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US 2025/0088207 A1Published application
Covert sports communication system
OwnerJohn Andrew HANKINS, Craig Anthony FILICETTIinventors
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Abstract
A covert sports communication system has a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit both coded audio track selection signals and vocalization signals encoding vocalizations. The system includes a receiver that sized and shaped to be worn within headgear. The receiver includes stored audio tracks and is configured to receive coded audio track selection signals from the transmitter, decode the audio track selection signals, and play at least one stored audio track in accordance with the decoded audio track selection signals. The audio tracks may include audio instructions to a participant of a sporting event. The receiver is also configured to audible reproduce the vocalization.
Claims20
A system for remotely communicating audio instructions, comprising:
- a transmitter including:
- a transmitter unit configured to transmit wireless signals, and
- a first microcontroller coupled to the transmitter unit, the first microcontroller configured to provide the transmitter unit with a selection signal to wirelessly transmit;
- a plurality of user actuatable input elements coupled to the transmitter unit;
- a microphone input configured to receive a vocalization and output an analog vocal signal;
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- an analog to digital converter coupled between the output of the microphone input and the first microcontroller, the analog to digital converter configured to convert the analog vocal signal to a digital vocal signal;
- wherein the first microcontroller is configured to provide the transmitter unit with a selection signal to wirelessly transmit in accordance with actuation of the user actuatable input elements and is further configured to compress the digital vocal signal and provide the compressed digital vocal signal to the transmitter unit to wirelessly transmit;
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- a receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive the selection signal and the compressed digital vocal signal;
- a memory configured to contain a plurality of stored audio instructions;
- an audio reproduction transducer configured to audibly reproduce the plurality of stored audio instructions and the vocalization;
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- a second microcontroller coupled to the receiving unit, the memory and the audio reproduction transducer, wherein the second microcontroller is configured to control the memory and the audio reproduction transducer to reproduce a selected audio instruction in accordance with the received selection signal and further configured to decompress the compressed digital vocal signal to form a vocalization signal and to control the audio reproduction transducer to reproduce the vocalization in accordance with the vocalization signal.
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A baseball pitch selection communication system, comprising:
- a pitch selection transmitter unit including:
- buttons for selecting pitch types to be heard at a remote receiver and a push to talk button,
- a microphone input configured to receive vocalizations and output an analog vocal signal,
- an analog to digital converter coupled to the microphone input and the push to talk button, the analog to digital converter configured to convert the analog vocal signal to a digital vocal signal;
- a first microcontroller coupled to the buttons and the push to talk button and configured to receive a pitch type selection signal from the buttons and to generate a coded signal in accordance with the pitch type selection signal and to receive the digital vocal signal and generate a compressed digital vocal signal when the push to talk button is depressed, and
- a transmitter coupled to the first microcontroller to receive the coded signal and transmit a coded wireless signal and to receive and transmit a wireless compressed digital vocal signal;
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- a wireless receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to receive the coded wireless signal and the wireless compressed digital vocal signal,
- a second microcontroller coupled to the receiving unit to decode the coded wireless signal and to determine an audio track containing audio of a pitch type in accordance with the pitch type selection signal and to decompress the wireless compressed digital vocal signal,
- a memory coupled to the second microcontroller and containing addressable storage locations in which audio tracks are stored, and
- a speaker coupled to the second microcontroller,
- wherein the second microcontroller is configured to retrieve the audio track at an addressable storage location in the memory is stored and causes the speaker to play the audio track and is further configured to cause the speaker to reproduce the vocalization from the decompressed digital vocal signal.
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A covert sports communication system, comprising:
- a transmitter including;
- a transmitter unit configured to transmit wireless signals;
- a first microcontroller coupled to the transmitter unit;
- a microphone input configured to receive a vocalization and output an analog vocal signal;
- an analog to digital converter coupled between the output of the microphone input and the first microcontroller, the analog to digital converter configured to convert the analog vocal signal to a digital vocal signal;
- wherein the first microcontroller is configured to compress the digital vocal signal and provide the compressed digital vocal signal to the transmitter unit to wirelessly transmit;
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- a receiver including:
- a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive the compressed digital vocal signal;
- an audio reproduction transducer configured to audibly reproduce the vocalization;
- a second microcontroller coupled to the receiving unit and the audio reproduction transducer, wherein the second microcontroller is configured to decompress the compressed digital vocal signal to form a vocalization signal and to control the audio reproduction transducer to reproduce the vocalization in accordance with the vocalization signal;
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- a housing configured to house the receiving unit, the audio reproduction transducer and the second microcontroller, wherein the housing is between about 1 inch to about 6 inches in length, between about 0.5 inches to about 2.0 inches in height, and between about 0.1 inches to about 0.5 inches in width.
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