Touch Screen Control Interface for Exercise Apparatus
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise apparatus control interfaces are inconvenient for users to adjust and understand exercise intensity settings, as they require multiple key presses or complex LED displays, making it difficult to set precise intensity levels and visualize the relationship between different settings.
Innovation Solution
A touch screen-based control interface that displays an information field with graphical adjusting paths and tags, allowing users to drag tags along the paths to adjust parameters like speed and incline, providing visual feedback on the changes and displaying a graphic history of exercise intensity over time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple keys and LED displays are used for control interface, then feedback function is provided, but operation convenience deteriorates and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate control keys and LED display elements into a single integrated touch screen interface. The touch screen displays virtual keys and exercise process charts in a unified graphical interface, allowing users to input commands and receive feedback through the same device, thereby improving operation convenience while maintaining comprehensive feedback functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a one-dimensional linear arrangement of physical keys and LED segments to a two-dimensional graphical touch screen interface. The exercise process chart is displayed as a graphical curve on the touch screen, allowing users to visualize exercise intensity trends across time and intensity dimensions simultaneously, improving both information presentation and operational ease.
2Measurement precision
If multiple keys are used for adjusting exercise intensity, then precise control is achieved, but time consumption increases and operation becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent displays the complete exercise process chart showing the entire exercise routine with intensity variations over time before the user begins exercising. This preliminary visualization allows users to understand the full exercise profile in advance, enabling them to make informed decisions about intensity adjustments without needing to trial-and-error through multiple key presses during the exercise.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch screen provides real-time feedback by displaying the exercise process chart that updates as the exercise progresses. The graphical curve shows current position on the exercise routine and intensity levels, allowing users to see immediately how adjustments affect the overall exercise profile, enabling precise control with minimal adjustment time.
3Loss of information
If LED matrix display is used for exercise process chart, then exercise intensity information is presented, but user understanding deteriorates due to boundary misinterpretation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses color variations in the graphical exercise process chart to differentiate between various exercise intensity levels and phases. The chart displays different colors or shading patterns to indicate rising and falling intensity boundaries, making it visually clear that these represent intensity transitions rather than physical terrain changes, thereby improving user understanding and preventing misinterpretation.
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AI summary
A method for controlling an exercise apparatus via a control interface of an exercise apparatus, including steps of controlling a touch screen to display an information field, and then monitoring the touch screen to detect whether a touch has occurred on the surface of the touch screen and whether the touch is located in an input zone which has a plurality of sensing areas in the information field. A user can use specific actions to operate the exercise apparatus from one condition of using a first speed value to another condition of using a second speed value.