U.S. patent application number 14/324353 was filed with the patent office on 2015-01-15 for wireless exercise signal receiver system with personal portable unit as relay transmitter.
The applicant listed for this patent is BION INC.. Invention is credited to YU-YU CHEN.
Application Number | 20150018989 14/324353 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 50822522 |
Filed Date | 2015-01-15 |
United States Patent
Application |
20150018989 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
CHEN; YU-YU |
January 15, 2015 |
WIRELESS EXERCISE SIGNAL RECEIVER SYSTEM WITH PERSONAL PORTABLE
UNIT AS RELAY TRANSMITTER
Abstract
Disclosed is an exercise signal receiver system with a personal
portable unit as a relay transmitter. Users, when using individual
exercise devices, each put on a portable unit to transmit a
wireless body signal and a wireless identification code of each
user to a common receiving station. The common receiving station
receives the identification code of each portable unit and a body
signal corresponding to the identification code. The portable units
also receive device signals and transmit the device signals to the
common receiving station. The common receiving station is
connectable via a data input/output interface to a terminal
device.
Inventors: |
CHEN; YU-YU; (TAIPEI CITY
110, TW) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
BION INC. |
Taipei Hsian |
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TW |
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Family ID: |
50822522 |
Appl. No.: |
14/324353 |
Filed: |
July 7, 2014 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
700/91 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A63B 2024/0081 20130101;
A63B 22/02 20130101; A63B 24/0087 20130101; A63B 2225/20 20130101;
A63B 2024/0093 20130101; A63B 2225/50 20130101; A63B 2225/15
20130101; A63B 69/16 20130101; A63B 2230/062 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
700/91 |
International
Class: |
A63B 71/06 20060101
A63B071/06 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jul 12, 2013 |
TW |
102213211 |
Claims
1. An exercise signal receiver system with a personal portable unit
as a relay transmitter, comprising: a plurality of exercise
devices, each of the exercise devices being usable by a user;
characterized in that when the users use the exercise devices, each
of the users wears a portable unit, the portable unit comprising: a
first processor unit; a body signal detector, which is connected to
the first processor unit to detect at least one body signal of the
user, the body signal comprising one of a heartbeat signal, a blood
pressure signal, a blood glucose signal, a temperature signal, a
calorie signal, pulse signal, a blood glucose signal, and a blood
pressure signal; a wireless transmitter, which is connected to the
first processor unit; and an identification code unit, which is
connected to the first processor unit, the identification code unit
being pre-assigned with an identification code; wherein after the
body signal generated by the body signal detector and the
identification code of the identification code unit are received by
the first processor unit, the wireless transmitter transmits a
wireless body signal and a wireless identification code to a common
receiving station, the common receiving station comprising: a
second processor unit; a wireless receiver, which is connected to
the second processor unit; a data input/output interface, which is
connected to the second processor unit and is connected, via one of
a wired data input/output interface and a wireless data
input/output interface, to a terminal device; and a storage unit,
which is connected to the second processor unit; wherein the common
receiving station receives, via the wireless receiver, the
identification code of the identification code unit of the portable
unit and the body signal corresponding to the identification
code.
2. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the portable unit is a portable unit that is attachable to
one of a wrist, a chest, an arm, a waist, an ankle, and a shoe.
3. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the exercise devices each comprises at least one a device
signal detection unit, which detects at least one device signal of
the exercise device, the device signal being transmitted by a
wireless transceiver in a wireless manner to be received by a
wireless transceiver of the portable unit, the device signal being
transmitted by the wireless transmitter of the portable unit, in a
wireless manner, to be received by the wireless receiver of the
common receiving station.
4. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 3,
wherein the device signal detection unit comprises one of a speed
detection unit, a slope detection unit, a distance detection unit,
a power consumption detection unit, a torque detection unit, and a
calorie detection unit.
5. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 3,
wherein the exercise devices further comprises an exercise control
unit, whereby after the first processor unit of the portable unit
receives the device signal, the wireless transceiver of the
portable unit transmits a device control signal that is received by
the wireless transceiver of the exercise devices and applied to the
exercise control unit to control the exercise devices.
6. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 1,
wherein the portable unit further comprises a display device
connected to the first processor unit.
7. An exercise signal receiver system with a personal portable unit
as a relay transmitter, comprising: a plurality of exercise
devices, each of the exercise devices being usable by a user;
characterized in that: when the users use the exercise devices,
each of the users wears a portable unit, the portable unit
comprising: a first processor unit; a wireless transmitter, which
is connected to the first processor unit; a wireless transceiver,
which is connected to the first processor unit; an identification
code unit, which is connected to the first processor unit, the
identification code unit being pre-assigned with an identification
code; a body signal detector, which detects at least one body
signal of the user, the body signal comprising one of a heartbeat
signal, a calorie signal, a pulse signal, a blood glucose signal,
and a blood pressure signal, the body signal being receivable by
the wireless transceiver of the portable unit; wherein after the
body signal and the identification code of the identification code
unit are received by the first processor unit, the wireless
transmitter transmits a wireless body signal and a wireless
identification code to a common receiving station, the common
receiving station comprising: a second processor unit; a wireless
receiver, which is connected to the second processor unit; a data
input/output interface, which is connected to the second processor
unit; a storage unit, which is connected to the second processor
unit; wherein the common receiving station receives, via the
wireless receiver, the identification code of the identification
code unit of the portable unit and the body signal corresponding to
the identification code.
8. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 7,
wherein the portable unit is attachable to one of a wrist, a chest,
an arm, a waist, an ankle, and a shoe of a user.
9. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 7,
wherein the exercise devices each comprises at least one a device
signal detection unit, which detects a device signal of the
exercise device, the device signal being transmitted by a wireless
transceiver in a wireless manner to be received by a wireless
transceiver of the portable unit, the device signal being
transmitted by the wireless transmitter of the portable unit, in a
wireless manner, to be received by the wireless receiver of the
common receiving station.
10. The exercise signal receiver system as claimed in claim 9,
wherein the exercise devices further comprises an exercise control
unit, whereby after the first processor unit of the portable unit
receives the device signal, the wireless transceiver of the
portable unit transmits a device control signal that is received by
the wireless transceiver of the exercise devices and applied to the
exercise control unit to control the exercise devices.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a wireless exercise signal
receiver system with a personal portable unit as a relay
transmitter, and in particular to a long-distance, multifunctional
wireless centrally-receiving integrated system.
[0003] 2. The Related Arts
[0004] The rise of living quality of modern people allows people of
the developed countries and the developing countries to have more
leisure time for doing exercise for body training and
entertainment. In the condition of heavy population, it is very
luxurious to have a field of a great area for exercise. And, a
public field is often not free of charge and users have to spend
money and time to achieve their purposes. Thus, a lot of indoor
exercise devices have been develop and are available.
[0005] The indoor exercise equipment that is available in the
market is often provided with an exercise system that detects and
transmits the heartbeat or a specific signal of the user to a
central computer.
[0006] Although the conventional exercise system may detect all
sorts of variations of heartbeat, such a design generally cannot
satisfy the needs for multiple-purpose body fitting and
exercise.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] Thus, an object of the present invention is to overcome all
kinds of problem that the known devices suffer by providing a
wireless exercise signal receiver system with a personal portable
unit as a relay transmitter.
[0008] The technical solution that the present invention adopts to
overcome the problems is that users, when using an exercise device,
each put on a portable unit to serve as a relay transmitter, which
transmits a signal generated by the portable unit to be received by
a common receiving station to allow an observer to watch if the
physical conditions of the users are not normal.
[0009] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the
exercise devices each comprise at least one a device signal
detection unit to detect a device signal of the exercise device and
a wireless transceiver that transmits the device signal, in a
wireless manner, to be received by a wireless transceiver of the
portable unit. The device signal is further transmitted, in a
wireless manner, from the wireless transmitter of the portable unit
to be received by the wireless receiver of the common receiving
station. Further, the exercise devices may each comprise an
exercise control unit. The portable unit transmits a device control
signal to control the exercise device. The common receiving station
may be connected via a data input/output interface to a terminal
device.
[0010] The present invention provides the following advantages:
[0011] (1) It is not limited to application to exercise
devices.
[0012] (2) It is applicable to indoor and outdoor group exercises,
such as aerobic exercise, football games, and tennis games.
[0013] (3) The present invention establish a bi-directional signal
transmission/receipt architecture between the exercise devices an
the portable units, while only a uni-directional signal
transmission architecture (serving as a relay transmitter) between
the portable units and the common receiving station. In other
words, various device signals of the exercise devices can be
transmitted to the portable units to be then transmitted, in a
wireless manner, to the common receiving station. The portable
units may also be configured to generate control signals to control
exercise parameters of the exercise devices. Concerning
applications, the present invention would be of relatively wide
applications.
[0014] (4) The present invention provides a common receiving
station, which is connectable via a data input/output interface to
a terminal device to facilitate transmission, processing, and
collection of data.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] The present invention will be apparent to those skilled in
the art by reading the following description of preferred
embodiments of the present invention, with reference to the
attached drawings, in which:
[0016] FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a first embodiment
according to the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 2 is a system circuit block diagram of the first
embodiment shown in FIG. 1 of the present invention;
[0018] FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing a second embodiment
according to the present invention;
[0019] FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing a third embodiment
according to the present invention;
[0020] FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing a fourth embodiment
according to the present invention;
[0021] FIG. 6 is a schematic view showing a fifth embodiment
according to the present invention; and
[0022] FIG. 7 is a system circuit block diagram of the fifth
embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0023] With reference to the drawings and in particular to FIG. 1,
which is a schematic view showing a first embodiment of the present
invention, as shown in the drawing, an exercise signal receiver
system with a personal portable unit as a relay transmitter
according to the present invention comprises a plurality of
exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c. Each of the exercise devices 1a, 1b,
1c is provided for use by a user 2a, 2b, 2c. When the users 2a, 2b,
2c use the exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c, each of the users 2a, 2b,
2c puts on a portable unit 3a, 3b, 3c to serve as a relay
transmitter.
[0024] Each of the portable units 3a, 3b, 3c generates a wireless
body signal s1a, s1b, s1c and a wireless identification code s2a,
s2b, s2c that are transmitted in a wireless manner and is received
by a common receiving station 41. The common receiving station 41
receives wireless body signal s1a, s1b, s1c and wireless
identification codes s2a, s2b, s2c that are displayed on a terminal
device 42 electrically connected to the common receiving station 41
to allow an observer (such as a trainer) to observe if the physical
conditions of the users 3a, 3b, 3c are abnormal and also to
identify the exercise conditions of the users.
[0025] Also referring to FIG. 2, which is a system block diagram of
the present invention, as shown in the drawing, each of the
portable units 3a, 3b, 3c comprises a first processor unit 31, a
body signal detector 32, a wireless transmitter 33, an
identification code unit 34, a storage device 35, a wireless
transceiver 36, and a display device 37. FIG. 2 shows the
corresponding relationship between just one portable unit 3a and
the common receiving station 41.
[0026] The portable unit 3a, 3b, 3c is worn, through a conventional
wearing accessory, such as a belt or a chest strip, on a selected
location of the user 2a, 2b, 2c (such as wrist, chest, arm, waist,
ankle, or shoe). In the instant embodiment, the portable unit 3a,
3b, 3c can be a wristwatch like portable unit that is wearable on a
wrist of the user 2a, 2b, 2c.
[0027] The body signal detector 32 is connected to the first
processor unit 31. The body signal detector 32 functions to detect
the physical condition of the user 2a (in the instant embodiment,
the heart pulse count of the user) and to generate the body signal
s1a' that is fed to the first processor unit 31.
[0028] The wireless transmitter 33 and the identification code unit
34 are connected to the first processor unit 31. The identification
code s2a generated by the identification code unit 34 is a code for
identifying the user. The identification code s2a' generated by the
identification code unit 34 is fed to the first processor unit 31
and then, the wireless transmitter 33 transmits, in a wireless
manner, the wireless identification code s2a to be received by the
common receiving station 41.
[0029] The storage device 35 is connected to the first processor
unit 31 to store at least one body signal s1a' and one
identification code s2a' to be accessed by the first processor unit
31.
[0030] After the first processor unit 31 receives the body signal
s1a' and the identification code s2a' generated by the body signal
detector 32 and the identification code unit 34 of each of the
portable units 3a, 3b, 3c, the first processor unit 31 controls the
wireless transmitter 33 to transmit the wireless body signal s1a
and the wireless identification code s2a to the common receiving
station 41.
[0031] The common receiving station 41 comprises a second processor
unit 411, a data input/output interface 412, a wireless receiver
413, and a storage unit 414. The common receiving station 41 can be
one of a mobile communication device, a tablet computer, and a
personal computer. The data input/output interface 412 can be one
of a wired data input/output interface and a wireless the data
input/output interface.
[0032] After the common receiving station 41 and the portable unit
3a, 3b, 3c have been matched with each other, the wireless body
signal s1a, s1b, s1c and the wireless identification code s2a, s2b,
s2c transmitted from the wireless transmitter 33 of the portable
unit 3a, 3b, 3c are receivable by the wireless receiver 413 of the
common receiving station 41 and then fed to the second processor
unit 411.
[0033] The second processor unit 411 processes the wireless body
signal s1a, s1b, s1c and the wireless identification code s2a, s2b,
s2c received by the wireless receiver 413 and stores the wireless
body signal s1a, s1b, s1c in the storage unit 414 or transmitted
through the data input/output interface 412 to the terminal device
42 according the individuality of each wireless identification code
s2a, s2b, s2c. The terminal device 42 can be one of a mobile
communication device, a tablet computer, and a personal
computer.
[0034] Each exercise device 1a, 1b, 1c comprises at least one
device signal detection unit 11 to detect a predetermined device
signal s3a', s3b', s3c' of the exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c and
then, a wireless transceiver 12 transmits, in a wireless manner,
the device signal s3a', s3b', s3c' generated by the exercise device
1a, 1b, 1c to the wireless transceiver 36 of the corresponding one
of the portable units 3a, 3b, 3c. The device signal detection unit
11 may comprise one of a speed detection unit, a slope detection
unit, a distance detection unit, a power consumption detection
unit, a torque detection unit, and a calorie detection unit.
[0035] After each of the portable units 3a, 3b, 3c receives, via
the wireless transceiver 36, the device signal s3a', s3b', s3c',
the wireless transmitter 33 transmits a wireless device signal s3a,
s3b, s3c to be received by the common receiving station 41.
[0036] Further, each of the exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c comprises
at least one exercise control unit 13. The first processor unit 31
of the portable unit 3a, 3b, 3c, after receiving the device signal
s3a', s3b', s3c', transmits a device control signal s4a, s4b, s4c
through the wireless transceiver 36 of the portable unit 3a, 3b,
3c. The device control signal s4a, s4b, s4c is received by the
wireless transceiver 12 of the exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c and fed
to the exercise control unit 13 to control the operation of the
exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c (such as controlling exercise
resistance of the exercise devices 1a, 1b, 1c).
[0037] Referring to FIG. 3, which is a schematic view of a second
embodiment of the present invention, the components of the instant
embodiment are identical to those of the first embodiment and
identical components are designated with the same reference
numerals for consistency. In the instant embodiment, a portable
unit 5a, 5b, 5c is worn on the chest of the user 2a, 2b, 2c with a
chest strip. The chest-strip portable unit 5a, 5b, 5c is worn with
a chest strip on the chest of the user 2a, 2b, 2c to allow a body
signal detector of the portable unit 5a, 5b, 5c to detect the body
signal of the user 2a, 2b, 2c.
[0038] When the user 2a, 2b, 2c is using an exercise device 1a, 1b,
1c, the chest-strip portable unit 5a, 5b, 5c is worn on the chest
of the user 2a, 2b, 2c to detect and transmit the wireless body
signal s1a, s1b, s1c, the wireless identification code s2a, s2b,
s2c of the user 2a, 2b, 2c and the wireless device signal s3a, s3b,
s3c to the common receiving station 41.
[0039] Referring to FIG. 4, which is a schematic view of a third
embodiment of the present invention, in the instant embodiment, the
portable unit 6a, 6b, 6c is an on-waist counter type portable unit
that is worn on the waist of a user to provide a counting function
when the user is doing outdoor exercise or aerobic exercise. Each
of the portable units 6a, 6b, 6c generates a wireless body signal
s1a, s1b, s1c and a wireless identification code s2a, s2b, s2c that
are transmitted to the common receiving station 41.
[0040] Referring to FIG. 5, which is a schematic view of a fourth
embodiment of the present invention, in the instant embodiment, a
portable unit 7a, 7b, 7c is a speedometer of a bicycle rode by the
user 2a, 2b, 2c in order to provide a speed detection function when
the user is doing outdoor exercise or aerobic exercise. The
portable unit 7a, 7b, 7c may also be configured as a detector for
detecting the heartbeat of the user. Each of the portable units 7a,
7b, 7c generates a wireless body signal s1a, s1b, s1c , a wireless
identification code s2a, s2b, s2c and a wireless device signal s3a,
s3b, s3c that are transmitted to the common receiving station
41.
[0041] Referring to FIG. 6, which is a schematic view of a fifth
embodiment of the present invention, in the instant embodiment, the
components are identical to those of the embodiment shown in FIG. 3
and identical components are designated with the same reference
numerals. FIG. 7 is a circuit system block diagram of the fifth
embodiment of the present invention.
[0042] In the instant embodiment, when a user is using an exercise
device 1a, 1b, 1c, the portable unit 8a, 8b, 8c is worn on the
wrist of the user 2a, 2b, 2c. The portable unit 8a, 8b, 8c does
comprise a body signal detector. The user additionally wears a
chest strip 9a, 9b, 9c and a body signal detector 32a is attached
to each of the chest strips 9a, 9b, 9c to detect a body signal
s1a', s1b', s1c' (such as one of a heartbeat signal, a calorie
signal, a pulse signal, a blood glucose signal, and a blood
pressure signal).
[0043] The body signal s1a', s1b', s1c' detected by the body signal
detector 32a is received by a wireless transceiver 36 of the
portable unit 8a, 8b, 8c and then, a wireless transmitter 33 of the
portable unit 8a, 8b, 8c transmits the wireless body signal s1a,
s1b, s1c, a wireless identification code s2a', s2b', s2c' for
identification of the portable unit 8a, 8b, 8c, and a wireless
device signal s3a, s3b, s3c in a wireless manner to be received by
a common receiving station 41.
[0044] Although the present invention has been described with
reference to the preferred embodiments thereof, it is apparent to
those skilled in the art that a variety of modifications and
changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present
invention which is intended to be defined by the appended
claims.
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