Golf play assisting system
AssigneeTechno Craft Corporation Ltd.
InventorMasanari Togasaka
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Abstract
Provided is a golf play assisting system enabling players to get an intuitive picture of the condition of the grain. When an image of a portion of a turf target is taken by a player to study the grain of the target turf by using an image-taking device of a mobile terminal, an image processing and analyzing unit performs image processing and image analysis against original image data captured thereby. As a result, symbolized images of the grain data, indicating a direction and inclination of the grain at each specific location in the turf target, are then displayed on a display unit of the mobile terminal on top of a processed image data visibly highlighting the grain of the target turf.
Claims9
A golf play assisting system using a mobile terminal equipped with an image-taking device and a display unit, comprising:
- an image processing and analyzing unit that retrieves an original image data of a target turf from the image-taking device;
- allows an image of the target turf contained in the original image data to go through image processing and image analysis to obtain processed image data of the target turf visibly highlighting a grain of the target turf;
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- obtains grain data indicating directions and inclinations of the grain at two or more specific locations on the target turf in the original image taken by the image-taking device;
- a display controller superimposing the grain data on the processed image data with the grain data being symbolized and then displaying a resultant image data on the display unit of the mobile terminal;
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- a position locating unit that locates:
- a measurement starting point corresponding to a point where the original image was taken by the mobile terminal;
- a nearest cup location as located nearest to said measurement starting point among a plurality of cups;
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- two or more measuring target points located along a straight line extending from said measurement starting point to said nearest cup location, through a positioning data obtained from a location detector incorporated in the mobile terminal upon retrieval of the original image data from the image-taking device, wherein said image processing and analyzing unit is configured to obtain the grain data at each of the measuring target points located by the position-locating unit as said specific locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.