Patent ID: 7491153
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: A63B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A combined exercise management and entertainment unit, comprising: a sensor for sensing a user's body state during exercise, the body state during exercise being processed by an exercise signal processing circuit to produce an exercise signal; a personal characteristics database for storing data of the user's body physical characteristics; an exercise course memory for storing exercise courses set by the user, each of the exercise courses including information about any of exercise time period, exercise items, duration of each exercise item each time, and combination thereof; a setting unit for the user to set the data of body physical characteristics for storing in the personal characteristics database, the exercise courses for storing in the exercise course memory, and a plurality of entertainment information entries corresponding to the individual exercise items set in the exercise course memory; a microprocessor adapted to receive the exercise signal produced by the sensor, and calculate calorie consumption in each exercise item each time and accumulated calorie consumption based on the exercise signal received from the sensor, the data of body physical characteristics stored in the personal characteristics database, and the exercise items included in the exercise course being executed; a display for showing any of the exercise signal, the data of personal body physical characteristics, the exercise courses, the exercise items, the calculated calorie consumption, and combination thereof; and a play unit having an entertainment information memory for storing a plurality of entries of entertainment information that separately correspond to the exercise items set in the exercise course memory, so that the user may select to play one of the entertainment information entries corresponding to an exercise item being done.