ADVERTISING AND GOLF PRACTICE DEVICE

• US 20150024859A1
• Filed: 05/05/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Keith D. White
• Original Assignee: Keith D. White
• Inventors: White, Keith D.
• Application Number:
  US14/270,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20150024859A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/155
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0658 Position or arrangement of display
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/00 Targets or goals for ball games golf cups A63B57/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3623 for driving A63B69/3608, A63B69/3658, A63B69/3661, A63B69/3667 and A63B69/3691 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3629 Visual means not attached to the body for aligning, positioning the trainee's head or for detecting head movement, e.g. by parallax
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/00 Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00 starting appliances A63K3/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0619 Displays, user interfaces and indicating devices, specially adapted for sport equipment, e.g. display mounted on treadmills
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/00 Advertising on or in specific articles, e.g. ashtrays, letter-boxes on or in vehicles G09F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/04 illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/005 Signs associated with a sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/30 in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00

Abstract

An advertising and golf training device is provided with a ball impact detector, image display, a database of advertising images, controller for selecting an image from the database for display and displaying the image upon display in response to signal from the ball impact detector, and confirmation system.

Claims

1. A method for presenting an advertising message during gold practice, the method comprising:

detecting a golf swing ball impact and simultaneously presenting the advertising message image that is visible from a head-down position,

upon activation presenting a confirmation image of the same message image.