DIAGNOSING METHOD OF GOLF SWING AND SILHOUETTE EXTRACTING METHOD

• US 20110212791A1
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nobutaka Shimada, SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited), Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited, Yoshiaki Shirai
• Original Assignee: Nobutaka Shimada, SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited), Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited, Yoshiaki Shirai
• Inventors: SHIRAI, Yoshiaki, SHIMADA, Nobutaka, UEDA, Masahiko
• Application Number:
  US13/036,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20110212791A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/221
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/32 Golf
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2214/00 Training methods
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/05 Image processing for measuring physical parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/806 Video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/807 Photo cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0006 Computerised comparison for qualitative assessment of motion sequences or the course of a movement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3605 Golf club selection aids informing player of his average or expected shot distance for each club
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3614 using electro-magnetic, magnetic or ultrasonic radiation emitted, reflected or interrupted by the golf club
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training

Abstract

In a method capable of diagnosing quality of a swing without circumstance, a camera 10 photographs a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club. Image data is obtained by photographing. A calculating part 16 extracts a frame from the image data. The calculating part 16 obtains an edge image of the frame. The calculating part 16 subjects the edge image to binarization based on a predetermined threshold value to obtain a binary image. The calculating part 16 subjects the binary image to Hough transform processing to extract a position of a shaft of the golf club, and specifies a tip coordinate of the golf club. The calculating part 16 contrasts tip coordinates of different frames to determine a temporary flame in an address. The calculating part 16 calculates color information in a reference area of each of the frames by backward sending from a frame after the temporary frame by a predetermined number, and determines a frame in the address based on change of the color information.

Claims

1. A diagnosing method of a golf swing comprising the steps of:

a camera photographing a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club, to obtain image data;

a calculating part obtaining an edge image of a frame extracted from the image data;

the calculating part subjecting the edge image to binarization based on a predetermined threshold value to obtain a binary image; and

the calculating part subjecting the binary image to Hough transform processing to extract a position of a shaft.

2. A diagnosing system of a golf swing comprising:

(A) a camera photographing a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club;

(B) a memory storing photographed image data; and

(C) a calculating part,

wherein the calculating part has;

(C1) a function for obtaining an edge image of a frame extracted from the image data;

(C2) a function for subjecting the edge image to binarization based on a predetermined threshold value to obtain a binary image; and

(C3) a function for subjecting the binary image to Hough transform processing to extract a position of a shaft.

3. A diagnosing method of a golf swing comprising the steps of:

a camera photographing a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club in a state where a golf club head in an address is positioned in a reference area in a screen to obtain image data;

a calculating part obtaining an edge image of a frame extracted from the image data;

the calculating part subjecting the edge image to binarization based on a predetermined threshold value to obtain a binary image;

the calculating part subjecting the binary image to Hough transform processing to extract a position of a shaft of the golf club, and specifying a tip coordinate of the golf club;

the calculating part contrasting tip coordinates of different frames to determine a temporary flame in the address; and

the calculating part calculating color information in the reference area of each of frames by backward sending from a frame after the temporary frame by a predetermined number, and determining a frame in the address based on change of the color information.

4. The diagnosing method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of the calculating part using a frame after the frame in the address by a predetermined number as a reference frame, calculating a difference value between each of frames after the reference frame and the reference frame, and determining a frame of an impact based on change of the difference value.

5. The diagnosing method according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of the calculating part calculating a difference value between each of a plurality of frames before the frame of the impact and a previous frame thereof, and determining a frame of a top based on the difference value.

6. The diagnosing method according to claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

the calculating part calculating a difference value between each of a plurality of frames after the frame of the address and the frame of the address;

the calculating part subjecting the difference value of each of the frames to Hough transform processing to extract the position of the shaft; and

the calculating part determining a frame of a predetermined position during a takeback based on change of the position of the shaft.

7. A diagnosing system of a golf swing comprising:

(A) a camera photographing a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club in a state where a golf club head in an address is positioned in a reference area in a screen;

(B) a memory storing the photographed image data; and

(C) a calculating part,

wherein the calculating part has;

(C1) a function for obtaining an edge image of a frame extracted from the image data;

(C2) a function for subjecting the edge image to binarization based on a predetermined threshold value to obtain a binary image;

(C3) a function for subjecting the binary image to Hough transform processing to extract a position of a shaft of the golf club, and specifying a tip coordinate of the golf club;

(C4) a function for contrasting tip coordinates of different frames to determine a temporary flame in the address; and

(C5) a function for calculating color information in the reference area of each of frames by backward sending from a frame after the temporary frame by a predetermined number, and determining a frame in the address based on change of the color information.

8. A diagnosing method of a golf swing comprising the steps of:

a camera photographing a golf player swinging a golf club to hit a golf ball and the golf club, to obtain image data;

a calculating part determining a frame of a predetermined position during a takeback from a frame extracted from the image data;

the calculating part extracting a position of a shaft of the golf club in the frame of the predetermined position;

the calculating part determining an intersecting point of an extended line of the shaft and a straight line passing through a tiptoe position of golf player and a position of the golf ball before an impact; and

the calculating part determining quality of a posture of the golf player in the predetermined position during the takeback based on a position of the intersecting point.

9. A silhouette extracting method comprising the steps of:

photographing an operating photographic subject together with a background scene to obtain a plurality of flames, each of the frames including a large number of pixels;

producing a whole frame set including all the frames for each of the pixels;

determining whether each of the pixels of each of the frames has an achromatic color or a chromatic color, and producing a chromatic color frame set and an achromatic color frame set for each of the pixels;

producing a first histogram in which a frequency is a frame number and a class is first color information, for the whole frame set;

producing a second histogram in which a frequency is a frame number;

a class for the chromatic color frame set is second color information; and

a class for the achromatic color frame set is third color information, for the chromatic color frame set and the achromatic color frame set; and

deciding whether the frame of each of the pixels is the background scene or the photographic subject based on the first histogram and the second histogram.

10. The silhouette extracting method according to claim 9, wherein the deciding step comprises the step of deciding whether each of the pixels is a pixel in which all the frames are the background scene or a pixel in which a frame as the background scene and a frame as the photographic subject are mixed, based on the first histogram and the second histogram.

11. The silhouette extracting method according to claim 10, wherein the deciding step comprises the steps of:

deciding whether the pixel in which the frame as the background scene and the frame as the photographic subject are mixed is a pixel in which a frame group as the background scene can be discriminated from a frame group as the photographic subject, based on the first histogram and the second histogram; and

discriminating the pixel in which the frame group as the background scene can be discriminated from the frame group as the photographic subject.

12. The silhouette extracting method according to claim 11, wherein the deciding step comprises the step of determining whether each of the frames of the pixel determined that the frame group as the background scene cannot be discriminated from the frame group as the photographic subject is the background scene or the photographic subject, based on the relationship between the pixel and another pixel adjacent to the pixel.

13. A silhouette extracting system comprising:

(A) a camera for photographing an operating photographic subject together with a background scene;

(B) a memory storing photographed image data; and

(C) a calculating part,

wherein the calculating part comprises;

(C1) a frame extracting part extracting a plurality of frames including a large number of pixels from the image data;

(C2) a first set producing part producing a whole frame set including all the frames for each of the pixels;

(C3) a second set producing part determining whether each of the pixels of each of the frames has an achromatic color or a chromatic color, and producing a chromatic color frame set and an achromatic color frame set for each of the pixels;

(C4) a first histogram producing part producing a first histogram in which a frequency is a frame number and a class is first color information, for the whole frame set;

(C5) a second histogram producing part producing a second histogram in which a frequency is a frame number;

a class for the chromatic color frame set is second color information; and

a class for the achromatic color frame set is third color information, for the chromatic color frame set and the achromatic color frame set; and

(C6) a deciding part deciding whether each of the frames of each of the pixels is the background scene or the photographic subject based on the first histogram and the second histogram.