US 2010/0304932 A1Published application

Method of controlling an exercise apparatus

AssigneeJohnson Health Tech Co., Ltd.

InventorsAndrew J. Kolman, Matthew D. Wittenberg, Timothy E. Bank, Mark J. Van Handel, Shanan Galligan

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Abstract

A method for controlling an exercise apparatus via a control interface of an exercise apparatus, including steps of controlling a touch screen to display an information field, and then monitoring the touch screen to detect whether a touch has occurred on the surface of the touch screen and whether the touch is located in an input zone which has a plurality of sensing areas in the information field. A user can use one of specific actions, such as drag, to move a first tag in the input zone from a first sensing area to a second sensing area. And one of the steps of the method relocates the first tag proximate to the second sensing area to have a portion of the first tag to point at the second sensing area. Then, the final step of the method operates the exercise apparatus from a first condition using a first value corresponding to the first sensing area to a second condition using a second value corresponding to the second sensing area.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method of controlling an exercise apparatus, the method comprising:

a. controlling a touch screen to display an information field thereon;
b. graphically displaying an input zone having a plurality of sensing areas in the information field, the plurality of sensing areas constituting an adjusting path;
c. displaying a first tag in the information field, the first tag having a portion pointing to a first sensing area of the input zone and displaying a parameter having a first value on the first tag corresponding to the first sensing area of the input zone;
d. dragging the first tag along the adjusting path from the first sensing area to a second sensing area of the input zone;
e. displaying a confirmation message on the first tag awaiting for a confirmation input;
f. displaying a second value of the parameter on the first tag corresponding to the second sensing area of the input zone after receiving the confirmation input;
g. operating the exercise apparatus from a first condition using the first value of the parameter to a second condition using the second value of the parameter;
and
h. displaying a second tag in the information field, the second tag having a portion pointing to the first sensing area of the input zone wherein the relative positions of the first and second tags graphically show the difference between the first and second values of the parameter.

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A method of controlling an exercise apparatus, the method comprising:

a. displaying an information field on a touch screen of the exercise apparatus;
b. displaying an input zone having a plurality of sensing areas in the information field, the plurality of sensing areas constituting an adjusting path;
c. displaying a first tag in the information field associated with a first sensing area of the input zone and displaying a first value of a parameter in the information field corresponding to the first sensing area of the input zone;
d. dragging the first tag to be associated with a second sensing area of the input zone;
e. displaying a second value of the parameter corresponding to the second sensing area of the input zone;
f. operating the exercise apparatus from a first condition using the first value of the parameter to a second condition using the second value of the parameter;
and
g. displaying a second tag in the information field associated with the first sensing area of the input zone wherein the first and second tags graphically show the difference between the first and second values of the parameter.

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A method of controlling an exercise apparatus, the method comprising:

a. controlling a touch screen to display an information field thereon;
b. graphically displaying an input zone having a plurality of sensing areas in the information field;
c. displaying a first tag in the information field, the first tag having a portion pointing to a first sensing area of the input zone and displaying a parameter having a first value on the first tag corresponding to the first sensing area of the input zone;
d. touching a second sensing area of the input zone, relocating the first tag proximate to the second sensing area of the input zone, and relocating the portion of the first tag that was pointing to the first sensing area of the input zone to subsequently point at the second sensing area of the input zone;
e. displaying a second value of the parameter on the first tag corresponding to the second sensing area of the input zone;
f. operating the exercise apparatus from a first condition using the first value of the parameter to a second condition using the second value of the parameter.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/605,375Filed 26 Oct 2009
Priority: TW 09811791227 May 2009
Published: 2 Dec 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A63B 71/0619
Indicating or scoring devices for games or players , or for other sports activities: displays, user interfaces and indicating devices, specially…
A63B 24/00
Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups
A63B 2071/0675
Indicating or scoring devices for games or players , or for other sports activities: input for modifying training controls during workout
A63B
Apparatus for physical training, gymnastics, swimming, climbing, or fencing