Notification device, exercise analysis system, notification method, notification program, exercise support method, and exercise support device

• US 9,875,400 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2015
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Uchida, Shuji, Sasahara, Hideo, Matsumoto, Kazumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Richman, Glenn
• Application Number:
  US14/814,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20160030808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports

Abstract

A notification device includes a difference calculation section adapted to calculate differences between index values of a plurality of indexes, which are calculated by analyzing an exercise of a user using an inertial sensor, and are related to an athletic ability of the user, and target values set to the respective indexes, an index selection section adapted to select some of the indexes based on the differences with respect to the respective indexes, and an output section adapted to output the some of the indexes selected.

Claims

1. A notification device comprising:

a difference calculation section adapted to calculate a plurality of differences between index values of a plurality of indexes, which are calculated by analyzing an exercise of a user using an inertial sensor, and are related to an athletic ability of the user, and target values set to the respective indexes;

an index selection section adapted to select a subset of the indexes, consisting of less than all of the plurality of indexes, based on comparing the plurality of differences relative to each other; and

an output section adapted to output only the selected subset of indexes.

2. The notification device according to claim 1, wherein

the index selection section selects the indexes larger in the difference than other indexes as the subset of the indexes.

3. The notification device according to claim 1, wherein

the index selection section selects the indexes smaller in the difference than other indexes as the subset of the indexes.

4. The notification device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a normalization section adapted to normalize the differences with respect to the respective indexes,

wherein the index selection section selects the subset of the indexes based on the differences normalized with respect to the respective indexes.

5. The notification device according to claim 4, wherein

the index selection section selects a predetermined number of the indexes having the largest differences normalized.

6. The notification device according to claim 5, wherein

the index selection section selects none of the indexes in a case in which all of the differences normalized are smaller than a threshold value.

7. The notification device according to claim 4, wherein

the index selection section selects a predetermined number of the indexes having the smallest differences normalized.

8. The notification device according to claim 7, wherein

the index selection section selects none of the indexes in a case in which all of the differences normalized are larger than a threshold value.

9. The notification device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a target value setting section adapted to set the target values corresponding to a speed of the user with respect to the respective indexes using correspondence information between the speed of the user and the respective target values of the indexes.

10. The notification device according to claim 1, wherein

the indexes are at least one of landing-below-center of gravity, propulsive efficiency, flow of leg, a running pitch, and a landing impact.

11. The notification device according to claim 1, wherein

the output section outputs the subset of the indexes selected as one of sounds different from each other and vibrations different from each other.

12. An exercise analysis system comprising:

the notification device according to claim 1; and

an exercise analysis device adapted to analyze the exercise of the user using the detection result of the inertial sensor to calculate the index values of the indexes.

13. A notification method comprising:

calculate a plurality of differences between values, which are calculated by analyzing an exercise of a user using a detection result of an inertial sensor, and respective target values with respect to a plurality of indexes related to an athletic ability of the user;

selecting a subset of the indexes, consisting of less than all of the plurality of indexes, based on comparing the plurality of differences relative to each other; and

making a notification of the only the selected subset of the indexes.

14. A notification program adapted to make a computer execute a process comprising:

calculate a plurality of differences between values, which are calculated by analyzing an exercise of a user using a detection result of an inertial sensor, and respective target values with respect to a plurality of indexes related to an athletic ability of the user;

selecting a subset of the indexes, consisting of less than all of the plurality of indexes, based on comparing the plurality of differences relative to each other; and

performing a control of making a notification of the only the selected subset of the indexes.