Training machine, image output processing device and method, and recording medium which stores image outputting programs

• US 6,852,068 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2003
• Issued: 02/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CSK Corporation (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: CSK Corporation (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Kiyotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): RICHMAN, GLENN E
• Application Number:
  US10/395,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20030181291A1
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 482 1- 9, 482/51, 482/54, 482/57, 482900-902, 434/247
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/009 the load of the exercise apparatus being controlled in synchronism with visualising systems, e.g. hill slope
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0605 performing a circular movement, e.g. ergometers
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/30 Maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/305 Remote servicing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/062 used as a control parameter for the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/065 within a certain range
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/067 used as a control parameter for the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/00 Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/90 Ergometer with feedback to load or with feedback comparison

Abstract

A training machine including a load unit (13) and a pedal (12) or the like for providing an exerciser with predetermined exercise and a display (17) for displaying an image, further including a storage unit (24) for storing a reference range of the heart rate of the exerciser being exercising, a storage unit (24) for storing a plurality of types of images, a heart rate sensor (21A) for sensing the heart rate of the exerciser, a sensor signal detection processing unit and display-audio output processing unit (27B, 27A) for judging whether the exercising state of the exerciser is proper, wherein the display-audio output processing unit (27A) retrieves the image corresponding to the exercising state from the storage unit (24) and displays it on a display unit (17).

Claims

1. A recording medium which stores a program to be executed by a computer, images associated with exercise for plural types of exercisers and a reference range related to the body information of the exerciser, the program comprising:

an input program which inputs body information that changes with the exercise of the exercisers;

state detection program which detects whether the body information input by the input program belongs to the reference range, for plural times within a predetermined time duration, and detects, based on detection results carried out for plural times and change of the body information, whether an exercising state of the exerciser is proper; and

an output program which outputs the image corresponding to the proper state or the improper state detected by the state detection program, from plural types of the images so as to be output.

2. A recording medium which stores a program to be executed by a computer, a sequence indicating the order of a plurality of display statuses specifying a displayed image, and an image of activity associated with exercise of an exerciser associated with said each display status;

the program comprising;

an input program which inputs body information that changes as the exerciser exercises;

a transition detecting program which detects by using the computer, based on the body information input by executing said input program of the computer, whether the present display status is to be transited to a display status of the next sequence; and

an output program which transits the present display status to the display status of the next sequence in said sequence, by executing said transition detecting program when the transition detecting program detects that the status is to be transited to the next display status, and which outputs the image associated with the transited display status.