US 2013/0171601 A1Published application

Exercise assisting system

AssigneePanasonic Corporation

InventorsShingo Yuasa, Hiroyuki Saito, Chiaki Yoshizuka

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Abstract

The exercise assisting system includes: a display device including a display screen displaying an image to a user; a comparison image storing unit storing a comparison image representing an image of an exerciser performing a predetermined exercise; a comparison image display unit displaying the comparison image stored in the storing unit on the screen; a mirror image displaying means displaying a mirror image of the user so as to overlap the comparison image; a characteristic amount extraction unit detecting positions of sampling points of a body of the user and calculating a characteristic amount representing a posture of the user based on the position; a posture estimation unit comparing the characteristic amount from the extraction unit with a criterion amount representing a posture of the exerciser and estimating a deviation between postures of the user and the exerciser; and a presentation unit presenting an estimation result of the estimation unit.

Claims30

Dependent claims

An exercise assisting system comprising:

a display device including a display screen for displaying an image to a user;
a comparison image storage unit configured to store a comparison image defined as an image of an exerciser performing a predetermined exercise;
a comparison image display unit configured to display the comparison image stored in said comparison image storage unit on said display screen;
a mirror image displaying means configured to display a mirror image of the user such that the mirror image is superimposed onto the comparison image;
a characteristic amount extraction unit configured to detect a position of predetermined one or more sampling points of a body of the user and calculate a characteristic amount representing a posture of the user based on the position of the one or more sampling points;
a posture estimation unit configured to compare the characteristic amount calculated by said characteristic amount extraction unit with a criterion amount representing a posture of the exerciser and perform estimation of a deviation between the posture of the user and the posture of the exerciser;
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a presentation unit configured to give a result of the estimation performed by said posture estimation unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/822,828Filed 22 Sep 2011
Priority: JP 2010-21273222 Sep 2010
Published: 4 Jul 2013
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Classification17 codes

G16H 20/30
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
A61B 5/0059
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence
A61B 5/1036
Measuring devices for testing the shape, pattern, colour, size or movement of the body or parts thereof, for diagnostic purposes: measuring load…
A61B 5/1114
Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home: tracking parts of the body