MMA Glove Incorporating a Tightly Secured Wireless Impact Processing Circuit
AssigneeBoxng Tech Limited
InventorSteven Cains
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Abstract
An improved mixed martial art (“MMA”) glove includes an impact sensing circuit board that holds a microcontroller, a three-axis accelerometer, a wireless interface chip, and is coupled to an impact sensing circuit. The circuit board is securely mounted to the wrist portion of the improved MMA glove by one or more sewing holes.
Claims10
A mixed martial art glove including a striking surface and an upper wrist surface, the mixed martial art glove comprising:
- i) an impact sensing device incorporated into an interior portion of the striking surface, the impact sensing device providing an impact signal;
- ii) an impact processing circuit incorporated into an interior portion of the upper wrist surface, the impact processing circuit including:
- 1) a PC board;
- 2) a sewing hole formed into said PC board and adapted to allow the secure joining of the PC board to the interior portion of the wrist surface;
- 3) a microcontroller coupled to the impact sensing device;
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- 4) a wireless transceiver coupled to the microcontroller;
- 5) wherein the microcontroller acquires the impact signal and transmits a digital version of the impact signal using the wireless transceiver.
A wireless computer adapted to interface with a pair of MMA gloves incorporating a wireless transceiver, the wireless computer further adapted to receive impact samples and three-axis acceleration sample sets from the pair of MMA gloves, the three-axis acceleration sample sets time correlated with the impact samples, the wireless computer executing a software program, the software program adapted to accumulate a plurality of impact samples and a plurality of three-axis acceleration sample sets, the software program adapted to segregate one or more punches from the plurality of impact data, and to classify the one or more punches into specific punch types using, the plurality of three-axis acceleration sample sets.
A server adapted to assemble a database of classified punch data, the server comprising:
- i) an input device to receive punch data, including force data and three-axis acceleration data;
- ii) a processor coupled to the input device, the processor adapted to generate a set of punch features from the punch data;
- iii) the processor further adapted to retrieve a plurality of sets of previously classified punch features;
- iv) the processor further adapted to compute a plurality of distance metrics from the set of punch features and the plurality of sets of previously classified punch features;
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- v) determine a punch type from the plurality of distance metrics.
A wireless computer adapted to interface with a pair of MMA gloves incorporating a wireless transceiver, the wireless computer comprising:
- i) a non-volatile memory device adapted to store a database of previously classified punch vectors;
- ii) an input port adapted to receive force and three-dimensional acceleration samples;
- iii) a processor coupled to the input port, the processor adapted to parse the force and three-dimensional acceleration samples to segregate a set of force and three-dimensional acceleration samples corresponding to a punch;
- iv) the processor further adapted to compute a set of features from the set of force and three-dimensional acceleration data, the set of features comprising an input punch vector;
- v) the processor further adapted to select a set of K punch vectors from the set of previously classified punch vectors;
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- vi) the processor further adapted to assign a punch type to the punch based on the input punch vector and the set of K punch vectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.