US 11,690,535 B2
Mobile system allowing adaptation of the runner's cadence
Benoît Bardy, Montpellier (FR); Simone Dalla Bella, Clapiers (FR); Loic Damm, Montpellier (FR); Dobri Dotov, CDMX (MX); Déborah Varoqui, Chaville (FR); Jeska Buhmann, Ghent (BE); Marc Leman, Ghent (BE); Bart Moens, Ghent (BE); Edith Van Dyck, Ghent (BE); Sean O'Leary, Maynooth (IE); Joseph Timoney, Maynooth (IE); Rudi Villing, Maynooth (IE); Tomas Ward, Maynooth (IE); and Valérie Cochen de Cock, Montpellier (FR)
Assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT, Ghent (BE); CENTRE HOSPITALIER ET UNIVERSITAIRE DE MONTPELLIER, Montpellier (FR); UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER, Montpellier (FR); CLINIQUE BEAU-SOLEIL, Montpellier (FR); and MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY, County Kildare (IE)
Appl. No. 16/633,726
Filed by Universiteit Gent, Ghent (BE); CENTRE HOSPITALIER ET UNIVERSITAIRE DE MONTPELLIER, Montpellier (FR); Université de Montpellier, Montpellier (FR); Clinique BEAU-SOLEIL, Montpellier (FR); and Maynooth University, Maynooth (IE)
PCT Filed Jul. 26, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/070318
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 24, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/020755, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/537,558, filed on Jul. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0289026 A1, Sep. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 5/112 (2013.01) [A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/02438 (2013.01); A61B 5/0816 (2013.01); A61B 5/1112 (2013.01); A61B 5/681 (2013.01); A61B 5/6823 (2013.01); A61B 5/7292 (2013.01); H03L 7/099 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); A61B 2503/10 (2013.01); A61B 2505/09 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for synchronizing a rhythmic stimulation with a biological variability, the method comprising:
detecting, by a calculation unit, a movement dynamics on a user, using a sensor linked to the calculation unit;
selecting, by the calculation unit, in a music library a music file based on the movement dynamics and a tempo associated with each music file of the music library;
determining, by the calculation unit, frequency and phase parameters from the movement dynamics using a Kuramoto model and parameters comprising:
a coupling strength,
a parameter defining a maximum frequency deviation for a fraction of an unmodified tempo of the selected music file,
a target frequency, and
a maximum phase deviation between the unmodified music tempo and the target frequency; and
playing the selected music file while adjusting the unmodified music tempo and/or phase of the selected music file as a function of the determined frequency and phase parameters.