Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Toshitaka Kimura

Makio Kashino

Seiji Matsumura

Naoki Saijo

Daiki Nasu

Tomoki Watanabe

Arinobu Niijima

Ryosuke Aoki

Kana Eguchi

Takashi Isezaki

Mana Sasagawa

Ken Watanabe

A technology is provided where, in physical exercise performed using plate-shaped equipment, behavior of one's own body and corresponding behavior of equipment can be presented in an intuitively comprehensible manner on the basis of information acquired by a simple device configuration. Information indicating skill relating to a turn in a physical exercise performed by an exerciser performing the physical exercise using plate-shaped equipment is skill information. Included are an equipment behavior information acquiring unit that acquires equipment behavior information, a bodily behavior information acquiring unit that acquires bodily behavior information, and a skill information presenting unit that calculates, from the equipment behavior information and the bodily behavior information, a first skill indicator/second skill indicator that include information indicating behavior of the equipment/behavior of the body of the exerciser at a start-of-turn time, a middle-of-turn time, and an end-of-turn time, as the skill information, and presents the skill information. The equipment behavior information includes time sequence information of angular velocities relating to a travel direction/an edging direction of the equipment, and the bodily behavior information includes time sequence information of pressure at each region of the soles of the right foot/left foot of the exerciser.

Skill information presentation apparatus, skill information presentation method, and program

The motion performance of an animal that makes a motion in response to the movement of at least one moving body other than the animal, which is a subject for evaluation, is properly evaluated. The motion data of the animal is acquired by manipulating the difficulty factor of the motion which is made by the animal in response to the movement of the moving body, and the motion performance of the animal is evaluated based on the motion data of the animal. It is to be noted that the motion data contains information indicating the timing of the motion of the animal.

Performance evaluation apparatus, data acquisition apparatus, methods therefor, and program

A living body guidance device includes: a measurement unitthat measures biometric information of a user; a stimulus unitthat is installed in contact with the user's body and presents a tactile stimulus to the user; a database unitthat has a relationship between the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit and the biometric information according to the tactile stimulus recorded; an input unitthat sets target biometric information which is target biometric information that is desired of the user to realize; and a control unitthat, when there is a difference between current biometric information which is current biometric information of the user estimated based on the measurement result by the measurement unit and the target biometric information, controls the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit so that the difference is reduced, so as to guide the user so that the current biometric information approaches the target biometric information, based on the relationship recorded in the database unit, by.

Living body guidance apparatus, living body guidance method and living body guidance program

An athletic activity performance estimation device estimates an athletic activity performance index relating to an athletic activity in which a subject performs a short-time action after a predetermined waiting time using information correlated with the state of tension of the subject as tension state information, an index indicating the subject's tension level as a tension state index, and an index indicating the quality of performance of an athletic activity of the subject as the athletic activity performance index. The athletic activity performance estimation device includes a tension state information acquirer that acquires the tension state information of the subject before starting the athletic activity, a tension state index calculator that calculates the tension state index of the subject from the tension state information, and an athletic activity performance index estimator.

Motion performance estimate apparatus, motion performance estimate method, and program

The appropriateness of a motion of a motion actor who makes a motion in response to a motion of at least one moving body other than him/herself is visualized. To display motion information of a motion actor who makes a motion in response to a motion of at least one moving body other than him/herself, an image showing one sequence which is visible or a plurality of sequences which are visible is output. In this case, a relative time which is a position on a relative time axis corresponds to a position on a specific axis of the image. The one sequence or each of the plurality of sequences graphically shows at least a position on the axis which corresponds to a moving body time that is a relative time at which at least one predetermined motion of the moving body was made, and a position on the axis which corresponds to a motion actor time that is a relative time at which at least one predetermined motion of the motion actor was made.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshitaka Kimura