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Granted Patent B2
US 11,007,407 · App. 16/381,301 · Granted May 18, 2021

Gamification balance exercise system

Inventor: Se Don Hwang (Busan, KR)
Assignee: Strong Friend Inc.
A63B24/0087A63B21/0085A63B21/4033A63B24/0062A63B26/003A63B71/0619A63F13/211A63B2024/0096A63B2220/18A63B2220/833
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Patent No.
US 11,007,407
App. No.
16/381,301
Granted
May 18, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gamification balance exercise system including: a balance board in which a central axis is continuously changed while user's feet are seated; a gyro sensor which is installed in the balance board to detect a slope of the balance board; a communication module which transmits slope data measured by the gyro sensor; a game application which receives and analyzes the slope data to classify the analyzed slope data into direction and acceleration data and moves a character in a predetermined game content based on the direction and acceleration data; and a display which is embedded with the game application and displays the game content and the movement of the character.

Claims (17)

1. A gamification balance exercise system comprising:

a balance board on which user's feet are seated for balance exercise, and including:

a planar seating table including a first groove provided thereon and a second groove provided in the first groove;

a sensor pad which seats on the seating table and is made of a material having hardness lower than that of the seating table to provide instability to the user's feet seated thereon;

a center changing part which is coupled to a lower portion of the seating table and made of an ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer, and which contacts with a floor during the user's balance exercise; and

an air tube which is inserted into the center changing part to increase instability of the balance board during the user's balance exercise,

wherein when a central axis of the balance board is moved by the user's balance exercise, an area in which the center changing part is in contact with the floor is designed to be smaller than an area of the seating table;

a gyro sensor which is installed in the second groove to detect a slope of the balance board and is covered by the sensor pad;

a communication module which transmits slope data measured by the gyro sensor;

a game application which receives and analyzes the slope data to classify the analyzed slope data into direction and acceleration data and moves a character in a predetermined game content based on the direction and acceleration data; and

a display which is embedded with the game application and displays the game content and the movement of the character, and

wherein the sensor pad includes:

a first surface having a first embossed pattern; and

a second surface opposite to the first surface and having a second embossed pattern different from the first embossed pattern,

wherein the sensor pad is detachably fitted in the first groove such that any one of the first surface and the second surface is exposed on the seating table and a surface being exposed and contacting the user's feet is selected from the first embossed pattern or the second embossed pattern by the user.

2. The gamification balance exercise system of claim 1 , wherein when the user does the balance exercise on the balance board, the same movement as the user's movement is applied to a screen movement of the game content displayed on the display by the gyro sensor to grant an interest in the balance exercise effective for development of a body.

3. The gamification balance exercise system of claim 1 , wherein when the user does the balance exercise on the balance board, the same movement as the user's movement is applied to the character in the game content by the gyro sensor to grant an interest in the balance exercise effective for development of a lower body.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 11, 2019
From: HWANG, SE DON
To: STRONG FRIEND INC.
Reel/Frame 048858/0971 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0084723 · Jul 20, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200023239A1 · Jan 23, 2020