Hybrid golf system and method for automatic scoring using user's mobile terminal in the same
AssigneeGolfzon Co., Ltd.
InventorJae Yoon Ok
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Abstract
The present invention is intended to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and provides a hybrid golf system and a method by which a controller for controlling same automatically calculates a score, wherein the hybrid golf system may automatically calculate a score based on the entire golf play by automatically calculating a score on the basis of the play on a virtual golf course using a screen golf system, and then automatically calculating, even when playing on an actual field, a score by using a camera sensing system installed around the field.
Claims6
An automatic score calculation method of a controller that controls a hybrid golf system comprising a field configured to allow a plurality of users to play real golf therein and a screen golf module provided on one side of the field, the screen golf module configured to allow the users to play golf on a virtual golf course therein, the automatic score calculation method comprising:
- calculating the number of virtual golf shots of each user based on golf play on the virtual golf course in the screen golf module;
- performing field play subsequent to golf play on the virtual golf course at a ball point, which is a position on the field corresponding to a position of a ball of each user on the virtual golf course;
- detecting a shot of each user through a camera sensing system comprising a plurality of cameras configured to detect the field;
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- calculating a score of each user by summing the number of field shots calculated by detecting the shot of each user through the camera sensing system and the calculated number of virtual golf shots of each user;
- wherein the step of detecting the shot of each user comprises:
- recognizing, by the controller, the ball point of each user on the field, the user corresponding to the ball point, and a shot sequence at each ball point;
- setting, by the camera sensing system, a shot detection region of a predetermined size comprising the ball point in an image acquired by a camera configured to detect the ball point of a user who is next in line to take a shot according to the shot sequence;
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- detecting the shot of the user by extracting and analyzing the set shot detection region from images continuously acquired by the camera.
A hybrid golf system comprising:
- a screen golf module provided on one side of a field configured to allow a user to play real golf therein, the screen golf module configured to allow the user to play golf on a virtual golf course therein;
- a simulator provided in the screen golf module, the simulator being configured to implement a virtual golf simulation image of the virtual golf course and golf play of the user;
- a camera sensing system comprising a plurality of cameras configured to detect the field;
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- a controller configured to calculate the number of virtual golf shots of the user based on golf play on the virtual golf course in the screen golf module, to detect a shot of each user at a ball point, which is a position on the field corresponding to a position of a ball of each user on the virtual golf course, through the camera sensing system as field play is performed, and to calculate a score of each user by summing the number of shots of each user according to the field play and the number of virtual golf shots;
- wherein the controller is configured:
- to recognize the ball point of each user on the field, the user corresponding to the ball point, and a shot sequence at each ball point;
- to set a shot detection region of a predetermined size comprising the ball point in an image acquired by a camera configured to detect the ball point of a user who is next in line to take a shot according to the shot sequence;
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- to detect the shot of the user by extracting and analyzing the set shot detection region from images continuously acquired by the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.