US 2023/0381585 A1 · AUTOMATED GENERATION OF TENNIS STATISTICS

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for autonomous tennis assistant systems that may automatically determine performance metrics and generate tennis statistics. Example methods include determining, by a device, various performance metrics for users via images captured during gameplay. For example, the device may determine whether a tennis ball landed within, outside, or on a boundary line, whether a point was scored, a ball speed of a tennis ball, topspin of a tennis ball, a type of stroke used to hit a tennis ball, whether a tennis match was won, hitting accuracy of a player, distance moved by a player, and/or other metrics. A base station may be used to provide image data for use by the tennis ball ejection robot from one or more additional vantage points.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

determining, by one or more computer processors coupled to memory, presence of a first human on a first side of a tennis court;
determining presence of a first tennis ball on the first side of the tennis court;
determining a first set of images of the tennis court;
determining, using the first set of images, presence of the first tennis ball on a second side of the tennis court;
and
determining that the first tennis ball landed on or inside a boundary of the second side of the tennis court.

3 more elements

A device comprising:

a camera;
at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions;
and
at least one processor configured to access the memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
determine presence of a first human on a first side of a tennis court;
determine presence of a first tennis ball on the first side of the tennis court;
determine a first set of images of the tennis court using the camera;
determine, using the first set of images, presence of the first tennis ball on a second side of the tennis court;
and
determine that the first tennis ball landed inside a boundary of the second side of the tennis court.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/827,908Filed 30 May 2022

Published

30 Nov 2023

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Classification15 codes

A63B 24/0021
Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training…
G06V 40/103
Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands: static body considered as a whole, e.g. static pedestrian…
A63B 69/40
Training appliances or apparatus for special sports: stationarily-arranged devices for projecting balls or other bodies
G06V 20/42
Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport…: of…

Automated generation of tennis statistics

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Automated generation of tennis statistics

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