Exercise supporting device, exercise supporting method and exercise supporting program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9333411-B2
Application number	US-201314011582-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2013
Priority date	Aug 29, 2012
Publication date	May 10, 2016
Grant date	May 10, 2016

Abstract

An exercise supporting device including a detecting section which repeatedly detects motion data relative to the exercise motion status of a user during the exercise motion; an analyzing and judging section which obtains, based on the motion data, a first motion information value corresponding to the user's moving speed and a second motion information value corresponding to the user's footstep count per unit time or footstep width at each time the detecting section detects the motion data, and judges whether the first motion information value is out of a first numerical value range and whether the second motion information value is out of a second numerical value range; and an output section which, when at least one of the motion information values is judged as being out of the relevant numerical value range, performs an informing operation regarding this motion information value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An exercise supporting device comprising:
a detecting section which repeatedly detects motion data related to an exercise motion status of a user who is making an exercise motion by a moving motion;
an analyzing and judging section which obtains, based on the detected motion data, a movement distance from a moving motion start point of the user, a first motion information value corresponding to a moving speed of the user and a second motion information value corresponding to a footstep count of the user per unit time or a footstep width of the user, at each time the detecting section detects the motion data,
wherein a plurality of movement distance ranges respectively corresponding to different movement distances have a plurality of respective first numerical value ranges in each of which a plurality of values are set as an allowable range of the first motion information value and a plurality of respective second numerical value ranges in each of which a plurality of values are set as an allowable range of the second motion information value,
wherein the analyzing and judging section judges whether or not the first motion information value is out of a specific first numerical value range set for a specific movement distance range in which the movement distance when the first motion information value is obtained is included from among the plurality of first numerical value ranges, at each time the first motion information value is obtained, and
wherein the analyzing and judging section judges whether or not the second motion information value is out of a specific second numerical value range set for the specific movement distance range from among the plurality of second numerical value ranges, at each time the second motion information value is obtained; and

an output section which, when at least one of the first motion information value and the second motion information value is judged by the analyzing and judging section as being out of a relevant one of the specific first numerical value range and the specific second numerical value range, performs an informing operation regarding the first motion information value or the second motion information value judged as being out of the relevant one of the specific first numerical value range and the specific second numerical value range, during the exercise motion of the user,
wherein the output section includes a display section which displays an image including character information, and wherein the output section:
performs, as the informing operation, a standard display on the display section with a first display format in which a display color of a background portion of the display section is set to a first background color, and character information included in a first image corresponding to the first motion information value and the second motion information value is displayed on the display section with a first size, when the analyzing and judging section judges that the first motion information value is within the specific first numerical value range and the second motion information value is within the specific second numerical value range;
performs, as the informing operation, a caution display on the display section with a second display format which is different from the first display format and in which the display color of the background portion of the display section is set to a second background color different from the first background color, and character information included in a second image corresponding to one of the first motion information value and the second motion information value is displayed on the display section with a second size larger than the first size, when the analyzing and judging section judges that only said one of the first motion information value and the second motion information value is out of a relevant one of the specific first numerical value range and the specific second numerical value range; and
performs, as the informing operation, an alert display on the display section with a third display format which is different from the first display format and the second display format and in which the display color of the background portion of the display section is set to a third background color different from the first background color and the second background color, and character information included in a third image corresponding to the first motion information value and the second motion information value is displayed on the display section with a third size larger than the first size, when the analyzing and judging section judges that the first motion information value is out of the specific first numerical value range and the second motion information value is out of the specific second numerical value range.

2. The exercise supporting device according to claim 1 , wherein the output section:
displays, on the display section in the first display format in the standard display, the character information included in the first image in a first character color;
displays, on the display section in the second display format in the caution display, the character information included in the second image at least one of in a second character color different from the first character color, and such that the character information blinks at a first time interval; and
displays, on the display section in the third display format in the alert display, the character information included in the third image at least one of in a third character color different from the first character color, and such that the character information blinks at a second time interval different from the first time interval.

3. The exercise supporting device according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of first numerical value ranges and the plurality of second numerical value ranges each have an upper-limit value and a lower-limit value, and
wherein the output section, in the second display format in the caution display, displays the character information included in the second image in a color that differs between when the analyzing and judging section judges that said one of the first motion information value and the second motion information value is larger than the upper-limit value of a relevant one of the specific first numerical value range and the specific second numerical value range, and when the analyzing and judging section judges that said one of the first motion information value and the second motion information value is smaller than the lower-limit value of a relevant one of the specific first numerical value range and the specific second numerical value range.

4. The exercise supporting device according to claim 3 , wherein the output section, in the third display format in the alert display, sets the character information corresponding to the first motion information value in a color that differs between when the analyzing and judging section judges that the first motion information value is larger than the upper-limit value of the specific first numerical value range, and when the analyzing and judging section judges that the first motion information value is smaller than the lower-limit value of the specific first numerical value range; and
displays the character information included in the third image in a color that differs between when the analyzing and judging section judges that the second motion information value is larger than the upper-limit value of the specific second numerical value range, and when the analyzing and judging section judges that the second motion information value is smaller than the lower-limit value of the specific second numerical value range.

5. The exercise supporting device according to claim 2 , wherein the character information in the second image includes text for instructing

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Aibara Takehiro

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