Indoor bicycle adjustment method and system
AssigneeWahoo Fitness LLC
InventorHarold M. Hawkins, III
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Abstract
A stationary indoor “smart” training bicycle includes a unique combination of adjustable components to provide configurable dimensions to adjust the frame size of the indoor bicycle to properly fit a rider. A system is also provided to process a digital image of an outdoor bicycle and determine and translate dimensions and adjustments to the indoor bicycle to match one or more dimensions (lengths, angles, separations, etc.) of the outdoor bicycle.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a processing device;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to:
- calculate, based on received data associated with dimensions of a reference non-stationary bicycle, at least one estimated dimension of the reference non-stationary bicycle;
- determine a setting of an adjustable feature of an adjustable stationary bicycle device, wherein the setting is based on a translation of the at least one estimated dimension of the reference non-stationary bicycle to a corresponding dimension of the adjustable stationary bicycle device;
- and
- provide the setting of the adjustable feature.
A method for operating an adjustable stationary bicycle device, the method comprising:
- assessing, at a computing device, a plurality of inputs corresponding to one or more portions of a digital image of a reference non-stationary bicycle, the inputs received via a user interface displayed on a display device;
- calculating, based on the plurality of inputs, at least one estimated dimension of the reference non-stationary bicycle;
- determining a setting of an adjustable feature of an adjustable stationary bicycle device, wherein the setting is based on a correlation of an estimated distance between at least two inputs of the plurality of inputs to a corresponding dimension of the adjustable stationary bicycle device;
- and
- transmitting one or more control instructions to the adjustable stationary bicycle device to alter a dimension of the adjustable stationary bicycle device based on the setting.
A method for determining a setting of an adjustable stationary bicycle, the method comprising:
- determining a reference distance between at least a first aspect of a reference non-stationary bicycle displayed in a digital image of the reference non-stationary bicycle and a second aspect of the reference non-stationary bicycle;
- correlating, via a computing device, the reference distance to a distance within the digital image between the first aspect and the second aspect to determine a digital image distance to a reference non-stationary bicycle distance ratio;
- calculating, based on the reference non-stationary bicycle distance ratio, at least one dimension of an adjustable stationary bicycle device corresponding to the digital image of the reference non-stationary bicycle;
- determining, based on the calculated at least one dimension, at least one setting of the adjustable stationary bicycle device corresponding to an adjustable dimension of the stationary bicycle device;
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- displaying, on a display device, the at least one setting of the adjustable stationary bicycle device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.