Display-Based Exercise Guidance Using Free-Space Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing home training services do not consider the surrounding environment, leading to potential injuries due to space limitations and inability to follow exercise motions in environments with obstacles.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus that includes a camera and processor to detect free space, determine performable exercise motions, and provide exercise content or guide information to secure additional space, using neural networks and computer vision for analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If home training services provide exercise guidance based on user tendencies or body types, then exercise personalization is improved, but safety is worsened due to lack of consideration for surrounding environment and space limitations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveexercise personalizationVSAvoidinjury risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of the user's surrounding environment and free space before providing exercise guidance. The camera captures images of the environment, and the processor analyzes the free space in advance to determine safe exercise motions, preventing potential injuries before they occur

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to the user about the detected free space and recommends exercise motions that are safe for the available space. The guide screen displays information about the detected environment and suggests appropriate exercises, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to environmental conditions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Device complexity

If exercise content is provided without considering free space, then service simplicity is improved, but usability is worsened due to inability to follow exercise motions in constrained environments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice simplicityVSAvoidexercise followability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adapts the exercise content based on the detected free space. Instead of providing fixed exercise routines, the system adjusts the recommended exercises according to the available space, making the service adaptable to different environmental conditions while maintaining simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250345692A1Display apparatus and operating method of the same

Publication Date: 2025.11.13 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A display apparatus may include: a camera; a display; a memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: analyze an image captured by the camera and detect a free space included in the image; determine an exercise motion performable in the free space, based on the detected free space; and control the display to output exercise content based on the determined exercise motion.