Virtual golf simulation apparatus and method capable of compensation ball flight distance decreasing rate
AssigneeGolfzon Yuwon Holdings Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyang Rak Lee, Dong Il Lee, Hyoun Seop Song
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are a virtual golf simulation apparatus and method that is capable of applying differences between golf shots based on kinds of a landform of a real golf course when a user performs a golf rounding in the real golf course to hitting environment based on a golf mat, on which the user hits a golf ball, and to a virtual golf course through virtual golf simulation, and that is capable of simultaneously and properly reflecting the hitting environment of the user and the environment of the virtual golf course in simulation results, thereby providing the same sense of reality that the user would feel in the real golf course.
Claims11
A virtual golf simulation apparatus for a user to play virtual golf by simulating a trajectory of a virtual ball which is a simulated image of a physical golf ball, in a virtual golf course when the physical golf ball is hit on a golf mat, the golf mat having regions comprising a fairway region and a trouble region, the apparatus comprising:
- a sensing device to detect whether the physical golf ball is placed on the fairway region or the trouble region of the golf mat and to detect movement of the physical golf ball from one of the regions after the physical golf ball is hit by a golf swing;
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- an image processing unit to determine a simulation image regarding the trajectory of the virtual ball associated with the virtual golf course according to the detected one of the regions and the movement detected by the sensing device, wherein
- a control unit is configured to calculate the trajectory of the virtual ball based on movement of the physical golf ball detected by the sensing device, and
- to adjust the virtual ball flight distance by calculating an adjustment rate and to apply the adjustment rate to the trajectory of the virtual ball simulated, the adjustment rate is differently calculated according to whether the physical golf ball placed on the fairway region or the trouble region of the golf mat.
A computer-implemented virtual golf simulation method, the method comprising:
- detecting whether a physical golf ball is placed on a fairway region or a trouble region of a golf mat, the golf mat having regions comprising the fairway region and the trouble region;
- detecting movement of the physical golf ball from one of the regions after the physical golf ball is hit by a golf swing;
- determining, by a processor, a simulation image regarding the trajectory of a virtual ball associated with the virtual golf course according to the detected one of the regions and the movement;
- calculating, by the processor, the trajectory of the virtual ball based on movement of the physical golf ball;
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- adjusting the virtual ball flight distance by calculating an adjustment rate and to apply the adjustment rate to the trajectory of the virtual ball simulated, the adjustment rate being differently calculated according to whether the physical golf ball placed on the fairway region or the trouble region of the golf mat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.