Exercise monitoring device, exercise monitoring program storage medium, and exercise monitoring method

• US 8,900,158 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2008
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kasama, Koichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): D'ANGELO, MICHAEL J
• Application Number:
  US12/068,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20080220940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,490 Days
• Field of Search: 600519-520
• US Class Current: 600/500
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/063 Spoken or verbal instructions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/065 within a certain range
• 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 69/0028 for running, jogging or speed-walking movable endless bands A63B22/02

Abstract

An exercise monitoring device includes: a setting section which sets a user'"'"'s age and resting pulse rate; a calculating section which calculates a pulse rate range of aerobic exercise on the basis of the age and the resting pulse rate set by the setting section; a sensor which measures a working pulse rate of the user; a monitoring section which monitors whether or not the pulse rate measured by the sensor is within the pulse rate range calculated by the calculating section; and a notifying section which notifies the user of a result of monitoring obtained by the monitoring section.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a first storage section configured to store in advance range of percentages with respect to a maximum heart rate reserve and suitable as aerobic exercise, and exercise intensity expressed in METs for each range of percentage;

a second storage section configured to, in response to acquisition of an age and a resting pulse rate of a user, associate and store, with the exercise intensity, range of pulse rates obtained by multiplying the maximum heart rate reserve determined based on the age and the resting pulse rate of the user by an upper limit and a lower limit defining the range of percentages;

an exercise intensity acquiring section that, in response to reception of a current pulse rate of the user inputted from a sensor, compares the current pulse rate with the range of pulse rates in the second storage section, and obtains the exercise intensity associated with the range of pulse rates in the second storage section to which range of pulse rate the current pulse rate belongs; and

a notification processing section that produces notifying content for the user based on the obtained exercise intensity.

2. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code stored in a memory when executed by a processor, the computer readable storage medium comprising:

program code to access a first storage section configured to store in advance range of percentages with respect to a maximum heart rate reserve and suitable as aerobic exercise, and exercise intensity expressed in METs for each range of percentage;

program code to, in response to acquisition of an age and a resting pulse rate of a user, associate and store, with the exercise intensity, range of pulse rates obtained by multiplying the maximum heart rate reserve determined based on the age and the resting pulse rate of the user by an upper limit and a lower limit defining the range of percentages, in a second storage section;

program code to, in response to reception of a current pulse rate of the user inputted from a sensor, compares the current pulse rate with the range of pulse rates in the second storage section, and obtains the exercise intensity associated with the range of pulse rates in the second storage section to which range of pulse rate the current pulse rate belongs; and

program code to produce notifying content for the user based on the obtained exercise intensity.