Caloric burn determination from body movement
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1. In a system including a computing environment coupled to a capture device for capturing user motion, a method of determining caloric burn of a user of the system, comprising:
- a) capturing an image of a body part of a user via the capture device;
b) determining a mass of the body part captured in said step a) via a processor of the computing environment using the image of the body part captured in said step a);
c) capturing a movement of the body part via the capture device; and
d) determining calories burned by the body part due to the captured movement of the body part in said step c) and the mass of the body part determined in said step b).
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed determining caloric burn via an HCI system. Using a capture device which is able to detect the thickness of a user'"'"'s arms, legs, torso, etc., the system determines a mass for each of a user'"'"'s body parts. Thereafter, in one example, the system measures caloric burn for a given body part as a function of how far the body part was displaced, a mass of the body part displaced and gravity.
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1. In a system including a computing environment coupled to a capture device for capturing user motion, a method of determining caloric burn of a user of the system, comprising:
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a) capturing an image of a body part of a user via the capture device; b) determining a mass of the body part captured in said step a) via a processor of the computing environment using the image of the body part captured in said step a); c) capturing a movement of the body part via the capture device; and d) determining calories burned by the body part due to the captured movement of the body part in said step c) and the mass of the body part determined in said step b). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system, comprising:
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a capture device capable of capturing an image of one or more discrete body parts of a user as the user moves within a field of view of the capture device; and a computing environment associated with the capture device, the computing environment including a processor capable of calculating a mass of the one or more discrete body parts by a volume of the one or more body parts from one or more 3-D images of the one or more body parts captured by the capture device, and determining calories burned by the one or more discrete body parts due to the determined mass of the one or more discrete body parts and a direction and degree of movement of the one or more discrete body parts. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for facilitating weight loss, comprising:
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a capture device capable of capturing an image of one or more discrete body parts of a user as the user moves within a field of view of the capture device; a computing environment associated with the capture device, the computing environment including determining a mass of the one or more discrete body parts captured by the capture device, and determining calories burned by the one or more discrete body parts due to the determined mass of the one or more discrete body parts and a direction and degree of movement of the one or more discrete body parts, the processor further running an exercise program; and a display associated with the computing environment, the display prompting a user to perform exercises per the exercise program run by the processor, the display further displaying the calories burned as determined by the processor. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A system, comprising:
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a capture device capable of capturing an image of a user as the user moves within a field of view of the capture device; and a computing environment associated with the capture device, the computing environment including a processor capable of segmenting the user into limbs, head and torso from the image of the user, determining a 3-D voxel group for a given limb, determining a mass of the given limb based on the voxel group and a known density of the given limb, and determining calories burned by the one or more discrete body parts due to the determined mass of the one or more discrete body parts and a direction and degree of movement of the one or more discrete body parts. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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