SMART ATHLETIC TRAINING SYSTEM

• US 20160271447A1
• Filed: 03/18/2015
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telemetrio, LLC
• Original Assignee: Telemetrio, LLC
• Inventors: Cucco, Marco
• Application Number:
  US14/661,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20160271447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0025 Tracking the path or location of one or more users, e.g. players of a game
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/12 Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/13 Relative positions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/62 Time or time measurement used for time reference, time stamp, master time or clock signal
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/801 Contact switches
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/803 Motion sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/806 Video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/10 Multi-station exercising machines
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/54 Transponders, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/74 with powered illuminating means, e.g. lights
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0464 Walk exercisers without moving parts with movable endless bands A63B22/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0021 Tracking a path or terminating locations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0075 Means for generating exercise programs or schemes, e.g. computerized virtual trainer, e.g. using expert databases
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 5/22 Foot obstacles for skipping , e.g. horizontally-rotating obstacles
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/002 for football American-football dummies A63B69/34
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0028 for running, jogging or speed-walking movable endless bands A63B22/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0053 Apparatus generating random stimulus signals for reaction-time training involving a substantial physical effort
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/03 Athletic drills or obstacles for sport training, other than foot obstacles for skipping
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 : Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 : using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 : using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A system for evaluating and/or improving the performance characteristics of an athlete, such as speed, agility and quickness, includes a plurality of training objects that can be arranged on a drill circuit, wherein each training object includes a radio frequency transceiver for communicating with another training object, a visual display for signaling an athlete, a sensor for detecting the athlete'"'"'s position relative to the training object, and a battery with required conductors for powering the radio frequency transceiver, visual display and sensor.

Claims

1. A training system for evaluating and improving athletic skills, comprising:

at least two training objects, each training object having a radio frequency transmitter/receiver for communicating with another training object, a visual display, a sensor for detecting an athlete'"'"'s position relative to the training object, and a battery and electrical conductors for powering the radio frequency transmitter/receiver, visual display, and sensor.

2. The system of claim 1, in which the radio frequency transmitter/receiver is a Bluetooth device.

3. The system of claim 1, in which the radio frequency transmitter/receiver is a Wi-Fi device.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a mobile computing device executing an application enabling communication with the training objects.

5. The system of claim 1, in which the training objects are cones.

6. The system of claim 1, in which the sensor is a proximity sensor.

7. The system of claim 6, in which the proximity sensor is an infrared radiation proximity sensor.

8. The system of claim 1, in which the sensor is a motion detector.

9. The system of claim 8, in which the motion sensor is an optical sensor.

10. The system of claim 1, in which the sensor is a tactile sensor.

11. The system of claim 1, in which the training objects are nestable.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a charger for recharging the battery.

13. The system of claim 12, in which the training objects are nestable and include electrical contacts that facilitate concurrent electrical charging of a plurality of nested training objects.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a mobile computing device executing an application enabling communication with the training objects and with a computer vision system.

15. The system of claim 1, in which the visual display on the training object is a dot matrix display.

16. The system of claim 15, in which the dot matrix display comprises a sufficient number of dots arranged in rows and columns to facilitate display of at least any one alphabetical or numeric character.