Putting skill game
OwnerJohn Pirreinventor
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Abstract
A putt trainer system includes a plurality of ball sensors, each having a lever which pivots at impact with a putted golf ball between a rest position, wherein it blocks a light beam from a light source, and a deflected position. The light beam passes through a recess of predetermined length made in the lever to be detected by a light sensor generating a detection signal of predetermined duration that is compared with a preset value corresponding to a maximum acceptable speed. If the detection signal is at most equal to the preset value, it is further evaluated to determine whether this signal represents an off-centered, partially centered, or centered putt, each of which is allocated a respective score.
Claims3
A putting trainer comprising:
- a housing having a bottom;
- a stabilizing support spaced from the housing;
- a rod mounted to the housing and to the stabilizing support;
- a controller evaluating the accuracy of putt and including:
- at least three sensors detecting centered, partially centered and off-centered putts, respectively, each of the sensors having a respective sever pivotally mounted of the rod to pivot to a detecting position upon getting hit by a ball, so that the three levers are spaced apart at a distance less than a diameter of the ball and arranged in a row, and generating a respective detection signal,
- an accuracy decoder for decoding said detection signals and generating discrimination signals representing centered, partially centered and off-centered putts, and
- a weighting counter weighting the discrimination signals with predetermined weighting factors, each representing the centered, off-centered and partially centered putts to obtain a score, and
- a totalizing counter determining a duration of each of the discrimination signals representing a respective score assigned to each discrimination signal while it is being weighed, and
- a display indicating the score representing the centered, partially centered and off-centered putts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.