Systems and methods for time-based athletic activity measurement and display

• US 8,831,407 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2011
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Meschter, James, Molyneux, James, Weast, Aaron B.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US13/293,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20120251079A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,034 Days
• Field of Search: 386/200, 386/241, 386/278
• US Class Current: 386/278
• 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: G01B 5/02 for measuring length, width or thickness G01B5/004, G01B5/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/09 by piezoelectric pick-up
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9205 the additional signal being at least another television signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Activity metrics may be recorded with granularity to allow a user to view performance information specific to particular times of an activity session. Accordingly, in one example, activity metrics may be detected and recorded for a minimum time unit that may be automatically defined or defined by a user. The metrics may then be conveyed to a user through a display or through audible content. Users may be able to select portions of the activity session to store based on the granular performance information. Content files such as audio or video or athletic performance data files may be cropped based on the selected portions.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

recording, by an athletic activity performance monitoring device, a plurality of metrics for an athletic activity session of a user, wherein recording the plurality of metrics includes storing multiple values for each of the plurality of metrics in accordance with a time at which each of the multiple values was detected;

generating, by the athletic activity performance monitoring device, a display of the plurality of metrics against a timeline corresponding to the duration of the athletic activity performed by the user;

receiving a selection of a portion of the recorded plurality of metrics recorded for the athletic activity session of the user, wherein the plurality of metrics includes video; and

cropping the recorded plurality of metrics for the athletic activity session, including the video, based on the received selection.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the athletic activity performance monitoring device prior to the recording, user input corresponding to a selection of the plurality of metrics for the recording,

wherein the user input includes a selection of a type of activity different from the plurality of metrics and wherein the method further comprises automatically selecting the plurality of metrics based on the selected type of activity.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of metrics is recorded using a different metric application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein generating the display of the plurality of metrics includes:

adding data recorded for a first metric in a primary visualization space of the display; and

adding values recorded for at least a second metric in a metric application toolbar of the display separate from the primary visualization space.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

identifying a best value for one of the plurality of metrics; and

displaying an indicator in the timeline at a point corresponding to when the best value was detected.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the first metric includes video of the athletic activity session of the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the display of the plurality of metrics includes:

adding data recorded for a first metric in a primary visualization space of the display; and

overlaying values recorded for at least a second metric on the data recorded for the first metric.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the display includes:

generating a visual comparison between the values recorded for the plurality of metrics for the athletic activity session of the user and values recorded for the plurality of metrics of an athletic activity session of another user.

9. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to;

record a plurality of metrics for an athletic activity session of a user, wherein recording the plurality of metrics includes storing multiple values for each of the plurality of metrics in accordance with a time at which each of the multiple values was detected;

generate a display of the plurality of metrics against a timeline corresponding to a duration of the athletic activity performed by the user;

receive a user selection of a portion of the athletic activity session of the user through the timeline;

determine a best value for at least one of the plurality of metrics during the selected portion of the athletic activity session of the user; and

display an indicator identifying a time during the user selected portion of the athletic activity session at which the best value was detected.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to receive user input corresponding to a selection of the plurality of metrics, receiving the user input including:

receiving a user selection of a previously recorded workout;

extracting a plurality of metrics recorded in the workout; and

setting the extracted plurality of metrics as the selection of the plurality of metrics for recording during the athletic activity session.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of metrics is recorded using a different metric application.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein generating the display of the plurality of metrics includes:

adding data recorded for a first metric in a visualization space of the display; and

adding values recorded for at least a second metric in a metric application toolbar of the display separate from the visualization space.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to:

identify a best value of the user for one of the plurality of metrics recorded for the athletic activity session; and

display an indicator in the timeline at a point corresponding to when the best value was detected.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to:

receive an instruction to crop the recorded plurality of metrics for the athletic workout session of the user; and

automatically retain a portion of the recorded plurality of metrics including the identified best value of the user for the one of the plurality of metrics recorded for the athletic activity session while removing a portion of the recorded plurality of metrics not including the identified best value.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to:

receive a user selection of a time during the athletic activity session; and

display a value of one of the plurality of metrics detected at the selected time.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to:

receive a user selection of a value of one of the plurality of metrics recorded during the athletic activity session; and

displaying a portion of a video of the athletic activity session corresponding to a time at which the user selected value was recorded.

17. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to:

cropping the athletic activity session based on the user selected portion of the athletic activity session, including separating the user selected portion of the athletic activity session from a non-selected portion of the athletic activity session.

18. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed, further cause the apparatus to:

receive a request to compare the activity session of the user with another activity session of another user; and

in response to the request, temporally synchronizing the recorded plurality of metrics with a plurality of metrics recorded for the other activity session of the other user.

19. One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause an apparatus to:

record a plurality of metrics for an athletic activity session of a user, wherein recording the plurality of metrics includes storing multiple values for each of the plurality of metrics in accordance with a time at which each of the multiple values was detected;

generate a display of the plurality of metrics against a timeline corresponding to the duration of the athletic activity performed by the user;

receive a selection of a portion of the recorded plurality of metrics recorded for the athletic activity session of the user, wherein the plurality of metrics includes video; and

crop the recorded plurality of metrics for the athletic activity session, including the video, based on the received selection.

20. One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause an apparatus to:

generate a display comprising;

a visualization area displaying a first metric of a plurality of metrics recorded during an athletic activity session of a user;

a toolbar area separate from the visualization area, the toolbar area including individually-selectable interfaces corresponding to a plurality of metric applications, wherein each of the plurality of metric applications is configured to record, along a timeline, multiple values for at least one of the plurality of metrics recorded during the athletic activity session of the user;

receive a selection of one of the interfaces corresponding to the plurality of metric applications in the toolbar; and

upon receiving the selection, including a metric corresponding to the selected one of the interfaces in the generated display.

21. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 20, wherein the visualization area further displays a video of the athletic activity session along with an overlay of the first metric,

wherein the timeline is advanced when rendering the video in the visualization area.

22. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 21, wherein the first metric corresponds to a metric application currently selected in the toolbar area.

23. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 20, wherein a metric application currently displayed in the toolbar area further includes a display of a current value of a corresponding metric.

24. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 20, wherein the visualization area further includes display information describing a current location of the user.

25. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 24, wherein the information describing the current location includes identification of one or more events occurring at the current location.