Sport monitoring systems and associated methods
First Claim
1. A system for determining the speed of a moving person, comprising (a) a GPS sensor configured for attachment with the moving person, for generating signals indicative of earth location, and (b) a microprocessor configured for attachment with the moving person, for processing the signals to determine the speed.
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Abstract
The invention detects the loft time and/or speed of a vehicle, such as a sporting vehicle, during activities of moving and jumping. A loft sensor detects when the vehicle leaves the ground and when the vehicle returns to the ground. A microprocessor subsystem converts the sensed information to determine a loft time. A display shows the recorded loft time to a user of the system. In addition, a speed sensor can detect the vehicle'"'"'s speed for selective display to the user. The invention is particularly well-suited to sporting activities such as snowboarding where users loft into the air on ski jumps and catch “air” time but have no quantitative measure of the actual time lapse in the air. Therefore, users in skiing can use invention to record, store, and playback selected information relating to their sporting day, including the total amount of “air” time for the day and information such as dead time, i.e., time not spent on the slopes.
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- 1. A system for determining the speed of a moving person, comprising (a) a GPS sensor configured for attachment with the moving person, for generating signals indicative of earth location, and (b) a microprocessor configured for attachment with the moving person, for processing the signals to determine the speed.
- 10. A method for determining the speed of a moving person, comprising generating GPS signals with the moving person and indicative of earth location, and processing the signals with the moving person to determine the speed.
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15. A system for determining sporting characteristics associated with a person during activity, comprising at least one accelerometer and a processor contained within a water-tight housing and attached to the person or to a vehicle ridden by the person, the accelerometer generating signals indicative of movement by the person, the processor processing the signals to determine the sporting characteristics.
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