Patent ID: 8612030

Claim:
A health exercise assist system including a portable music playback apparatus, a service information providing apparatus, and an information processing apparatus, the system comprising: the portable music playback apparatus including a detection unit adapted to detect exercise information associated with physical exercise performed by a user, a music playback unit adapted to select music to be played and play the selected music, a storage unit adapted to store a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information detected by the detection unit, and a music playback history of music played by the music playback unit, and an information output unit adapted to output information stored in the storage unit; the service information providing apparatus including an information input unit adapted to receive information from the portable music playback apparatus via the information processing apparatus, the information including the history of exercise information and the music playback history which is associated with the history of exercise information to indicate the selected music played during the physical exercise performed by the user, a service information producing unit adapted to estimate a total amount of exercise performed by the user during playback of the selected music using a play time and tempo of the selected music and a height of the user specified in a user profile, the service information producing unit further adapted to produce service information to be provided to the user of the portable music playback apparatus, the service information including a service or data reward based upon the estimated total amount of exercise performed, and a service information output unit adapted to output the service information; and the information processing apparatus including an information input unit adapted to receive information from the portable music playback apparatus, the information including the history of exercise information and the music playback history, a transmitting unit adapted to transmit the information received by the information input unit to the service information providing apparatus, a receiving unit adapted to receive the service information output from the service information providing apparatus, and means for providing the service information to the user.