Tracking system
AssigneeSportsMEDIA Technology Corporation
InventorsRichard H. Cavallaro, James Orville McGuffin, John Roy Borton
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Abstract
A system simultaneously tracks multiple objects. All or a subset of the objects includes a wireless receiver and a transmitter for providing an output. The system includes one or more wireless transmitters that send commands to the wireless receivers of the multiple objects instructing different subsets of the multiple objects to output (via their respective transmitter) at different times. The system also includes object sensors that receive output from the transmitters of the multiple objects and a computer system in communication with the object sensors. The computer system calculates locations of the multiple objects based on the sensed output from the multiple objects.
Claims10
A system for tracking objects at a live sporting event comprising:
- a computer including a processor and a memory operable to receive signal data measured by at least one sensor, wherein the signal data is associated with a multiplicity of objects;
- wherein the multiplicity of objects comprises at least one first object and at least one second object;
- wherein the at least one first object is configured with at least one tag;
- wherein the at least one second object is configured with at least one transponder and at least one tag reading circuit;
- wherein the computer is operable to determine a location of the first object and a location of the second object based on the signal data;
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- wherein the computer is further operable to instruct the at least one sensor to change a frequency at which the first object is tracked and/or a frequency at which the second object is tracked based on a distance of the first object from the at least one sensor and the second object from the at least one sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.