RU2142308C1 - Sportsman exercising method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: method and equipment, which may be used both for individual and group exercising. SUBSTANCE: method involves providing, during operation of apparatus, actual sportive event or event recorded on information carrier, which may be observed on TV set or computer monitor and simultaneously using apparatus for providing physical loading of sportsman, with value of physical loading corresponding to specific sportive situation, which must be coded and compared to information delivered from device, on which sportsman is doing physical exercises. Comparison results are delivered from different exercising points to central computer, which allows winner to be determined or supplies data on contest results. Such method and apparatus allow mass sportive contests to be conducted. EFFECT: increased efficiency of exercising process and provision for precise results. 1 dwg

Description

 The device relates to techniques for training an athlete and can be used for individual and group training and entertainment.

 Known devices for training an athlete in the form of television and computer simulators, the design of which has load devices, a display and electronic interface units (see USSR Author's Certificate N 971372, class A 63 B 69/00, 1982).

 The disadvantage of this device is the low efficiency of the training process due to the impossibility of an athlete to participate in a real sports competition, since the competitive situation is modeled electronically.

 Also known is a device comprising a television camera, a television receiver, a VCR, physical exercise devices with a sensor unit, an encoder, an information comparison unit, a summary information display unit (see USSR Patent No. 1795899, class A 63 B 69/00, 1993) .

 The design of the known devices uses a television receiver and a VCR, with which the athlete, observing a sporting event actually recorded or recorded on the VCR, takes part in it himself, encoders, by which the operator generates information signals transmitted by encoding and quantizing real sporting events to comparison unit, this unit also receives information from the sensor unit of the physical exercise device. The athlete performs physical actions on physical exercise devices and, since there may be several of these devices, physical exercises can be performed in a competitive mode simultaneously by several athletes.

 The disadvantage of this technical solution is the inability to complete the competition cycle due to the lack of feedback from the place where information about a real sports event and the results of mass distant training and competitions transmitted in real time are generated.

 Closest to this invention is a device for training an athlete comprising a television camera, a television receiver, a VCR, a physical exercise device with a sensor unit connected to the input of the information comparison unit, which is connected to the first display unit of the total information by the first output, encoders, signal conversion units and a central computer (see the description of the application for the grant of a patent of the Russian Federation for the invention N 93020758, CL A 63 B 69/00, 1996).

 A disadvantage of the known device is the low efficiency of the training process.

 The technical result that this invention is directed to is to increase the efficiency of the training process.

 This technical result is achieved due to the fact that the device for training an athlete containing a television camera, television receiver, VCR, physical exercise device with a sensor unit connected to the input of the information comparison unit, which is connected with the first output to the first display unit of the final information, encoders , signal conversion units and a central computer, according to the invention, a second unit for displaying final information is introduced, while the second output of the info comparison unit radiation is connected to the input of the first signal conversion unit, the output of which is connected to the input of the central computer, the output of which is connected to the input of the second signal conversion unit, the output of which is connected to the second input of the television camera through the second output information display unit, one of which is connected to the first input moreover, the output of the first block displaying the total information is connected with a television receiver.

 The figure 1 presents a block diagram of a device where: a television receiver 1, a VCR 2, a physical exercise device 3 with a sensor unit 4, an information comparison unit 5, a first encoder 6, a first display unit of the summary information 7, a television camera 8, the first unit signal conversion 9, a central computer 10, a second signal conversion unit 11, a second display unit of the total information 12, a second encoder 13.

 The device operates as follows.

 On a television channel through a television camera 8 or in a recording on a VCR 2, a real-life event, for example, a sporting event, is received on the screen of the television receiver 1. As a specific example, football competitions are considered. Before the broadcast of events, the trainee is located on a physical activity device 3, for example, a treadmill, with which he can arbitrarily change physical activity, for example, increase or decrease the pace of running. At the cipher console 6 there is a trainer or any person - an operator who is preliminarily trained to encrypt the event observed on the screen, for example, the flight path of a soccer ball and the ball’s contact with the playing court. In the process of broadcasting the game, the operator (coach), observing a real event, uses the first encoder 6 to mark the place of contact of the ball with the playing court. You can also encrypt a real event directly at the place of shooting with a television camera 8 or at intermediate points of receiving and transmitting television signals of the second encoder 3. Television shooting with a television camera 8 should provide a good overview of the sports ground for both the operator and the person performing physical activity on the physical device load 3.

 The encoded information enters the information comparison unit 5. In the same block 5, after time t, information from the sensor unit 4, physical exercise device 3 is received. Time t is necessary so that the trainees can, observing a real event on the screen of television receiver 1, carry out changing the regime of physical activity, for example, to increase or decrease the pace of running, in order to generate information about the model movement of the training person to the point of contact of the ball with the playing court. Model displacement in this particular case means that each quantized spot in the range of the pace of running corresponds to a quantized portion of the field. The faster and more accurately the trainer picks up the pace of running corresponding to the place of contact of the ball with the field, the more effective his actions will be in the model situation. The formation of information about model movement is carried out by means of the sensor unit 4 of the physical exercise device 5. Comparison of the result of the action of the training person with the real situation encoded by the trainer (operator) is carried out automatically in the information comparison unit 5 and is reflected in the information display unit 7.

 In addition, information from the information comparison unit 5 comes through the first signal conversion unit 9, to the central computer 10, located at an arbitrarily remote distance from the training venue. This central computer 10 can receive this kind of information signals from other places of similar training. In the central computer 10, the results of training or competitions received from different places are compared, and through the second signal conversion unit 11, this analytical information enters the second information display unit 12, and through it can enter the television camera 8. Through the television camera 8, information about the best of the compared training results is broadcast and can be received at any of the training venues.

 Thus, participants in training sessions held in different places can be informed of the best results of all training sessions or competitions.

 The claimed device also transmits information from the information display unit 7 to the television receiver 1, which allows the trainee to receive information about the effectiveness of his own workout directly on the television screen at the same time as receiving a television signal about the actual sports competitions and the results of mass training or competitions.

 As an analogue of a television receiver 1 and a VCR 2, a computer connected to a television network via a modem can be used with an additional device that allows playback of video images from CDs.

 Tests have shown that the effectiveness of a series of training when using the device is higher by 3 - 6% in terms of performance growth, determined by the SAN test (well-being, activity, mood).

 The use of the invention increases the efficiency of the training process.

Claims (1)

 A device for training an athlete comprising a television camera, a television receiver, a VCR, an exercise device with a sensor unit connected to an input of an information comparison unit, which is connected by a first output to a first display unit of final information, encoders, signal conversion units, and a central computer, characterized in that the second block for displaying the total information is introduced into it, while the second output of the information comparison unit is connected to the input of the first conversion unit with ignals, the output of which is connected to the input of the central computer, the output of which is connected to the input of the second signal conversion unit, the output of which is connected to the second input of the television camera through the second input unit of the total information, the first input of which is connected to one of the encoders, the output of the first total display unit information connected to a television receiver.