System and method for integrating physical, moving targets into a game, sport or other activity
AssigneeFlyingtee Tech, LLC
InventorsJames Vollbrecht, Jeremy Mathew Carver, John Vollbrecht
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Abstract
The invention generally relates to a system and method for integrating physical, moving targets into a game, sport or other activity, including the specific method of how to track the moving target and the interaction of one or more users as the target moves. The system and method for integrating physical, moving targets into a game, sport or other activity enables a plurality of users to simultaneously attempt to hit a moving target in the field of play with a moving object while tracking the moving target and moving object using a combination of sensors located on or around the field of play and on or around the moving target and/or moving object.
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A system for integrating physical, moving targets into a game, sport or other activity, said system comprising:
- a field of play extending from a plurality of bays;
- one or more moving objects launched from one or more of said bays;
- one or more moving targets actively moving about said field of play during said game, sport or other activity;
- a tracking system, comprising:
- at least one target sensor for detecting moving target coordinate positions and reporting moving target time stamps of each of said moving targets actively moving about said field of play during said game, sport or other activity;
- the target sensor further configured for detecting moving object coordinate positions and reporting moving object time stamps of each of said moving objects launched from said bays;
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- at least one tracking computer in electronic communication with each of said target sensors, said tracking computer configured to determine a flight path of the moving object launched from said bays using said moving object coordinate positions and said moving object time stamps, said tracking computer further configured to determine a collision of at least one of said moving objects with at least one of said moving targets.
A computer-implemented method for integrating physical, moving targets into a game, sport or other activity, said method comprising the steps of:
- a. electronically detecting with one or more target sensors coordinate positions and time stamps of one or more moving targets actively moving about a field of play;
- b. electronically detecting with the target sensors coordinate positions and time stamps of one or more moving objects launched from one or more bays;
- c. electronically communicating said coordinate positions and time stamps of said moving targets and said coordinate positions and time stamps of said moving objects to a tracking computer;
- d. determining a flight path of the moving object launched from said bays using said coordinate positions and time stamps of each of said moving objects;
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- e. determining a collision of at least one of said moving objects with at least one of said moving targets using said coordinate positions and time stamps of each of said moving objects and said coordinate positions and time stamps of each of said moving targets;
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- f. displaying said coordinate positions of said moving targets and said coordinate positions of said moving objects on at least one monitor that is in electronic communication with said tracking computer.
A system for integrating physical, moving targets into a game, sport or other activity, said system comprising:
- a field of play extending from a plurality of bays;
- one or more moving objects launched from one or more of said bays;
- one or more moving targets configured to actively move about said field of play during said game, sport or other activity, each of said moving targets having a moving target sensor for reporting coordinate positions of said moving target;
- a tracking system, comprising:
- at least one moving object sensor for detecting coordinate positions each of said moving objects launched from said bays;
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- at least one tracking computer in electronic communication with each of said moving object sensors and each of said moving target sensors, said tracking computer configured to determine a flight path of the moving object launched from said bays using said moving object coordinate positions, said tracking computer further configured to determine a collision of at least one of said moving objects with at least one of said moving targets using said moving object coordinate positions and said moving target coordinate positions.
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