Method of controlling an exercise apparatus

• US 8,360,934 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2012
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Johnson Health Tech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Johnson Health Tech Company Limited
• Inventors: Kolman, Andrew J, Wittenberg, Matthew D, Bank, Timothy E, Van Handel, Mark J, Galligan, Shanan
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh, Loan
• Assistant Examiner(s): JALALZADEH ABYAN, SHILA
• Application Number:
  US13/349,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20120196724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 482/1, 482/4
• US Class Current: 482/4
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0675 Input for modifying training controls during workout
• 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 71/0619 Displays, user interfaces and indicating devices, specially adapted for sport equipment, e.g. display mounted on treadmills

Abstract

A method for controlling an exercise apparatus, including steps of controlling a touch screen to display an information field, and then monitoring the touch screen to detect whether a touch is located in an input zone which has a plurality of sensing areas in the information field. A user can use one of specific actions to move a first tag from a first sensing area to a second sensing area. And one of the steps of the method relocates the first tag proximate to the second sensing area to have a portion of the first tag to point at the second sensing area. The final step of the method operates the exercise apparatus from a first condition using a first value corresponding to the first sensing area to a second condition using a second value corresponding to the second sensing area.

Claims

1. A method of showing information of an exercise apparatus for displaying exercise intensity which is corresponding to an adjustable matter of the exercise apparatus within an exercise time, and there being a predetermined range of values corresponding to the adjustable matter of the exercise apparatus, wherein the exercise time is composed of one or a plurality of time spans and the exercise apparatus adopts one of the values within the one or each of the plurality of time spans, the method comprising:

controlling a display screen to show an information field; and

displaying a trajectory in the information field, the trajectory having two distal ends and composed of one or a plurality of line segments, the one or the plurality of line segments respectively representing the one or the plurality of time spans, length of the one or each of the plurality of line segments corresponding to time length of the corresponding time span, and an angle of the one or each of the plurality of line segments with respect to a horizontal line of the information field corresponding to the value of the adjustable matter of the exercise apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein angle difference between the one or each of the line segments and a base line of the information field corresponding to a value difference between the value of the adjustable matter which is adopted by the exercise apparatus within the corresponding time span and a minimum value of the adjustable matter of the exercise apparatus.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising a step of displaying a rectangular area in the information field representing a styled road shown in perspective, one longitudinal edge of the rectangular area representing the trajectory, the bottom distal end of the trajectory corresponding to a start of the exercise time and the top distal end of the trajectory corresponding to an end of the exercise time.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising a step of displaying a time index in the rectangular area, the time index moving from the bottom portion to the upper portion of the rectangular area as the exercise progress.

5. The method of claim 4, the time index comprising a colored bar which color is different from the rectangular area, the time index gradually increases length of the colored bar from the bottom portion to the upper portion of the rectangular area as the exercise progress.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein there is an included angle between the base line and a horizontal line of the information field.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the rectangular area is convergent from the bottom portion to the upper portion thereof.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising a step of displaying the base line in the information field.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step of displaying a time index in the information field for indicating a location of the trajectory which represents current time.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein a proportion of length of each of the plurality of line segments to length of the trajectory is corresponding to a proportion of each of time length of the time spans represented by each of the corresponding plurality of line segments to time length of the exercise time.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the exercise intensity is corresponding to exercise resistance of the exercise apparatus.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the exercise apparatus is a treadmill and the exercise intensity is corresponding to an incline angle of a running platform of the treadmill.