Apple patents watch feature that uses gym machine data to track calories
Apple describes a method where a wearable device connects wirelessly to gym equipment to get real-time workout details. It combines this data with the user's heart rate to calculate a more accurate estimate of calories burned during exercise.
In the filing’s own words
In an embodiment, a method comprises: establishing, by a wireless wearable computer worn by a user, a wireless communication connection with a fitness machine; obtaining machine data from the fitness machine while the user is engaged in a workout session on the fitness machine; obtaining, from a heart rate sensor of the wireless device, heart rate data of the user; determining a calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user based on the heart rate data and the machine data; determining a heart rate caloric expenditure based on the heart rate data and the calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user; and providing information corresponding to the heart rate caloric expenditure for presentation.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: establishing, by one or more processors of a wireless wearable computer worn by a user, a wireless communication connection with a fitness machine; obtaining, by the one or more processors using the wireless communication connection, machine data from the fitness machine while the user is engaged in a workout session on the fitness machine, the machine data comprising first data that describes the fitness machine and second data that describes fitness metrics associated with the workout session and that are specific to the fitness machine; obtaining, from a heart rate sensor of the wireless wearable computer, heart rate data of the user; determining, by the one or more processors, a calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user based on the heart rate data and the machine data; determining, by the one or more processors, a heart rate caloric expenditure based on the heart rate data and the calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user; and providing, by the one or more processors, information corresponding to the heart rate caloric expenditure for presentation.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- Wearable computer with fitness machine connectivity for improved activity monitoring using caloric expenditure models
- Patent number
- US12721533B2
- Application number
- 18517940
- Filed
- Nov 22, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 9
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A61B 5/024 Human necessitiesA61B 5/0022 Human necessitiesA61B 5/02416 Human necessitiesA61B 5/0833 Human necessitiesA61B 5/1118 Human necessitiesA61B 5/1123 Human necessitiesMore from Apple in Health & body
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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