Exercise Content Setting System for Personalized Workout Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing personal training systems require users to perform exercises within facilities, failing to consider exercise situations outside these environments, leading to inadequate exercise programs tailored to users' daily activities and goals.

Innovation Solution

An exercise content setting system that acquires and transmits daily activity information from a terminal apparatus to set exercise content information appropriate for users' purposes, including exercise intensity, time, calorie balance, sleep state, and fatigue levels, allowing for personalized exercise programs both within and outside facilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If personalized exercise programs are generated based on human action screening scores and user purposes, then exercise program effectiveness is improved, but users must perform exercises within facilities which limits accessibility and convenience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexercise program effectivenessVSAvoidexercise accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring user activity information (steps, distance, calories, sleep, fatigue) before generating exercise programs. This allows the system to pre-process user data and create personalized exercise content without requiring users to perform preliminary exercise screenings at the facility, thereby improving accessibility while maintaining program effectiveness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary mechanism by using wearable devices and mobile terminals to collect and transmit user activity information to the exercise content setting apparatus. This intermediary data collection method replaces the need for direct in-facility exercise screening, bridging the gap between home-based convenience and facility-based accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If exercise content is set based on daily activity information from terminal apparatus, then exercise setting simplicity is improved, but the system requires data collection infrastructure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexercise setting simplicityVSAvoiddata collection infrastructure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically collecting user activity information through wearable devices and mobile terminals without requiring manual input from users. The terminal apparatus autonomously acquires data such as steps, distance, calories, sleep patterns, and fatigue levels, then transmits this information to the exercise content setting apparatus, which automatically generates personalized exercise programs based on the received data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The terminal apparatus serves multiple functions: it acts as a wearable sensor device for data collection, a communication device for transmitting information, and a user interface for displaying exercise content. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized equipment, thereby simplifying the overall system while maintaining comprehensive data collection capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10350456B2Exercise content setting system, exercise content setting apparatus, exercise content setting method, and exercise content setting program
Publication Date: 2019.07.16 SEIKO EPSON CORP
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AI summary

An exercise content setting system includes a terminal apparatus that acquires and transmits the daily activity information of a user; and an exercise content setting apparatus that sets exercise content information indicating content of an exercise according to a preset purpose based on the activity information acquired from the terminal apparatus.