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

• US 9,757,619 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2016
• Issued: 09/12/2017
• 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:
  US15/223,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20160332029A1
• Time in Patent Office: 410 Days
• 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

An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.

Claims

1. An athletic parameter measurement system comprising:

a computing device in electronic communication with a first display and a first processor; and

a plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices remote from the computing device and in communication with the computing device, wherein each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices is uniquely associated with a corresponding athlete, and wherein each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices includes;

a housing having an attachment mechanism configured to be attached to the corresponding athlete during an athletic activity session;

a second display;

a second processor; and

at least one athletic parameter measurement sensor,

wherein each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices is configured to;

detect, by the at least one athletic parameter measurement sensor, athletic data of the corresponding athlete during the athletic activity session while the housing is worn by the corresponding athlete,

receive, by the second processor, video data of the corresponding athlete during the athletic activity session, wherein recording of the video data is triggered by detection of an electronic tag in an item of apparel worn by the corresponding athlete;

calculate, by the second processor, at least one metric of the athlete using the detected athletic data and the received video data; and

display, by the second processor on the second display, a first representation of the at least one metric;

transmit, by the second processor to the computing device, the at least one metric;

wherein the computer device is configured to;

analyze the at least one metric transmitted from the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices; and

transmit the analysis of the at least one metric from the plurality of athletic parameter devices to the second processors of the plurality of athletic parameter devices.

2. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 1, wherein the first representation of the at least one metric is displayed in real-time.

3. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 1, wherein the at least one athletic parameter measurement sensor includes an accelerometer.

4. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 3, wherein the accelerometer is a piezoelectric accelerometer.

5. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices is further configured to:

associate an identification of the corresponding athlete with the athletic parameter measurement device; and

transmit the at least one metric and the identification to the computing device.

6. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices is further configured to transmit the at least one metric and the identification to the computing device via 2400 and 2483.5 MHz frequency signals.

7. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices is further configured to transmit the at least one metric and the identification to the computing device in real-time.

8. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 5, wherein the first processor is configured to display, on the first display, a second representation of the at least one metric received from a first athletic parameter measurement device of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices.

9. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 8, wherein the first processor is further configured to display, on the first display, an image of the corresponding athlete associated with the first athletic parameter measurement device.

10. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 9, wherein the image of the corresponding athlete and the second representation of the at least one metric are displayed in real time.

11. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 9, wherein the image of the corresponding athlete is associated in the first display with the second representation of the at least one metric by overlaying the second representation of the at least one metric on the image of the corresponding athlete.

12. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 5, wherein the first processor is configured to display, on the first display, a second representation of the at least one metric received from each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices.

13. The athletic parameter measurement system of claim 12, wherein the first processor is further configured to display, on the first display, images of the corresponding athletes associated with each of the plurality of athletic parameter measurement devices.