Athletic Performance Monitoring Systems and Methods in a Team Sports Environment
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods estimate the distance between a player and a ball by transmitting a chirp (sweep signal) to a radio tag located on the ball. During the chirp, the frequency of the transmitted signal is changed in a predetermined fashion. The radio tag doubles the transmitted frequency and returns the processed signal to a transceiver typically located on the player. The currently transmitted frequency is then compared with the received frequency to obtain a difference frequency from which an apparatus may estimate the distance. The apparatus may simultaneously receive the processed signal from the radio tag while transmitting the sweep signal.
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40 Claims
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1-20. -20. (canceled)
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21. A unitary athletic monitoring device comprising:
a body-worn housing configured to be releasably attached to a first player during performance of an athletic activity, the housing comprising; a sensor configured to sense athletic movement data, comprising at least a multi-axis accelerometer and having a gyroscope capabilities; an on-board display unit configured to display athletic information; a transceiver configured to communicate in real-time during the athletic activity with a central computer device; a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform at least; in real-time, process the athletic movement data to calculate athletic metric data, comprising a plurality of vertical height measurements for the first player during the athletic activity; during the performance of the athletic activity, display on the on-board display unit, a first vertical height measurement of the first player calculated from athletic movement data; and transmit via the transceiver during the athletic activity, the first vertical height measurement to the central computer device; receive a second vertical height measurement calculated at a second athletic monitoring device of a second player participating in the athletic activity; receive an identity of the second player; and display, during performance of the athletic activity, on a display, the second vertical height measurement and identity of the second player. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A unitary athletic monitoring device comprising:
a body-worn housing configured to be uniquely associated with and releasably attached to a first player during performance of an athletic activity, the athletic monitoring device comprising; a sensor configured to sense athletic movement data; an on-board display unit configured to display athletic information; a transceiver configured to communicate in real-time during the athletic activity with a central computer device; a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform at least; in real-time, process the athletic movement data to calculate athletic metric data; during the performance of the athletic activity, display on the on-board display unit, a first measurement of the first player calculated from athletic metric data; and transmit via the transceiver during the athletic activity, the first measurement of the first player to the central computer device; receive a third measurement from a second player participating in the athletic activity; receive an identity of the second player; and display, during performance of the athletic activity, on the display, the third measurement and identity of the second player. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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