# US 10,504,496 B1 · Music tempo adjustment apparatus and method based on gait analysis > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,504,496 B1 - Document ID: US10504496B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 16/391,713 - Filed: 2019-04-23 - Granted: 2019-12-10 - Earliest claimed: 2019-04-23 - Assignees: Sensoplex, Inc. - Applicants: Sensoplex Inc. - Inventors: Hamid Najafi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10504496B1 ## CPC - A61H 3/00: Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about (apparatus for helping babies to walk A47D13/04 {; applying electrical currents by contact electrodes for stimulating motor muscles, e.g. walking assistance A61N1/36003}) - G10H 1/0008: {Associated control or indicating means} - G06F 3/011: {Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00)} - G06F 3/017: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)} - G06F 3/04847: Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials - G10H 1/40: Rhythm - G10H 2210/381: Manual tempo setting or adjustment - G10H 2210/391: Automatic tempo adjustment, correction or control - G10H 2220/201: for movement interpretation, i.e. capturing and recognizing a gesture or a specific kind of movement, e.g. to control a musical instrument - G10H 2220/351: Environmental parameters, e.g. temperature, ambient light, atmospheric pressure, humidity, used as input for musical purposes - G10H 2220/355: Geolocation input, i.e. control of musical parameters based on location or geographic position, e.g. provided by GPS, Wi-Fi® network location databases or mobile phone base station position databases - G10H 2220/391: Angle sensing for musical purposes, using data from a gyroscope, gyrometer or other angular velocity or angular movement sensing device - G10H 2220/395: Acceleration sensing or accelerometer use, e.g. 3D movement computation by integration of accelerometer data, angle sensing with respect to the vertical, i.e. gravity sensing - A61H: PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy or ultrasound therapy A61N) - G10H: ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A system comprises one or more processors of a machine; a music player coupled to the one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the machine to perform operations. The operations comprise: electronically receiving a gait parameter; determining if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; adjusting a music parameter if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; and outputting the adjusted music with the music player. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A machine-implemented method, comprising: electronically receiving a gait parameter; determining if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; adjusting a music parameter if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; and outputting the adjusted music; wherein the gait parameter includes stride length; wherein the adjusting includes increasing time between some downbeats of a music bar. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving motion data from a gait monitoring device; and converting the motion data into the gait parameter. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the motion data include 3D magnetic data. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the gait parameter includes speed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the music parameter includes tempo. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, further comprising increasing the tempo until the received gait parameter exceeds the threshold. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting further includes decreasing time between remaining downbeats of the music bar so that overall tempo remains constant. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the threshold based on a height of a patient. ### Claim 9 A machine-readable storage device embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: electronically receiving a gait parameter; determining if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; adjusting a music parameter if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; and outputting the adjusted music; wherein the gait parameter includes stride length; wherein the adjusting includes increasing time between some downbeats. ### Claim 10 A system, comprising: one or more processors of a machine; a music player coupled to the one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: electronically receiving a gait parameter; determining if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; adjusting a music parameter if the received gait parameter is less than a threshold; and outputting the adjusted music with the music player; wherein the gait parameter includes stride length; wherein the adjusting includes increasing time between some downbeats. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise: receiving motion data from a gait monitoring device; and converting the motion data into the gait parameter. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the motion data include 3D magnetic data. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the gait parameter includes speed. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13, wherein the music parameter includes tempo. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise increasing the tempo until the received gait parameter exceeds the threshold. ### Claim 16 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the adjusting further includes decreasing time between a remainder of the downbeats in a music bar so that overall tempo remains constant. ### Claim 17 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise determining the threshold based on a height of a patient.