Workout music playback machine

• US 9,880,805 B1
• Filed: 12/22/2016
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brian Howard Guralnick
• Original Assignee: Brian Howard Guralnick
• Inventors: Guralnick, Brian Howard
• Primary Examiner(s): Fletcher, Marlon
• Application Number:
  US15/388,818
• Time in Patent Office: 404 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/063 Spoken or verbal instructions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/12 Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/14 Geo-tagging, e.g. for correlating route or track location data with specific information related to that specific location
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/62 Time or time measurement used for time reference, time stamp, master time or clock signal
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

A workout music playback device for playing workout music during a workout with given workout parameters by arranging and assembling song segments of original musical recordings in accordance with workout parameters. The device has a media output manager configured to receive said workout parameters and prepare audio output information on arranging a sequence of song segments into an edited song recording. It has an instruction relay module configured to receive said audio output information, and transmit said workout audio output instructions. The device has a media output generator configured to receive said audio output instructions from said instruction relay module, retrieve and assemble said song recording data of said original musical recording from said memory in accordance with said audio output instructions, and transmit a data stream of workout music corresponding to said workout parameters.

Claims

1. A workout music playback device for playing workout music during a workout from song recording data comprising:

a user input interface configured to receive input from a user, and permitting the definition of a workout style corresponding to a variation in exercise intensity over the course of a workout duration, and of a selection of song titles;

a media output manager configured to receive said user input, and to output to an instruction relay module an exercise burn rate pattern according to said workout style defining a variation over time of equalization parameters corresponding to an exercise intensity variation including periods of lower intensity exercise and periods of higher intensity exercise to be performed over the course of a workout duration;

said instruction relay module configured to receive said exercise burn rate pattern from said media output manager and generate audio output instructions in accordance with said exercise burn rate pattern; and

a media output generator configured to receive said audio output instructions and said song recording data, and output an audio signal of said workout music from said song recording data while adjusting an amplitude differently in different frequency ranges, or adjusting the amplitude the same for all audio frequencies, of said audio signal of said workout music as a function of said audio output instructions over the course of said workout duration.

5. The workout music playback device of claim 1, wherein said user input interface is further configured to receive user input on said workout style and said selection of song titles.

6. The workout music playback device of claim 1, further comprising an exercise machine interface configured to connect with an exercise machine, receive said audio signal, and transmit said audio signal to said exercise machine.

7. The workout music playback device of claim 6, wherein said exercise machine interface is further configured to receive information on said exercise burn rate pattern from said media output manager and transmit said information on said exercise burn rate pattern to said exercise machine, wherein said information on said exercise burn rate pattern is adapted to be processed by said exercise machine for adjusting certain difficulty parameters of said exercise machine in accordance with said exercise burn rate pattern.

8. The workout music playback device of claim 6, wherein said exercise machine interface is further configured to receive user input from said user and transmit said user input received from said exercise machine to said media output manager.

2. A workout music playback device for playing workout music during a workout from song recording data comprising:

a user input interface configured to receive input from a user, and permitting the definition of a workout style corresponding to a variation in exercise intensity over the course of a workout duration, and of a selection of song titles;

a media output manager configured to receive said user input, and to output to an instruction relay module an exercise burn rate pattern according to said workout style defining a variation over time of equalization parameters corresponding to an exercise intensity variation including periods of lower intensity exercise and periods of higher intensity exercise to be performed over the course of a workout duration;

said instruction relay module configured to receive said exercise burn rate pattern from said media output manager and generate audio output instructions in accordance with said exercise burn rate pattern; and

a media output generator configured to receive said audio output instructions and said song recording data, and output an audio signal of said workout music from said song recording data while adjusting the equalization parameters of said audio signal of said workout music as a function of said audio output instructions over the course of said workout duration,

wherein said media output manager is further configured to derive said exercise burn rate pattern according to said workout style from one of;

song edit data containing exercise burn rate pattern information specific to said workout style and to a song title of said selection of song titles; and

a generic exercise burn rate pattern specific to said workout style, said generic exercise burn rate pattern being adjusted by said media output manager in accordance with song edit data, said song edit data containing song segmentation information for a song title of said selection of song titles, to produce said exercise burn rate pattern based on said song segmentation information.

3. The workout music playback device of claim 2, wherein said workout music playback device further comprises memory configured to store at least one of said song recording data and said song edit data.

4. The workout music playback device of claim 2, wherein said workout music playback device further comprises a wireless interface, and wherein at least one of:

said media output generator is further configured to receive wirelessly said song recording data via said wireless interface; and

said media output manager is further configured to receive wirelessly said song edit data via a wireless interface.

9. A workout music playback device for playing workout music during a workout with given workout parameters, said workout music composed from song recording data of original musical recordings stored in memory and said workout music generated in accordance with song edit data stored in said memory, said song edit data providing information on arranging song segments into at least one edited song recording of an original musical recording of said original musical recordings, wherein a song duration of an edited song recording of said at least one edited song recording is different from an original song duration of said original musical recording, comprising:

A user input interface configured to receive user input on said workout;

a media output manager configured to receive said workout parameters, retrieve said song edit data stored in said memory in accordance with said workout parameters, and prepare audio output information on arranging a sequence of song segments into an edited song recording in accordance with at least one of said workout parameters and said retrieved song edit data;

an instruction relay module configured to receive said audio output information, and transmit, during said workout, audio output instructions in accordance with said audio output information; and

a media output generator configured to receive said audio output instructions from said instruction relay module, retrieve said song recording data of said original musical recording from said memory in accordance with said audio output instructions, and transmit a data stream of workout music corresponding to said workout parameters.

10. The workout music playback device of claim 9, further comprising an audio output interface configured to receive said data stream of workout music from said audio output generator, and play said workout music corresponding to said data stream of workout music.

11. The workout music playback of claim 9, wherein said media output manager is further configured to retrieve equalization parameters from said song edit data in accordance with said workout parameters.

12. The workout music playback device of claim 11, wherein said instruction relay module is further configured to integrate said equalization parameters retrieved from said media output manager into said audio output instructions, and said media output generator is further configured to adjust the equalization of song segments played in said data stream of workout music in accordance with said equalization parameters provided in said audio output instructions.

13. The workout music playback device of claim 9, further comprising a screen display.

14. The workout music playback device of claim 13, wherein said media output generator is further configured to retrieve video data corresponding to said song recording data, wherein said original musical recording is the audio of a music video.

15. The workout music playback device of claim 14, further comprising a video source configured to store video files corresponding to video segments of virtual trainers.

16. The workout music playback device of claim 15, wherein said media output manager is further configured to retrieve trainer information from said song edit data stored in said memory, wherein said trainer information may be processed for generating a sequence of at least one:

said video segments in association with said workout parameters; and

audio segments of virtual trainers stored in said memory.

17. The workout music playback device of claim 16, wherein said screen display is configured to receive said trainer information from said media output manager, retrieve from said video source said video segments of virtual trainers in accordance with said received trainer information, assemble said video segments of virtual trainers in accordance with said received trainer information and display said assembled video segments of virtual trainers.

18. The workout music playback device of claim 16, wherein said screen display is further configured to play a video from said video data corresponding to said song recording data when said screen display is not displaying a video of a virtual trainer.

19. The workout music playback device of claim 9, wherein said media output manager is further configured to prepare audio output information including shortening information on shortening said song duration of said edited song recording in allowable shortening portions of said edited song recording to match a desired song duration of said edited song recording, said shortening information retrieved by said media output manager from said song edit data, and wherein said media output generator is further configured to apply said audio output instructions relating to said shortening information when producing said edited song recording.

20. A workout music playback device for playing workout music during a workout with given workout parameters, said workout music composed from song recording data of original musical recordings stored in memory and said workout music generated in accordance with song edit data stored in said memory, said song edit data providing information on arranging song segments into at least one edited song recording of an original musical recording of said original musical recordings, and on an exercise burn rate pattern specific to said edited song recording defining a variation over time of equalization parameters corresponding to an exercise intensity variation including periods of lower intensity exercise and periods of higher intensity exercise to be performed over the course of a workout duration, wherein a song duration of an edited song recording of said at least one edited song recording is different from an original song duration of said original musical recording, comprising:

a media output manager configured to receive said workout parameters, retrieve said song edit data stored in said memory in accordance with said workout parameters, and prepare audio output information on arranging a sequence of song segments into an edited song recording in accordance with at least one of said workout parameters and said retrieved song edit data, and setting equalization parameters corresponding to said exercise burn rate pattern;

an instruction relay module configured to receive said audio output information, and transmit, during said workout, audio output instructions in accordance with said audio output information; and

a media output generator configured to receive said audio output instructions from said instruction relay module, retrieve said song recording data of said original musical recording from said memory and apply said equalization parameters corresponding to said exercise burn rate pattern to said song recording data, and transmit a data stream of workout music corresponding to said workout parameters.