Buy an Apple Watch for exercise, but be lazy when exercising, which may be an experience that many people have. Apple has come up with a solution to this.
On February 18, Apple's new patent was exposed, which showed that Apple is studying the use of AirPods headphones to detect the user's movement status and position, the patent is on the one hand to assist the spatial audio function, on the other hand, to provide more exercise information to Apple's Fitness+ online course.
Schematic diagram of Apple's new patent
It is reported that the patent is called "wireless earbud system with posture detection function", which shows: "Earbuds may have sensors to collect directional information such as acceleration during the user's movement," "The host electronic device can communicate wirelessly with the earbuds, and can form part of the earbud system, providing users with guidance and feedback, while evaluating the user's performance in head movement routines or other exercise routines." "For example, when an Apple Fitness+ coach tells you to raise your right arm high above your head, it should be a very fine measurement.
Apple AirPods
During operation, the earbuds may collect accelerometer data. Use the User Head Pose Lookup Table to analyze the data in the reference frame to classify the measured user head position as corresponding to the corresponding user head pose.
Users who have used Apple Fitness+ know that it does not give you encouragement like a real coach, so in order to correct the movement and detect whether the exerciser is lazy, Apple has thought of this method to make users more "immersive".