Wearable Fitness Band For Measuring Body Parts
AssigneeVisual Gains, LLC
InventorJustin Paul Franks
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Abstract
A wearable fitness band system for measuring a body part change in dimension utilizes a wearable fitness band device comprising strap assembly that is configured for being wrapped around the circumference of a body part to be measured. The strap assembly has a sensor that senses a change in dimension of the strap assembly while the strap assembly is wrapped around the body part and provides a sensor output. A processing unit coupled to the sensor receives the sensor output and provides a measurement output. A display that receives the measurement output and provides a measurement output reading correlating to the measurement output.
Claims20
A wearable fitness band system that measures a body part change in dimension, the device comprising:
- a wearable fitness band device comprising strap assembly that is configured for being wrapped around the circumference of a body part to be measured, the strap assembly having a sensor that senses a change in dimension of the strap assembly while the strap assembly is wrapped around the body part and provides a sensor output;
- a processing unit coupled to the sensor for receiving the sensor output and providing a measurement output;
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- a display that receives the measurement output and provides a measurement output reading correlating to the measurement output.
A wearable fitness band system that measures a body part change in dimension, the system comprising:
- a wearable fitness band device comprising a strap assembly that is configured for being wrapped around the circumference of a body part to be measured, the strap assembly comprising:
- a length of elastomeric stretch sensor that senses a change in dimension of the strap assembly when the elastomeric stretch sensor is expanded and retracted;
- at least one removable band spacer having a known length, the band spacer having a position coupling fixed thereon;
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- a band spacer position sensor that is configured to engage the position coupling of the at least one removable band spacer at different positions along the length of the band spacer position sensor;
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- a processing unit coupled to the strap assembly for providing a measurement output in response to receiving an output signal from the elastomeric stretch sensor;
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- a display coupled to the processing unit that receives the measurement output and provides an output on the display correlating to the measurement output.
A method of measuring a change in circumference of a body part comprising:
- positioning a wearable fitness band device that is configured for being wrapped around the circumference of a body part to be measured;
- sensing with a sensor of the wearable band device a change in dimension of the wearable fitness band device while the wearable band is wrapped around the body part;
- providing a sensed output that correlates to the sensed change in dimension;
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- displaying on a display device a measurement output based upon the sensed output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.