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Electronic data gathering and processing for fitness machines

a fitness machine and electronic data technology, applied in the field of fitness machines, can solve problems such as data limitation

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-12-08
CAMMERATA GREGORY T
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[0012] Still another object of the present invention is to provide to a user the ability to monitor certain body parameters during exercise such as heart rate and blood pressure.

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Currently a minority of fitness machines being used provide exercise data that is available for use with a data processing machine such as a computer, and this data is limited to a few machine parameters of the fitness machines.
Furthermore, this data is not stored and thus there are many machine parameters of fitness machines which are not readily available to a user, or, in the case of electronic based fitness machines, are only available until the workout is complete at which time the data is lost.

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[0026] Turning now to the drawings, FIG. 1A is a local area network diagram of an electronic data gathering and processing system of the present invention suitable for use with fitness machines, particularly in a home environment, generally designated as 10. Fitness machines 12 and 14, each having sensors 16 and 18, respectively, can be of various types such as leg presses, stationary bicycles and leg extension machines. The fitness machines 12 and 14, when originally manufactured, did not have data ports.

[0027] A third fitness machine 22 has a data port 24, which transfers data through a cable 26 to a data interface module 28 over a local area network which connects together the various blocks of FIG. 1A. In FIG. 1A the data at the data port 24 does not have a format compatible with the computer interface module 20. For example, the data format used in one embodiment of the present invention is the Ethernet format, and the data format of the fitness machine 22 in FIG. 1A is an inc...

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Fitness machines with attached machine parameter sensors send machine parameter data over a local area network to a computer where the sensed data is stored and processed. The processed data is made available to a user to show machine adjustments made in previous workouts, the number of repetitions made as well as other exercise or health related parameters. Other data which can be entered into the computer includes, for example, a user's body dimensions, if any soreness was felt during or immediately after a workout and data from body monitors worn during the workout to monitor, for example, heart rate. The computer can have data on different exercise regimes and application data for suggesting a workout regime for a particular user.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] This invention relates to fitness machines and, more specifically, to electronic data gathering and processing for fitness machines. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] Currently a minority of fitness machines being used provide exercise data that is available for use with a data processing machine such as a computer, and this data is limited to a few machine parameters of the fitness machines. Furthermore, this data is not stored and thus there are many machine parameters of fitness machines which are not readily available to a user, or, in the case of electronic based fitness machines, are only available until the workout is complete at which time the data is lost. A few basic machine parameter, for example, are the seat position adjustment, weight used, repetitions completed, or in the case of electronic based fitness equipment, distance traveled, calories burned, etc. Some other parameters associated...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63B71/00G06F19/00A63B69/00A63B24/00A63B22/02A63B22/00
CPCA63B23/0494A63B24/0062A63B24/0075A63B24/0087A63B71/0622A63B71/0686A63B2069/066A63B2071/063A63B2071/065A63B2208/0228A63B2220/16A63B2220/833A63B2225/096A63B2225/15A63B2225/20A63B2230/01A63B2230/04A63B2230/70G06F19/3418A63B21/063A63B21/0628G16H40/67
Inventor CAMMERATA, GREGORY T.
Owner CAMMERATA GREGORY T
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