Martial arts gloves with electronic scoring system

Martial arts gloves with an electronic scoring system:

• a pair of gloves embedded with at least one an activation material;
• at least one sensor designed to be activated by said activation material, said sensor comprising:
• at least one impedance-based impact sensing mechanism that detects a source of the impact comprising at least one impedance changing mechanism that changes impedance as each of said conductive material is moved towards and away from said impedance changing mechanism as the first participant delivers the impact;
• at least one impact sensing mechanism using solely piezoelectric which mechanically detects the force of said impact creating electrical charges;
• at least one impedance-based impact measuring scoring system determining the source of the impact that occurred based on a change in impedance electromagnetically in said impedance changing mechanism, determining the source of an impact prevents scoring impacts that are illegal;
• at least one impedance changing rate determination engine configured to determine a rate at which the impedance changes in said impedance changing mechanism;
• at least one impact force determination engine configured to determine a magnitude of a force of the impact based on the rate at which the impedance changes in said impedance changing mechanism and the impedance changing a rate data;
• and
• when said gloves approaches said sensor, the impedance of said sensor is changed and
• the change is picked up and passed to a decision tree, said decision tree comprises at least one component for comparing the change to a reference to determine the presence of the punch, at least one noise filter to eliminate invalid changes, and a detector to detect and register valid punches.

A method of detecting a punch, said method comprises:

• providing a pair of gloves embedded with at least one activation material;
• providing at least one sensor designed to be activated by said activation material, said
• sensor comprising:
• at least one impedance-based impact sensing mechanism that detects a source of said impact comprising at least one impedance changing mechanism that changes impedance as each of said conductive material is moved towards and away from said impedance changing mechanism as the first participant delivers the impact;
• at least one impact sensing mechanism using solely piezoelectric which mechanically detects the force of said impact creating electrical charges;
• at least one impedance-based impact measuring scoring system determining the source of the impact that occurred based on a change in impedance electromagnetically in said impedance changing mechanism, determining the source of an impact prevents scoring impacts that are illegal;
• at least one impedance changing rate determination engine configured to determine a rate at which the impedance changes in said impedance changing mechanism;
• at least one impact force determination engine configured to determine a magnitude of a force of the impact based on the rate at which the impedance changes in said impedance changing mechanism and the impedance changing a rate data;
• and
• detecting a punch when said gloves approaches said sensor, the impedance of said sensor is changed and the change is picked up and passed to a decision tree and the punch is detected.