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US 12,169,664 B2Granted
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.
Claims20
A sports instruction communication system, 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;
- a display coupled to the first microcontroller and configured to visually display a sports instruction;
- a plurality of user actuatable input elements coupled to the first microcontroller, the plurality of user actuatable input elements grouped in different sections for different respective signal types;
- wherein the first microcontroller is configured to provide the transmitter unit with the selection signal to wirelessly transmit in accordance with actuation of the user actuatable input elements, the selection signal corresponding to the sports instruction;
- and
- a body-worn visual receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive the selection signal;
- a display configured to visually display sports instructions;
- and
- a second microcontroller coupled to the receiving unit and the display, wherein the second microcontroller is configured to control the display to visually display a selected visual instruction in accordance with the received selection signal, wherein the selected visual instruction corresponds to the sports instruction.
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A baseball instruction communication system, 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;
- a display coupled to the first microcontroller and configured to visually display a baseball instruction;
- a plurality of user actuatable input elements coupled to the first microcontroller, the plurality of user actuatable input elements grouped in different sections for different respective signal types;
- wherein the first microcontroller is configured to provide the transmitter unit with the selection signal to wirelessly transmit in accordance with actuation of the user actuatable input elements, the selection signal corresponding to a baseball instruction;
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- a body-worn visual receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive the selection signal;
- a memory configured to contain a plurality of stored visual baseball instructions;
- a display configured to display visual instructions;
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- a second microcontroller coupled to the second receiving unit, the memory and the display, wherein the second microcontroller is configured to control the memory and the display to display a selected visual instruction in accordance with the received selection signal, wherein the selected visual instruction corresponds to the baseball instruction.
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A baseball instruction communication system, comprising:
- a transmitter including:
- a first microcontroller;
- a plurality of user actuatable input elements coupled to the first microcontroller, the plurality of user actuatable input elements grouped in different sections for different respective baseball instruction types;
- a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit a selection signal to a visual display receiver in response to human input through the input elements, the selection signal corresponding to a baseball instruction;
- a display coupled to the first microcontroller and configured to visually display a selected at least one baseball instruction;
- and
- a display receiver configured to receive the selection signal from the transmitter and including:
- a memory storing a plurality of visual baseball instructions as text;
- a microcontroller that retrieves the text of the visual baseball instruction from the memory based on the selection signal;
- and
- a display on which the text of the visual baseball instructions are reproduced in response to receiving the selection signal from the transmitter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.