Athletic performance monitoring system and method
AssigneeSilicon Laboratories Inc.
InventorRussell W. White
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Abstract
An athletic performance monitoring system and method are disclosed that assist a user in monitoring an athletic endeavor. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a local area wireless transceiver capable of receiving a signal from a motion sensor. A performance engine may be communicatively coupled to the local area wireless transceiver. In operation, the performance engine may utilize the signal from the motion sensor to generate a performance metric like average speed or distance traveled. The system may also include an output mechanism such as an audio device capable of presenting the performance metric to a user in an audible message while also being capable of playing an audio representation of music to the user.
Claims11
An athletic monitoring system, comprising:
- a music file player operable to store and play a music file;
- a wireless transceiver communicatively coupled to the music file player and operable to receive a wireless communication from a motion sensor located remote from the music file player, wherein the wireless communication includes information about a step of a user;
- a pedometer element operable to utilize the information about the step to generate a performance metric;
- a performance engine operable to provide the user with an indication of the performance metric, wherein the indication comprises a spoken message that is transmitted to the user;
- wherein the spoken message includes a human voice speaking at least two of a pace metric, a distance metric, and an elapsed time metric;
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- an audio output mechanism operable to simultaneously output a song represented by the music file and the spoken message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.