Sporting apparatus with monitoring device
AssigneeDunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
InventorsKeith Dolezel, Scott Carlyle, Michael J. Kline
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Abstract
A sporting apparatus includes a monitoring device. The monitoring device may add no weight to the sporting apparatus relative to a comparable sporting apparatus without the monitoring device. The monitoring device may have a center of gravity substantially aligning with the center of gravity of the sporting apparatus, resulting in a sporting apparatus with a monitor having substantially the same center of gravity as a comparable sporting apparatus without a monitor. The sporting apparatus monitor may be configured to trim unreliable post impact swing data and replace it with extrapolated pre-impact swing data and/or more reliable post impact swing data.
Claims13
A first sporting apparatus, the first sporting apparatus comprising:
- a first monitoring device at an area of impact of the first sporting apparatus that experiences post-impact vibrations, the first monitoring device comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising:
- capturing data of a post-impact path of the swing of the first sporting apparatus;
- trimming the data of the post-impact path of the swing, wherein trimming the data of the post-impact path comprises determining a post-impact trim line at a first point in the post-impact path of the swing, wherein the first sporting apparatus experiences post-impact vibrations, and a post-impact trim line at a second point in the post-impact path of the swing where the post impact vibrations have ceased;
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- creating a hypothetical post-impact swing path between the first post-impact trim line and the second post-impact trim line to display one or more corrections for the post impact vibrations.
A system comprising:
- a first sporting apparatus, the first sporting apparatus comprising:
- a first monitoring device, the first monitoring device comprising:
- a first processor;
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- a first memory coupled with the first processor, the first memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the first processor cause the first processor to effectuate operations comprising:
- capturing data of a post-impact path of a swing of the first sporting apparatus;
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- a remote apparatus, the remote apparatus comprising:
- a remote processor;
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- a remote memory coupled with the remote processor, the remote memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the remote processor cause the remote processor to effectuate operations comprising:
- receiving the data of the post-impact path of the swing;
- trimming the data of the post-impact path of the swing, wherein trimming the data of the post-impact path comprises determining a post-impact trim line at a first point in the post-impact path of the swing, wherein the first sporting apparatus experiences post-impact vibrations, and a post-impact trim line at a second point in the post-impact path of the swing where the post impact vibrations have ceased;
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- creating a hypothetical post-impact swing path between the first post-impact trim line and the second post-impact trim line to display one or more corrections for the post impact vibrations.
A method comprising:
- capturing, via a monitoring device within or attached to a sporting apparatus, data of a first post-impact path of the first swing of the sporting apparatus;
- trimming, by the monitoring device, the data of the first post-impact path of the first swing in order to compensate for post impact vibrations of the sporting apparatus, wherein trimming the data of the first post-impact path of the first swing comprises determining a post-impact trim line at a first point in the first post-impact path of the first swing, wherein the sporting apparatus experiences post-impact vibrations, and a post-impact trim line at a second point in the first post-impact path of the first swing where the post impact vibrations have ceased;
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- creating, by the monitoring device, a hypothetical post-impact swing path between the first post-impact trim line and the second post-impact trim line to display one or more corrections for the post impact vibrations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.