Preparation method for the virtual reality of high fidelity sports and fitness equipment and interactive system and method based on the virtual reality

• US 20110164044A1
• Filed: 01/06/2011
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jung-Tang Huang
• Original Assignee: Jung-Tang Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Jung-Tang
• Application Number:
  US12/930,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20110164044A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/009 the load of the exercise apparatus being controlled in synchronism with visualising systems, e.g. hill slope
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0638 Displaying moving images of recorded environment, e.g. virtual environment
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0644 with display speed of moving landscape controlled by the user's performance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/12 Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/16 Angular positions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/20 Distances or displacements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/30 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/70 Measuring or simulating ambient conditions, e.g. weather, terrain or surface conditions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/73 Altitude
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/75 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/76 Wind conditions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/806 Video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/807 Photo cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/00 Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0084 Exercising apparatus with means for competitions, e.g. virtual races
• 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 69/0035 on the spot
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/06 : for rowing or sculling
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/16 : for cycling , i.e. arrangements on or for real bicycles
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 : Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user

Abstract

This invention is a preparation method for virtual reality of high fidelity sports and fitness equipment and an interactive system and method based on the virtual reality. Image content of real scene shooting and the control parameters of sports and fitness equipment correspond to real scene will be taken synchronously. The control parameters can let sports and fitness equipment, along with the change of real scene, adjust in real time and automatically its forward and backward leaning, left and right leaning, swinging angle, or adjust automatically its loading size; or follow the user'"'"'s exercise speed to adjust the playing speed of the virtual reality; or follow the environmental parameters to adjust the loading size; or follow the staring direction of the eye of the user or the face direction of the user or the swinging angle of sports and fitness equipment to change visual field scope image of real scene; it can prepare diversified virtual reality digital content, it can reach high virtual level according to different exercise characteristic; the user won'"'"'t be limited by the site and weather, and the application field becomes wider.

Claims

1. A preparation method for virtual reality of high fidelity sports and fitness equipment with features comprising of the following steps:

Step 1;

Use a vehicle installed with camera equipment to go to a site corresponding to the implementation of certain exercise to perform real scene shooting, meanwhile, based on the exercise need, several sensors are set up to obtain control parameters of sports and fitness equipment that corresponds to real scene, moreover, the control parameter can control sports and fitness equipment to perform action change in accordance with real scene;

Step 2;

At each fixed sampling time, real scene is taken, then the real measured data of each sensor is taken synchronously with the shooting action;

Step 3;

Save each image into array data structure, which includes mileage data, image content and the real measured data of each sensor of corresponding sampling time;

meanwhile, the image data is divided, and front and rear index or mark is added so that the mileage data, real measured data of each sensor and the image data is synchronized to form the digital content of virtual reality.

2. The preparation method of claim 1, wherein said real scene is divided into two dimensional or three dimensional image, three dimensional stereo image, partial visual field or panoramic visual field image.

3. The preparation method of claim 1, wherein said sensor at least includes one of the following sensors:

mileage meter, inertia sensor, tilting meter, water level sensor, GPS, air velocity meter, wind direction meter, water velocity meter, water direction meter, angle meter, microphone, gas sensor, illumination meter, altitude meter or humidity meter.

4. The preparation method of claim 1, wherein said camera equipment is installed at rotational platform to take the panoramic image at the tee road intersection firstly, then the real scenes of different road sections extended from the tee road intersection are taken respectively.

5. The preparation method of claim 1, wherein said camera equipment comprising of multiple cameras used for 360 degrees shooting instead using rotational platform, and the real scene at different angles is taken in the entire process.

6. The preparation method of claim 1, wherein said step 2, image section of a fixed length is used as a unit to divide the above digital content;

each unit is set up with index to represent the front and rear order and relationship of image section; and

the data structure of the image section includes identification code ID, image section length, image format, name, starting and ending point coordinate, rear connection point ID and front connection point ID.

7. An interactive system based on virtual reality mainly comprising of:

sports and fitness equipment, sports platform rotated or translated in multiple axes, controller connected to sports and fitness equipment or sports platform, multiple sensors installed at sports and fitness equipment or sports platform, display equipment and computer;

sports and fitness equipment are placed above sports platform, display equipment is installed in front of the sports and fitness equipment, and the display equipment is used to receive and play digital content coming from computer and regarding virtual reality;

the computer, at a fixed sampling time, acquires mileage data from sports platform or sports and fitness equipment and compare it with mileage data within data structure of digital content of virtual reality so as to find out the closest index or image frame serial number, meanwhile, through display device, the image content corresponding to the index or image frame serial number is played;

the correspondingly stored real measured data related to the sensors is synchronously accessed, then it is converted to the control order of sports platform or sports and fitness equipment and sent to the controller of sports platform or sports and fitness equipment, and sports and fitness equipment or sports platform is adjusted automatically and in terms of pitch, roll, yaw angle, or the translation displacements, speed or acceleration, or the size of the loading;

meanwhile, computer follows real measured data of all the sensors acquired synchronously with the mileage data so as to adjust the playing speed of the digital content of the virtual reality, or adjust the size of the loading of sports and fitness equipment according to the environmental variables provided by the sensors;

or change, based on the stared direction of the user eye or the face direction or the swinging angle of sports and fitness equipment, the image of the visual field of the digital content of virtual reality.

8. The interactive system of claim 7, wherein said sports platform includes at least one of the following degrees of freedom:

three rotational degrees of freedom such as pitch, roll and yaw, and three translational degrees of freedom of X, Y and Z.

9. The interactive system of claim 7, wherein an angle meter is installed further at the front end of sports and fitness equipment such that the computer is, based on the real measured data of angle meter installed, to control the left and right horizontal shift of image synchronously with mileage data;

moreover, based on the inertia sensor installed at the user'"'"'s head, the up and down horizontal shift of the display image is also controlled.

10. The interactive system of claim 9, wherein said computer, based on the real measured data of angle meter installed at the front end of sports and fitness equipment, which is acquired synchronously with mileage data, judges whether the user, in virtual reality, drive along the left side or the right side of road;

meanwhile, based on the deviated angle q of angle meter and mileage data m, the distance of left and right horizontal shift of visual field is obtained to be m tang, and the distance the user deviates away from the road center is then calculated;

moreover, through the use of image processing technology, object getting closer is amplified and object getting farther is reduced.

11. The interactive system of claim 7, wherein said computer also plays the sound recorded during the process when mileage data is acquired synchronously and real scene is taken, or the music made in the post-production process, or the narrative.