Exercise/therapy support system

Claim 1

An exercise/therapy structural support system for enabling real-time, comparative-display guiding of actual, personal exercise activity during use of exercise apparatus which includes a part that moves in a known relationship to such activity, said system comprising means for generating a selected, first displayable signal which is indicative of displacement and motion characterizing a desired exercise regime involving movement of such part generated by an actual exercise cycle as performed by a user, selectively attachable, sonar-based position and motion sensor means operatively coupled to such part, operable to produce a sensor signal which is interpretable to indicate the position and movement of the part, means operatively coupled to said sensor means, responsive to such a sensor signal for generating a second displayable signal which is indicative of displacement and motion characterizing an actual, real-time exercise regime involving movement of such part, and real-time, comparison-enabling display means operatively connected to said two generating means for receiving simultaneously the respective displayable signals generated thereby, and for producing therefrom respective associated real-time comparable displays which enable one using the apparatus, during and throughout exercise use, to compare the desired and the actual exercise regimes.

Claim 4

The system of claims 1 or 2, wherein said two signal-generating means are constructed to produce, cooperatively, activity analysis charting signals useful for post-activity review.