Systems and methods for time-based athletic activity measurement and display

• US 9,389,057 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Meschter, James, Molyneux, James, Weast, Aaron B.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US14/478,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20140375817A1
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G01B 5/02 for measuring length, width or thickness G01B5/004, G01B5/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/09 by piezoelectric pick-up
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9205 the additional signal being at least another television signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, and systems in which video segments of an athletic activity session of a user may be captured by a plurality of video sources and a processing system may determine that each of the video segments correspond to the athletic activity session of the user. The processing system may accordingly generate a video replay of the athletic activity session of the user by piecing together the video segments captured by the video sources. The first portion of the video replay includes a first video segment captured by a first video source and a second portion of the video replay includes a second video segment captured by a second video source different than the first video source.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

capturing, by a plurality of video sources, a plurality of video segments of an athletic activity session of a user;

determining, by a processing system, that each of the plurality of video segments correspond to the athletic activity session of the user; and

generating, by the processing system, a video replay of the athletic activity session of the user by piecing together the plurality of video segments captured by the plurality of video sources,

wherein a first portion of the video replay includes a first video segment captured by a first video source of the plurality of video sources,

wherein a second portion of the video replay includes a second video segment captured by a second video source of the plurality of the video sources different than the first video source, and

wherein the first video segment and the second video segment are selected from the plurality of video segments to maximize an image of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first video source is a location-specific video source, and wherein the second video source is a video source associated with a mobile communication device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the location-specific video source is configured to automatically capture the athletic activity session of the user in response to detecting an identifier is present in a location corresponding to the location-specific video source.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the identifier is a wearable device worn by the user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the wearable device is an RFID tag included in a shoe worn by the user.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the wearable device is associated with the mobile communication device and is configured to:

record at least one athletic activity metric during the athletic activity session; and

communicate the at least one athletic activity metric to the mobile communication device.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising overlaying, by the processing system, a representation of the at least one athletic activity metric on the video replay.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the representation of the at least one athletic activity metric is overlaid on an image of the user in the video replay at a position corresponding to a location on the user where the wearable device is worn.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting, by the first video source, an identifier associated with the user; and

adjusting, by the first video source, a directional focus of the first video source in response to the detecting.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting, by the first video source, the user using at least one of facial recognition and body recognition; and

adjusting, by the first video source, a directional focus of the first video source in response to the detecting.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to;

receive a first video segment of an athletic activity session of a user captured by a first video source;

receive a second video segment of the athletic activity session of the user captured by a second video source different from the first video source;

determine that the first video segment and the second video segment correspond to the athletic activity session of the user;

generate a video replay of the athletic activity session of the user by piecing together the first video segment and the second video segment; and

wherein the first video segment and the second video segment are pieced together to maximize an image of the user.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first video source is a location-specific video source, and wherein the second video source is a video source associated with a mobile communication device.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the location-specific video source is configured to automatically capture the athletic activity session of the user in response to detecting an identifier is present in a location corresponding to the location-specific video source.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the identifier is a wearable device worn by the user.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the wearable device is an RFID tag included in a shoe worn by the user.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the wearable device is associated with the mobile communication device and is configured to:

record at least one athletic activity metric during the athletic activity session; and

communicate the at least one athletic activity metric to the mobile communication device.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the memory stores further computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to overlay a representation of the at least one athletic activity metric on the video replay.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the representation of the at least one athletic activity metric is overlaid on an image of the user in the video replay at a position corresponding to a location on the user where the wearable device is worn.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first video source is configured to detect an identifier associated with the user and, in response, adjust a directional focus of the first video source.

20. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first video source is configured to detect the user using at least one of facial recognition and body recognition and, in response, adjust a directional focus of the first video source.