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US 12,118,871 B2Granted
System and method for identifying misplaced golf clubs
AssigneeKoenig & Smiley Inventions LLC
InventorsJesse Koenig, Matthew Smiley, Guy McIlroy, Venkat Balakrishnan
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining when one or more golf clubs are in use or in a golf bag. Alerts can be provided if it is determined that the golfer has misplaced one or more golf clubs. The disclosed systems and methods can also be used to determine whether other objects have been misplaced from a typical storage container.
Claims20
A sensor unit configured to be affixed to an object, the sensor unit comprising:
- a light sensor configured to measure light intensity;
- an angle sensor configured to measure angle relative to a reference vector;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine that if the light sensor measures light intensity greater than a threshold value, the object is out of a container;
- and
- determine that if the light sensor measures light intensity less than a threshold value and the angle sensor measures an angle within a particular range of values relative to the reference vector, the object is in the container, wherein the processor is configured to check the angle measured by the angle sensor only after determining that the light intensity measured by the light sensor is less than the threshold value.
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A system for determining when golf clubs are in or out of a golf bag, comprising:
- a software application;
- and
- a sensor unit configured to be affixed to a golf club, the sensor unit comprising a light sensor configured to measure light intensity, an angle sensor configured to measure angle relative to a reference vector, a wireless communication device, and a processor configured to:
- determine that if the light sensor measures light intensity greater than a threshold value, the golf club is out of a golf bag, and communicate an indication that the golf club is out-of-the-golf-bag from the wireless communication device of the sensor unit to the software application;
- determine that if the light sensor measures light intensity less than a threshold value and the angle sensor measures an angle within a particular range of values relative to earth's gravity vector, the golf club is in the golf bag, and communicate an indication that the golf club is in-the-golf-bag from the wireless communication device of the sensor unit to the software application, wherein the processor is configured to check the angle measured by the angle sensor only after determining that the light intensity measured by the light sensor is less than the threshold value;
- and
- wherein the software application is configured to receive and record said indications.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.