Integrated Camera Arm for Real-Time Exercise Form Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home exercise equipment is often bulky and lacks personalized feedback, leading to unmotivated workouts due to the absence of real-time expert guidance, which can result in incorrect form and reduced effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a device with a display and camera arm for capturing user performance images, providing feedback on exercise form and suggesting corrections, and a method for analyzing anatomical points to assess user performance and offer real-time feedback during exercise sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If home exercise equipment is made compact and convenient for home use, then ease of operation and adaptability improve, but the ability to provide real-time expert feedback deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system captures images of the user performing exercises using an integrated camera, analyzes the images to detect anatomical landmarks and assess exercise form, then provides real-time feedback through a display screen. This closed-loop feedback system resolves the contradiction by enabling real-time expert feedback in a compact home device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of a human trainer providing visual feedback with an automated computer vision system that uses image processing algorithms to detect anatomical landmarks and assess exercise form, enabling feedback without requiring a physical trainer present.
2Measurement precision
If a personal trainer provides real-time feedback during exercise, then measurement precision and reliability improve, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-assessment by automatically capturing images, analyzing exercise form through image processing, and providing feedback without requiring external intervention from a trainer, thereby reducing complexity while maintaining measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a visual copy (image) of the user's exercise form and analyzes this copy to provide feedback, eliminating the need for a physical trainer to observe and assess the exercise in person, thus reducing device complexity while maintaining assessment accuracy.
3Measurement precision
If exercise equipment includes integrated camera and feedback systems, then measurement precision and user motivation improve, but device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the camera, display, and exercise equipment into a single integrated device, merging multiple functions (exercise performance, image capture, feedback delivery) into one unit, which reduces the need for separate equipment while maintaining measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs multiple functions including displaying exercise instructions, capturing user performance images, analyzing exercise form, and providing feedback, making it a multi-functional system that reduces overall equipment complexity compared to separate specialized devices.
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AI summary
Systems and methods include an exercise device receiving a sequence of camera images of a user performing an exercise, identifying a plurality of anatomical points of the user based at least in part on the sequence of camera images, determining a user performance level based, at least in part, on an analysis of the plurality of anatomical points; and providing corrective feedback to the user when the user performance level fails to satisfy performance criteria for the exercise. A workout device includes a display device for displaying exercise content and a housing with a recessed portion and a camera arm configured to be inserted in the recessed portion of the housing in a first position and partially inserted in the recessed portion of the housing in a second position.