US 12,109,167 B2
Wearable apparatus and operating method thereof
Keehong Seo, Suwon-si (KR); and Kyungrock Kim, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/855,341.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0134684 (KR), filed on Oct. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0121354 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. A61H 3/00 (2006.01); A61H 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 3/00 (2013.01) [A61H 1/0244 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5061 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5069 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5079 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operating method of a wearable apparatus, the operating method comprising:
determining a first motion of a user as a first exercise move of a of a plurality of exercise moves which are distinguished from one another in a cycle of an exercise based on at least one of hip joint angles of the user;
outputting a first torque that assists the user as the user performs the first exercise move, the first torque being based on a first gain having a first sign; and
outputting a second torque that resists the user as the user performs a second exercise move of the plurality of exercise moves when determining a second motion which is a subsequent motion of the first motion as the second exercise move, the second torque being based on a second gain having a second sign different from the first sign.