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The Forme Life Personal Strength Studio for Body and Mind comprises a smart mirror, fitness machine, specially designed for strength and resistance training. The smart mirror home fitness machine includes tuck-away
mechanical exercise arms, equipped with adjustable resistance applied to graspable handles, a
pressure sensor mat, and externally connected workout equipment, such as weights,
bars and bells. The brand name of the personal strength home studio, “Forme Life” (spelt with an extra “e’), is borrowed from the French term “la forme”, meaning “in shape”. A meaning that extends, for this invention, to the health of body shaping and sculpting
that can be achieved, using such a smart mirror, home fitness studio
The YouTube video below shows the Forme Life smart mirror, home fitness machine, in use for strength and resistance training.
The Forme Life home studio fitness machine is a patented invention, disclosed in the US utility patent application US20200047030, titled Interactive exercise machine system with mirror display. The patent application discloses a smart mirror, combined with connected video and audio output means, together with mechanical apparatus for resistance training, and means to continuously 3D-record, monitor and process movement and biometric data from the user. Biometric data includes, for example heart rate, and calories burnt. Recorded movement data, for example, might be used to generate skeletal and joint data, in view of providing posture and position feedback to the user.
Interestingly, the Forme Life interactive
exercise machine, with smart mirror display, was originally designed to customize machine
configuration and workouts, using expert algorithms, generated by the machine.
For example, algorithms to skillfully adjust the resistance of mechanical workout means, in
view of assisting users in their goals, without
injury or personal trainers. It is both incidental, and unspecified in the disclosure
of the invention, that this exercise machine might be so well suited to the
pandemic situation, because of the workout safety it offers, under
shelter-at-home orders.
The patent application abstract, together with
the patent application Figure 1, are included below.
An interactive exercise system includes a mechanical support system and a display module held by the mechanical support system. A mirror element is attached to at least partially cover the display module. At least one movable arm is connected to the support system and at least one force-controlled component is connected to the mechanical support system. The force-controlled component can be graspable by a user and allows for a range of exercise types and programs.[Abstract US20200047030]
The included patent application Figure 1 shows the interactive exercise machine 100 with personalized training capabilities, and a user 101. The machine includes a display 102 held by a mechanical support 104. The display is designed for viewing videos 105 or information 207. The display is also partially covered with reflective “mirror” material, enabling to view a reflection 103 of the user 101. Movable arms 106 and legs 208 are connected to the mechanical support 104. Engageable components such as graspable handles 110 are connected to a force sensor 114, attached to a cord that extends through the movable arms 106. A camera 112 monitors user position, which may be used to adjust the resistance of the handles 110. Additional sensors 116 might include audio, microphone, light, geo-positioning, accelerometer, yaw, pitch and roll, carbon monoxide and temperature sensing devices. A pressure sensor mat 124 is also depicted, as well as other workout equipment 126, such as weights, balls, bars, tubes, balance systems, movable or stationary. User data might be stored locally, or sent via connected data cloud 120, for processing at a remote data storage and analytics service 122. The network cloud might include connected smartphones, computers or servers, for ubiquitous and on-demand access to a host of computing resources. Computing resources enabling, for example, both video and augmented reality output.
References
Forme Life https://formelife.com/
FuseProeject – Forme Life https://www.fuseproject.com/work/forme-life
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