined for the movable object based on the location information to evaluate the progression of the training exercise.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the exercise target is at least one criterion of the group of targets, comprising entering of the movable object into a predetermined sector within the exercise area, interacting of the movable object with a further object, reaching of a predetermined speed by the movable object and the location information being consistent with a predetermined sequence of location information.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein

providing the exercise target comprises defining all movable objects and all exercise objects involved in the training exercise.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein providing the exercise target comprises defining a desired interaction between the movable object and at least one further exercise object involved in the training exercise.

23. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

Storing the plurality of location information and the exercise target.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein evaluating the progression of the training exercise comprises displaying a visual illustration of the results of the comparison on a display.

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25. An analyzer for evaluating the progression of a training exercise, comprising:

An input interface configured to provide a plurality of location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise;

A storage configured to provide at least one predetermined exercise target;

A graphical user interface which comprises a graphical representation of an exercise area and a graphical representation of an exercise object corresponding to the at least one further piece of location information in a graphical display, and by means of which the further piece of location information may be provided, wherein the further piece of location information indicates the position of an exercise object involved in the training exercise within the exercise area or a time-invariant position within the exercise area corresponding to a predetermined progression of the training exercise;

A comparator configured to compare the plurality of location information to at least one predetermined exercise target associated with the training exercise, and

An evaluator configured to evaluate the progression of the training exercise based on the result of the comparison.

26. A system for evaluating a progression of a training exercise, comprising:

A position sensing system configured to sense location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise within an exercise area; and

An analyzer for evaluating the progression of a training exercise the analyzer comprising;

An input interface configured to provide a plurality of location information for at least one movable object participating in the training exercise;

A storage configured to provide at least one predetermined exercise target;

A graphical user interface which comprises a graphical representation of an exercise area and a graphical representation of an exercise object corresponding to the at least one further piece of location information in a graphical display, and by means of which the further piece of location information ma be provided wherein the further piece of location information indicates the position of an exercise object involved in the training exercise within the exercise area or a time-invariant position within the exercise area corresponding to a predetermined progression of the training exercise;

A comparator configured to compare the plurality of location information to at least one predetermined exercise target associated with the training exercise, and

An evaluator configured to evaluate the progression of the training exercise based on the result of the comparison.

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