Swing diagnosis apparatus, swing diagnosis system, swing diagnosis method, and recording medium

• US 10,354,550 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Ito, Tsuyoshi, Kodaira, Kenya, Hagiwara, Norihisa, Ito, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Legesse, Nini F
• Application Number:
  US15/211,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20170028283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• Field of Search: 473219, 473221, 473222, 473223, 473409
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1122 of movement trajectories
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6895 Sport equipment
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports

Abstract

A swing diagnosis apparatus includes a level calculation section that calculates a level on the basis of a relationship between a rotation angle about a rotation axis of an exercise appliance at a predetermined timing between the time of starting a backswing and the time of impact with a longitudinal direction of the exercise appliance as the rotation axis, and an inclination of a ball hitting portion of the exercise appliance at impact.

Claims

1. A swing diagnosis apparatus comprising:

a processor programmed to;

detect, from data collected by one or more sensors, a rotation angle about a rotation axis of an exercise appliance at a predetermined timing between a time of starting a backswing and a time of impact with a longitudinal direction of the exercise appliance as the rotation axis;

detect a face angle which is an inclination of a ball hitting portion of the exercise appliance at impact; and

calculate a level of a swing based on a pre-stored rotation score data which defines a score for each combination of one of a plurality of ranges for the rotation angle and one of a plurality of ranges for the face angle.

2. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the rotation angle is an angle by which the exercise appliance is rotated about the rotation axis from the time of starting the backswing to the predetermined timing.

3. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined timing is a time at which the backswing transitions to a downswing.

4. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the inclination of the ball hitting portion is an angle formed between an outer edge of a hitting surface of the ball hitting portion and a virtual straight line orthogonal to a target hit ball direction in a plan view.

5. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is programmed to calculate the level according to a curved state of a hit ball predicted based on a relationship between the detected rotation angle and the detected face angle.

6. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processor is programmed to calculate the level based on a speed of the ball hitting portion at impact.

7. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the processor is programmed to calculate the level according to the speed.

8. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display that displays the calculated level.

9. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the level is a score.

10. A swing diagnosis system comprising:

the swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 1; and

the one or more sensors including an inertial sensor, wherein the processor is programmed to calculate the level based on outputs from the inertial sensor.

11. A swing diagnosis method comprising:

detecting, from data collected by one or more sensors, a rotation angle about a rotation axis of an exercise appliance at a predetermined timing between a time of starting a backswing and a time of impact with a longitudinal direction of the exercise appliance as the rotation axis;

detecting a face angle which is an inclination of a ball hitting portion of the exercise appliance at impact; and

calculating a level of a swing based on a pre-stored rotation score data which defines a score for each combination of one of a plurality of ranges for the rotation angle and one of a plurality of ranges for the face angle.

12. A non-transitory recording medium recording a swing diagnosis program causing a computer to execute:

detecting, from data collected by one or more sensors, a rotation angle about a rotation axis of an exercise appliance at a predetermined timing between a time of starting a backswing and a time of impact with a longitudinal direction of the exercise appliance as the rotation axis;

detecting a face angle which is an inclination of a ball hitting portion of the exercise appliance at impact; and

calculating a level of a swing based on a pre-stored rotation score data which defines a score for each combination of one of a plurality of ranges for the rotation angle and one of a plurality of ranges for the face angle.

13. A swing diagnosis apparatus that:

detects, from data collected by one or more sensors, a rotation angle about a rotation axis of an exercise appliance at a predetermined timing between a time of starting a backswing and a time of impact with a longitudinal direction of the exercise appliance as the rotation axis;

detects a face angle which is an inclination of a ball hitting portion of the exercise appliance at impact; and

calculates a level of a swing based on a pre-stored rotation score data which defines a score for each combination of one of a plurality of ranges for the rotation angle and one of a plurality of ranges for the face angle.

14. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the rotation angle is an angle by which the exercise appliance is rotated about the rotation axis from the time of starting the backswing to the predetermined timing.

15. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the predetermined timing is a time at which the backswing transitions to a downswing.

16. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the inclination of the ball hitting portion is an angle formed between an outer edge of a hitting surface of the ball hitting portion and a virtual straight line orthogonal to a target hit ball direction in a plan view.

17. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the level is calculated according to a curved state of a hit ball predicted based on a relationship between the detected rotation angle and the detected face angle.

18. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the level is calculated based on a speed of the ball hitting portion at impact.

19. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 18,

wherein the level is calculated according to the speed.

20. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the calculated level is displayed.

21. The swing diagnosis apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the level is a score.