Animation Preparing Device for Exercise Form Correction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise support systems fail to provide users with practical correction methods for improving their exercise form, as they only highlight dissimilarities without clear guidance on how to address them.
Innovation Solution
An animation preparing device that acquires exercise data from a user and compares it to model data to detect characteristic points, then generates animations from multiple viewpoints to clearly present improvement points, allowing users to focus on specific body parts and motions for correction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If only a single animation viewpoint is provided to indicate a characteristic point, then the device complexity is reduced, but the user cannot clearly understand multiple causes for improvement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the animation presentation by creating multiple animations from different viewpoints (first viewpoint, second viewpoint, etc.) to display different causes for the same characteristic point. This segmentation allows comprehensive information delivery without overwhelming complexity in a single animation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds the dimension of multiple viewpoints to the animation presentation. Instead of trying to show all causes in one viewpoint, it transitions to another dimension (different angles/perspectives) to comprehensively present multiple causes for improvement
2Loss of information
If multiple animations from different viewpoints are prepared to indicate multiple causes, then the completeness of improvement information is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex task of presenting multiple causes into separate animations, each focusing on one cause from one viewpoint. This segmentation manages complexity by breaking down the information delivery into manageable units
Solution Approach 2:
The animation preparation device performs multiple functions: it detects characteristic points, determines multiple causes, generates multiple viewpoints, and presents them systematically. This multi-functionality justifies the increased complexity by delivering comprehensive improvement information
3Ease of operation
If only dissimilar body parts are highlighted without multiple viewpoint animations, then the ease of operation is improved, but the user lacks practical correction guidance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the correction guidance by associating each viewpoint animation with a specific cause. This segmentation provides practical correction information by linking visual feedback from different angles to specific improvement actions
Data Source
AI summary
The animation preparing device includes at least one processor. The processor acquires exercise data concerning an exercise done by a user or the exercise that the user is doing. In a case where there exists a plurality of causes for a characteristic point of the user that has been detected based on the acquired exercise data, the processor prepares, from the exercise data, a first user animation represented in a first direction of line of sight as an animation of the exercise done by the user or the exercise that the user is doing in order to indicate a first cause for the characteristic point, and prepares a second user animation represented in a second direction of line of sight that is separate from the first line of sight in order to indicate a second cause for the characteristic point that is separate from the first cause.