Sport training equipment

• US 10,173,100 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2017
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aditi Sinha, Navyaa Sinha
• Original Assignee: Aditi Sinha, Navyaa Sinha
• Inventors: Sinha, Navyaa, Sinha, Aditi
• Primary Examiner(s): Villecco, John
• Application Number:
  US15/670,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20180001138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1128 using image analysis A61B5/1127 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/53 Force of an impact, e.g. blow or punch
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0003 Analysing the course of a movement or motion sequences during an exercise or trainings sequence, e.g. swing for golf or tennis
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/38 for tennis A63B61/006, A63B69/0073 and A63B69/0097 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30221 Sports video; Sports image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/42 of sport video content
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

A system for recording and analyzing an activity, such as a golf activity, is provided. The system comprises an impact detection device and one or more video capture unit for recording and displaying recorded activities. Preferred activities are saved, and may be viewed at a separate viewing unit located remote from the video capture unit. The remote viewing unit allows for replay and analysis of the saved activities. In addition, saved activities and data may be uploaded to the Internet for later viewing and analysis.

Claims

1. A system for detecting impact comprising:

at least one impact sensor producing electrical signal;

a monitoring circuit;

a processor that performs functions comprising;

receiving the electrical signal and processing the electrical signal from the at least one impact sensor;

generating impact detection notification;

wherein the monitoring circuit comprises;

at least one analog to digital converter to translate the electrical signal provided by the at least one impact sensor into a digital signal;

wherein the impact is detected by determining signal to noise ratio of input data provided by the at least one analog to digital converter exceeding an impact detection threshold, wherein the impact detection threshold of the signal to noise ratio of the at least one impact sensor is user configurable.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the impact detection notification further comprises of impact notification data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor further performs a function of running signal processing algorithms.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the impact notification data includes at least one element selected from a group comprising:

time of impact;

impact related information.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the impact related information includes at least one element selected from a group comprising:

amplitude of the impact;

the signal to noise ratio of the sensor signal generated from the impact.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor further operates on the impact notification data to generate a performance value comprising:

force value;

speed;

acceleration.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the signal to noise ratio is determined by,

obtaining the signal which is an output of a moving average filter of an absolute value of an incoming signal whose absolute value exceeds a pre-determined threshold;

obtaining a noise which is an output of the moving average filter of the incoming signal whose absolute value is below a pre-determined threshold;

dividing the signal by the noise.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring circuit further comprises of at least one signal processing filter.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one impact sensor is user selectable.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one impact sensor is communicatively connected by wires to the processor.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one impact sensor is communicatively connected by wireless signals to the processor.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the impact sensor is selected from a group comprising:

motion sensor;

piezo-electric sensor;

sound sensor.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the motion sensor is selected from a group comprising:

accelerometer;

rate gyroscope;

magnetometer;

infrared sensor;

image sensor.

14. The system of claim 2, further comprising an image recording system comprising at least one camera wherein, the processor further performs one or more functions from a group comprising:

receiving video from the camera;

receiving still images from the camera;

saving the video in slow motion or normal speed;

concatenating a plurality of the video to make a single video for purposes of review, comment and sharing;

saving the video in local memory or on a server;

saving the still images in local memory or on a server;

saving the impact notification data along with the video;

saving the impact notification data along with the still images;

executing an application program to allow interaction with the camera and the at least one impact sensor.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the image recording system upon receiving impact detection notification records the video around the time of impact.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the duration of the video taken before the time of impact is user configurable.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the duration of the video taken after the time of impact is user configurable.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the image recording system records the video at a user configurable video frame rate.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the impact related information is saved along with the corresponding saved video.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the image recording system upon receiving impact detection notification captures the still image at a plurality of user configurable pre-determined times around the time of impact.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein impact related information is saved along with the still images.

22. The system of claim 14, wherein the application program running on the processor provides a user interface to execute at least one function from a group comprising:

start and stop the video recording;

review the captured videos;

review the captured videos along with impact related information;

add comments after reviewing the video;

edit and save snippets of the captured video;

compare the videos;

configure parts of the video to be shown in slow motion to allow detailed review of a user action;

edit and save the captured still images;

review the captured still images;

review the captured still images along with impact related information;

compare the still images;

configure the video frame rate;

configure whether to take the still images in addition to the video;

configure length of the video capture;

configure plurality of times when the still image is taken.