KR100393351B1 - Apparatus for Controlling Practical Schedule of Exercise/Diet Program - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a network-based health care service apparatus and service method that can inspire motivation for health care by predicting a user's continuous interest in health care and the possibility of achieving a goal.

Health care service device according to a preferred configuration of the present invention, the exercise device having one or more sensors for measuring the exercise-related information of the user; Information detection module for detecting exercise-related information measured by the sensor, data transmission / reception for transmitting exercise-related information detected by the information detection module to a server or receiving a health care schedule of the user from the server. A terminal comprising a module, display means for displaying the health care schedule and exercise related information and / or schedule progress information stored in the following database; A database having a member data storage unit for storing user information for each user / club and a schedule data storage unit for storing a health care schedule for each user, exercise related information transmitted from a data transmission / reception module of the terminal, and / or each stored in the database Communication module for receiving a download request of schedule progress information for each user, Information storage module for including the exercise-related information received from the communication module in the health care schedule for each user stored in the schedule data storage of the database, The database A server having a control unit for controlling a communication module / information storage module; It is configured to include.

In addition, the network-based health care service method according to a preferred configuration of the present invention, the user accessing the server through the terminal; A member authentication step of checking whether the user accessing the server in the access step is a member; In the member authentication step, when the user is determined to be a member, a health care schedule downloading step of downloading and displaying the health care schedule of the user stored in the database of the server from the server to the terminal and / or another designated terminal; ; The exercise related information uploading the exercise related information according to the exercise performance to the server through the terminal or another designated terminal after the user performs the exercise according to the health care schedule of the user displayed in the health care schedule downloading step. An uploading step; An exercise related information storing step of including the exercise related information of the user uploaded to the server in the exercise related information uploading step in the health care schedule of the user stored in the database; And displaying the exercise related information through the terminal. It is configured to include.

Description

Network-based healthcare service device {Apparatus for Controlling Practical Schedule of Exercise / Diet Program}

The present invention is based on the user information obtained on / off-line through a survey or expert consultation, such as ① design a health care schedule for each user ② whether the execution of the health care schedule directly from the user or club manager Network-based healthcare service devices and service methods that encourage motivation for health care by predicting the possibility of users' continuous interest in health care and achieving the goal by receiving input or automatic input from exercise devices used by users. It is about.

The development of civilization has reduced the physical activity of modern man, while the nutrition intake has increased significantly compared to the past due to the development of agricultural technology and genetic engineering and the increase of income.

Because of this, a variety of adult diseases that could not even be thought of in the past has arisen, and new industries such as diet clubs and health clubs have been born and are currently in a booming period.

In general, diet / health clubs design diet and exercise regimen on both sides of the diet and exercise regimen so that member's health or physical condition can be reached as soon as desired. If the user (member) uses another health club or does not use it at all, the previously accumulated data becomes useless. In other words, information exchange between clubs was not smooth.

In addition, the health care schedule prescribed by the conventional health / diet club was designed by the club manager because the facility manager (operator) who lacked the expertise was a combination / design of the popular sports events and diet methods at that time. Even if you exercise / diet on schedule, the effect of health promotion was not as great as expected.

The present invention has been made to improve the above-mentioned conventional problems, by considering the physical condition / age / physical condition, etc., by downloading the optimal health care schedule prescribed by experts anytime, anywhere, wherever there is an exercise device It aims to provide a network-based health care service device and service method that enables continuous health management by immediately checking information on past exercise / diet progress as well as targets to be performed in the future. .

In addition, the present invention is to propose a new revenue model of the sports industry by providing a variety of additional services, such as club activities, shopping mall operations and banner advertisements that are employed in the usual web-site.

In addition, the present invention has a secondary object of allowing various people to enjoy a variety of cyber sports at the same time by using a network-based health care service device.

1 is a schematic block diagram showing a network-based health care service device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a network-based health care service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 shows a network-based health care service apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Description of Drawing Reference]

100 ... terminal, 200 ... exercise device,

300 ... server, 400 ... network.

The health care service device of the present invention for solving the above technical problem includes an exercise device, a terminal and a server.

A) As the exercise device, a general fitness device such as a treadmill / bike (cycle) / rowing machine / horse racing type exercise device and a chest press may be employed, and preferably, exercise related information of a user of the exercise device (user) is used. In addition to at least one sensor to measure may further have a load control means controllable to the following terminal.

In addition, the exercise device may further have a peripheral device such as a display means or an information display unit that can display exercise-related information. Here, a monitor, a printer, or the like can be employed as the peripheral device.

The exercise related information may include an operation amount (use time) of an exercise device, a user's body weight, a user's body fat decomposition rate, calories burned, past accumulated exercise amount, a user's exercise target amount, and the like. It can be obtained by one of the following methods: an indirect measurement method for generating predetermined information by using an operation amount of an exercise device and a direct measurement method for generating predetermined information by measuring an exercise amount from a change in a user's body.

On the other hand, the sensor for measuring the minimum basic data required for the generation of the exercise-related information or the exercise-related information, may be provided in the form of a built-in to the exercise device or in the form of a detachable, external type attached to the user's body. have.

B) As the terminal, a computer / mobile communication terminal / PDA / NC computer / network TV and a general game device capable of communicating may be employed, and the Internet / Intranet / LAN / telephone access network / data communication network may be used through ordinary network access means. It may be connected to a network such as.

Here, a modem, a LAN card, or the like can be employed as the network connection means.

In addition, the terminal may be connected to the exercise device in a state capable of transmitting and receiving data through the peripheral device connecting means.

In addition, similar to the above-described exercise apparatus, it may further have a peripheral device such as a display means or an information display unit capable of displaying exercise-related information.

Therefore, when the above-mentioned exercise apparatus does not include a display means for displaying exercise related information, the terminal of the present invention comprises: an information detecting module for detecting exercise related information measured by a sensor; A data transmission / reception module for transmitting the exercise related information detected by the information detection module to a server or receiving a user's health care schedule from the server; It may be provided in the form having a display means for displaying the health care schedule and exercise related information and / or schedule progress information stored in the following database.

On the contrary, when the exercise apparatus has a display means such as a monitor or an information display unit, the terminal comprises: input means for directly receiving exercise related information displayed on the information display unit from a user or a manager of a health club; A data transmitting / receiving module for transmitting the exercise related information inputted from the input means to the following server or receiving the health care schedule of the user from the following server; It may be provided in a form including a display means for displaying the health care schedule and exercise-related information and / or schedule progress information stored in the following database.

In addition, the terminal may further have an image synthesizing module for synthesizing the avatar received from the server and the background screen provided as a video into one.

In addition, the terminal may further include a load control module for controlling the load control means installed in the exercise device in accordance with the load value of the background screen received from the server to change the running state or use state of the exercise device. have.

Here, the load value is at least one of ground gradient, temperature, humidity, wind direction / wind volume / wind speed, and natural landscape recorded for each predetermined frame of the background image (video), and may apply different weights.

C) The server has a database having a member data storage / schedule data storage / avatar storage / video storage and various modules such as a communication module and an information storage module, and the database / communication module / information storage module. It has a control unit to control.

① The member data storage of the database stores member information for each user / club.

The member information is composed of ID, password, and personal information, and the personal information includes not only basic information such as name and address, but also user's physical information / preferred exercise / eating habits and desired goals and desires to be achieved. At least one additional information of the period (target period) is almost included.

For example, in case of an individual member, name / address / weight / key / obesity / preferred exercise / food habit / target value, etc. are included in the member information, and in case of a club member such as a health club or a diet club, the business address / mutual / holding device The number of members is included in the member information.

② The schedule data storage unit stores the health management schedule for each user.

The health care schedule is customized based on the member information, and includes, as basic information, an exercise schedule and a diet prescribed by an expert in consideration of the physical condition of each user.

③ The avatar storage unit of the database may store only a plurality of basic avatars that can be stored for each user or changed according to training information (exercise related information), such as Tamagotchi.

The avatar is also modifiable by the member's login, and can be configured to be decorated or transformed into an item or the like.

④ The video storage unit includes a video created by photographing a sports course such as an actual stadium surface or a marathon course, or a virtual space that cannot be seen in everyday life such as a moon surface created by computer graphic technique, an outer space or an undersea space. Cyber videos can be stored. In addition, the video may have a certain load value every cut (frame) or every cut (frame).

⑤ The communication module receives a download request of exercise related information and / or schedule progress information transmitted from the data transmission / reception module of the terminal and transmits corresponding information to the terminal.

⑥ On the other hand, the information storage module serves to include the exercise related information received by the communication module in the user's health care schedule stored in the schedule data storage unit, and each of these modules and the database is controlled by the controller.

On the other hand, the network-based health care service method according to the present invention, the user accessing the server through the terminal; A member authentication step of checking whether the user accessing the server in the access step is a member; In the member authentication step, when the user is determined to be a member, a health care schedule downloading step of downloading and displaying the health care schedule of the user stored in the database of the server from the server to the terminal and / or another designated terminal; ; The exercise related information uploading the exercise related information according to the exercise execution to the server through the terminal or another designated terminal after the user performs the exercise according to the health care schedule of the user displayed in the health care schedule downloading step. An uploading step; An exercise related information storing step of including the exercise related information of the user uploaded to the server in the exercise related information uploading step in the health care schedule of the user stored in the database; And displaying the exercise related information through the terminal. It may be configured to include.

In addition, an expert may periodically check the exercise related information of each user, and if necessary, a modification step of modifying the user's health care schedule may be added.

In addition, if it is too natural, but it is determined that the user logged in at the member authentication stage is not a member, the member registration step of receiving ID / password and personal details from the user using a normal input means and registering as a member is additionally provided. Can be performed.

In addition, the present invention provides a variety of additional services that are employed in the normal website-for example, the club member's homepage linked to the web page, active support of the individual members' club activities, sports equipment and other sports equipment and clothing, etc. You can also sell by opening a web shopping mall that sells. In addition, it is possible to carry out telemedicine in consultation with medical institutions, and to undertake insurance contracts in conjunction with an insurer / insurance company.

In addition, it is also possible to hold a cyber exercise competition using the health care service device of the present invention so that users who prefer a particular exercise intermittently or periodically to compare each other's skills.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Here, the technical idea of the present invention should be construed broadly to include not only the embodiments described below but also various modifications applicable to the technical level of those skilled in the art. For example, some or all of the components of the virtual game system disclosed in the applicant's patent application 2001-21831 may be employed in the present invention, and each storage unit constituting the database may be separated into a separate DB.

1 is a schematic block diagram showing a network-based health care service device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the health care service apparatus of this embodiment includes a terminal 100, an exercise device 200, a server 300, and a network 400.

As the terminal 100, a general personal computer (PC) is employed, and a mobile communication terminal capable of data communication, a PDA, an Internet TV, a general game device, or the like can also be used. The terminal 100 is connected to a network 400 such as an internet network / telephone connection network / LAN by a data transmission / reception module 110 such as a modem or a LAN card, and is connected by a peripheral device connection means 180 such as middleware. It is connected to the exercise device (200). In addition, the terminal 100 runs the exercise apparatus according to the image synthesis module 120 for synthesizing the avatar (character) transmitted from the server and the background image in the form of a video and the load value stored for each predetermined frame of the background image. It further includes a load control module 130 for changing the state to use state. In addition, the terminal 100 receives a signal from the display means 150, such as a monitor, a printer or a helmet having a screen display function, and each sensor assigned to the exercise device to detect predetermined exercise-related information. The detection module 140 is included. In addition, the terminal 100 has a control unit 160 for controlling the modules and means of the above-described functional units, and storage means 170 such as a hard disk or a RAM for storing various data.

In the present embodiment, the bike is employed as the exercise device 200, but a general treadmill may be employed.

Although not clearly shown, the paddle portion of the bike has brake means for slowing the movement of the wheels and a rotation means for automatically driving the wheels, respectively, as load control means 210. The sensor 220 is mounted.

The server 300 includes a database 310 having a member data storage 311 / schedule data storage 312 / avatar storage 313 / video storage 314; Communication module 320; Information storage module 330; The controller 340 controls the database / communication module / information storage module.

The member data storage unit 311 includes a business address / personal address along with user-specific member information established based on information such as ID (ID) / password / name / address / weight / key / obesity degree / preferred exercise / food habit / target value. Membership information for each club built on the basis of information such as company name, device / member number, etc. is stored.

On the other hand, the schedule data storage unit 312 stores the information such as the exercise schedule and diet for each user provided by the expert on the basis of the user information for each user, the exercise schedule in the past exercise progress ( Schedule progress information) and information on the amount of exercise to be carried out in the future.

In addition, the avatar storage unit 313 stores about 10 kinds of basic avatars that can be changed according to training information (exercise-related information), such as Tamagotchi, and the avatar can be modified even by a member login. It can also be modified by embellishment or transformation using.

The video storage unit 314 stores a cyber video such as a moon surface (月 面) made by a video or computer graphics made by photographing the actual stadium surface or a sports course, each cut (frame) or predetermined The load value is recorded for each cut (frame).

In addition, the information storage module 330 serves to include the exercise-related information received by the communication module 320 in the health care schedule for each user of the schedule data storage unit 312, these modules and the database is a control unit It is controlled by 340.

On the other hand, the above-described health care service device of this embodiment provides a health care service for the purpose of the present invention through each process represented in FIG.

First, a user connects to the network 400 through the terminal 100 (S1), logs in to the server 300 in such a state, and requests the member authentication to the server (S2).

If the member authentication is not made in S2, a notice for inviting membership is transmitted / displayed from the server 300 to the terminal 100 (S3).

At this time ① If the user does not want to register, the server can use only public information related to diet and / or exercise, and other non-public information and / or advanced information is not available.

② On the contrary, if the user wishes to join the membership, age / weight / key / obesity / preferred exercise / eating habits / blood pressure necessary for designing the user's health care schedule along with personal information such as name / resident number / address / ID and password to be used Web pages that receive various physical information such as medical history and target values from the user are transmitted / displayed from the server 300 to the terminal 100, and the user fills in the blanks of the web page to display the server ( 300, the server 300 creates a new record in the member data storage 311 and the schedule data storage 312 of the database 310 based on the information written in each column of the web page. do. In this case, a predetermined avatar may be assigned to the user by the user's selection or random extraction of the server, and the avatar information allocated to the user may be further stored in the member data storage 311.

On the other hand, if the member authentication is made in S2, the health care schedule of the logged in user is extracted from the schedule data storage unit 312 of the server, and transmitted to the terminal or another terminal (not shown) designated by the user ( S4). In some cases, the display device may be transmitted / displayed to a display unit or an information display unit such as a monitor mounted on the exercise apparatus 200.

Then, according to the health care schedule (exercise schedule) displayed in the S4-for example, if the amount of exercise of the day displayed in the health care schedule is 1km / bike 2km / weight lifting 30kg 50 times-the user The device 200 performs a predetermined exercise, and transmits the result (exercise related information) to the server (S5). In this case, the exercise related information may be manually input by the user through an input means such as a keyboard or a touch screen, but the sensor 220 in which the information detection module 140 of the terminal is embedded in the exercise device 200 is used. ) Detects a signal and automatically inputs the detection result to the server 300 through the data transmission / reception module 110 of the terminal.

On the other hand, when the terminal or the exercise device has a large screen, the user-specific avatar stored in the avatar storage unit 313 of the server and the background screen stored in the video storage unit 314 are transmitted to the terminal 100, respectively, The image synthesis module 120 may be synthesized / expressed into one screen. In particular, when a load value is recorded for each predetermined frame of the background screen, the load adjusting means 130 of the terminal controls the load adjusting means 210 of the exercise device 200 to change the driving state of the exercise device. It may be.

Therefore, when the server controls / detects the operation state of the exercise device in real time through the network 400, the exercise device may be automatically stopped when the exercise is performed as much as the set amount.

Thereafter, the server updates the health care schedule of the user stored in the schedule data storage 311 of the database based on the exercise related information transmitted from the terminal (S6).

In this state, the server checks whether the user has a check request for the health care schedule (S7), and when there is no check request, ① displays the information related to the day and / or the accumulated exercise related information such as a monitor or a printer. It is displayed through the means (S8).

On the other hand, when there is a check request (2), a health care schedule containing exercise related information up to the day is pushed from the server to the terminal of the expert, and a detailed review / decision by the expert is made (S9). Here, the check request may be arbitrarily generated by the user, but may be generated regularly at every period set in the server or may be made intermittently by random number generation.

In S9, the health care schedule of the user who has been checked by the expert is modified to the appropriate contents by the expert (S10).

Then, the modified health care schedule of the user and the exercise related information of the day and / or the accumulated schedule progress information of the past are visually expressed to the user through the display means of the terminal or the exercise apparatus (S11), and the newly designed After receiving confirmation of the user's modification / addition to the health care schedule (S12), if there is no special requirement, it is finally stored in the schedule data storage unit of the database (S13).

In addition, in the present embodiment, although various data utilized as basic information of the health care schedule were examined online at the registration stage, in order to design a customized health care schedule according to the user's physical condition, Korean Patent Publication No. 2001-70845 It is also possible to employ the method of irradiation on-offline disclosed in.

3 is a diagram showing a network-based health care service apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention, wherein a web site providing a health care service method of the present invention is a relay server 301 / DB server 302 / web. The case with the server 303 is shown.

As shown in the figure, when the user exercising in the health club, the exercise device user (user) is connected to the relay server 301 through the health management server 500 of the health club and then his health management schedule DB server ( 302 is used to receive and transmit to the exercise device or the terminal 100 is used.

On the contrary, when a user exercises in a personal place such as a home or a company, the user downloads his or her health care schedule from the DB server 302 or directly to the DB server through the web server 303 of the present invention. By accessing the necessary health care schedule can be downloaded to its own terminal or via the relay server 301 can be downloaded from the DB server health care schedule.

Therefore, the health care service device and service method of the present invention, ① basic information, such as holding the marathon competition, training method or meal therapy, regardless of members / non-members, and provide ② personal information and / or membership fee To provide individual members who have a high level of personalized health care schedules created by a professional group or expert system, they continuously manage to reach their targets more efficiently. ③ In the case of club members, link homepages or banner advertisements. By making it easy to attract customers, and ④ by opening an Internet-shopping mall selling sports equipment, not only members but also general netizens can purchase the necessary items from the web-site providing the service method of the present invention, ⑤ By sharing information among franchised club members, It can be used in more fields without being lost, and ⑥ can be linked to national health projects such as anti-obesity projects, social welfare facilities, and welfare facilities of large corporations. have.

⑦ In addition, by applying the method disclosed in the prior application No. 2001-21831 to the service device of the present invention, it is possible to hold / progress various sports games such as cyber marathon regardless of time and place.

Claims (9)

An exercise device having one or more sensors measuring exercise related information of a user; An information detection module for detecting the exercise related information measured by the sensor, and a data transmission / transmission for transmitting the exercise related information detected by the information detection module to a server below or receiving a health care schedule of the user from the server below. A terminal including a receiving module and display means for displaying the health care schedule and exercise related information and / or schedule progress information stored in the following database; A database having a member data storage unit for storing user information for each user / club and a schedule data storage unit for storing health management schedules for each user, and for exercise related information and / or schedule progress information transmitted from a data transmission / reception module of the terminal. A communication module for receiving a download request, an information storage module for including exercise related information received from the communication module in the health care schedule of the user stored in a schedule data storage unit of the database, and the database / communication module / A server having a control unit for controlling the information storage module; Network-based health care service device comprising a. An exercise device having at least one sensor measuring exercise related information of a user, and an information display unit displaying the exercise related information measured by the sensor; An input means for receiving exercise related information displayed on an information display unit of the exercise device from a user or a club administrator, and transmitting exercise related information inputted from the input means to a server below or a health management schedule of the user from a server below. A terminal including a data transmitting / receiving module for receiving and displaying means for displaying the health care schedule and exercise related information and / or schedule progress information stored in the following database; A database having a member data storage unit for storing user information for each user / club and a schedule data storage unit for storing health management schedules for each user, and for exercise related information and / or schedule progress information transmitted from a data transmission / reception module of the terminal. A communication module for receiving a download request, an information storage module for including exercise related information received from the communication module in the health care schedule of the user stored in a schedule data storage unit of the database, and the database / communication module / A server having a control unit for controlling the information storage module; Network-based health care service device comprising a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The database is An avatar storage unit for storing various kinds of avatars; A video storage unit for storing various videos to be displayed as a background screen on the display means of the terminal according to the type of the exercise apparatus; Has additional The terminal is An image synthesizing module for synthesizing and displaying the avatars and videos selected by the server and / or the user and the avatars and videos stored in the avatar storage unit and the video storage unit into one image screen; Network-based health care service device having a further. The method of claim 3, The video has an additional load value recorded every predetermined frame. The terminal further has a load control module for adjusting the load of the exercise device by using the load value of the video received from the server, The exercise device is a network-based health care service device further comprising a load control means controlled by the load control module of the terminal. delete delete delete delete delete