Exercise guiding system, exercise guiding method and anaerobic threshold measuring method

• US 9,724,000 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2014
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Chen, Rong-Rong, Lu, Tung-Hung, Wang, Jong-Shyan, Lee, Yueh-Hsuan, Tsai, Hsing-Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): McClellan, James S
• Application Number:
  US14/574,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20150273313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 964 Days
• 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 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/352 Detecting R peaks, e.g. for synchronising diagnostic apparatus; Estimating R-R interval
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4866 Evaluating metabolism A61B5/083 takes precedence

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an exercise guiding system including a sensing module, a calculating module, a converting module and an output module. The sensing module keeps recording an R-R interval of a user doing exercise. The computing module receives the R-R interval from the sensing module and performs heart rate variability analysis on the R-R interval to generate a first output. The converting module receives the first output from the calculating module, recognizes a threshold output of the first output according to a threshold and acquires an anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user according to the threshold output, wherein the anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user is a first heart rate corresponding to the threshold output in the R-R interval. The output module receives the anaerobic threshold from the converting module and outputs an exercise guidance of the user according to the anaerobic threshold.

Claims

1. An exercise guiding system, comprising:

a sensing module, keeping recording a plurality sets of R-R intervals of a user doing exercise;

a calculating module, coupled to the sensing module, wherein the calculating module receives the plurality sets of R-R intervals corresponding to the user from the sensing module and performs a heart rate variability analysis on the plurality sets of R-R intervals to generate a plurality of first outputs;

a converting module, coupled to the calculating module, wherein the converting module receives the first outputs from the calculating module, recognizes a threshold output in the first outputs according to a threshold and acquires an anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user according to the threshold output, wherein the anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user is a first heart rate corresponding to the threshold output in the plurality sets of R-R intervals, wherein the anaerobic threshold is a turning point of metabolism when the user'"'"'s body is changed from an aerobic energy system to an anaerobic energy system during doing the exercise; and

an output module, coupled to the converting module, wherein the output module receives the anaerobic threshold from the converting module and outputs an exercise guidance of the user according to the anaerobic threshold

wherein the calculating module calculates a cumulative deviation between each heartbeat and an average heartbeat of the user for each set of the R-R intervals to generate a time sequence,

wherein the calculating module cuts the time sequence into a plurality of sections with a predetermined length, and calculates a partial trending value of each of the sections according to a least square method,

wherein the calculating module subtracts the time sequence by the partial trending value of each of the sections, and calculates a root mean square of each of the sections to generate a wave function,

wherein the calculating module draws a plan diagram of a logarithm of the wave function relative to a logarithm of the predetermined length,

wherein the calculating module calculates a linear equation of points in the plan diagram according to the least square method, and calculates a slope of the linear equation to obtain each of the first outputs.

2. The exercise guiding system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a correction module, coupled to the converting module, wherein the correction module receives status information, and provides correction information to the converting module according to the status information,

wherein the converting module obtains the anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user according to the threshold output and the correction information.

3. The exercise guiding system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

a database module, coupled to the correction module, wherein the database module stores the status information, and the status information is one of an exercise mode and health information.

4. The exercise guiding system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the calculating module performs the heart rate variability analysis on each set of the R-R intervals according to a time sequence, converts the time sequence into a frequency domain parameter, and calculates each of the first outputs according to the frequency domain parameter.

5. The exercise guiding system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the frequency domain parameter comprises at least one high frequency parameter and a low frequency parameter.

6. The exercise guiding system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the high frequency parameter is selected from a band range of 0.15 Hz to 0.40 Hz, and the high frequency parameter is a variance of the plurality sets of R-R intervals of the band range.

7. The exercise guiding system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the low frequency parameter is selected from a band range of 0.04 Hz to 0.15 Hz, and the low frequency parameter is a variance of the plurality sets of R-R intervals of the band range.

8. An exercise guiding method, comprising:

keeping recording a plurality sets of R-R interval of a user doing exercise;

performing a heart rate variability analysis on the plurality sets of R-R intervals to generate a plurality of first outputs;

recognizing a threshold output in the first outputs according to a threshold, and acquiring an anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user according to the threshold output, wherein the anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user is a first heart rate corresponding to the threshold output in the plurality sets of R-R intervals, wherein the anaerobic threshold is a turning point of metabolism when the user'"'"'s body is changed from an aerobic energy system to an anaerobic energy system during doing the exercise; and

outputting an exercise guidance of the user according to the anaerobic threshold,

wherein the step of performing the heart rate variability analysis on the plurality sets of R-R intervals to generate the first outputs comprises;

calculating a cumulative deviation between each heartbeat and an average heartbeat of the user for each set of the R-R intervals to generate a time sequence corresponding to each set of the R-R interval'"'"'s;

cutting the time sequence into a plurality of sections with a predetermined length, and calculating a partial trending value of each of the sections according to a least square method;

subtracting the time sequence by the partial trending value of each of the sections, and calculating a root mean square of each of the sections to generate a wave function;

drawing a plan diagram of a logarithm of the wave function relative to a logarithm of the predetermined length; and

calculating a linear equation of points in the plan diagram according to the least square method, and calculating a slope of the linear equation to obtain each of the first outputs.

9. The exercise guiding method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

receiving status information, and providing correction information according to the status information; and

obtaining the anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user according to the threshold output and the correction information.

10. The exercise guiding method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

storing the status information, wherein the status information is one of an exercise mode and health information.

11. The exercise guiding method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the step of performing the heart rate variability analysis on the plurality sets of R-R intervals to generate the first outputs comprises:

performing the heart rate variability analysis on each set of the R-R intervals according to a time sequence, converting the time sequence into a frequency domain parameter, and calculating each of the first outputs according to the frequency domain parameter.

12. The exercise guiding method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the frequency domain parameter comprises at least one high frequency parameter and a low frequency parameter.

13. The exercise guiding method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the high frequency parameter is selected from a band range of 0.15 Hz to 0.40 Hz, and the high frequency parameter is a variance of the plurality sets of R-R intervals of the band range.

14. The exercise guiding method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the low frequency parameter is selected from a band range of 0.04 Hz to 0.15 Hz, and the low frequency parameter is a variance of the plurality sets of R-R intervals of the band range.

15. An anaerobic threshold measuring method, comprising:

calculating a plurality of time sequences of a plurality sets of R-R intervals corresponding to a user;

calculating the time sequences to generate a plurality of R-R interval self-similarity parameters;

recognizing a threshold parameter in the R-R interval self-similarity parameters according to a threshold, and acquiring an anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user according to the threshold parameter, wherein the anaerobic threshold corresponding to the user is a first heart rate corresponding to the threshold parameter in the plurality sets of R-R intervals, wherein the anaerobic threshold is a turning point of metabolism when the user'"'"'s body is changed from an aerobic energy system to an anaerobic energy system during doing the exercise; and

outputting an exercise guidance of the user according to the anaerobic threshold,

wherein the step of calculating the time sequences to generate the R-R interval trending values comprises;

cutting the time sequences into a plurality of sections with a predetermined length, and calculating a partial trending value of each of the sections according to a least square method, so as to generate the R-R interval trending values.

16. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the step of calculating the time sequences of the plurality sets of R-R intervals corresponding to the user comprises:

calculating a cumulative deviation between each heartbeat and an average heartbeat for each set of the R-R intervals of the user, so as to generate the time sequences.

17. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the step of calculating the time sequences to generate the R-R interval self-similarity parameters comprises:

calculating the time sequences to generate a plurality of R-R interval trending values;

calculating the R-R interval trending values to generate a plurality of R-R interval wave functions; and

drawing a plurality of plan diagrams according to the R-R interval wave functions, and obtaining the R-R interval self-similarity parameters according to points in the plan diagrams.

18. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the step of calculating the R-R interval trending values to generate the R-R interval wave functions comprises:

subtracting the time sequence by the partial trending value of each of the sections, and calculating a root mean square of each of the sections to generate the R-R interval wave functions.

19. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the step of drawing the plan diagrams according to the R-R interval wave functions, and obtaining the R-R interval self-similarity parameters according to the points in the plan diagrams comprises:

drawing the plan diagrams of logarithms of the R-R interval wave functions relative to a logarithm of the predetermined length; and

calculating a linear equation of the points in the plan diagrams according to the least square method, and calculating a slope of the linear equation to obtain the R-R interval self-similarity parameters.

20. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the step of calculating the time sequences to generate the R-R interval self-similarity parameters comprises:

converting the time sequences into a frequency domain parameter, and calculating the R-R interval self-similarity parameters according to the frequency domain parameter.

21. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the frequency domain parameter comprises at least one high frequency parameter and a low frequency parameter.

22. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the high frequency parameter is selected from a band range of 0.15 Hz to 0.40 Hz, and the high frequency parameter is a variance of the plurality sets of R-R intervals of the band range.

23. The anaerobic threshold measuring method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the low frequency parameter is selected from a band range of 0.04 Hz to 0.15 Hz, and the low frequency parameter is a variance of the plurality sets of R-R intervals of the band range.