Patent Application
20130216988
The present invention relates to a brain training system, and more particularly, to a brain training system using an exercise bicycle for education of babies and children, family games, or prevention of dementia of aged people.
Today, as Korea is becoming an aging society, the population of aged people has rapidly increased and a prevalence rate of dementia has increased, and as a result, the number of demented patients has rapidly increased. In order to solve the problems, a local government has taken a high social interest for dementia problems of the aged, by expanding medical treatment facilities and health care facilities, and the like. It is important to treat and prevent the dementia, and recently, the interest in a field for preventing the dementia has increased.
As one measure for preventing the dementia, a brain fitness program has been developed to provide a training method required to maintain and improve high-level functions of a brain.
The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a brain training system using an exercise bicycle having advantages of allowing a user to experience a virtual travel together with a physical exercise by controlling a moving picture screen of a travel destination reproduced on a display device when the user drives a driving device such as an exercise bicycle and of supporting the user to improve social, emotional, physical, and cognitive abilities by allowing the user to answer a quiz regarding travel information acquired from the travel destination after traveling.
The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a brain training system using an exercise bicycle having advantages of allowing a user to race with many different users with a road image directly selected by the user as a background on the display device while driving the exercise bicycle and to answer many quizzes as possible for a predetermined time.
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a brain training system through a virtual traveling, including: a display device configured to reproduce a moving picture of a travel destination and display the moving picture on a screen; a control box configured to control the display device; and a driving device configured to generate a driving information signal while being driven by physical driving power of the user and transfer the driving information signal to the control box, in which the control box controls the reproduction of the moving picture of the display device according to the driving information signal transferred from the driving device
The driving device may include a pedal driving unit and a wheel unit, and the pedal driving unit may be driven by physical driving power of the user to rotate the wheel unit.
The wheel unit may have a magnetic body, and a speed sensor adjacent to the magnetic body may be installed on the wheel unit, and the speed sensor may sense movement of the magnetic body to generate the driving information signal and transfer the driving information signal to the control box.
When the wheel unit rotates one cycle, eight frames of the moving picture of the travel destination may be sequentially reproduced on the display device.
The driving device may further include a steering unit including a left handle and a right handle, and each of the left handle and the right handle may include a selection button configured to select selection information displayed on the display device through the control box.
The control box may be configured to output a quiz regarding the travel destination information on the display device, and select an answer of the output quiz by selecting the button of the left handle or the right handle of the steering unit.
The driving device may further include a steering unit including a left handle and a right handle, and configured to display left and right hidden images of the reproduced moving picture by laterally rotating the steering unit.
The steering unit may include a potentionmeter to transfer a steering signal to the control box.
The steering unit may be configured to be attachable to and detachable from separately the pedal driving unit and the wheel unit of the driving device, and the separated steering unit may be installed and used on an existing general bicycle or a bicycle for health.
The control box may include a database, and moving pictures of the travel destination to be reproduced or a travel destination map, quizzes, and the like are stored in the database, and still images or moving pictures which are directly photographed by the user may be stored and used in the database.
Further, the control box may be configured to play a relay game with many users as a team.
In the brain training system using the exercise bicycle according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to support a user to perform physical, emotional, and social trainings by providing an image of a local area which is not easily gone usually together with a bicycle exercise.
Further, it is possible to improve a cognitive ability of a user by providing information on a travel destination during traveling through the screen and providing a quiz after the traveling ends for the user to select an answer.
In the brain training system using the exercise bicycle according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to enable a user to recall a memory by providing an image directly photographed by the user together with a bicycle exercise and support the user to perform emotional, social, and physical trainings by racing with different users as a team.
Further, it is possible to improve physical ability and cognitive ability of the user by providing a simple quiz while reproducing the moving picture and allowing the user to select an answer while racing.
The present invention will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. The drawings and description are to be regarded as illustrative in nature and not restrictive. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the specification.
A brain training system 100 (hereinafter, abbreviated as a “system”) according to the exemplary embodiment includes a display device 130 and a control box 120 controlling the display device, and further includes a driving device 110 driven by physical driving power of a user.
The display device 130 reproduces moving pictures of travel destinations and displays the moving pictures on a screen, and may display a menu so that the user may input desired information such that the user selects a desired travel destination. The control box 120 is connected with the display device 130 either wired or wirelessly so as to transmit and receive signals and controls the screen of the display device 130 according to input information. The driving device 110 is driven by physical driving power of the user to generate a driving information signal and transfer the driving information signal to the control box 120. The control box 120 controls the moving picture reproduction of the display device 130 according to the transferred driving information signal.
The driving device 110 includes a pedal driving unit 112 and a wheel unit 113, and the pedal driving unit 112 is driven by physical driving power of the user so that the wheel unit rotates. Further, the driving device 110 includes a steering unit 115 which may be used for selection of a direction or selection of information. For example, the driving device 110 has a structure similar to a bicycle, such that a seat 117 is positioned above the wheel unit 113, and the steering unit 115 is positioned at and fixed to a front of the seat 117. Therefore, the user takes the seat 117, grasps the steering unit 115 by the hand, and turns the pedal driving unit 112 by the foot to rotate the wheel unit 113 connected with the pedal driving unit 112.
In another exemplary embodiment, the control box 120 may be integrally configured with the driving device 110, and further, in another exemplary embodiment, the control box 120 may be integrally configured with the display device 110.
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The steering unit 115 is configured as a part of the driving device 110 and may be integrally formed with the pedal driving unit 112 and the wheel unit 113, and in another modified example, the steering unit 115 is formed to be selectively attachable and detachable and thus may be used while being installed on an existing general bicycle or a bicycle for health.
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Meanwhile, in the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the control box 120 may display a quiz regarding the travel destination information on the display device 130 after virtual traveling ends, and the user may press a selection button provided on the steering unit 115 of the driving device 110 to select an answer from the quiz. The control box 120 includes the database 125 to store software data including the travel destination moving picture, a travel destination map, quizzes regarding the travel destination information, and the like.
Further, in another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the control box 120 may display the quiz on the display device 130 during the moving picture reproduction, and the user may press the selection button provided on the steering unit 115 of the driving device 110 to select an answer from the quiz. The control box 120 includes the database 125 to store software data including a still image and a moving picture which are directly photographed by the user, and quizzes which are directly prepared by the user, and the like.
The display device 130 may include a speaker outputting a sound so as for the user to feel auditory satisfaction together with the screen and may be configured to have screen resolution at a ratio of 4:3. As illustrated in
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In the case of starting the new traveling, a travel theme and a travel destination are selected and a travel time is selected, and then guiding or not is selected.
When the traveling starts and the pedal driving unit 112 of the driving device 110 is driven and the wheel unit 113 rotates, as the speed sensor senses four magnetic bodies provided on the wheel unit 113, and signals are input and output, image frames are reproduced one by one, and as a result, eight image frames may be sequentially reproduced for one cycle of the wheel unit 113.
In the case where a special activity is set for each travel destination, the special activity may be selected and performed while traveling the corresponding travel destination, and the display device 130 may display information regarding the travel destination on the left and right of the screen together with the moving picture of the travel destination while traveling. In this case, screen left information or screen right information may be selected and checked by the selection button provided on the steering unit 115 of the driving device 110.
After the traveling ends for the set travel time, a quiz based on the information acquired in the travel destination is provided on the screen of the display device 130, and the user selects an answer from the quiz by using the selection button of the steering unit 115. That is, as an example, when a two-choice example is displayed together with the quiz on the display device 130, the user may press one of the left and right selection buttons of the steering unit 115 to select an answer.
When the quiz game regarding the travel information ends, whether or not to continue the traveling is determined, and in the case of continuing the traveling, the process returns to the process of selecting a travel theme and a travel destination again, and in the case of ending the traveling, the traveling is stored and ends. The process of storing the traveling may be automatically stored in the system just before the traveling ends. After the traveling ends, the user may easily check the traveling result by visualizing the traveling result.
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When a program starts and the pedal driving unit 112 of the driving device 110 is driven and the wheel unit 113 rotates, as the speed sensor senses a magnetic body provided on the wheel unit 113 and signals are input and output, image frames are reproduced one by one, and as a result, image frames are sequentially reproduced according to a rotational speed of the wheel unit 113.
While the moving picture is reproduced, a quiz which is prepared previously by a user or a helper is arbitrarily provided on the screen of the display device 130, and the user selects an answer from the quiz by using a selection button of the steering unit 115. That is, as an example, when a two-choice example is displayed together with the quiz on the display device 130, the user may press one of the left and right selection buttons of the steering unit 115 to select an answer.
When the reproduction of the moving picture ends, a final required time and a correct answer rate of the quiz are calculated and then a total score is provided on the screen of the display device 130.
The control box 120 includes a database, and still images and moving pictures to be reproduced, quizzes, and the like are stored in the database, the still images and moving pictures which are directly photographed by the user, and quizzes which are directly prepared by the user may be stored in the database and used.
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While this invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the scope of the appended claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2010-0105026 | Oct 2010 | KR | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KR2011/008091 | 10/27/2011 | WO | 00 | 4/24/2013 |
