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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2006
Shin Terao, Kobe, JP;
Yutaka Sakaue, Akashi, JP;
Ken Midorikawa, Akashi, JP;
Konami Sports & Life Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an exercise-data management system, which comprises a wristbandincluding an IC chiprecording therein unique information for authenticating a participant, a studio gateset up in a studio and adapted to wirelessly receive and read the unique information recorded in the IC chip, and an exercise-data management server apparatus. The studio gateis operable, when the unique information is read, to transmit information indicating the read to the exercise-data management server apparatus. The exercise-data management server apparatusincludes a schedule storage section which stores, as a schedule, a location and a time zone in which an exercise is to be performed, and stores a standard consumed calorie value in association with an exercise type, and a total-consumed-calorie calculation section operable, based on the received unique information and the contents stored in the schedule storage section, to acquire a consumed calorie value for a participant corresponding to the unique information. The exercise-data management system of the present invention allows the studio gateas a reader apparatus to read the unique information of the wristbandas portable unique-information storage means, through a one-time operation.