Exercise system with display programming
AssigneeICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
InventorsCHASE BRAMMER, RICHARD K.C. CHANG, II
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Abstract
An exercise system presents display programming at a rate that is commensurate to a user's exercise rate. The user's exercise rate is monitored and compared to a default exercise rate. When the user's exercise rate is above or below the default exercise rate, the presentation of the display programming is adjusted to maintain a temporal relationship between the user's exercise rate and the display programming. The presentation of the display programming can be adjusted by periodically skipping or pausing frames of the display programming to increase or decrease the duration of the display programming.
Claims20
An exercise system comprising:
- a movable element that moves during a user's performance of an exercise to simulate a distance traveled by the user during the performance of the exercise at an exercise rate that is selectively adjustable by the user;
- and
- a display that presents display programming to the user, the display programming comprising a plurality of frames having a specified sequence, each frame within the plurality of frames having assigned to it a predetermined distance,
- wherein:
- the display is configured to present each frame within the plurality of frames in the specified sequence, and
- the display is configured to present each frame within the plurality of frames for the period of time that is required for the distance traveled by the user during the performance of the exercise to meet or exceed the predetermined distance assigned to each frame.
A method for correlating the presentation of display programming with a simulated amount of distance traveled by a user on an exercise device, comprising:
- obtaining display programming, the display programming comprising a plurality of frames having a specified sequence;
- assigning a predetermined distance to each frame within the plurality of frames;
- presenting to the user a first frame within the display programming;
- tracking the simulated distance traveled by the user on the exercise device during presentation of the first frame;
- determining whether the simulated distance traveled by the user on the exercise device during presentation of the first frame is the same as or exceeds the predetermined distance assigned to the first frame;
- and
- presenting to the user a second frame that sequentially follows the first frame if the simulated distance traveled by the user on the exercise device during presentation of the first frame is the same as or exceeds the predetermined distance assigned to the first frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.