Pet Running Machine with Biometric Camera

Abstract

The present invention relates to a treadmill for pets equipped with a biometric recognition camera that recognizes a pet among several pets and drives a running program suitable for that pet. The invention comprises: a conventional treadmill for pets (A) in which a belt (V) is rotated by a motor (M); and a biometric recognition camera (10) capable of recognizing the biometric features of a pet on the treadmill for pets (A). The biometric recognition camera (10) is characterized by comprising: a mounting housing (11) mounted on one side of the front upper surface of the treadmill for pets (A); a camera mount (12) mounted on the upper surface of the mounting housing (11); a camera (13) mounted on the camera mount (12); and a motor (M) mounted from the inside of the front upper surface of the treadmill (A) to rotate the mounting housing (11).

Description

Technology Field

[0001] The present invention relates to a treadmill for pets equipped with a biometric camera that recognizes a pet among several pets and runs a running program suitable for that pet. Background Technology

[0003] Recently, with the increase in single-person households, there has been a growing trend of households raising pets such as dogs and cats. Although pets need to be exercised sufficiently in proportion to their diet, there has been a problem of obesity in pets as owners lack the capacity to exercise them, such as taking them for walks, due to their busy lifestyles.

[0004] Conventional treadmills for pets were generally made in the form of smaller, modified versions of human treadmills, in which the belt is rotated by a motor.

[0005] However, conventional treadmills for pets had a problem in that, while they were fine when there was only one pet, when there were multiple pets, exercise had to be performed appropriately according to the degree of obesity of each pet, but they could not distinguish between the pets, making it impossible to perform exercises suitable for each animal.

[0006] For reference, the following prior art documents consist of four recent prior art documents found through the KIPRIS patent information network using the keyword "companion*(training+running)," and by referring to the following prior art documents, one can understand the technical field, background technology, and the state of development related to the present invention. Prior art literature

[0008] Korean Patent Registration Publication No. 10-2596274. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2023-0128948. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2023-0096336. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2022-0138326. The problem to be solved

[0009] The present invention was developed to solve the conventional problems mentioned in the background technology, and in particular, the purpose of the present invention is to solve the problem of recognizing a pet among several pets and running a running program suitable for that pet. means of solving the problem

[0011] The present invention proposes a means to add a biometric camera to a treadmill for pets to enable the recognition of a specific pet among several pets, as a means to solve the problem. Effects of the invention

[0013] According to the means of the present invention, a pet among several pets can be registered and identified on a pet treadmill through the pet's face, physique, color, pattern, etc., by means of a biometric camera, and accordingly, the pet can be exercised according to an appropriate exercise program for the pet pre-entered into the pet treadmill, thereby providing the effect of efficiently providing customized exercise according to the degree of obesity of each pet among several pets. Brief explanation of the drawing

[0015] FIG. 1 is an exemplary illustration of the present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the main part of Fig. 1. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of FIG. 2 seen from a different direction. FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of FIG. 2 FIG. 5 is an example cross-sectional view of FIG. 2 FIG. 6 is an example of the use of FIG. 1. Specific details for implementing the invention

[0016] The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings.However, the attached drawings may be exaggerated, omitted, or depicted schematically for the convenience of explaining the essential parts; terms and names used in the description may be implicitly determined by the shape, function, or role of the components rather than their dictionary meanings; descriptions regarding direction are determined based on the direction first presented in the first drawing, and descriptions regarding position are determined based on the center of each component or the center of a circle. Furthermore, detailed descriptions of previously registered known technologies and ordinary technologies may be omitted or replaced with simple symbols or names to avoid obscuring the essentials. Additionally, detailed descriptions of the specific structure, shape, form, arrangement, size, correlation lines, etc., of a component identifiable through the drawings, as well as the operation of the component and its resulting effects that can be inferred from the drawings, may be omitted as they may obscure the essentials. Bolts, welds, holes, etc., applied for joining components may also be omitted from the drawings as they may obscure the essentials. Unless the shape of a component is specifically designated, the planar shape is circular or rectangular, and in such cases, the plan view may be omitted.

[0018] The present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7.

[0019] As described above, the present invention is characterized by comprising: a conventional treadmill for pets (A) in which a belt (V) is rotated by a motor (M); and a biometric recognition camera (10) capable of recognizing the biological features of a pet on the treadmill for pets (A).

[0020] More specifically, the biometric camera (10) may include a mounting housing (11) mounted on one side of the front upper surface of a pet treadmill (A); a camera mount (12) mounted on the upper surface of the mounting housing (11); a camera (13) mounted on the camera mount (12); and a motor (M) mounted from the inside of the front upper surface of the treadmill (A) to rotate the mounting housing (11).

[0021] More specifically, the camera mount (12) is configured such that one end of the bottom plate (121) and the top plate (122) is joined by a hinge (H) to allow for vertical angle adjustment from the hinge (H), a hemispherical ball (123) is formed on the front upper surface of the top plate (122), and the camera (13) is configured such that a ball groove (131) is formed on the front lower surface to be joined with the ball of the camera mount (12) to allow for vertical and horizontal angle adjustment, a slide plate (124) is joined to the bottom surface of the bottom plate (121) of the camera mount (12) by a fastener (B), and the mounting housing (11) has a slide groove (111) formed on the rear upper surface into which the slide plate (124) of the camera mount (12) is inserted, and a power connection terminal (112) is configured in the middle of the rear surface to connect power to the camera (13) from inside the treadmill (A). A coupling groove (113) is formed in the middle of the bottom surface to be coupled with the drive shaft (M1) of the motor (M), and the motor (M) can be configured to be mounted on the bottom of the plate (A1) on the front upper surface of the treadmill (A) and connected to the coupling groove (113) of the mounting housing (11).

[0022] Additionally, the mounting housing (11) may be structured such that the body is separated and joined on both sides as shown in the illustration, and a support plate (114) is joined to the lower part of the body, and a communication hole (115) is formed on one side of the lower plate (121) through which a cable is connected from the inside of the treadmill (A) to a power connection terminal (112), and the plate (A1) on the front upper surface of the treadmill (A) may be structured such that a cable guide groove (A2) is formed according to the rotation of the mounting housing (11).

[0023] The above biometric camera (10) is mounted on the treadmill (A) by connecting the mounting housing (11) to the drive shaft (M1) of the motor (M) mounted from the inside of the front upper surface of the treadmill (A), and the mounting housing (11) is seated on the treadmill (A) by inserting the slide plate (124) of the mounting bracket into the rear slide groove (111) of the mounting housing (11) so that the mounting bracket is connected to the camera (13) mounted on the camera bracket (12) from the power connection terminal (112) of the mounting housing (11), and the camera (13) is positioned at an angle that allows the pet on the treadmill (A) to be viewed clearly by adjusting the up-down angle of the camera bracket (12) and the up-down-left-right angle of the camera (13).

[0024] The above biometric camera (10) is connected to the control unit (C) of the pet treadmill (A), and the control unit (C) can be configured to register the pet recognized by the biometric camera (10), and also recognize the pet among several registered pets, and to operate the treadmill (A) according to the pet according to a value pre-set in the control unit (C) of the pet treadmill (A).

[0025] The above biometric camera (10) can be configured to register and identify a pet among several pets on the pet treadmill (A) through the face, body shape, color, pattern, etc. of the pet captured by the camera (13) via a vision program installed in the control unit (C) of the pet treadmill (A).

[0026] In addition, the above biometric camera (10) can rotate the camera (13) according to the driving of the motor (M), and through the rotation, it is possible to locate the pet indoors as well as monitor or observe it.

[0027] In this way, as described in the effect of the invention, the pet among several pets can be registered and identified on the pet treadmill through the pet's face, body shape, color, pattern, etc. by the biometric camera (10), and accordingly, the pet can be exercised according to the appropriate exercise program for the pet that is pre-entered into the pet treadmill, thus providing the effect of efficiently providing customized exercise according to the degree of obesity of each pet among several pets.

[0029] With that, the description of the present invention is concluded.This invention provides drawings of the configuration and specific components included therein to facilitate understanding of the principles of the configuration sought in this invention, and explains them based on these drawings. The structure, form, shape, arrangement, direction, and quantity of the configuration and specific components included in this invention are determined in consideration of the principles sought, and these may be modified in various ways as necessary. The configuration and specific components presented in this invention serve as examples for those skilled in the art to understand the effects sought in this invention and which principles are most desirable to apply to obtain better effects. Accordingly, while it is most desirable to complete this invention by including all the configurations described above, it may be completed by selecting or excluding some of the configurations described above for cost reduction, ease of manufacturing, environmental conditions, or as needed, or by separating one or some of the configurations and merging them with other configurations. Furthermore, each configuration described above may be independently applied to other technical fields outside of this field, taking into account principles, uses, functions, roles, operations, and effects. Based on this, the scope of rights of the present invention is defined as follows to encompass the claims of the present invention as much as possible, and the claims are presented in order starting from the claim with the broadest rights. Through this, it is expected that a person skilled in the art with ordinary knowledge in this technical field will be able to sufficiently grasp the essence sought by the present invention through the specific details described above and the scope of claims to be described below, and the effects of parts that are illustrated but not explained can be sufficiently inferred from the drawings. Accordingly, a person skilled in the art will be able to apply various modifications and changes based on the content mentioned in the present invention to this technical field, thereby contributing to the advancement of this technical field as well as further increasing efficiency in use.

Claims

Claim 1 A conventional pet treadmill (A) in which a belt (V) is rotated by a motor (M); and a biometric recognition camera (10) installed on the pet treadmill (A) to recognize the biometric features of a pet among several pets; wherein the biometric recognition camera (10) is connected to a control unit (C) of the pet treadmill (A), and the control unit (C) is configured to register the pet recognized by the biometric recognition camera (10) and to recognize the pet among several registered pets, and to drive the treadmill (A) according to a value pre-set in the control unit (C) of the pet treadmill (A) to match the pet; wherein the biometric recognition camera (10) comprises a mounting housing (11) mounted on one side of the front upper surface of the pet treadmill (A); a camera mount (12) mounted on the upper surface of the mounting housing (11); and a camera (13) mounted on the camera mount (12). A motor (M) rotatably mounted to a mounting housing (11) from the inside of the front upper surface of the treadmill (A);The camera mount (12) is configured such that one end of the bottom plate (121) and the top plate (122) is joined by a hinge (H) to allow for vertical angle adjustment from the hinge (H), a hemispherical ball (123) is formed on the front upper surface of the top plate (122), and the camera (13) is configured such that a ball groove (131) is formed on the front lower surface to be joined with the ball (123) of the camera mount (12), thereby allowing for vertical and horizontal angle adjustment and rotational adjustment. A slide plate (124) is joined to the bottom surface of the bottom plate (121) of the camera mount (12) by a fastener (B), and a slide groove (111) is formed on the rear upper surface of the mounting housing (11) into which the slide plate (124) of the camera mount (12) is inserted, and power is connected to the camera (13) from inside the treadmill (A) in the middle of the rear surface. A treadmill for pets equipped with a biometric camera, comprising a power connection terminal (112) and a coupling groove (113) formed in the middle of the bottom surface to be coupled with the drive shaft (M1) of the motor (M), wherein the motor (M) is mounted on the bottom surface of the plate (A1) on the front upper surface of the treadmill (A) and connected to the coupling groove (113) of the mounting housing (11). Claim 2 delete Claim 3 delete Claim 4 delete

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