Exercise Machine Breathing Control via Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current exercise machines lack effective methods to provide users with timely and reliable breathing control guidance during workouts, leading to potential increased fatigue and suboptimal performance due to incorrect breathing techniques.
Innovation Solution
An exercise machine equipped with a data processing unit and sensor system that acquires parameters related to the workout, such as speed, resistance, and heart rate, to determine and provide real-time breathing instructions through audio or graphic representations, ensuring proper breathing techniques based on the intensity and type of exercise.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time breathing control guidance is implemented during exercise, then workout performance and safety are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine's control unit is designed to perform multiple functions: it monitors exercise parameters (speed, resistance, heart rate) and simultaneously provides breathing control guidance. This multi-functionality approach allows the system to deliver comprehensive workout management without adding separate dedicated devices, thereby improving reliability while controlling complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors exercise parameters and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust and provide appropriate breathing instructions. The control unit processes real-time data from sensors and delivers customized breathing guidance based on the user's current exercise state, ensuring accurate and context-appropriate breathing control throughout the workout.
2Reliability
If multiple sensor parameters are monitored for breathing guidance, then breathing control reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The existing sensor system of the exercise machine, originally designed for basic workout monitoring, is leveraged to also provide data for breathing control guidance. By reusing the same sensors for dual purposes (workout monitoring and breathing guidance), the system achieves improved breathing control reliability without adding substantial sensor complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple sensor inputs (speed, resistance, heart rate) into a unified breathing control system. The control unit integrates these different parameter streams and synthesizes them into coherent breathing instructions, merging multiple data sources into a single coordinated guidance system that improves accuracy while managing complexity through integration.
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AI summary
A method for controlling breathing of a user during workout with an exercise machine is provided. The method includes acquiring, by a data processing unit of the exercise machine, at least one parameter representative of a physical exercise being performed by the user with the exercise machine, determining, by the data processing unit of the exercise machine, an indication of the breathing to be followed by the user while performing the physical exercise based on the acquired at least one parameter representative of the physical exercise, and providing the user, by the data processing unit of the exercise machine, with the determined indication of breathing. An exercise machine implementing the method for controlling breathing of the user during workout is also provided.