Multimedia product for use in physical fitness training and method of making

• US 5,836,770 A
• Filed: 10/08/1996
• Issued: 11/17/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Beth J. Powers
• Original Assignee: Beth J. Powers
• Inventors: Powers, Beth J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Richman, Glenn E.
• Application Number:
  US08/727,749
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: 434/247, 434/256, 434/257, 434/307 R, 482/8, 482/902, 482/901, 473/131, 473/278
• US Class Current: 434/247
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0012 Comparing movements or motion sequences with a registered reference
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0647 Visualisation of executed movements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/806 Video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0006 Computerised comparison for qualitative assessment of motion sequences or the course of a movement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/902 Employing specific graphic or video display

Abstract

A multimedia product for use in physical fitness training comprises a player-readable storage medium having a substrate and audiovisual program data encoded in the substrate. The audiovisual program data comprises first and second routines of physical movements sequentially captured from a first perspective. The first and second routines have at least some mirror-image or "opposed" physical movements such that when the program data is read by a player and displayed, the first and second routines are juxtaposed in a predetermined "split-screen" format. A method of making the product is also described.

Claims

1. A multimedia product for use in physical fitness training, comprising:

a player-readable storage medium having a substrate;

audiovisual program data encoded in the substrate of the player-readable storage medium, wherein the audiovisual program data comprises;

a first routine of physical movements captured from a first perspective; and

a second routine of physical movements captured from the first perspective;

wherein the first and second routines have mirror image physical movements such that when the program data is read by a player and displayed the first and second routines are juxtaposed in a predetermined format.

2. The multimedia product as described in claim 1 wherein the player-readable storage medium is a videotape, the player is a videotape recorder and the predetermined format is a split-screen display.

3. The multimedia product as described in claim 1 wherein the player-readable storage medium is a CD-ROM, the player is a CD-ROM and the predetermined format is a split-screen display.

4. The multimedia product as described in claim 1 wherein the first and second routines of physical movements comprise physical exercise routines.

5. The multimedia product as described in claim 1 wherein the audiovisual program data further includes audio instructions synchronized with at least one of the first and second routines of physical movements.

6. The multimedia product as described in claim 1 wherein the first routine of physical movements illustrates a frontal view of an instructor performing an exercise regimen and the second routine of physical movements illustrates a back view of the instructor performing the exercise regimen.

7. The multimedia product as described in claim 1 wherein the audiovisual program data further includes a third routine of one or more physical movements related to the first and second routines, wherein when the program data is read by a player and displayed the first and second routines are displayed in a split-screen format and the third routine is juxtaposed adjacent the split-screen format.

8. A method of making a multimedia product for use in fitness training, comprising the steps of:

recording a first routine of physical movements from a first perspective to generate a first recording;

subsequently recording a second routine of physical movements from the first perspective to generate a second recording, the first and second routines of physical movements having at least some mirror-image movements; and

editing the first and second recordings together into a master recording having a split-screen format; and

storing the master recording in a player-readable storage medium such that when the storage medium is played on a player the first and second routines of physical movements are displayed in the split-screen format.

9. The method of making as described in claim 8 wherein the player-readable storage medium is a videotape.

10. The method of making as described in claim 8 wherein the player-readable storage medium is a CD-ROM.

11. The method of making as described in claim 8 further including the steps of:

recording a third routine of physical movements related to the first and second routines of physical movements to generate a third recording; and

editing the third recording together with the first and second recordings.

12. The method of making as described in claim 8 wherein at least one of the first and second recordings includes an audio track synchronized with a video track.

13. The method of making as described in claim 8 wherein the first routine of physical movements illustrates a frontal view of an instructor performing an exercise regimen and the second routine of physical movements illustrates a back view of the instructor performing the exercise regimen.

14. The method of making as described in claim 8 wherein the player-readable storage medium is a laser disk.