System and method for tracking sports balls
AssigneeTrackman A/S
InventorsFredrik Tuxen, Michael Ungstrup
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Abstract
A system for determining potential changes in trajectories of golf shots includes a sensor array sensing swing data relating to a golfer's swing and trajectory data relating to the trajectories of each of a plurality of shots hit by the golfer and a computing arrangement including a data repository and a processor configured to: store in the data repository the swing data and the trajectory data; identify shots hit by the golfer that represent mishits; and determine output data based on the swing data and the trajectory data for all of the shots hit by the golfer that are not identified as mishits, the output data indicating an optimal shot achievable by the golfer.
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A system for determining potential changes in trajectories of golf shots, comprising:
- a sensor array sensing swing data including one or more swing parameters relating to a swing motion or a club delivery for each of a plurality of swings by a golfer and trajectory data relating to trajectories of each of a plurality of shots resulting from the plurality of swings;
- a computing arrangement including a data repository and a processor, the processor configured to perform the following steps:
- store in the data repository the swing data and the trajectory data;
- determine swing and shot characteristics for the golfer based on the swing data and the trajectory data, the swing characteristics including swing motion or club delivery parameters representative of the golfer and the shot characteristics including trajectory or precision parameters representative of the golfer;
- determine an optimal shot achievable by the golfer based at least on the swing and shot characteristics for the golfer, the optimal shot being associated with swing motion or club delivery parameters achievable by the golfer that result in an improved trajectory or precision relative to the trajectory or precision parameters representative of the golfer;
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- generate output data indicating the optimal shot achievable by the golfer or the swing motion or club delivery parameters associated with the optimal shot.
A method for training a golfer, comprising:
- sensing, by a sensor array, swing data including one or more swing parameters relating to a swing motion or a club delivery for each of a plurality of swings by a golfer and trajectory data relating to trajectories of each of a plurality of shots resulting from the plurality of swings;
- storing, in a data repository, the swing data and the trajectory data;
- identifying, by a processor, one or more of the plurality of shots as a mishit, wherein the mishits are identified as certain shots that are less successfully executed than other shots in the trajectory data;
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- determining, by the processor, an optimal swing motion or an optimal club delivery and an optimal trajectory achievable by the golfer based on the swing data and trajectory data for the plurality of shots while excluding from the determination those shots identified as mishits.
A system for determining potential changes in trajectories of golf shots, comprising:
- a sensor array sensing swing data including one or more swing parameters relating to a swing motion or a club delivery for each of a plurality of swings by a first golfer and trajectory data relating to trajectories of each of a plurality of shots resulting from the plurality of swings;
- a computing arrangement including a data repository and a processor, the processor configured to perform the following steps:
- store in the data repository the swing data and the trajectory data;
- create a training set comprising potential comparison data from the data repository including swing and trajectory data for a plurality of golf shots for each of a plurality of additional golfers, the first potential comparison data including potentially comparative golfer data corresponding to ones of the additional golfers having swing and trajectory data preliminarily identified as corresponding to the swing and trajectory data of the first golfer;
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- train a model using the potential comparison data and data from the data repository for each of the plurality of additional golfers including swing and trajectory data representing the progress of the additional golfers over time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.