Tracking system
AssigneeSportsMEDIA Technology Corporation
InventorsRichard H. Cavallaro, James Orville McGuffin, John Roy Borton
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Abstract
A system simultaneously tracks multiple objects. All or a subset of the objects includes a wireless receiver and a transmitter for providing an output. The system includes one or more wireless transmitters that send commands to the wireless receivers of the multiple objects instructing different subsets of the multiple objects to output (via their respective transmitter) at different times. The system also includes object sensors that receive output from the transmitters of the multiple objects and a computer system in communication with the object sensors. The computer system calculates locations of the multiple objects based on the sensed output from the multiple objects.
Claims10
A system for tracking objects at a live sporting event comprising:
- a computer including a processor and a memory operable to receive signal data measured by at least one sensor, wherein the signal data is associated with a multiplicity of objects;
- wherein the multiplicity of objects are configured with at least one tag and/or at least one transponder;
- wherein the computer is operable to determine a location of the multiplicity of objects based on the signal data;
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- wherein the computer is further operable to instruct the at least one sensor to change how often one or more of the multiplicity of objects is tracked based on the location of at least one of the multiplicity of objects and/or the at least one transponder to change how often the at least one transponder emits trackable signals based on the location of at least one of the multiplicity of objects.
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