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Patent US10737140
Issued 2020-08-11
Multi-functional Weight Rack And Exercise Monitoring System For Tracking Exercise Movements
Systems and methods for tracking user movement during physical fitness activities are presented. A camera tracks movements of objects of interest in a field of view thereof during an exercise routine to log, instruct and provide feedback data to assist the user in reaching fitness goals. The user can also share his data with friends or teammates, for example through social media or in a client-server environment.
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- 1. An exercise monitoring system for use with exercise equipment, comprising:
a camera assembly comprising:
a first camera that captures first visible light images of a user of said exercise equipment, and
a second camera that generates an image comprising a matrix of distance values;
a motorized driver, mechanically coupled to said camera assembly within a housing, that moves said camera assembly in at least one degree of freedom to track a movement of at least one object in a field of view of said at least one imaging sensor; a processor coupled to said camera assembly and receiving said matrix of distance values from said camera assembly, said processor further performing analysis of said matrix of distance values to generate information relating to monitored exercise activity of said user; a controller, in data communication with said processor, and coupled to said motorized driver, which controls movement of said motorized driver so as to track the movement of said object; said housing containing each of said camera assembly, motorized driver, processor and controller, the housing mechanically coupled to said motorized driver to move the camera assembly with respect to said housing, and further configured to mechanically couple said exercise monitoring system to an external support; the system further comprising: an interactive device, physically separate from said housing, said interactive device configured to receive and display said information relating to monitored exercise activity of said user, wherein said interactive device further comprises a front-facing camera that captures second visible light images of said user, said second visible light images taken from a different perspective than said first visible light images, and wherein said first visible light images, said second visible light images, and said information relating to monitored exercise activity of said user are transmitted to a remote database for storage.
- 15. A method for tracking an exercise routine of a user, comprising:
providing an exercise monitoring system in a housing mountable to an exercise machine; collecting first visible light images using a first camera in said housing; collecting imagery using at least one distance-measuring camera assembly in said exercise monitoring system, the imagery containing information regarding an object of interest in said exercise machine; generating a multi-pixel position image from said imagery that codifies, for each pixel in the multi-pixel position image, a distance from a reference point to a corresponding point on said object of interest; performing analysis of said multi-pixel position image to generate information relating to monitored exercise activity of said user; and moving said camera assembly of said exercise monitoring system with respect to the housing, using a motorized driver within and mechanically coupled to said housing, as necessary to track a position of said object of interest and to keep said object of interest within a field of view of said camera apparatus, wherein providing said exercise monitoring system includes disposing said distance-measuring camera assembly and a motor and a motor controller configured and arranged to controllably move said camera assembly within said housing; receiving and displaying, via an interactive device that is physically separate from said housing, said information relating to monitored exercise activity of said user, capturing, using a front-facing camera of said interactive device, second visible light images of said user, said second visible light images taken from a different perspective than said first visible light images, and transmitting to a remote database for storage said first visible light images, said second visible light images, and said information relating to monitored exercise activity of said user.
