Industrial Technology Research Institute

Shu-Yuan Chang

Tung-Hung Lu

Shih-Bin Luo

Rong-Rong Chen

Jong-Shyan Wang

Yueh-Hsuan Lee

Hsu-Cheng Deng

Li-Zen Lin

Hsueh-Lin Chen

An exercise bike and an operation method thereof are provided. In a test mode, a processing unit adjusts a resistance of a pedaling activity to be a plurality of pedaling resistances and obtains a plurality of psychological values respectively corresponding to the pedaling resistances by inquiring the user about a rate of perceived exertion. The processing unit calculates the psychological values to obtain a plurality of exercise intensities respectively corresponding to the pedaling resistances and further obtain a correspondence relationship between the exercise intensities and the pedaling resistances. After the test mode ends, the processing unit determines a recommended pedaling resistance according to the correspondence relationship. In a sport mode, the recommended pedaling resistance is provided to the user for performing the pedaling activity. The exercise bike determines the recommended pedaling resistance according to the user's physiological characteristics and/or a rate of perceived exertion regarding a physical activity.

Exercise bike and operation method thereof

An input device, including two or more ultrasonic transducers (UTs) driven by a driving signal (DS) for respectively sending a transmitting signal to sense an object; a driving circuit unit (DCU) generating the DS; a receiving circuit unit (RCU) determining whether echo signals (ESs) respectively returned from the two or more UTs are greater than a threshold value; a diplexer receiving and transmitting the DS to the two or more UTs, or receiving and transmitting the ESs to the RCU; and a control unit controlling the DCU to generate the DS, controlling the operation of the diplexer, and obtaining a relative motion information between the object and at least one of the two or more UTs according to all of ESs greater than the threshold value and determined by the RCU, so as to correspondingly output an input signal, is provided.

Touchless input device

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Tainan, Taiwan

Shu-Yuan Chang