For a computer to be able to act for an expert person to pass on their knowledge in near real-time and audio-visually to a person who is performing a movement at home or at a recreation facility etcetera it first must be able to know who the person wants a personalised audio-visual lesson from and then the computer must also be able to accurately detect the persons movement.

1. Selecting Expert Instructor

With the HTV system a person initially selects who they would like a personalised audio-visual lesson from by sending information to the computer; this could be via selecting an expert instructor on a mobile phone, PDA screen or over the Internet from a host of experts or model movements stored in these devices database.

2. Transmitting the Persons Movement to a Computer Database

To capture a person’s movement at home or at a training facility and get this information to a computer database in near real-time a camera is used, which could be an inexpensive webcam with remote sensing technology like depth sensing, and both these technologies are connected to a fast speed communications link which in turn connects to a computer database which then allows the computer to get information about a persons movement into its memory [database] which has not been programmed. Allowing the computer to see motion like humans do and then advise on the motion.

3. Analysing the Home Users Motion against Experts Stored Motion & Forming New Personalised Audio-Visual Presentation

Once the computer database receives the home user’s movement data via online communications connection, the users could be at home doing an exercise movement the database automatically analyses the home users movement against their preferred stored expert or model movement and produces firstly a visual presentation showing differences between the two movements if any.

After this visual is made the database can also select an experts stored audio comment on how to improve the movement which it can include with this new visual footage for the home viewer, so then a computer database for the first time can act for any expert person to pass on their knowledge in an audio-visual format without the expert needing to be with a person.

This new personalised audio-visual presentation made by computer only, in near real-time, is then transmitted directly back from the database to the home users location via the communications network for direct viewing on any screen.