Exercise recordation method and system

• US 9,381,399 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2013
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Adel, Michael A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Toan
• Application Number:
  US13/783,615
• Publication Number:
  US 20140248996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,219 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0261 Strain gauges
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1126 using a particular sensing technique
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6895 Sport equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/063 Spoken or verbal instructions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0724 Bar-bells; Hand bars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/50 Force related parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/801 Contact switches
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/096 automatically adjusted according to anthropometric data of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• 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 24/0087 Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of groups A63B21/00 - A63B23/00, e.g. controlling load
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An exercise reporting and maintenance system contains a device including a memory with a management application installed thereon. The application is configured to process a sensor signal including a total weight and movement speed, analyze the sensor signal by inputting the total weight and the movement speed into a monitoring heuristic to generate an output, and automatically transmit the output in real-time to be presented by a display system.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a smart hook with a housing configured to couple with a peg of the equipment; and

a device including a hardware processor and a memory with a management application installed thereon, wherein the device is configured to;

automatically retrieve, from the smart hook, a sensor signal including a total weight and a movement speed of a piece of exercise equipment; and

generate in real-time a monitoring output based on a monitoring heuristic processing the sensor signal; and

automatically transmit in real-time the monitoring output to be presented by a display system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the management application retrieves the sensor signal from a sensor system, the sensor system comprising:

a tactile sensor configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a pressure between the smart hook and the peg of the equipment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the management application retrieves the sensor signal from a sensor system, the sensor system comprising:

a pin sensor configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a location of a pin of the equipment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the management application retrieves the sensor signal from a sensor system, the sensor system comprising:

an accelerometer configured to detect the movement speed of the piece of the exercise equipment.

5. The system of claim 1, the smart hook further comprising:

a sensor configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment and generate a first electrical signal in accordance with the total weight,

an accelerometer configured to detect the movement speed of the piece of the exercise equipment and generate a second electrical signal in accordance with the movement speed, and

a control circuit configured to generate the sensor signal based on the first and second electrical signals.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the sensor is a tactile sensor configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a pressure between an under portion of the smart hook and an upper portion of the peg of the equipment.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the sensor is a strain gauge configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a deformation of the smart hook.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the display system comprises:

a display configured to, based on the monitoring output, present a user interface configured to provide in real-time a duration and a direction of an exercise repetition.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the display system comprises:

a speaker configured to, based on the monitoring output, produce a tone in accordance with a tempo designated by a user exercise or an equipment profile.

10. A method, comprising:

automatically retrieving, by an electronic device and from a smart hook with a housing configured to couple with a peg of a piece of exercise equipment, a sensor signal including a total weight and a movement speed of the piece of exercise equipment;

generating in real-time a monitoring output based on a monitoring heuristic processing the sensor signal; and

automatically transmitting in real-time the monitoring output to be presented by a display system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein automatically retrieving the sensor signal includes:

detecting the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on the pressure between the smart hook and the peg of the equipment.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein automatically retrieving the sensor signal includes:

detecting the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a location of a pin.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein automatically retrieving the sensor signal includes:

detecting the movement speed of the piece of the exercise equipment based on an electrical output of an accelerometer.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting, by a sensor of the smart hook, the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment and generating a first electrical signal in accordance with the total weight,

detecting, by an accelerometer of the smart hook, the movement speed of the piece of the exercise equipment and generating a second electrical signal in accordance with the movement speed, and

generate, by a control circuit of the smart hook, the sensor signal based on the first and second electrical signals.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the sensor is a tactile sensor that detects the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment by detecting a pressure between an under portion of the smart hook and an upper portion of the peg of the equipment.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the sensor is a strain gauge that detects the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment by detecting a deformation of the smart hook.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

displaying, by the display system, a user interface configured to provide in real-time a duration and a direction of an exercise repetition.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

producing, by the display system, a tone in accordance with a tempo designated by a user exercise or an equipment profile.

19. A system, comprising:

a sensor system with a housing integrated with a piece of exercise equipment and configured to;

detect a total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment and generate a first electrical signal in accordance with the total weight;

detect a movement speed of the piece of the exercise equipment and generate a second electrical signal in accordance with the movement speed;

generate and transmit a sensor signal based on the first and second electrical signals to a computing system configured to analyze the sensor signal to produce in real-time a monitoring output; and

wherein the sensor system includes at least one of;

a tactile sensor configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a pressure between an under portion of a smart hook and an upper portion of a peg of the equipment; and

a strain gauge configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on a deformation of a smart hook.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the sensor system further includes the tactile sensor configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on the pressure between the under portion of the smart hook and the upper portion of the peg of the equipment.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the sensor system further includes the strain gauge configured to detect the total weight of the piece of the exercise equipment based on the deformation of the smart hook.

22. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

the computing system including a memory with a management application installed thereon, wherein the computing system is configured to;

connect with the sensor system to identify an equipment profile;

sync a default profile with the equipment profile to complete a profile load; and

record exercise characteristics based on the monitoring output in the default profile.