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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21. An athletic monitoring system comprising:
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a transceiver configured to communicate with a plurality of body-worn athletic devices comprising at least a first athletic device and a second athletic device, each of the plurality of athletic devices respectively configured to be uniquely associated and releasably attached to a corresponding plurality of players during performance of an athletic activity; a processor; a display unit configured to display athletic information; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor perform at least; receive, in real-time during an athletic activity, athletic motion data collected from a sensor of the first athletic device while releasably attached to a first player and athletic motion data from a sensor of the second athletic device while releasably attached to the second player; process, with the processor, the athletic motion data from the first athletic device to create a first measurement of a first athletic metric for the first athlete during the athletic activity; process, with the processor, the athletic motion data from the second athletic device to create a second measurement of the first athletic metric for the second athletic activity; deriving, with the processor, during the athletic activity, that the first measurement meets a threshold criteria that the second measurement does not meet; determine, with the processor, an identity of the first player that is uniquely associated with the first athletic device; and display, on the display unit during performance of the athletic activity, that is viewable to a plurality of individuals, the first measurement of the first athletic metric and the identity of the first player uniquely associated with the first athletic device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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processing, in real-time with a processor, athletic movement data from a plurality of body-worn athletic devices that are each respectively configured to be uniquely associated and attached to a corresponding plurality of players during performance of an athletic activity; wherein the plurality of body-worn athletic devices comprise a first and a second body-worn athletic device that are uniquely associated to a first player and a second player, respectively, amongst the plurality of players; wherein the processing comprises calculating on the first athletic device, athletic metric data from athletic motion data captured by a sensor on the first body-worn athletic device and calculating on the second athletic device, athletic metric data from athletic motion data captured by a sensor on the second body-worn athletic device, the athletic metric data comprising a plurality of measurements; during the simultaneous performance of the athletic activity by the first player and the second player, displaying on an on-board display unit of the first athletic device, a first measurement of the plurality of measurements from the first player and a first measurement of the plurality of measurements from the second player; transmitting, via a transceiver of each plurality of athletic devices during the athletic activity, at least a portion of the plurality of measurements of at least the first player and the second player of the respective athletic devices, to a central computer device; determining that a first measurement of a first athletic metric of the first player is higher than a second measurements of the first athletic metric of the second player; and displaying, during performance of the athletic activity, on a second display unit that is viewable to a plurality of individuals, the first measurement and identity of the first player uniquely associated with the first athletic device. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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