CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0073310, filed on Jun. 20, 2019, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND

1. Field of the Invention

Embodiments relate to an exercise assistance device and an exercise assistance method. The present application was supported by the Technology Innovation Program (20006697, Multi sensor based artificial intelligence technology passenger recognition and air clean console for autonomous design companion animal family centered) funded By the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea)

2. Discussion of Related Art

Recently, the importance of an individual's steady health care is increasing day by day. In addition, users can manage health through exercise devices or exercise facilities and utilize exercise programs for this. Also, for personalized health management, users utilize personal training services as exercise programs.

Meanwhile, the development of artificial intelligence in the field of video analysis has been actively conducted along with the recent rapid development of deep learning technology. Also, global companies such as Google and IBM are investing in developing artificial intelligence for analyzing various body video data, such as inputting large-scale data through collaboration with the medical industry, and some companies have succeeded in developing artificial intelligence that outputs excellent video analysis results.

In this regard, for exercise programs with trainers, a need for a user-customized home training service through analysis of user exercise videos using artificial intelligence technology is emerging, considering that schedule management with a trainer is not easy, that there are temporal and spatial restrictions, and that the cost is high.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention is directed to providing an exercise assistance device and method capable of performing an analysis and recommendation on an exercise video.

The present invention is also directed to providing an exercise assistance device and method capable of performing movement analysis and movement recommendation on an exercise video through an exercise assistance server.

The present invention is also directed to providing an exercise assistance device and method capable of performing a movement analysis on a user's exercise video through the exercise assistance server and recommending and providing an exercise movement suitable for the user.

Technical problems intended to be solved by the invention are not limited to the aforementioned objects, and other technical objects that are not described herein will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description and the accompanying drawings.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a device for assisting exercise, comprising a video providing unit configured to provide a first video data including a first exercise movement, a data obtaining unit configured to obtain a second video data based on an input relating to the first video data, a joint information extracting unit configured to extract a first joint information obtained by detecting plural skeletons from the second video data, an analyzing unit configured to obtain an analysis information based on a similarity determined by comparing the first joint information with a second joint information of the first video data and a recommendation unit configured to obtain recommendation information for recommending an exercise movement to a user based on at least one of the first video data, the second video data and the analysis information from a database including plural exercise movements.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided A method for assisting exercise, the method including providing a video providing a first video data including a first exercise movement, obtaining a second video data including a second exercise movement obtained by responding to an input of the first video data, extracting a fist joint information obtained by detecting plural skeleton from the second video data, providing analysis information based on a similarity determined by comparing the first joint information with the second joint information of the first video data and providing a recommendation information recommends an exercise movement based on at least one of the first video data, the second video data and the analysis information from a data base including plural exercise movements, in order to recommend an appropriate exercise movement to a user.

According to an embodiment, by providing the exercise assistance device and method capable of performing an analysis and recommendation on an exercise video, a user can easily acquire feedback on the exercise video without temporal and spatial restrictions.

According to an embodiment, by providing an exercise assistance device and method capable of performing a movement analysis and a movement recommendation on an exercise video through an exercise assistance server, a user can automatically acquire analysis information and recommendation information with high accuracy through the exercise assistance server.

According to an embodiment, by providing an exercise assistance device and method capable of performing a movement analysis on a user's exercise video through the exercise assistance server and recommending and providing an exercise movement suitable for the user, the user can easily acquire feedback on the exercise movement on the basis of analysis information obtained through the analysis of the exercise video, and the user can acquire an exercise movement recommended on the basis of the analysis information as personalized information.

Advantageous effects of the present disclosure are not limited to those described above, and other unmentioned advantageous effects should be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in art to which the present disclosure pertains from the present specification and accompanying drawings.

