Fitness Activity Data Display on Television via Remote Trigger
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current fitness activity trackers do not provide an efficient method for users to access and display comprehensive fitness data on a display device like a television, limiting the ability to easily view and compare health and fitness metrics across multiple users.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that involves a content output device with a processor to receive fitness activity data from registered users' trackers, launch a fitness activity display application, and present a report on a display device, using a remote control's fitness key to trigger data display, allowing for user input to control presentation and account management, and generating reports for individual or comparative fitness goals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If fitness activity data is displayed on a mobile device or tracker, then the data is accessible to the user, but the display size and viewing experience are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a television as an intermediary display device between the fitness tracker and the user. The tracker sends data to a server, which then transmits it to the television for display. This mediator approach allows the small tracker to leverage the large television screen, providing both large display area and maintaining system simplicity through standardized communication protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the display from a two-dimensional small screen (mobile device or tracker) to a large two-dimensional television screen. This dimensional change in display area provides a significantly improved viewing experience while maintaining the same fundamental display technology, thus avoiding the need for complex additional hardware.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive fitness data from multiple users is collected and displayed, then the ability to compare and analyze fitness metrics is improved, but the data management and processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary for data management. The server receives fitness data from multiple trackers, processes and stores it, and then transmits the processed data to the television for display. This intermediary approach enables comprehensive multi-user data collection and comparison while keeping the individual tracker devices simple and the television interface manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the television displays comprehensive fitness data from multiple users, allowing users to compare their performance. The system processes raw data from trackers, transforms it into meaningful comparisons and insights, and feeds it back to users in an easily consumable format on the television screen.
3Ease of operation
If a remote control with fitness key is used to trigger data display, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the remote control multi-functional by adding a fitness key to its existing functionality. The remote control already exists for television operation, and by adding one dedicated fitness key, it gains the additional function of initiating fitness data display. This universal approach avoids the need for a separate dedicated fitness device while providing easy operation through a familiar remote control.
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AI summary
A content output device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to receive a fitness activity trigger event associated with at least one registered user, launch a fitness activity display application, retrieve fitness activity data of at least one user, and display, on a display device, a fitness activity report associated with the fitness activity of the user. The fitness activity data is obtained by a fitness activity tracker device or a mobile device, or from a remote server. Fitness activity data may be provided to the fitness activity display application. The fitness activity trigger event is generated with a designated key on a remote control is selected. The fitness activity display application processes the fitness activity data to generate the fitness activity report for presentation on a display device.