System for Processing Exercise-Related Data

• US 20110152695A1
• Filed: 12/07/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
• Original Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
• Inventors: Karvonen, Sami, Kanniainen, Tapio, Korpela, Matti, Granqvist, Niclas
• Application Number:
  US12/961,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20110152695A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/481
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02405 Determining heart rate variability
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0245 by using sensing means generating electric signals, i.e. ECG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1123 Discriminating type of movement, e.g. walking or running A61B5/1116, A61B5/112 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4875 Hydration status, fluid retention of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7278 Artificial waveform generation or derivation, e.g. synthesising signals from measured signals A61B5/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0071 Distinction between different activities, movements, or kind of sports performed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0663 worn on the wrist, e.g. wrist bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/12 Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/20 Distances or displacements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/22 Stride length
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/30 : Speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 : Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/56 : Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/58 : Measurement of force related parameters by electric or magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/72 : Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/836 : Sensors arranged on the body of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 : Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/04 : heartbeat characteristics, e.g. ECG, blood pressure modulations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/06 : heartbeat rate only
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/50 : temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2244/20 : Swimming
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 : Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 : Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 : relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 : for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 : for remote operation

Abstract

A method, apparatuses, and a system for carrying out exercise-related processing are described. The apparatus includes an exercise-measurement circuitry configured to measure exercise-related measurement data related to a user carrying out an exercise. The apparatus further comprises a communication circuitry configured to provide the portable apparatus with wireless communication capability. The apparatus further comprises a processing circuitry configured to receive the exercise-related measurement data from the exercise-measurement circuitry, to process the exercise-related measurement data, and to communicate with an external user interface apparatus over a bidirectional wireless communication connection through the communication circuitry so as to cause transmission of the processed exercise-related measurement data to the user interface apparatus and to receive configuration data from the user interface apparatus.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus comprising:

an exercise-measurement circuitry configured to measure exercise-related measurement data related to a user carrying out an exercise;

a communication circuitry configured to provide the portable apparatus with wireless communication capability; and

a processing circuitry configured to;

receive the exercise-related measurement data from the exercise-measurement circuitry,

receive configuration data from an external user interface apparatus over a bidirectional wireless communication connection established through the communication circuitry, wherein the received configuration data includes exercise-related parameters;

process the exercise-related measurement data according to the received exercise-related parameters in order to obtain advanced exercise-related data, and

communicate the advanced exercise-related measurement data to the user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the advanced exercise-related data processed by the processing circuitry comprises energy expenditure data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the advanced exercise-related data processed by the processing circuitry comprises performance capacity data.

4. The apparatus claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to process the exercise-related measurement data on the basis of the configuration data received from the user interface apparatus, wherein the configuration data comprises user-related parameters describing characteristics of the user.

5. The apparatus claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to process the exercise-related measurement data on the basis of the configuration data received from the user interface apparatus, wherein the configuration data comprises exercise-related parameters defining instructions or guidance for an exercise to be conducted.

6. The apparatus of preceding claim 1, further comprising at least one of the following sensors:

a thermodynamic sensor, a motion sensor,

wherein the received configuration data includes exercise-related parameters and wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to process measurement data received from the at least one of the thermodynamic sensor and motion sensor by calculating the advanced exercise-related data from the received measurement data on the basis of the received configuration data.

7. The apparatus of preceding claim 1, wherein the communication circuitry is further configured to

establish a first wireless communication link and a second wireless communication link to the user interface apparatus, and to

operate the first wireless communication link and the second wireless communication link in parallel by using the first wireless communication link for controlling the operation of the second wireless communication link.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a memory unit configured to store audio tracks;

an audio decoder comprised in the processing circuitry and configured to decode at least one of the audio tracks stored in the memory and to play the at least one decoded audio track; and

audio output means to output the at least one audio track being played,

wherein the playback of the at least one audio track is operative on the basis of the received configuration data, and wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit data related to the audio track being played to the user interface apparatus.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the exercise-measurement circuitry is configured to measure exercise-related measurement data that characterizes the user'"'"'s heart activity.

10. A method for processing exercise-related measurement data in a portable apparatus, comprising:

acquiring exercise-related measurement data by using an exercise-measurement circuitry;

establishing a bidirectional wireless communication connection through a communication circuitry with an external user interface apparatus;

receiving configuration data from the external user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection, wherein the received configuration data includes exercise-related parameters;

processing the exercise-related measurement data on the basis of the received exercise-related parameters in order to obtain advanced exercise-related data; and

causing transmission of the advanced exercise-related measurement data to the user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the advanced exercise-related measurement data comprises energy expenditure data.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the advanced exercise-related measurement data comprises performance capacity data.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising processing the exercise-related measurement data on the basis the configuration data received from the user interface apparatus, wherein the received configuration data comprises user-related parameters describing characteristics of the user.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising processing the exercise-related measurement data on the basis the configuration data received from the user interface apparatus, wherein the received configuration data comprises exercise-related parameters defining instructions or guidance for an exercise to be conducted.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

establishing a first wireless communication link and a second wireless communication link to the user interface apparatus;

operating the first wireless communication link and the second wireless communication link in parallel by using the first wireless communication link for transmission of the advanced exercise-related measurement data and the second wireless communication link for reception of the configuration data.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

storing audio tracks in a memory unit;

decoding at least one of the audio tracks stored in the memory

operating playback of the at least one decoded audio track through audio output means, wherein the playback of the at least one audio track is operative on the basis of the received configuration data, and

transmitting data related to the audio track being played to the user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising causing display of the advanced exercise-related measurement data through a user interface.

18. A computer-readable distribution medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform a method comprising:

acquiring exercise-related measurement data from an exercise-measurement circuitry;

causing a communication circuitry to establish a bidirectional wireless communication connection through with an external user interface apparatus;

receiving configuration data from the external user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection, wherein the received configuration data includes exercise-related parameters;

processing the exercise-related measurement data on the basis of the received exercise-related parameters in order to obtain advanced exercise-related data; and

causing transmission of the advanced exercise-related measurement data to the user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection.

19. A system for processing exercise-related measurement data, comprising:

a portable apparatus comprising;

an exercise-measurement circuitry configured to measure exercise-related measurement data related to a user carrying out an exercise;

a communication circuitry configured to provide the portable apparatus with wireless communication capability; and

a processing circuitry configured to receive the exercise-related measurement data from the exercise-measurement circuitry, to receive configuration data from an external user interface apparatus over a bidirectional wireless communication connection established through the communication circuitry, wherein the received configuration data includes exercise-related parameters, to process the exercise-related measurement data according to the received exercise-related parameters in order to obtain advanced exercise-related data, and to communicate the advanced exercise-related measurement data to the user interface apparatus over the bidirectional wireless communication connection; and

a user interface apparatus comprising;

a communication circuitry configured to provide a bidirectional wireless communication connection with the portable apparatus;

a user interface enabling interaction with a user of the user interface apparatus; and

a processing circuitry configured to communicate with the portable apparatus through the communication circuitry so as to receive the advanced exercise-related measurement data from the portable apparatus, to present the received advanced exercise-related measurement data to the user, to receive configuration data from the user, and to cause transmission of the configuration data to the portable apparatus.