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US 2025/0213919 A1Published application
Golf shot tracking system
OwnerJames W. Meadows, Richard L. Root +1inventors
InventorsJAMES W. MEADOWS, RICHARD L. ROOT, RICHARD C. EDMONSON
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Abstract
A golf tracking system including a tag coupled to a golf club. The tag includes a plurality of sensors, each which output a signal based on a detected movement of the golf club, a microcontroller that compares each of the plurality of sensor outputs to stored reference sensor output values, and a transceiver that transmits data corresponding to the sensor outputs to a device remote from the tag based on the comparison performed by the microcontroller. The location-aware device then processes the information received from the tag to determine whether a shot should be registered.
Claims20
A tag, comprising:
- a microcontroller;
- a plurality of sensors that, when the tag is physically coupled to a golf club, are each configured to output a signal to the microcontroller based on a detected movement of the golf club;
- and
- a transceiver, wherein:
- the microcontroller is configured to;
- set, when the tag is physically coupled to the golf club, a sensor processing profile based on physical characteristics of the golf club, the sensor processing profile including profile reference values for each of the plurality of sensors,
- compare the plurality of sensor outputs to the profile reference values in the sensor processing profile to determine whether any of the plurality of sensor outputs are equal to or exceed predetermined thresholds, and
- control, when at least one of the plurality of sensor outputs exceeds a corresponding predetermined threshold, the transceiver to transmit data corresponding to the plurality of sensor outputs to a remote device that is remote from the tag,
- the transceiver is configured to receive, from the remote device, update parameters input to the remote device by a user in response to a display output of the data;
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- the microcontroller is further configured to adjust the profile reference values according to the update parameters.
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A system for golf shot tracking using a location-aware portable device, the system comprising;
- a battery, managed by way of a charging circuit and power management circuit to power a location-aware portable device, and wherein said location-aware portable device is managed by way of a microcontroller;
- a flash memory and a random-access memory component for running software stored in said microcontroller;
- an onboard GPS receiver, configured to receive distance information through its global positioning system;
- an interface for a plurality of hardware systems and device application systems of said location-aware device, provided by way of said microcontroller;
- a photosensor, capable of measuring ambient light and able to adjust the brightness of its backlight in response to perceptions of daytime and nighttime lighting;
- a communications device for receiving updated communications from said mapped data stored in said flash memory;
- an onboard accelerometer, responsible for determining the orientation of a unit and measuring the acceleration along a vector;
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- a radio-frequency transceiver, to receive tags and to record an ID of the club being used, positioning of said location-aware device, club swing data and whether there is an indication of a ball strike with a golf club wherein said tag is attached.
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A method for golf shot tracking, the method comprising:
- managing, by way of a charging circuit and power management circuit, a battery to power a location aware portable device;
- managing said location aware portable device by a microcontroller;
- running software stored in said microcontroller using a flash memory and a random-access memory component;
- receiving distance information through a global positioning system through onboard GPS receiver;
- displaying a user interface for a plurality of hardware systems and device application systems of said location-aware device through said microcontroller;
- measuring ambient light and adjusting the brightness of a backlight in a photosensor in response to perceptions of daytime and nighttime lighting;
- storing mapped data in said flash memory and said random-access memory;
- updating communications on a communications device with mapped data stored in said flash memory;
- determining the orientation of a unit and measuring the acceleration along a vector using an onboard accelerometer;
- receiving tags and recording an ID of the club being used, a positioning of said location-aware device, club swing data and whether there is an indication of a ball strike with a golf club wherein said tag is attached by way of a radio-frequency transceiver on said location aware device and said golf club;
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- facilitating communications by way of said radio-frequency transceiver on said location aware device and said golf club.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.