Physical exercise system having a virtual reality environment controlled by a user's movement
US6244987A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 30, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jun 12, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 30, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S482/902
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A wellness system comprises an exercise load providing unit for providing a load of a physical exercise for a user, and for measuring a movement of the user who is doing the physical exercise, a virtual reality environment providing unit for providing the user with a virtual reality environment that can cause user's plural senses such as the sense of sight, hearing, touch, and smell to work, according to the contents of the virtual reality environment, and a control unit for controlling the virtual reality environment provided by the virtual reality environment providing unit according to the user's movement measured by the exercise load providing unit. Furthermore, when providing the virtual reality environment, the virtual reality environment providing unit displays an image which produces the virtual reality environment by setting its angle of view to be larger than an angle of view of a corresponding object or scene which was shot. A step dynamic image method is used to present the image data and involves storing a plurality of dynamic image cuts taken at a plurality of places in a path through which a user will virtually traverse and replaying the plurality of dynamic image cu…
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