Balance training apparatus and control method for balance training apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10688339-B2
Application number	US-201815869527-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 12, 2018
Priority date	Feb 16, 2017
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a balance training apparatus operating in conjunction with an inverted pendulum moving apparatus on which a trainee rides and performs a moving operation. The balance training apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a position of the moving apparatus, and a controller configured to set a task for the trainee to travel back and forth from an initial position to a target position within a predetermined time and configured to superimpose a character representing the trainee at a position corresponding to a position of the moving apparatus on a video indicating progress of the task and display it on a display. The controller corrects the initial position in a task to be executed next to a position of the moving apparatus at the end of a task that has been executed last and corrects the target position according to the correction of the initial position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A balance training apparatus operating in conjunction with an inverted pendulum moving apparatus on which a trainee rides and performs a moving operation, the balance training apparatus comprising:
a detector configured to detect a position of the moving apparatus; and
a controller configured to set a task for the trainee to travel back and forth from an initial position to a target position within a predetermined time and configured to display, on a display, a character representing the trainee at a position corresponding to a position of the moving apparatus superimposed on a video indicating progress of the task, wherein
the controller corrects an initial position of a task to be executed next to a position of the moving apparatus at the end of a task that has been executed last and corrects the target position according to the correction of the initial position.

2. The balance training apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when there is an insufficiency in a reciprocating movement distance targeted by the task due to the correction of the initial position, the controller makes an adjustment in a task executed after the task in which the insufficiency is generated from among the tasks consecutively given in one task game in such a way that a load on the trainee will become large.

3. The balance training apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller adjusts a score given to achievement of the task based on the correction of the initial position and displays the score on the display.

4. The balance training apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the position of the moving apparatus at the end of the task that has been executed last is within a predetermined distance from the initial position, the controller does not correct the initial position of the task to be executed next.

5. A control method of a balance training apparatus operating in conjunction with an inverted pendulum moving apparatus on which a trainee rides and performs a moving operation, the control method comprising:
setting a first task and a second task for the trainee to travel back and forth from an initial position to a target position within a predetermined time;
displaying, on a display, a character representing the trainee at a position corresponding to a position of the moving apparatus superimposed on a video indicating progress of the first task after the first task is started; and
correcting the initial position in the second task to a position of the moving apparatus at the end of the first task and correcting the target position in the second task according to the correction of the initial position.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sasaki Yu
• Takahashi Masahiro

Classifications

• A63B24/0006

  Computerised comparison for qualitative assessment of motion sequences or the course of a movement · CPC title

• A63B22/16 Primary

  Platforms for rocking motion about a horizontal axis {, e.g. axis through the middle of the platform}; Balancing drums; Balancing boards or the like {(exercising apparatus with cantilevered support elements pivoting about an axis A63B22/0056; other exercising apparatus for improving balance A63B26/003)} · CPC title

• A63B2024/009

  the load of the exercise apparatus being controlled in synchronism with visualising systems, e.g. hill slope · CPC title