Covert sports communication system
OwnerJohn Andrew Hankins, Craig Anthony Filicettiinventors
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Abstract
A covert sports communication system has a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit coded audio track selection signals. The system includes a receiver that may be worn within headgear. The receiver includes stored audio tracks and is configured to receive coded audio track selection signals from the transmitter, decode the audio track selection signals, and play at least one stored audio track in accordance with the decoded audio track selection signals. The audio tracks may include audio instructions to a participant of a sporting event.
Claims19
A system for remotely communicating audio instructions, comprising:
- a transmitter including:
- a transmitter unit configured to transmit wireless signals, and
- a first microcontroller coupled to the transmitter unit, the first microcontroller configured to provide the transmitter unit with a selection signal to wirelessly transmit;
- and
- a receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive the selection signal;
- a memory configured to contain a plurality of stored audio instructions;
- an audio reproduction transducer configured to audibly reproduce the plurality of stored audio instructions;
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- a second microcontroller coupled to the receiving unit, the memory and the audio reproduction transducer, wherein the second microcontroller is configured to control the memory and the audio reproduction transducer to reproduce a selected audio instruction in accordance with the received selection signal.
A baseball pitch selection communication system, comprising:
- a pitch selection transmitter unit including:
- buttons for selecting pitch types to be heard at a remote receiver,
- a first microcontroller coupled to the buttons to receive a pitch type selection signal from the buttons and to generate a coded signal in accordance with the pitch type selection signal, and
- a transmitter coupled to the first microcontroller to receive the coded signal and transmit a coded wireless signal;
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- a wireless receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to receive the coded wireless signal,
- a second microcontroller coupled to the receiving unit to decode the coded wireless signal and to determine an audio track containing audio of a pitch type in accordance with the pitch type selection signal,
- a memory coupled to the second microcontroller and containing addressable storage locations in which audio tracks are stored, and
- a speaker coupled to the second microcontroller,
- wherein the second microcontroller retrieves the audio track at an addressable storage location in the memory is stored and causes the speaker to play the audio track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.