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US 12,752,158 B2Granted
Golf simulator
AssigneeDaddy Sports Inc.
InventorsDaniel Puumalainen, Eric Cherny
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Abstract
A method of predicting ball flight of a golf ball includes analyzing image data of a divot region including a ball location marker resulting from a swing of a golf club by a subject. A prediction of ball flight of a golf ball if positioned on the ball location marker during the swing is generated based at least partly on the analysis of the image data of the divot region. The prediction may be generated without analysis of a ball on the ball location marker being struck or present.
Claims16
A method of predicting ball flight of a golf ball, the method comprising:
- analyzing image data captured of a golf swing taken by a subject, the image data including a divot in a hitting surface created by the golf swing to generate divot variables, the hitting surface including a ball location indicator;
- generating a predicted ball flight of a simulated golf ball resulting from the golf swing if positioned at the ball location indictor, wherein the generated predicted ball flight is at least partly based on the divot variables generated from the analysis of the image data of the divot region.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the system to perform the operations comprising:
- capturing or receiving image data of a golf swing, wherein the image data includes a divot created in a hitting surface during the golf swing;
- extracting divot variables from a divot region in image data captured of a golf swing;
- generating shot variables using the divot variables in combination with one or both of body posture variables extracted from a body posture region in the image data or club variables extracted from a club region in the image data;
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- using the shot variables as model inputs to generate predicted ball flight data representative of a predicted ball flight of a ball if hit by the golf swing, wherein the system is configured to predict the ball flight without analysis of movement of an actual golf ball hit from the hitting surface during the golf swing, if present.
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