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Automated personal exercise regimen tracking apparatusAutomated personal exercise regimen tracking apparatus description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080090703, Automated personal exercise regimen tracking apparatus. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001]This application is a continuation in part of the applicant's co-pending patent application Ser. No. 11/618,858 filed on Dec. 31, 2006 and entitled "Portable Exercise Scripting and Monitoring Device" which claimed benefit and priority under 35 U.S.C. .sctn. 119(e) from applicant's then co-pending U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/811,637 filed Jun. 6, 2006; and applicant's co-pending U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/851,502 filed Oct. 14, 2006 and 60/872,817 filed Dec. 4, 2006. [0002]This application is also related to applicant's co-pending U.S. non-provisional patent application Ser. No. 11/298,434 entitled "Device, System and Method for Outdoor Computer Gaming," filed on Dec. 9, 2005 which took benefit and priority from applicant's then co-pending U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/648,157 filed on Jan. 28, 2005. [0003]This application is also related to applicants' co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/461,375 filed Jul. 31, 2006 entitled "Intelligent Pace Setting Portable Media Player" and U.S. provisional patent application 60/817,553 filed on Jun. 28, 2006. All of the aforementioned patent applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety as if fully set forth herein. RELEVANT INVENTIVE FIELD [0004]The various exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to a portable computing device, such as a personal digital assistant, cellular telephone or portable media player and more specifically to a portable computing that is interfaced with a sensor and configured to monitor and orchestrate repetitive exercise. BACKGROUND [0005]It has become a very common activity for a wide range of individuals to go to a gym and exercise using a variety of exercise equipment, including free weights and universal gym machines. Because people often use a wide variety of exercise machines, it is often difficult for a user to keep track of how many repetitions the user has performed during a current or previous exercise activity set. Furthermore, users often have a planned exercise regimen that they perform when going to the gym. For most users, the planned exercise regimen is written on paper or simply remembered. Either way, it is often an effort to keep track of their progress through a planned exercise regimen during their time in a gym. For users who use a written exercise regimen, they often write down performance statistics during or after completing their exercise. [0006]This logging effort is time consuming and often not convenient when focused on doing exercise activities. In addition, the ability of a user to document performance is limited. The user generally is limited to documenting the number of repetitions completed of various exercise activities, but does not have a means of clearly evaluating or documenting the level of performance achieved in repetitive exercise motions. What is therefore needed is an automated system for moderating exercise across a wide range of equipment in a gym setting, assessing performance, and documenting completion. SUMMARY [0007]The various exemplary embodiments disclosed herein address the needs in the relevant art. The user typically counts each repetition mentally to his or herself as he or she proceeds through the exercise activity set, thereby attempting to keep track of his or her progress through the set. At the completion of the exercise activity set, the user may rest before performing the next exercise activity set, either with the same weights or with different weights, or goes on to a different exercise in the preplanned exercise regimen. Thus, by counting completed reps and keeping track of completed sets, a user progresses through a preplanned exercise regimen. [0008]The full exercise regimen may include a wide variety of repetitive exercises, each exercise comprising a number of exercise activity sets for each muscle group. Thus, a user must keep track of his or her progress through each exercise activity set, by counting repetitions, as well as keep track of his or her progress through the overall exercise regimen. Additionally, a user may track performance metrics with respect to each exercise activity set to confirm progress toward a particular goal. Generally, performance tracking is performed mentally or manually using a paper log. [0009]In an exemplary embodiment, an automated exercise regimen apparatus is generally encompassed as a portable computing device connected by wireless link to a wireless sensor unit, the wireless sensor unit comprising; a sensor operatively coupled to a processor, the sensor producing signals indicative of a dynamic event involving a repetitive exercise activity, the processor being programmed to process the signals produced by the sensor; and a wireless transceiver operatively coupled to the processor for transmitting the sensor signals to the separate portable computing device running rep-counting routines and an automated exercise regimen application, the separate portable computing device may be configured to monitor, count, store, orchestrate and report the number of physical repetitions performed by a user when engaged in a repetitive exercise activity set as well as to monitor progress through a pre-planned exercise regimen and prompt the user when a next exercise activity is required of the regimen. [0010]The portable computing device for orchestrating an exercise regimen comprises a processor, a display coupled to the processor for visually outputting exercise information to a user, a user interface coupled to the processor for receiving the user's selection of one of a plurality of predefined stationary exercise regimens to be performed, a motion sensor coupled to the processor for receiving time dependent motion data from a sensor in communication with a dynamic element of an exercise apparatus, a computer readable storage medium comprising a datastore coupled to the processor having stored programmatic instructions. The programmatic instructions which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to output a prescribed exercise instruction corresponding to at least a portion of the selected exercise regimen, receive the time dependent motion signals from the sensor, determine a repetition event from the received motion data, determine a cumulative repetition count from the repetition event and record the repetition count in the datastore. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS [0011]The features and advantages of the various exemplary embodiments will become apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Where possible, the same reference numerals and characters are used to denote like features, elements, components or portions of an exemplary embodiment. [0012]FIG. 1--depicts a generalized block diagram of a portable computing device. [0013]FIG. 1A--depicts a first exemplary embodiment of an intelligent wireless sensor unit. [0014]FIG. 2--depicts an alternate exemplary embodiment of the wireless sensor unit in a housing which includes a magnetic component for affixing to a repetitively movable piece of exercise equipment. [0015]FIG. 3A--depicts a time varying profile of accelerometer data collected from a sensor unit affixed to a dumbbell during a curl exercise [0016]FIG. 3B--depicts a time varying profile of accelerometer data collected from a sensor unit affixed to a weight during a bench press exercise [0017]FIG. 4--depicts an exemplary display upon the screen of a portable computing device, the example display showing a current exercise activity set to be performed by a user as required of a stored exercise regimen, as well as current count and timing information. [0018]FIG. 5--depicts an exemplary display of the portable computing device, the display showing a graph of an exercise activity set that has just been performed by a user, the graph depicting reps vs. time, the profile representing a performance metric [0019]FIG. 6--depicts an exemplary display of the portable computing device, the display showing a graph of an exercise activity set that has just been performed by a user, the graph depicting reps vs. time, the profile representing a performance metric. Continue reading about Automated personal exercise regimen tracking apparatus... Full patent description for Automated personal exercise regimen tracking apparatus Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Automated personal exercise regimen tracking apparatus patent application. 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