Sporting Apparatus With Monitoring Device
AssigneeDunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
InventorsKeith Dolezel, Scott Carlyle, Michael J. Kline
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Abstract
A sporting apparatus includes a monitoring device. The monitoring device may add no weight to the sporting apparatus relative to a comparable sporting apparatus without the monitoring device. The monitoring device may have a center of gravity substantially aligning with the center of gravity of the sporting apparatus, resulting in a sporting apparatus with a monitor having substantially the same center of gravity as a comparable sporting apparatus without a monitor. The sporting apparatus monitor may be configured to trim unreliable post impact swing data and replace it with extrapolated pre-impact swing data and/or more reliable post impact swing data.
Claims20
A system comprising a remote device and a sporting apparatus having a longitudinal axis and comprising a first monitoring device and a second monitoring device, the first monitoring device and second monitoring device being spaced apart relative to the longitudinal axis and secured to the sporting apparatus, the first monitoring device configured to transmit data corresponding to a swing of the sporting apparatus to the remote device and second monitoring device configured to transmit data corresponding to the swing of the sporting apparatus to the remote device, the system configured to:
- determine which of the first monitoring device and the second monitoring device is, during a first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus, transmitting data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- capture the data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- determine which of the first monitoring device and the second monitoring device is, during a second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus, transmitting data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- capture the data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
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- accumulate the data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus with the data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus.
A remote device comprising:
- one or more processors, and
- memory coupled with the one or more processors, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to effectuate operations comprising:
- determine which of a first monitoring device and a second monitoring device is. during a first portion of a swing of a sporting apparatus, transmitting data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- capture the data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- determine which of the first monitoring device and the second monitoring device is, during a second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus, transmitting data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- capture the data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
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- accumulate the data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus with the data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus.
A method comprising:
- determining which of a first monitoring device and a second monitoring device is. during a first portion of a swing of a sporting apparatus, transmitting data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- capturing the data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- determining which of the first monitoring device and the second monitoring device is, during a second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus, transmitting data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
- capturing the data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus;
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- accumulating the data most reflective of the first portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus with the data most reflective of the second portion of the swing of the sporting apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.