User-paced exercise equipment
AssigneeBoard of Regents of the University of Nebraska
InventorsWilliam Denton, Molly Schieber, Casey Wiens
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are examples of user-paced exercise equipment, as well as related circuitry, methods, and computer-readable media. For example, disclosed herein is a user-paced treadmill, including a belt, a motor coupled to the belt, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the motor. The control circuitry may be configured to change a velocity of the belt based at least in part on a body velocity and a leg swing velocity of a user of the user-paced treadmill.
Claims32
A control apparatus for exercise equipment, comprising:
- a sensor system to generate data representative of a body velocity of a user of the exercise equipment, and a leg swing velocity of the user, when the exercise equipment is operating at a first equipment velocity;
- velocity generation circuitry to generate a second equipment velocity for the exercise equipment based at least in part on the body velocity and the leg swing velocity;
- and
- velocity adjustment circuitry to cause the exercise equipment to operate at the second equipment velocity.
A user-paced treadmill, comprising:
- a belt;
- a motor coupled to the belt;
- and
- control circuitry, communicatively coupled to the motor, to adjust a belt velocity based at least in part on a body velocity and a leg swing velocity of a user of the user-paced treadmill.
30-33. (canceled)
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions thereon that, in response to execution by one or more processing devices of control circuitry for a piece of exercise equipment, cause the control circuitry to:
- identify a current equipment velocity of the piece of exercise equipment;
- generate a new equipment velocity for the piece of exercise equipment based at least in part on a body velocity and a leg swing velocity of a user of the piece of exercise equipment;
- and
- cause the piece of exercise equipment to operate at the new equipment velocity.
35-36. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.