Moveable Workout Camera Integration for Full-Body Form Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise machines with embedded cameras face obsolescence issues due to rapid advancements in camera technology, limiting perspective capture and requiring frequent upgrades, and lack flexibility in capturing user movements, especially for lower body parts.
Innovation Solution
Integrate a moveable external camera device with a cable-based exercise machine, distributing computation between the camera and trainer to minimize communication overhead and leveraging the camera's improved imaging capabilities, while augmenting the trainer's computational power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If an embedded camera is integrated into the exercise machine, then form feedback and positional information can be captured, but the camera becomes obsolete quickly due to rapid technological advancements
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates the camera into an external moveable device independent from the exercise machine. The camera device can be detached, replaced, or upgraded without affecting the machine itself, allowing the imaging component to be updated separately as technology advances while the machine remains functional.
Solution Approach 2:
A communication interface acts as an intermediary between the external camera device and the exercise machine. This interface receives imaging data from the camera and transmits it to the processor, allowing the system to work with different camera technologies without requiring changes to the core machine architecture.
2Device complexity
If a fixed embedded camera is used, then the machine structure remains simple, but the camera cannot capture all user movements especially lower body parts
Solution Approach 1:
The camera device is made moveable rather than fixed, allowing it to be repositioned to capture different angles and perspectives of user movements. The camera can be moved to optimize the field of view for various exercises, enabling comprehensive capture of both upper and lower body movements while keeping the machine structure relatively simple.
3Loss of information
If multiple data sources are coordinated for exercise information, then comprehensive workout analysis is achieved, but communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines data from multiple sources (imaging data from the camera, sensor data from the exercise machine, and user profile information) into a unified workout analysis. The processor integrates these different data streams to provide comprehensive form feedback, positional information, and workout recommendations, maximizing the value of coordinated information while managing communication efficiently.
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AI summary
An exercise machine includes a cable. It further includes an interface to a moveable camera device coupled with the exercise machine. It further includes a processor configured to receive a cable-based measurement associated with an exercise performed by a user. The processor is further configured to receive, from the moveable camera device, video information associated with the exercise. The processor is further configured to provide a workout determination based at least in part on both the cable-based measurement and the video information received from the moveable camera device.