Mobile Exercise Camera Device for Posture Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in performing exercises correctly without expert guidance, as they struggle to maintain proper posture, and existing electronic devices fail to effectively capture and provide feedback on their posture during exercises.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device that can move to a designated or determined location to photograph the user, providing both a guide image and a user image for comparison, allowing users to assess their posture accurately.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the electronic device photographs the user at a fixed location, then the device structure is simple, but the user cannot properly photograph the desired body part or posture at the desired location
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device transitions from a static fixed-location camera to a mobile device that can move to different positions. The device includes a moving mechanism that allows it to relocate to designated positions around the user, enabling photography from multiple angles and locations as needed for exercise posture assessment.
2Measurement precision
If the user photographs their own posture, then no expert guidance is needed, but the user cannot recognize whether their posture is correct or which part is incorrect
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the user's posture by generating a two-dimensional image from the captured three-dimensional posture data. This virtual image is then overlaid on the user's actual posture, allowing the user to visually compare and identify discrepancies between their posture and the correct exercise form.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate visual feedback by overlaying the generated posture image on the user's actual posture in real-time or near-real-time. This feedback mechanism allows users to see which body parts are positioned incorrectly and make immediate corrections without requiring expert interpretation.
3Measurement precision
If multiple cameras are used to capture user posture from different locations, then posture assessment accuracy improves, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using multiple static cameras simultaneously, the system employs a single mobile camera that moves to different designated positions around the user. This dynamic approach captures images from multiple angles sequentially, achieving the same measurement precision as multiple cameras would provide, but with reduced device complexity and cost.
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AI summary
An electronic device and a method for providing information thereof are provided. In an embodiment, the electronic device is configured to receive a user input for selecting an exercise through a user interface or a wireless communication circuit, select a guide image corresponding to the selected exercise, analyze the selected guide image, acquire a first image of a user through at least one camera at a first location, determine a second location for the electronic device based at least in part on the analyzed guide image and the acquired first image of the user, control at least one driver to move the electronic device based at least in part on the determined second location, acquire a second image of the user through the at least one camera after a movement of the electronic device, and generate a combined image by combining the selected guide image and the acquired second image of the user.