ES2386559B1 - Video-digital and mechanical control unit - Google Patents

Abstract

One of the most widespread sports is cycling, so bicycle manufacturers introduced this in homes. # Taking into account the wide variety of possibilities offered by new digital imaging technologies in combination with electronics and mechanics , we can assure you that we would be able to give new life to a different activity that mixes sport, fun and knowledge. # This new activity would consist of obtaining image tours that we see on our monitor activated by the pedals of our bicycle, at home. # Basically the present invention will consist of a simulator device (1) with adapter roller (2), cable or remote connection to the TV (3) and cable with control knob (4) and as options, in addition to this basic package, helmet virtual (5) and exercise bike (6).

Description

Video-digital and mechanical control unit.

One of the most widespread sports is cycling, practiced at all ages and generally outdoors, the bicycle allows us to travel distances capable of making us see how the landscape changes and travel great distances in stages, sometimes and depending on the place of the land where we find the weather is not usually accompanied, so that the bicycle manufacturers introduced this in the homes, in order to make the sport activity could be at least possible and more pleasant, creating the exercise bike, useful for more climates hard or in seasons of the year in which the practice of cycling is impossible, it is also often used for sports in gyms and for people who supplement their diets with some type of physical activity.

However, this type of practice is usually tedious and boring, so unless the person who uses the exercise bike is a true athlete convinced of the need and the benefit of physical activity ends up abandoning it, a new incentive is necessary to when to use it

To do this and taking into account the wide variety of possibilities offered by new digital imaging technologies in combination with electronics and mechanics, we can ensure that we would be in a position to give new life to a different activity that mixes sport, fun and knowledge. .

Suppose we could go through a city like Paris along its great avenues, but we would also leave these to access other, much less known streets, being able in any case to move in both directions whenever the route allowed it as if it were reality even having the possibility of respecting the circulation code or not and making our tour didactic for the little ones. To be able to do this to get to know big cities like London, New York, Madrid, and places like Cairo and its pyramids, access to the city of Petra or green and nature routes next to windmills in Holland, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado can even make high mountain ascents such as the lakes of Covadonga, Alpe d'huez etc.

All these routes would always be accompanied by guide plans, including information on tourist issues, in addition to having the possibility to make these tours with a walk-type effort or with the effort that measured in real scenarios we would have to make to travel them, taking into account especially the weight of the person who practices sports at that time in addition to the information of interest such as weight loss, energy expenditure, pulsations, time and distance traveled.

All this information in the image of places and other types will be received on our television monitor or helmet created for this by interconnecting our bicycle to it using pedals and controls on our handlebars, incorporating everything in an interactive package on a compact disc, or even being able to lower of the network said package placing it in the mini computer that now would take our bicycle.

This new product would be used by older people, young people, children and even professional athletes who would have a tool for the ride, keep in shape the body, didactic manual for children and real training of stages for competition.

You could also draw routes for the most daring, which for example take us to make months tours doing small daily stages that would be marked in their progress on our map of the route with intermediate scales of interest, but whose final result would be to have traveled north to south for example the Sahara desert.

Or routes through Europe or North America, in Scandinavian countries, sections of routes that could join as we burn routes that could take us even to the north pole. In places where the advance is interrupted by water even an image would show someone who places our bicycle on the boat and who disembarks it on the other side, to continue our way.

On road routes the image should cover at least the width of the lane through which we circulate, so that we could have at least some mobility when driving centered to the right or left, and for this the route should be filmed at unison for a minimum of three cameras thus allowing us to change our point of view in the circulation of our route, which would give more realism to the scene even accompanied by sound.

In places of great interest as it happens in some video games, they would be filmed with a sufficient number of cameras that cover in 360 degree image, and traveling the square or said place up and down at intervals of half or one meter, considering the route of a person when walking or the one who travels a bicycle in each pedaling. Taking the position in a vector at any time we can match a specific point with a complete digital image of 360 degrees around, so that we could move through the place in a north-south, east-west and diagonal grid and at each point of our advance we would see the corresponding image in 360 degrees causing on our television or helmet the sensation of being traveling at our whim such as the red square in Moscow or Tian nanmen in China.

All these routes and places would be forming a library of great human and pedagogical interest for adults and children.

To continue using and giving new life to stationary or two-wheel bicycles (these would suspend their rear wheel on a stand) that we have at home our device will be provided with a roller that rotates produces the movement of the digital image. This roller will be fixed to the wheel support so that it is the one who turns it, it is similar to how a dynamo does on the bicycle to produce light when at night we need the headlight to see.

As the spinning wheel on each bicycle has a size and therefore a development the calculations programmed in our apparatus will be set based on the development of a normal competition type bicycle, that way in ordinary riding, a cyclist travels a certain distance in each pedaling, because we will calibrate our apparatus so that the distance we travel in a pedaling coincides with that of the prototype, that way we can adapt our apparatus to any bicycle and from this basic calibration the movements of sprockets and plates that provide us with more or less development per pedaling will come already factory set.

The variations of effort that we will have to make if instead of a walk mode we activate the real mode and we have to save ascents or descents on the road, wind, water, in these cases the roller will slow down or soften in its roll to force us more or less in our effort, even in descents or inertia we can move forward without pedaling.

The basic package will consist of our simulator device (1), with adapter roller (2), connection cables to the TV (3), and cable with gearshift control (4) as well as a sample path, and as options, In addition to this basic virtual helmet package (5) and exercise bike or two wheels (6), all these accessories can also be purchased separately.

We will find the different routes presented in cartridges in specialized stores and even on the Internet as it is convenient to suppliers or customers.

The materials used in the manufacture of the components, shapes and dimensions thereof and all the accessory details that may arise will be independent of the object of the invention, provided they do not affect their essentiality.

Claims (2)

1. Video-digital and mechanical control unit, is a package of the so-called interactive, whose purpose is to provide us with the possibility of doing sports in our home, having the same sensations as if 5 We were outdoors and in remote places, where it would be expensive and difficult or even impossible to get to ride a bicycle. Video-digital and mechanical control unit, is characterized by an object that we will call as a control unit (1), which contains the image package, and centralizes the rest of the electronic functions that guarantee the proper functioning of the equipment, of which They start a series of cables or connectors that allow us to control peripheral calls such as the adapter roller (2), formed by a more or less complex element, coupled to the frame of the bicycle, which gives us the possibility of moving the image with the movement of the wheel, by means of a roller in contact with it, with brake shoes on the roller and other accessories that are considered in its development, connection cables to the TV (or wireless according to design) (3), which will allow us 15 have on our monitor all the image and other information deemed necessary (rear sprocket and plate, speed, distance traveled, energy expenditure and any other) and cable with control (4), for personal control of all options that provide us with our device, such as changing gears, changing views on the road and others. SPANISH OFFICE OF THE PATENTS AND BRAND Application no .: 200900582 SPAIN Date of submission of the application: 04.02.2009 Priority Date: REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE 51 Int. Cl.: A63B22 / 08 (2006.01) RELEVANT DOCUMENTS

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56 Documents cited Claims Affected

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US 2007123390 A1 (CHRISTOPHER E. MATHISE) 05/31/2007, paragraphs 0010.0012.0046.0047; Figures 1,4A, 8. one

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US 7022048 B1 (JOHN FERNANDEZ) 04.04.2006, column 7, line 45 - column 10, line 60; figures 1.5. one

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WO 2004067102 A2 (YANG HAO H.) 12.08.2004, summary; Figure 1. one

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WO 9815112 A2 (EWERT BRUCE) 09.04.1998, page 3, line 25 - page 8, line 15; Figure 1. one

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GB 2359260 (STEVEN GEORGE CROSTON) 22.08.2001, the whole document. one

Category of the documents cited X: of particular relevance Y: of particular relevance combined with other / s of the same category A: reflects the state of the art O: refers to unwritten disclosure P: published between the priority date and the date of priority submission of the application E: previous document, but published after the date of submission of the application

This report has been prepared • for all claims • for claims no:

Date of realization of the report 12.07.2012

Examiner G. Foncillas Garrido Page 1/4

REPORT OF THE STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE Application number: 200900582 Minimum documentation sought (classification system followed by classification symbols) A63B Electronic databases consulted during the search (name of the database and, if possible, terms of search used) INVENES, EPODOC State of the Art Report Page 2/4  WRITTEN OPINION Application number: 200900582 Date of Written Opinion: 12.07.2012 Statement

Novelty (Art. 6.1 LP 11/1986)

Claims Claims one IF NOT

Inventive activity (Art. 8.1 LP11 / 1986)

Claims Claims one IF NOT

The application is considered to comply with the industrial application requirement. This requirement was evaluated during the formal and technical examination phase of the application (Article 31.2 Law 11/1986).  Opinion Base.- This opinion has been made on the basis of the patent application as published. State of the Art Report Page 3/4  WRITTEN OPINION Application number: 200900582  1. Documents considered.- The documents belonging to the state of the art taken into consideration for the realization of this opinion are listed below.

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US 2007123390 A1 (CHRISTOPHER E. MATHISE) 05/31/2007

 2. Statement motivated according to articles 29.6 and 29.7 of the Regulations for the execution of Law 11/1986, of March 20, on Patents on novelty and inventive activity; quotes and explanations in support of this statement Claim 1 The document closest to the object of the invention is D01, said document presents (0010) an exercise bike combined with an interactive game, the system comprises an exercise machine, several sensors and all the equipment is connected to a screen where a program is displayed. The system comprises (0013, 0046) several hand controls, which allow the user to interact with the machine or with the program, said controls, allow to act in real time on the program. The connections (0047) between different devices and even with internet, are made using wireless cables or systems. Based on the above, said claim is new (Article 6 LP) and lacks inventive activity (Article 8 LP). State of the Art Report Page 4/4