Samsung patents virtual trainer that overlays your video on an avatar
Samsung describes a system that uses 2D and 3D cameras plus a wearable sensor to track your body movements and health stats. It compares your actions to a customized exercise form and displays feedback by overlaying your live video on a virtual instructor.
In the filing’s own words
A virtual training system and method are disclosed. The system and methods include receiving, at a processing device, a two-dimensional (2D) image of a user from a 2D image sensor; receiving, at the processing device, a three-dimensional (3D) image of the user from a 3D image sensor; receiving, at the processing device, at least one biometric characteristic of the user; generating, by the processing device, feedback information relating to movement of the user during a session compared to a standard form movement; and outputting the feedback information to the user as an image of the user captured by at least one of the 2D image sensor and the 3D image sensor overlayed on an instructor avatar.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A virtual training system, comprising: a two-dimensional (2D) image sensor configured to capture a 2D image of a user; a three-dimensional (3D) image sensor configured to sense a volume and motion of the user and generate 3D image data of the user based on the sensed volume and motion of the user; a wireless receiver configured to receive a wireless signal that includes biometric data from a biometric data sensor worn by the user, the biometric data comprising at least one biometric characteristic of the user sensed by the biometric sensor; a processing device configured to receive the 2D image, the 3D image data, and the at least one biometric characteristic of the user, the processing device further configured to: generate a profile for the user based on the 2D image, the 3D image data, and the at least one biometric characteristic of the user; generate, based on the profile of the user, a customized form movement by modifying one or more parameters of a standard form movement according to the profile of the user derived from the 2D image, the 3D image data, and the at least one biometric characteristic; generate, based on processing the 2D image, the 3D image data, and the at least one biometric characteristic of the user, feedback information relating to movement of the user during a session compared to the customized form movement; and an output device configured to provide the feedback information to the user as an image of the user captured by at least one of the 2D image sensor and the 3D image sensor overlayed on an instructor avatar.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Virtual trainer on mobile/IOT devices
- Patent number
- US12731437B2
- Application number
- 17564195
- Filed
- Dec 28, 2021
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 19
Classified under
G06V 40/23 Physics & computingA63B 24/0062 Human necessitiesA63B 24/0075 Human necessitiesA63B 71/0622 Human necessitiesG06T 13/40 Physics & computingG06T 13/80 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Wearables
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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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