Golf GPS device with hole recognition and hole selection
AssigneeGolfzonDeca Inc.
InventorJun Ha Park
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Abstract
The disclosure herein provides a golf GPS device with a sensor mechanism to automatically switch between video and audio only modes of the device. More particularly, when a player attaches the golf GPS device to a piece of clothing or hat, the device automatically switches to audio-only mode. When the player detaches the golf GPS device, the device automatically switches to video mode, with or without audio. The golf GPS device further includes one or more processors configured to repeatedly determine in which one of the plurality of holes the device is located, to repeatedly compute a distance between the device and a feature of the determined hole, and to cause to display the hole number of the determined hole and the computed distance on the display screen.
Claims20
A portable information processing and viewing device for use in a golf course comprising a plurality of holes, the device comprising:
- a GPS receiver configured to receive GPS information;
- one or more memory devices configured to store data;
- map data stored in the one or more memory devices, the map data comprising map information of each one of the plurality of holes;
- a display screen configured to display information;
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- one or more processors configured to:
- determine that the device has moved from a first hole of the plurality of holes to a second hole of the plurality of the holes;
- in response to determining that the device has moved from the first hole to the second hole, determine that the second hole is immediately subsequent to the first hole;
- in response to determining that the second hole is immediately subsequent to the first hole, determine that the device did not spend a threshold amount of time in a predetermined zone associated with the first hole prior to moving to the second hole;
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- in response to determining that the device did not spend the threshold amount of time in the predetermined zone prior to moving to the second hole, continue to cause the display screen to display information associated with the first hole instead of displaying information associated with the second hole in which the device is located.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.