Program products, methods, and systems for providing location-aware fitness monitoring services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9409052-B2
Application number	US-56949209-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2009
Priority date	Oct 3, 2008
Publication date	Aug 9, 2016
Grant date	Aug 9, 2016

Abstract

Program products, methods, and systems for providing location-aware fitness monitoring services are disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method of displaying a route traversed by an athlete equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device includes the steps of (a) receiving data describing a plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints that are acquired as the athlete engages in a fitness activity, (b) identifying a map area based on a location indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints, (c) determining the route traversed by the athlete based on the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints and based on the location of one or more known paths associated with the map area, and (d) displaying the route traversed by the athlete on top of the map area.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of displaying a route traversed by an athlete equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device, comprising:
(a) receiving data describing a plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints that are acquired on the location-aware portable fitness monitoring device as the athlete engages in a fitness activity;
(b) identifying a map area based on a location indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints;
(c) determining the route traversed by the athlete based on the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints by
(i) comparing the locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints to a first set of location data comprising the locations of points along one or more known paths associated with the map area, wherein at least one of the known paths comprises data other than data generated by the athlete,
(ii) comparing the locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints to a second set of location data, that is different than the first set of location data, comprising the locations of points along one or more known routes previously traversed,
(iii) determining whether a location data substitution is necessary by comparing a subset of two or more of the locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints with a path segment comprising two or more points along one or more known paths or known routes, and
(iv) further determining whether a location data substitution is necessary by computing a weighted average based on one or more location data points of the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints and further based on one or more location data points of the second set of location data; and

(d) displaying the route traversed by the athlete on top of the map area on a display of the portable fitness monitoring device,
wherein steps (a) through (d) are executed using at least one processor,
wherein at least one of the at least one or more known routes previously traversed was previously traversed by the athlete, and
wherein step (c)(ii) further comprises determining that the location data associated with the one or more known routes previously traversed by the athlete should be given increased significance in the computation of the weighted average.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein step (c)(ii) is performed after step (c)(i).

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein step (c)(ii) is performed in response to a determination at step (c)(i) that the one or more known paths do not correspond to the locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the at least one or more known paths associated with the map area is a paved path.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first set of location data corresponding to the at least one or more known paths associated with the map area is derived from a path data layer in a map database.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second set of location data corresponding to the at least one or more known routes previously traversed was previously traversed by the athlete is derived from a route database.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second set of location data is derived from a route database.

8. A method of determining a route traversed by an athlete equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device based on data describing a plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints, comprising:
(a) receiving data describing a plurality of satellite navigational waypoints on the location-aware portable fitness monitoring device;
(b) comparing locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints to locations indicated by a first set of location data describing a paved path;
(c) comparing the locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints to locations indicated by a second set of location data, that is different than the first set of location data, describing a route previously traversed and logged by a person equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device;
(d) substituting a first data point in the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints for a first data point in the first set of location data or second set of location data if a distance between the location indicated by the first data point describing the satellite navigational system waypoint and the location indicated by the first data point in the first set or the second set of location data is less than a predetermined distance;
(e) computing a weighted average based on a second data point of the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints and further based on a second data point of the first set of location data, and further substituting the weighted average for the second data point of the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints; and
(f) determining the route traversed by the athlete based on the comparisons made in step (b), (c), (d), and (e) by locking a portion of the route traversed by the athlete to the location of a known path at a given time during the traversal;
(g) displaying the route traversed by the athlete on a display of the portable fitness monitoring device,
wherein steps (a) through (g) are executed using at least one processor,
wherein step (c) further comprises determining that the route previously traversed and logged by a person equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device was previously traversed and logged by the athlete, and
wherein step (c) further comprises determining that the second set of location data should be given increased significance in the computation of the weighted average in determining the route traversed by the athlete.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein step (c) is performed after step (b).

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein step (c) is performed in response to a determination at step (b) that the locations indicated by the first set of location data describing the paved path do not correspond to the locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first set of location data describing a paved path is derived from a path data layer in a map database.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein locking the portion of the route traversed by the athlete comprises locking the entire route traversed by the athlete to the known path.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the predetermined distance is 10 meters.

14. A method of determining a route traversed by an athlete equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device based on data describing a plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints, comprising:
(a) receiving data describing a plurality of satellite navigational waypoints on the location-aware portable fitness monitoring device;
(b) comparing locations indicated by the data describing the plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints to locations indicated by a set of location data describing a route previously traversed and logged by a person other than the athlete equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device;
(c) determining that the route previously traversed and logged by a person equipped with a location-aware portable fitn

Assignees

• Werner Jon H
• Adidas Ag

Inventors

• Werner Jon H

Classifications

• A63B2220/12

  Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS · CPC title

• A63B2071/0641

  with a marker advancing in function of the exercise · CPC title

• A63B24/0021 Primary

  Tracking a path or terminating locations · CPC title

• G01C21/20

  Instruments for performing navigational calculations (G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01S19/19

  Sporting applications · CPC title