Portable Yoga Training System with Breathing Timing Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Yoga and stretching exercises are challenging for users to follow due to the need to constantly change poses to view instructional videos, making it difficult to maintain correct breathing techniques and leading to frustration, especially for beginners.
Innovation Solution
A portable training system with a display unit, notification unit, and computer that stores and displays elementary and simple poses, along with breathing timing data, allowing users to practice while holding the device and receiving notifications for breathing timing, enabling smooth and correct breathing without needing to change their pose to view the screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users watch yoga instructions on a television screen, then they can see the instructor's poses, but they must change poses to view the screen properly, making it difficult to maintain correct breathing techniques
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a fixed television screen to a portable device that can be positioned in multiple dimensions (handheld, wearable, or placed on body), allowing the user to view instructions from any angle while maintaining their pose, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of following instruction and breathing technique accuracy
2Ease of operation
If users watch yoga instructions on a television screen, then they can see the instructor's poses, but they cannot easily recognize the breathing timing of the instructor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates visual or auditory feedback mechanisms that directly indicate breathing timing to the user, providing real-time information about when to breathe in or out during the pose, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of recognizing breathing timing and loss of breathing timing information
3Productivity
If yoga poses are complex, then they provide thorough training, but beginners find it difficult to quickly follow the motion and may get frustrated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides complex yoga poses into simpler component poses or breaks down the instruction into manageable steps, allowing beginners to progress gradually through the motion sequence without feeling overwhelmed, thus resolving the contradiction between training effectiveness and ease of following motion
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a training system that enables a player to take a lesson with smooth and correct breathing and continuously take a lesson while overcoming frustration. An instructor image related to a yoga pose and a breathing timing are displayed on a display. A training device is a portable type, such that the player can hold the training device in one hand, and take a lesson while watching the display. In addition, the player can take the lesson with correct breathing by watching the displayed breathing timing. When it is difficult to take the same pose as the instructor image related to the yoga pose, the player selects ‘SIMPLE POSE’. Then, a simple pose is displayed on the basis of simple pose data. The simple pose has lower difficulty level than an elementary pose, and thus even a player who is lacking in limberness can take the corresponding pose.