Sports equipment that utilizes portable electronic devices to enhance control panel functions

Abstract

The present invention relates to a kind of sports equipment, which has an electric control mechanism that can change the user's exercise difficulty, and a console as a human-machine interface platform. The aforementioned console has an input interface, a display interface, a communication interface, and a control unit; usually, the aforementioned The control unit operates in a basic mode and can perform some basic functions; when the aforementioned communication interface and a portable electronic device provided by the user (such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, etc.) form a two-way communication connection locally, the aforementioned control unit uses An advanced mode of operation can use the computing power of the aforementioned portable electronic device to perform advanced functions that cannot be equally performed under the aforementioned basic functions. .

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to sports equipment, in particular to a console operating system for sports equipment. Background technique [0002] Common indoor sports equipment such as treadmills, stationary bicycles, elliptical machines, stair machines, steppers, rowing machines, etc., are mostly equipped with a console as a human-machine interface platform for users to input commands and output Visual and audio information to the user. In the part of displaying information, the earlier and more basic aforementioned consoles usually use a number of seven-segment / fourteen-segment / sixteen-segment displays (7- / 14- / 16-segment display) or dot matrix displays (dotmatrix display) ) and other LED devices simply display numbers, English letters, graphs, etc. Recently, more and more middle and high-end sports equipment are equipped with image displays such as liquid crystal displays on their consoles to display color, Detailed and flexible graphical informat...

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Problems solved by technology

The industry will inevitably face a dilemma: if in order to display exquisite and smooth images under a certain functional mode that requires high image processing capabilities (for example, computer imaging technology must be used to generate dynamic images), the console Related hardware with relatively high internal configuration may be cost-effective because the performance of the aforementioned hardware is idle and oversupply for many times (for example, only basic static images need to be displayed in common functional modes); on the contrary , if lower-specification related hardware is configured in order to reduce costs, it will limit the performance and application range of image displays, and reduce the appeal of sports equipment to consumers

Although this kind of system has a wide range of applications and development space, including solving the problem of limited functions of the aforementioned console to a certain extent, however, the construction and maintenance of the aforementioned server must be invested with considerable costs, and the normal operation of the aforementioned system requires a high degree of Rely on the communication speed and stability of the aforementioned network

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