TWI843311B - Team sports system and method for controlling difficulty of individual sports in team sports - Google Patents

Abstract

A group sports system allows multiple sports participants to use sports devices of a sports participant device to perform imitation sports imitating the same model sports during a group sports period, and repeatedly ranks the sports performance of all sports participants during the aforementioned period. The system is characterized in that it includes a difficulty indication module, which can indicate at least one sports participant device to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding sports device for the sports participant to perform the aforementioned imitation sports according to the ranking of the sports performance of the corresponding sports participant in the aforementioned ranking at at least one adjustment opportunity during the sports, for example, when the aforementioned ranking is within the last predetermined ranking, the aforementioned sports difficulty is lowered, and when the aforementioned ranking is within the front predetermined ranking, the aforementioned sports difficulty is increased.

Description

Team sports system and individual sports difficulty control method in team sports

The present invention relates to sports training using sports equipment, and more specifically, to a group sports system that allows multiple people to perform the same sport at the same time, and a method for controlling the difficulty of individual sports in group sports.

Group exercise is a popular form of sports training. By having many people do the same exercise together, the fun and effectiveness of exercise can be enhanced. In recent years, a training method for group exercise using exercise equipment such as stationary bicycles or treadmills has emerged. Usually, an exercise instructor (such as a coach in a fitness club) personally uses an exercise equipment to lead the exercise. At the same time, exercise participants (such as members of a fitness club) who are on site and/or watching the live broadcast through the Internet use the same or similar exercise equipment and follow the demonstration and guidance of the exercise instructor to perform the same exercise; or, the operator may provide pre-prepared archived exercise courses on its online platform, so that exercise participants scattered around can receive and play the audio and video content of the selected exercise course in a streaming manner at the same time, and each follow the demonstration guidance in the pre-recorded video to perform the same exercise. In more advanced group sports systems of this type, all participants can see their own sports performance (such as accumulated exercise mileage or accumulated calories consumed, etc.) and their ranking in the group through the on-site or personal screen, which has the function of self-assessment and self-motivation.

In principle, when the aforementioned sports participants imitate the aforementioned sports instructor's exercise, the exercise difficulty of the sports equipment used by the participants (such as the pedal resistance of a stationary bicycle, the rotation speed of the running belt of a treadmill, and the slope of the running platform, etc.) should be consistent with the exercise difficulty of the sports instructor's exercise as a model, so as to achieve the exercise effect expected by the sports instructor. In the early or simpler approach, the sports instructor would verbally ask the sports participants to adjust the exercise difficulty of the sports equipment according to him/her during the exercise, such as "adjust the resistance to Level 10 now", and each sports participant would then make corresponding adjustments through the control interface of his/her own sports equipment according to the specific instructions of the sports instructor. A more advanced technology is that the difficulty of each sports equipment can be quantitatively controlled through electronic circuits, and the sports equipment used by the sports instructor can be linked to the sports equipment of all sports participants through a wired or wireless network, so that the difficulty of all sports equipment is synchronized.

However, among the majority of people, there will inevitably be some whose physical fitness level is significantly lower than the group average, or who are particularly not good at the sport, such as those who are continuously at the bottom of the aforementioned ranking. Forcing these people to exercise at the same difficulty as the majority of other people may cause them to be overloaded and exhausted, or they may become passive in exercising or even give up halfway, thus losing the purpose of participating. In the prior art of keeping the difficulty of exercise synchronized by circuit control, if the exercise participants find it difficult to follow the standard exercise difficulty, they can disable the difficulty synchronization function of the exercise equipment before or during the exercise, and then set the appropriate exercise difficulty manually. For example, when the exercise guide leads the group to exercise at level 8 difficulty, they can set the difficulty to the relatively easy level 6. When the exercise guide leads the group to exercise at level 10 difficulty, they can adjust the difficulty to level 7 or 8 appropriately, and so on. On the contrary, people with relatively good physical fitness in the group may feel that the exercise difficulty adopted by most other people is too low and lacks challenge, so they increase the exercise difficulty by themselves. Although the above method allows for more flexibility in group exercise participation and performance, those who do not follow the standard difficulty usually have to pay continuous attention to the changes in the standard difficulty of exercise during exercise (especially intermittent exercise with varying intensity), and frequently manually adjust the difficulty of their own exercise, which can easily hinder their concentration on exercise; on the other hand, anyone in the group can adjust the difficulty of exercise at will, which may deviate from the intended effect of group exercise.

The main purpose of the present invention is to provide a group sports system that allows participants to obtain sports training and sports effects that meet their personal physical fitness levels, and maintain or even enhance their sports interest and competitive motivation during the exercise process without having to be distracted by manually adjusting the exercise difficulty of the sports device used.

Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling individual exercise difficulty in group sports, which can enable sports participants to obtain exercise training and exercise effects that meet their personal physical fitness levels, and maintain or even enhance their interest and competitive motivation during exercise, without having to be distracted by manually adjusting the exercise difficulty of the exercise device used.

In order to achieve the above main purpose, the group sports system provided by the present invention includes: A sports guidance device, having a first electronic device, the first electronic device can provide sample sports information about a sports guide using a first sports device to perform a sample sports, the sample sports information includes the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports guide to perform the sample sports; a plurality of sports participating devices, each having a second The plurality of sports participating devices can be used by a sports participant to perform a simulated exercise imitating the sample exercise using the second sports device during a group exercise period. The second electronic device of each sports participating device can control the corresponding second sports device according to the instruction to allow the sports participant to perform the simulated exercise at a certain exercise difficulty. The second electronic device can also continuously measure the previous movement during the group exercise period. The sports participants perform the aforementioned emulated sports performance; a performance ranking module can repeatedly rank the sports performance of all the aforementioned sports participants in the aforementioned emulated sports during the aforementioned group sports period; a difficulty indication module can indicate the second electronic devices of all the aforementioned sports participating devices to control the corresponding second sports devices for the aforementioned sports participants to perform the aforementioned emulated sports difficulty according to the sports difficulty of the aforementioned first sports device for the aforementioned sports guide to perform the aforementioned model sports, and the aforementioned difficulty indication module can indicate at least one of the aforementioned sports participating devices at least one adjustment opportunity in the aforementioned group sports period to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the aforementioned sports participants to perform the aforementioned emulated sports according to the ranking of the aforementioned sports performance of the corresponding aforementioned sports participant in the aforementioned ranking at that time.

By means of the above-mentioned technical solution of the present invention, the difficulty of the sports participants in the group sports will automatically follow the difficulty of the model sports performed by the sports instructor, and can be automatically adjusted (or not adjusted) according to the aforementioned ranking that objectively reflects the physical fitness level of the sports participants in the group, so that the sports participants can obtain sports training and sports effects that meet their personal physical fitness level, and maintain or even improve their sports interest and competitive motivation during the sports process, without having to be distracted by manually adjusting the sports difficulty of the sports device used.

Preferably, the performance ranking module can display the ranking results to each of the aforementioned sports participants during the aforementioned group sports period, so that each of the aforementioned sports participants can at least know their own ranking in the aforementioned ranking; the difficulty indication module can regularly and more than once make the aforementioned indication of adjusting the difficulty of the sports according to the ranking during the aforementioned group sports period. In this way, the sports participants can be continuously motivated to perform at their best during the sports process, and the physical fitness level of the sports participants in the group can be more reasonably reflected, and the difficulty of the sports can be adjusted flexibly.

In a possible implementation of the present invention, the difficulty indication module can, at at least one of the aforementioned adjustment opportunities, instruct the corresponding second electronic devices of the aforementioned sports participant equipment to adjust the exercise difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the aforementioned sports participant to perform the aforementioned emulation exercise, so that it is lower than the exercise difficulty of the aforementioned first sports device for the aforementioned sports instructor to perform the aforementioned model exercise. In this way, sports participants with significantly lower physical fitness levels can automatically perform emulation exercise at a relatively lower exercise difficulty.

Preferably, the last predetermined ranking includes at least the last and the second to last; the difficulty indication module, during the adjustment timing, will instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the sports participant to adjust the sports difficulty to a lower level for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the last predetermined ranking. In this way, the sports participant with a lower physical fitness level can automatically perform the emulation exercise with a lower sports difficulty, and the adjustment mechanism is more effective and reasonable.

Preferably, the sample sports information provided by the first electronic device also includes the sports performance of the sports instructor using the first sports device to perform the sample sports; the difficulty indication module, during the adjustment timing, will only instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the sports participant to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device to be lower than the sports difficulty of the first sports device, only for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the predetermined last position and lower than the sports performance of the sports instructor at the same time by a predetermined degree. In this way, because the sports instructor's sample sports are added as a comparison standard, the conditions for reducing the sports difficulty are more reasonable.

In a possible implementation of the present invention, the difficulty indication module can, at at least one of the aforementioned adjustment opportunities, instruct the corresponding second electronic devices of the aforementioned sports participant equipment to adjust the exercise difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the aforementioned sports participant to perform the aforementioned emulation exercise, so that it is higher than the exercise difficulty of the aforementioned first sports device for the aforementioned sports instructor to perform the aforementioned model exercise. In this way, sports participants with significantly higher physical fitness levels can automatically perform emulation exercise at a relatively higher exercise difficulty.

Preferably, the aforementioned front-end predetermined rankings include at least the first and second place; the aforementioned difficulty indication module, during the aforementioned adjustment opportunity, will instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the aforementioned sports participant equipment to adjust the aforementioned sports difficulty to a higher level for the aforementioned sports performance of the aforementioned sports participant whose ranking in the aforementioned ranking at that time is within the aforementioned front-end predetermined rankings and the higher the ranking, the higher the difficulty. In this way, sports participants with higher physical fitness levels can automatically imitate sports with higher sports difficulty, and the adjustment mechanism is more effective and reasonable.

Preferably, the sample sports information provided by the first electronic device also includes the sports performance of the sports instructor using the first sports device to perform the sample sports; the difficulty indication module, during the adjustment timing, will only instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the sports participant to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device to be higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device, only for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the front predetermined ranking and higher than the sports performance of the sports instructor at the same time by a predetermined degree. In this way, because the sports instructor's sample sports are added as a comparison standard, the conditions for increasing the sports difficulty are more reasonable.

In a possible implementation of the present invention, the second electronic device of each aforementioned sports participant device can be used by the corresponding aforementioned sports participant to set whether to accept the aforementioned difficulty indication module to adjust the aforementioned sports difficulty according to the aforementioned ranking indication. In this way, the sports participant can freely choose whether to rigidly follow the sports difficulty of the sample sports to imitate the sports.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned other purpose, the present invention provides a method for controlling the difficulty of individual sports in group sports. The group sports allow a plurality of sports participants to simultaneously imitate a model sports performed by a sports instructor using a first sports device during a group sports period and respectively use a second sports device to perform an imitation sports; the control method comprises: automatically controlling the difficulty of each of the second sports devices for the sports participants to perform the imitation sports according to the difficulty of the model sports performed by the sports instructor using the first sports device; during the group sports period, continuously measuring the sports performance of each of the sports participants in the imitation sports, and repeatedly measuring the sports performance of all of the sports participants in the imitation sports. ranking; at least one adjustment opportunity in the group sports period, for the sports performance of each of the sports participants whose ranking in the ranking at that time belongs to the last predetermined ranking, automatically adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the sports participants to perform the emulation sports, so that it is lower than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports guide to perform the model sports, and/or for the sports performance of each of the sports participants whose ranking in the ranking at that time belongs to the front predetermined ranking, automatically adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the sports participants to perform the emulation sports, so that it is higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports guide to perform the model sports.

By means of the above-mentioned technical solution of the present invention, the difficulty of the sports imitated by the sports participants in the group will automatically follow the difficulty of the model sports performed by the sports instructor, and the difficulty of the sports imitated by the sports participants with significantly lower physical fitness levels can be automatically reduced according to the aforementioned ranking that objectively reflects the physical fitness levels of the sports participants in the group, and/or the difficulty of the sports imitated by the sports participants with significantly higher physical fitness levels can be automatically increased, so that the sports participants can obtain sports training and sports effects that meet their personal physical fitness levels, and maintain or even improve their sports interest and competitive motivation during the sports process, without having to be distracted by manually adjusting the difficulty of the sports device used.

10: First sports device

15: Console

20: Second sports device

25: Console

30: Display screen

31: Participant information

32: Name

33:Sports performance

34: Difficulty of exercise

35:Rank

36: Guide information

37: Bottom of the ranking

38: Top ranking

39: Time point reminder

40:Computer equipment

45: Wireless transceiver

50:Computer equipment

55:Photographic equipment

60:Computer equipment

65: Storage device

70: Internet

80: Standard difficulty curve

81, 82, 83…, 89: Interval difficulty (standard)

94a, 95a: Intermediate difficulty (lowest ranking)

94b, 95b: Intermediate difficulty (low ranking)

94c, 95c, 99c: Intermediate difficulty (highest ranking)

94d, 95d, 99d: Intermediate difficulty (high ranking)

C1, C2, C3…: Check time points

T1, T2, T3...: Change time point

The following will be accompanied by drawings to explain in detail the possible implementation methods and effects of the present invention, including:

Figure 1 shows the relative relationship of some equipment of a group sports system of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 shows the basic structure of a group sports system of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 shows the basic structure of a group sports system of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 shows the basic structure of a group sports system of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is an example of a leaderboard screen when using the technical solution of the present invention for group sports.

Figure 6 is an example of the time series changes of the standard exercise difficulty and the adjusted exercise difficulty when performing group exercise using the technical solution of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , a group exercise system of a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a first exercise device 10 (Note: FIG. 1 shows its specific appearance, FIG. 2 shows it in a block diagram), and a plurality of second exercise devices 20 (Note: FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a plurality of second exercise devices 20 arranged relative to the first exercise device 10, FIG. 1 shows only three of them as a representative). The first exercise device 10 can be used for a sports instructor to perform a specific type of physical exercise during a group exercise period, and the second exercise devices 20 can be used for a sports participant to perform a specific type of physical exercise during the aforementioned group exercise period. Each second exercise device 20 is the same or similar exercise device as the first exercise device 10. Even if the structure is not completely the same, it at least has basically the same exercise function. In short, each exercise participant can use the second exercise device 20 to perform the same type of exercise as the exercise instructor uses the first exercise device 10.

In the preferred embodiment, the first sports device 10 and the second sports device 20 are both stationary bicycles, more precisely, spinning bikes, which mainly include a seat for a user (such as the aforementioned sports guide or the aforementioned sports participant) to sit on, a handlebar set for gripping, a pedal set for pedaling, a flywheel that can rotate in conjunction with the aforementioned pedal set (the above components are not numbered), and a resistance mechanism (not shown in the figure) that can change the rotational resistance of the aforementioned pedal set, such as an eddy current brake (ECB) or a friction brake that can apply the required resistance to the aforementioned flywheel. In other words, each of the sports devices 10 and 20 in the preferred embodiment can be used by the user to perform flywheel exercise, which is basically to step on the pedal set with both feet to make it rotate in a circle, and the pedal resistance, pedaling speed (rhythm), riding posture, etc. can be changed during the exercise to have different exercise contents. Among them, the pedal resistance is the exercise difficulty of the sports device (flywheel) 10 and 20 in the preferred embodiment for people to exercise. By the way, the "exercise difficulty" in the present invention is different from the so-called "exercise intensity", which conceptually refers to the degree of effort required for the human body to perform a certain exercise, usually based on the heart rate of the athlete.

Of course, the sports devices used in the group sports system of the present invention are not limited to flywheels or stationary bicycles. In other possible implementations, various sports devices that can change the difficulty of exercise by electronic control, such as electric treadmills, human-powered treadmills, elliptical exercise machines, stair machines, steppers, rowing machines, etc., may be used; correspondingly, the aforementioned exercise difficulty is not limited to the exercise resistance of bicycle pedals, etc. Other factors such as the rotation speed of the treadmill belt, the slope/elevation angle of the treadmill or elliptical exercise machine, the step-down resistance of the stair machine, etc., may represent the difficulty of the corresponding sports device for people to perform the corresponding exercise, and can be quantified and quantitatively controlled. The basic structure, actuation mode, and exercise difficulty control of the sports device used in the present invention are well-known technologies in the field of sports equipment. This manual will only briefly describe them without going into detail.

For the sake of distinction, in the present invention, the exercise performed by the exercise instructor using the first exercise device 10 during the aforementioned group exercise period is called a model exercise, and the exercise performed by each exercise participant using the second exercise device 20 during the aforementioned group exercise period is called an imitation exercise. According to the basic model of group exercise, the exercise instructor will perform the model exercise roughly according to the plan (mixed with some arbitrary and random responses), and continue to guide and motivate with words or shouts, and all exercise participants will imitate the aforementioned model exercise at the same time and perform their own imitation exercise. Taking this preferred embodiment as an example, it is to perform roughly the same flywheel exercise as much as possible with the pedal resistance, pedaling speed (rhythm), riding posture, etc. adopted by the exercise instructor at that time.

The front end of each exercise device 10, 20 is provided with an electronic console 15, 25, which can be used as a two-way human-machine interface between each exercise device 10, 20 and its user. In the preferred embodiment, it mainly includes a flat display with a touch screen, which can display various information for the user to watch and can be used for the user to input various instructions. The console 15, 20 can respond to instructions for specifying the rotation resistance of the pedal group (including instructions from the user himself and external instructions, which will be described later) and control the resistance mechanism in an electronic control manner, such as controlling the magnet group of the vortex brake to approach or move away from the flywheel, or controlling the friction block of the friction brake to press against or relax the flywheel to increase or decrease the resistance that the pedal group needs to overcome to rotate, thereby determining the exercise difficulty of the exercise device 10, 20. As mentioned above, for example, controlling the resistance mechanism to determine the difficulty of exercise is a well-known technology in the field of sports equipment.

Each sports device 10, 20 is also provided with at least one sensor (not shown in the figure) electrically connected to the console 15, 25, which can cooperate to measure the sports performance of the user using the sports device 10, 20. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention using a stationary bicycle as the sports device, the aforementioned sports performance may be a digitized score of one or a combination of multiple items such as accumulated riding mileage, accumulated calories consumed, average power, etc., and the aforementioned sensor may be a sensing element and related circuit that can sense the rotational resistance, rotational speed, number of rotations, etc. of the pedal set, and its sensing signal will be transmitted to the console 15, 25 for calculation and processing to obtain the digitized sports performance. Similarly, the use of various sensors and calculation processing to measure sports performance is a well-known technology in the field of sports equipment.

In the preferred embodiment, the first sports device 10 and all the second sports devices 20 are located in the same place, such as a fitness club, or various indoor or outdoor squares. FIG. 2 shows a common arrangement, that is, the second sports devices 20 are arranged in front of the first sports device 10 with the front end facing the first sports device 10, so that when performing group sports, each sports participant using the second sports device 20 can see the sports instructor using the first sports device 10, and at the same time, the sports instructor can see all or most of the sports participants at a glance.

In front of the second sports device 20 and also behind the first sports device 10, there is a large display screen 30, for example, composed of several flat-panel displays, for displaying information images that can be viewed by all sports participants. A computer device 40 is also provided on site to control the content of the aforementioned information images displayed on the display screen 30. In other possible implementations, the display screen 30 is a projection screen, and the aforementioned computer device 40 controls a projector (not shown in the figure) to project the content on the display screen 30, achieving the same purpose.

The aforementioned computer device 40 can also perform two-way communication with the control consoles 15, 25 at the front ends of the sports devices 10, 20. In the preferred embodiment, each control console 15, 25 has a wireless communication function, and the computer device 40 is electrically connected to a wireless transceiver 45, and can perform two-way communication with each control console 15, 25 via wireless communication technologies such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. In other possible implementations, the computer device 40 directly or indirectly forms wired communication with each control console 15, 25. Specifically, the control console 15 at the front end of the first sports device 10 may transmit the corresponding information such as the difficulty of the sports guide and the sports performance when performing the sample sports to the computer device 40, and the control console 25 at the front end of each second sports device 20 may transmit the corresponding personal information of the sports participant (such as the account name and avatar for logging into the sports device) and the corresponding information such as the difficulty of the sports and the sports performance when performing the emulated sports to the computer device 40; on the other hand, the computer device 40 may transmit the relevant information of the sports guide performing the sample sports (hereinafter referred to as the sample sports information, at least including the difficulty of the sports) to the control console 25 at the front end of each second sports device 20, and at the same time, may transmit the aforementioned personal information of all sports participants and the relevant information of the emulated sports to the control console 15 at the front end of the first sports device 10.

According to the viewpoint of the present invention, the console 15 and the aforementioned sensor matched with the first sports device 10, together with the aforementioned computer device 40 and the wireless transceiver device 45, together constitute a first electronic device, and further, the first sports device 10 and the aforementioned first electronic device constitute a sports guidance device; in contrast, the console 25 and the aforementioned sensor matched with each second sports device 20 together constitute a second electronic device, and further, each second sports device 20 and the corresponding aforementioned second electronic device constitute a sports participation device.

When performing group sports, a sports instructor uses the sports device 10 of the aforementioned sports guiding equipment to perform a model sports, and at the same time, multiple or a plurality of sports participants (usually ranging from a dozen to dozens of people) respectively use a sports device 20 of the aforementioned sports participating equipment to perform a simulated sports that imitates the aforementioned model sports. During the process, if the exercise instructor wants to lead everyone to change the exercise difficulty of the exercise device (including the initial exercise difficulty when starting the exercise), he will issue instructions through the console 15 at the front end of the first exercise device 10 used by himself, such as directly specifying a specific resistance level, or instructing to increase or decrease the current level by one level, etc. In addition to correspondingly controlling the aforementioned resistance mechanism of the first exercise device 10 according to the aforementioned instructions, the console 15 will also transmit the information of the change of exercise difficulty to the aforementioned computer device 40. In principle, the computer device 40 will issue the same instructions to the consoles 25 of all exercise participating devices, so that each console 25 controls the aforementioned resistance mechanism of the second exercise device 20 according to the aforementioned instructions. In other words, the exercise difficulty used by each exercise participant is synchronized with the exercise difficulty used by the exercise instructor. Of course, because the exercise instructor will continue to guide and motivate with words or shouts when leading the exercise, when he is ready to change the difficulty of the exercise, he will usually inform all exercise participants first.

During the group exercise period, the second electronic device of each sports participant device will continuously measure the sports performance of the corresponding sports participant in the emulated exercise, and continuously transmit the corresponding information of the sports performance to the computer device 40 of the sports guidance device, for example, transmitting updated data every 10 seconds or 15 seconds. It must be explained here that even if all sports participants use the same exercise difficulty to exercise, because the speed or cumulative number of laps of each sports participant is generally not the same, the sports performance (such as the cumulative calorie consumption) of each person is also different, and the gap usually gradually widens over time. The computer device 40 of the sports guidance device will continuously collect the sports performance uploaded by the console 25 of each sports participant device, and repeatedly rank the sports performance of all sports participants, for example, re-ranking every 10 seconds or 15 seconds, and then display the latest ranking results on the aforementioned large display screen 30 for all sports participants to watch.

Please refer to FIG. 5 , which illustrates the information screen displayed on the display screen 30 at a certain time point during the group sports period. In the preferred embodiment, the ranking result is presented in the form of a leaderboard, that is, the best performers are ranked at the top (upper left corner of the screen) and the worst performers are ranked at the bottom (lower right corner of the screen) according to the order of performance. In the leaderboard screen, the brief information (participant information) 31 of each sports participant is represented in a horizontal line, including the name 32, avatar, current sports performance 33, current actual sports difficulty 34, and current ranking 35 of the sports participant. At the same time, brief information of the sports guide (guide information) 36 is also presented in a horizontal line with the same format, and is inserted in the corresponding position in the ranking according to the sports performance, but no ranking is given. The sports performance 33 in the example shown in FIG5 is the cumulative calorie consumption of the sports participants (or sports guides) from the beginning of the group sports to the present, which can be calculated from the rotation resistance, rotation speed and number of rotations of the pedal set. The larger the value, the harder the sportsman works and the better the sports performance. In other possible implementations, the sports performance may adopt other measurement values such as cumulative riding mileage or average power, or may be scored by combining multiple measurement values. For athletes whose performance is significantly lower than the group average (e.g. the last few in the ranking), the difficulty of their sports equipment may be relatively high. Conversely, for athletes whose performance is significantly higher than the group average (e.g. the top few in the ranking), the difficulty of their sports equipment may be relatively low.

In this preferred embodiment, the computer device 40 of the sports guidance device can instruct the console 25 of at least one sports participant device to adjust the difficulty of the corresponding second sports device 20 for the sports participant to perform the emulated sports according to the ranking of the corresponding sports participant's sports performance in the aforementioned ranking at that time at at least one adjustment opportunity in the aforementioned group sports period.

Taking the state shown in FIG. 5 as an example, the exercise difficulty currently being used by the exercise instructor is Level 10. In principle, all exercise participants should also use the exercise difficulty of Level 10 based on the above-mentioned synchronization function. However, the exception is that, at the aforementioned adjustment opportunity, the computer device 40 will instruct the control console 25 of the corresponding exercise participating device to adjust the exercise difficulty of the corresponding second exercise device 20 to be lower than the exercise difficulty of the first exercise device 10 for the exercise performance of the exercise participant whose ranking is within the last predetermined ranking (in this example, the three at the bottom 37, namely, the last, the second to last and the third to last) in the ranking at that time; and, for the exercise performance of the lower ranked exercise participant, the control console 25 of the corresponding exercise participating device will be instructed to adjust the exercise difficulty to a lower level. For example, the exercise difficulty of the last ranked participant is lowered by 2 levels to Level 10. 8. The difficulty of the second-to-last and third-to-last sports mentioned above has been lowered by one level to Level 9.

At the same time, at the aforementioned adjustment time, the computer device 40 will instruct the corresponding control console 25 of the sports participating device to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device 20 to be higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device 10 for the sports performance of the sports participants whose rankings are within the top predetermined rankings in the current ranking (in this example, the top three rankings 38, i.e., the first, second, and third places) respectively; and for the sports performance of the sports participants with higher rankings, the computer device 40 will instruct the corresponding control console 25 of the sports participating device to adjust the sports difficulty to a higher level, for example, the sports difficulty of the aforementioned first place is increased by 2 levels to Level 12, and the sports difficulty of the aforementioned second and third places is increased by 1 level to Level 11.

Preferably (not the example shown in FIG. 5 ), the computer device 40, during the aforementioned adjustment timing, will only instruct the console 25 of the corresponding sports participant device to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device 20 to be higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device 10 for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the aforementioned ranking at that time is within the front predetermined ranking and higher than the sports performance of the sports guide at the same time by a predetermined degree. For example, if the sports performance of the first place in the aforementioned ranking is lower than the sports performance of the sports guide, or is not higher than the predetermined degree (e.g., 10%), the sports difficulty of its sports device will not be specially increased, that is, the sports difficulty will be maintained at the same level as that used by the sports guide.

In the same principle, the computer device 40 will only instruct the console 25 of the corresponding sports participant device to adjust the exercise difficulty of the corresponding second sports device 20 to be lower than the exercise difficulty of the first sports device 10 for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the predetermined last ranking and lower than the sports performance of the sports guide at the same time by a predetermined degree. For example, if the sports performance of the last person in the ranking is higher than the sports performance of the sports guide, or is not lower than the predetermined degree (for example, 10%), the sports difficulty of his sports device will not be specially lowered, that is, the sports difficulty will be maintained at the same level as that used by the sports guide.

The ranking list in Figure 5 is designed to display the basic information of 20 people at the same time, and in this example, it is assumed that there are 19 athletes in this group sport (including the sports guide, which is exactly 20), so that the information of each athlete can be displayed in the aforementioned ranking list. In different situations, the number of athletes may be more, so the aforementioned ranking list may use page rotation to display the information of all athletes in batches, or only choose to display the information of the top and bottom predetermined number of people in the aforementioned ranking (for example, about 10 people each). In any case, since the computer device 40 not only displays the ranking results (at least part of the content) on the large display screen 30 that can be viewed by all sports participants, but also continuously transmits the corresponding information to the console 25 of each sports participant device, each console 25 then displays the ranking results on its display for the corresponding sports participant to view. The content may be different from the information screen displayed on the display screen 30, and usually focuses on the performance level of the sports participant using the sports participant device, so that each sports participant can at least know his or her own position in the aforementioned ranking.

According to the total number of participants, the number of people for whom the difficulty of the sport is adjusted according to the ranking should also be adjusted accordingly. For example, if there are about 50 participants, the top five and/or bottom five at the time may be selected for special adjustment. If there are only about 10 participants, the first and/or last place at the time may be selected for special adjustment, and so on.

FIG6 is an example of the time series change of the standard exercise difficulty and the adjusted exercise difficulty when performing group exercise using the technical solution of the present invention. The horizontal axis of the graph represents time, and the vertical axis represents the exercise difficulty. The thickest and continuous curve (curved line) in the graph is called the standard difficulty curve 80, which shows the time series change of the exercise difficulty used by the exercise instructor himself (and as a standard for emulation) when performing the aforementioned sample exercise; T0 at the far left of the time axis below represents the starting point of the group exercise period, and T1, T2, T3, etc. from left to right, respectively mark a change time point, indicating that the exercise instructor leads the change of exercise difficulty at each time point. In the legend, the initial exercise difficulty is Lv. .3, at time point T1 it is increased to Lv.4, at time point T2 it is increased to Lv.5, ...; these changing time points divide the group exercise period into several intervals, the above-mentioned standard difficulty curve 80 in each interval is called the interval difficulty, which is marked as 81, 82, 83 ... 89 in sequence; on the other hand, C1, C2, C3 ... etc. from left to right on the time axis represent a preset inspection time point (corresponding to the above-mentioned adjustment timing), and the intervals between these inspection time points are usually equal, for example, the first inspection time point C1 is set at the 5th minute after the start of the group exercise period, and then every 3 minutes is set as the next inspection time point.

When the group sports session reaches a check time point, the computer device 40 will determine whether it is necessary to adjust the sports difficulty according to the ranking. For example, at the first check time point C1, if according to the preset rule, the sports difficulty used by a certain sports participant should be lowered by 2 levels (for example, the last one in the above ranking), lowered by 1 level (for example, the second to last and the third to last), and raised by 2 levels (for example, the first one), the computer device 40 will determine whether it is necessary to adjust the sports difficulty according to the ranking. ) or increased by 1 level (e.g., the second and third place), then, after passing the check time point C1, the sports participant will automatically change to using the interval difficulty 94a (equal to Lv.5) which is reduced by 2 levels, the interval difficulty 94b (equal to Lv.6) which is reduced by 1 level, and the interval difficulty 94c (equal to Lv.9) which is increased by 2 levels, instead of the interval difficulty 84 (equal to Lv.7) used by the sports instructor and most other people. Or the interval difficulty is raised by 1 level to 94d (equal to Lv.8); immediately before the next check time point C2 arrives, the sports instructor changes the sports difficulty to a new interval difficulty of 85 (equal to Lv.10) at the change time point T4. At this time, based on the sample sports information continuously transmitted by the aforementioned computer device 40 and the monitoring mechanism of the console 25 of each sports participating device (may not require special instructions of the computer device 40), the sports instructor changes the sports difficulty to a new interval difficulty of 85 (equal to Lv.10). ), participants who are using the adjusted exercise difficulty will continue to use the same adjustment range and automatically switch to using interval difficulty 95a (equal to Lv.8) with a 2-level decrease, interval difficulty 95b (equal to Lv.9) with a 1-level decrease, interval difficulty 95c (equal to Lv.12) with a 2-level increase, or interval difficulty 95d (equal to Lv.11) with a 1-level increase until the next change time point or check time point.

The lower right corner of the information screen shown in FIG5 has a time point prompt 39, which displays the remaining time until the next check time point. The same prompt may also be displayed in the display screen of the console of each sports participant device, so that the sports participants (especially those at the end or the front of the aforementioned ranking) can grasp the time point when the difficulty of the sports may be adjusted.

It is worth mentioning that in FIG. 6 , the last interval difficulty 89 of the standard difficulty curve 80 is Lv.3. Since the exercise difficulty is already lower than a preset value, at the time of checking the interval, the computer device 40 will at most instruct to increase the exercise difficulty of a certain sports participant (for example, using interval difficulty 99c or 99d that is increased by 2 or 1 level), and will not instruct to reduce the exercise difficulty. In other words, even the sports participant with the worst exercise performance at that time will use the standard interval difficulty 89.

By means of the above-mentioned technical solution of the present invention, the difficulty of the sports participants in the group sports will automatically follow the difficulty of the model sports performed by the sports instructor, and can be automatically adjusted (or not adjusted) according to the aforementioned ranking that objectively reflects the physical fitness level of the sports participants in the group. For example, the sports participants with obviously lower physical fitness levels can automatically perform at a relatively lower difficulty level. The device can simulate sports at a higher difficulty level and/or enable sports participants with significantly higher physical fitness levels to automatically simulate sports at a relatively higher difficulty level, thereby enabling sports participants to obtain sports training and sports effects that match their personal physical fitness levels, and maintain or even improve their sports interest and competitive motivation during the exercise process, without having to be distracted by manually adjusting the difficulty level of the sports device used.

Furthermore, by using preset rules, participants with lower physical fitness levels can automatically imitate the exercise at a lower difficulty level, and/or participants with higher physical fitness levels can automatically imitate the exercise at a higher difficulty level, making the adjustment mechanism more effective and reasonable.

Furthermore, by using the exercise guide's exercise performance as a comparison standard, the conditions for decreasing and/or increasing the difficulty of the exercise can be made more reasonable.

Furthermore, by displaying the aforementioned ranking results to the sports participants and providing instructions to adjust the difficulty of the sports according to the rankings on a regular basis and more than once, the sports participants can be continuously motivated to perform at their best during the sports process, and the physical fitness level of the sports participants in the group can be more reasonably reflected, and the difficulty of the sports can be adjusted flexibly.

Preferably, in the above-mentioned group sports system, the console 25 of each sports participant device can be used by the corresponding sports participant to set whether to accept the aforementioned computer device 40 to adjust the sports difficulty according to the aforementioned ranking indication. The aforementioned setting can be performed at any time before or during the group sports. In this way, the sports participant can freely choose whether to rigidly follow the sports difficulty of the sample sports to imitate the sports. For example, in FIG5, the sports participant whose sports difficulty column displays "M" means that the sports participant has released the functions of automatic synchronization and automatic adjustment of sports difficulty at that time, and instead, completely manually sets the sports difficulty used by himself. By the way, for sports participants whose sports difficulty column shows "10-2", it means that they specify that the sports difficulty they use "follows the changes in the sports difficulty of the sports instructor, but is always reduced by 2 levels."

In the group sports system of the present invention, the second sports device 20 for sports participants to perform emulation sports does not necessarily have to be in the same place as the first sports device 10 for sports instructors to perform sample sports. In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG3 , a camera 55 is provided at the scene where the sports instructor performs the sample exercise, which films the sports instructor performing the sample exercise throughout the entire process and continuously transmits the live video and audio to a computer device 50, which performs necessary processing and then uploads the video and audio content to a network (including a local area network and a wide area network) 70 in real time in a streaming manner; all or part of the sports participating equipment is located in other places or dispersed in various places (such as other floors of a fitness club, or the private residence of the sports participant), and its console 25 can receive the aforementioned video and audio content in a streaming manner from the aforementioned network 70 and play it live, so that remote sports participants can also follow the demonstration guidance of the sports instructor to perform the same exercise. The sports performance of the sports participants can be transmitted to the computer device 40 via the aforementioned network 70, so that the computer device 40 can rank the sports performance of all the sports participants, transmit the ranking results to each sports participating device, and provide instructions for adjusting the sports difficulty of a specific sports participating device when necessary. Among them, the first sports device 10 and the console 15 used by the sports instructor, as well as the aforementioned camera device 55 and the computer device 50, together constitute a sports guidance device, which can provide sample sports information about the sports instructor using the first sports device 10 to perform sample sports, including the aforementioned audio-visual content, the sports instructor's sports performance and sports difficulty, etc.

In another preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 4 , the operator prepares a plurality of file-based exercise courses in advance. The files of each exercise course respectively record relevant information of a sports instructor using a first exercise device to perform a sample exercise, including video content, exercise performance, and changes in exercise difficulty. The files of the exercise courses are stored in a storage device 65, which can be accessed by a computer device 60 connected to a network 70. Access; sports participants scattered around can receive and play the audio and video content of the selected sports course in a streaming manner at the same time, and each follows the demonstration guidance in the pre-recorded video to perform the same exercise; similarly, each sports participant device (equivalent to the second sports device 20 plus the console 25) can communicate with the sports guidance device (equivalent to the computer device 60 plus the storage device 65) in real time through the network 70.

According to the viewpoint of the present invention, the computer devices 40, 50, and 60 in the above-mentioned preferred embodiments have an operation processing module (which may actually be a computer program) in its operation processing function, which can be called a performance ranking module, which is responsible for repeatedly ranking the sports performance of all sports participants during the aforementioned group sports period, and then displaying the ranking results to all sports participants. At the same time, the computing and processing functions of each computer device 40, 50, 60 also have a computing and processing module, which can be called a difficulty indication module, which is responsible for indicating the electronic devices of all sports participating devices to control the sports difficulty of the corresponding sports devices according to the sports difficulty of the sports guide, and, if necessary, instructing the second electronic devices of specific sports participating devices to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding sports devices according to the ranking of the sports performance of the corresponding sports participants in the aforementioned ranking at that time. In other possible implementations, the console of the first sports device and/or the console of the second sports device in the group sports system may directly or indirectly assume all or part of the functions of the aforementioned performance ranking module and the aforementioned difficulty indication module.

According to one of the purposes of the present invention, a method for controlling the difficulty of individual sports in group sports is provided. The group sports allow a plurality of sports participants to simultaneously imitate a model sports performed by a sports instructor using a first sports device and respectively perform a simulated sports using a second sports device during a group sports period. The control method comprises: automatically controlling the difficulty of each of the second sports devices for the sports participants to perform the simulated sports according to the difficulty of the model sports performed by the sports instructor using the first sports device; continuously measuring the sports performance of each of the sports participants in the simulated sports during the group sports period, and repeatedly measuring the sports performance of all of the sports participants in the simulated sports. Ranking; at least one adjustment opportunity in the group sports period, for the sports performance of each of the sports participants whose ranking in the ranking at that time belongs to the last predetermined ranking, automatically adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the sports participants to perform the emulation sports, so that it is lower than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports guide to perform the model sports, and/or for the sports performance of each of the sports participants whose ranking in the ranking at that time belongs to the front predetermined ranking, automatically adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the sports participants to perform the emulation sports, so that it is higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports guide to perform the model sports.

By means of the above-mentioned technical solution of the present invention, the exercise difficulty of the imitated exercise performed by the sports participants in the group sports will automatically follow the exercise difficulty of the sample exercise performed by the sports instructor, and based on the aforementioned ranking which objectively reflects the physical fitness level of the sports participants in the group, the exercise difficulty of the imitated exercise performed by the sports participants with significantly lower physical fitness levels can be automatically lowered, and/or the exercise difficulty of the imitated exercise performed by the sports participants with significantly higher physical fitness levels can be automatically increased, so that the sports participants can obtain sports training and sports effects that match their personal physical fitness levels, and maintain or even enhance their sports interest and competitive motivation during the exercise process, without having to be distracted by manually adjusting the exercise difficulty of the sports device used. For possible implementation details and corresponding effects of this method, please refer to the description of the group sports system in the previous article.

30: Display screen

31: Participant information

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36: Guide information

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A group sports system comprising: A sports guidance device having a first electronic device, the first electronic device can provide sample sports information about a sports guide using a first sports device to perform a sample sports, the sample sports information includes the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports guide to perform the sample sports; A plurality of sports participation devices, each having a second sports device and a second electronic device. The plurality of sports participation devices can allow a sports participant to use the second sports device to perform an imitation sport imitating the sample sport during a group sports period. The second electronic device of each sports participation device can control the corresponding second sports device according to the instruction to allow the sports participant to perform the imitation sport at the difficulty level, and can continuously measure the sports performance of the sports participant in the imitation sport during the group sports period; A performance ranking module that can repeatedly rank the sports performance of all the aforementioned sports participants in the aforementioned emulated sports during the aforementioned group sports period; A difficulty indication module can indicate the second electronic devices of all the aforementioned sports participating devices to control the corresponding second sports devices for the aforementioned sports participants to perform the aforementioned emulation sports according to the sports difficulty of the aforementioned first sports device for the aforementioned sports instructor, and the aforementioned difficulty indication module can indicate at least one of the aforementioned sports participating devices to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports devices for the aforementioned sports participants to perform the aforementioned emulation sports according to the ranking of the aforementioned sports performance of the corresponding aforementioned sports participants in at least one adjustment opportunity during the aforementioned group sports period. In the team sports system of claim 1, the performance ranking module may display the ranking result to each of the sports participants during the team sports period, so that each of the sports participants can at least know their own ranking in the ranking; the difficulty indication module may periodically and more than once provide the indication of adjusting the difficulty of the sports according to the ranking during the team sports period. As in the group sports system of claim 1, the difficulty indication module can, at at least one of the aforementioned adjustment opportunities, instruct the corresponding second electronic devices of the aforementioned sports participant equipment to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the aforementioned sports participant to perform the aforementioned emulation sports, so that it is lower than the sports difficulty of the aforementioned first sports device for the aforementioned sports instructor to perform the aforementioned model sports, for the aforementioned sports performance of the aforementioned sports participant whose ranking is within the last predetermined ranking in the aforementioned ranking at that time. As in claim 3, the team sports system, wherein the predetermined last ranking includes at least the last and the second to last; the difficulty indication module, at the adjustment timing, will instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the sports participant equipment to adjust the difficulty of the sports to a lower level for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the predetermined last ranking. The group sports system of claim 3 or 4, wherein the sample sports information provided by the first electronic device further includes the sports performance of the sports instructor using the first sports device to perform the sample sports; the difficulty indication module, during the adjustment timing, will only instruct the corresponding second electronic devices of the sports participant equipment to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device to be lower than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports instructor to perform the sample sports, only for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the last predetermined ranking and lower than the sports performance of the sports instructor at the same time by a predetermined degree. As in the group sports system of claim 1, the difficulty indication module can, at at least one of the adjustment opportunities, instruct the corresponding second electronic devices of the sports participant equipment to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device for the sports participant to perform the emulated sports to be higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports instructor to perform the sample sports for the sports participant, for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking is within the top predetermined ranking in the ranking at that time. As in claim 6, the team sports system, wherein the front predetermined ranking includes at least the first and second place; the difficulty indication module, at the adjustment timing, for the sports performance of the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the front predetermined ranking and the higher the ranking, will instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the sports participant equipment to adjust the sports difficulty to a higher level. As in claim 6 or 7, the sample sports information provided by the first electronic device also includes the sports performance of the sports instructor using the first sports device to perform the sample sports; the difficulty indication module, during the adjustment timing, will only instruct the corresponding second electronic device of the sports participant to adjust the sports difficulty of the corresponding second sports device to be higher than the sports difficulty of the first sports device for the sports instructor to perform the sample sports for the sports participant whose ranking in the ranking at that time is within the front predetermined ranking and higher than the sports performance of the sports instructor at the same time by a predetermined degree. As in the group sports system of claim 1, the second electronic device of each of the aforementioned sports participating equipment allows the corresponding aforementioned sports participant to set whether to accept the aforementioned difficulty indication module to adjust the aforementioned sports difficulty according to the aforementioned ranking indication. A method for controlling the difficulty of individual sports in group sports, wherein the group sports allow a plurality of sports participants to simultaneously imitate a model sport performed by a sports instructor using a first sports device during a group sports period and use a second sports device to perform an imitation sport respectively; the control method comprises: Based on the exercise difficulty of the aforementioned model exercise performed by the aforementioned exercise guide using the aforementioned first exercise device, the exercise difficulty of each aforementioned second exercise device performed by the aforementioned exercise participant in the aforementioned imitation exercise is automatically controlled; During the aforementioned group sports period, continuously measure the athletic performance of each aforementioned sports participant in the aforementioned emulation sports, and repeatedly rank the athletic performance of all aforementioned sports participants in the aforementioned emulation sports; At least one adjustment opportunity during the group exercise period, for the exercise performance of each of the aforementioned exercise participants whose rankings are within the last predetermined rankings in the aforementioned ranking at that time, the exercise difficulty of the corresponding second exercise device for the aforementioned exercise participants to perform the aforementioned emulation exercise is automatically adjusted to be lower than the exercise difficulty of the aforementioned first exercise device for the aforementioned exercise guide to perform the aforementioned model exercise, and/or for the exercise performance of each of the aforementioned exercise participants whose rankings are within the front predetermined rankings in the aforementioned ranking at that time, the exercise difficulty of the corresponding second exercise device for the aforementioned exercise participants to perform the aforementioned emulation exercise is automatically adjusted to be higher than the exercise difficulty of the aforementioned first exercise device for the aforementioned exercise guide to perform the aforementioned model exercise.

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