Method and apparatus for training a human by feedback enhanced learning
First Claim
1. A method of improving the learning of a motor skill by identifying a specific, critical parameter of the motor skill of a shooter shooting a basketball along a desired flight path to a basketball goal in which proprioception provides the primary feedback and then enhancing the specificity of this available feedback including:
- determining when the specific, critical parameter of the motor skill is satisfactory and not satisfactory with artificial sensors having no contact with the basketball during its movement along the desired flight path;
positioning the artificial sensors and any frame supporting the artificial sensors so that they are not in the field of vision of the shooter when the shooter views the basketball goal to shoot the basketball to the basketball goal and in accordance with the desired flight path as determined by having the shooter shoot the basketball along the desired flight path to the basketball goal;
relaying information by nonproprioceptive channels to the brain from the artificial sensors in accordance with whether the specific, critical parameter of the motor skill of shooting the basketball along the desired flight path to the basketball goal is satisfactory or not satisfactory;
and the relayed information from the artificial sensors including automatically producing a first signal without contact with the basketball when the basketball has moved above the desired flight path by at least a first selected amount at a first selected distance from where the basketball is shot so that the specific, critical parameter of the motor skill is not satisfactory with the first selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and being such that the velocity of the basketball has a minimum effect on the desired flight path and automatically producing a second signal, different from the first signal, without contact with the basketball when the basketball has moved below the desired flight path by at least a second selected amount at a second selected distance from where the basketball is shot with the second selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and being such that the velocity of the basketball has a minimum effect on the desired flight path.
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Abstract
A sensing frame is positioned so that a basketball will pass through a rectangular shaped opening in the sensing frame when a free throw shooter shoots the basketball towards a goal. The sensing frame has a beam of light directed across it above the top of the desired path of the basketball for the basketball to enter the goal and a second beam of light directed across it below the desired path of the basketball to enter the goal. If either of these beams of light is broken, different alarm signals indicate to the shooter whether the path of the basketball is high or low. The sensing frame is adjustable both vertically and about a horizontal axis to enable the desired positioning of the sensing frame relative to the shooter.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of improving the learning of a motor skill by identifying a specific, critical parameter of the motor skill of a shooter shooting a basketball along a desired flight path to a basketball goal in which proprioception provides the primary feedback and then enhancing the specificity of this available feedback including:
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determining when the specific, critical parameter of the motor skill is satisfactory and not satisfactory with artificial sensors having no contact with the basketball during its movement along the desired flight path; positioning the artificial sensors and any frame supporting the artificial sensors so that they are not in the field of vision of the shooter when the shooter views the basketball goal to shoot the basketball to the basketball goal and in accordance with the desired flight path as determined by having the shooter shoot the basketball along the desired flight path to the basketball goal; relaying information by nonproprioceptive channels to the brain from the artificial sensors in accordance with whether the specific, critical parameter of the motor skill of shooting the basketball along the desired flight path to the basketball goal is satisfactory or not satisfactory; and the relayed information from the artificial sensors including automatically producing a first signal without contact with the basketball when the basketball has moved above the desired flight path by at least a first selected amount at a first selected distance from where the basketball is shot so that the specific, critical parameter of the motor skill is not satisfactory with the first selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and being such that the velocity of the basketball has a minimum effect on the desired flight path and automatically producing a second signal, different from the first signal, without contact with the basketball when the basketball has moved below the desired flight path by at least a second selected amount at a second selected distance from where the basketball is shot with the second selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and being such that the velocity of the basketball has a minimum effect on the desired flight path. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method of training a human of any height to shoot a basketball along a desired flight path to a basketball goal while the human looks at the basketball goal including:
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determining the desired flight path for the basketball by having the human shoot the basketball along the desired flight path to the basketball goal; automatically indicating to the human shooting the basketball when the basketball is above the desired flight path by at least a first selected amount at a first selected distance from where the basketball is shot with the first selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and being such that the velocity of the basketball has a minimum effect on the desired flight path and without any contact with the basketball; and automatically indicating to the human shooting the basketball when the basketball is below the desired flight path by at least a second selected amount at a second selected distance from where the basketball is shot with the second selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and being such that the velocity of the basketball has a minimum effect on the desired flight path and without any contact with the basketball. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5)
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6. An apparatus for training a human of any height to shoot a basketball along a desired flight path to a basketball goal while looking at the basketball goal by indicating when the shot basketball moves above or below the desired flight path including:
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first sensing means disposed a first selected amount from the desired flight path at a first selected distance from where the basketball is shot by the shooter with the first selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and closer to the shooter than to the high point of the desired flight path; first signaling means to produce a first signal when said first sensing means senses without contact with the shot basketball that the shot basketball is at least the first selected amount above the desired flight path at the first selected distance from where the basketball is shot; second sensing means disposed a second selected amount below the desired flight path at a second selected distance from where the basketball is shot by the shooter with the second selected distance being substantially prior to the high point of the desired flight path and closer to the shooter than to the high point of the desired flight path; second signaling means to produce a second signal, different from the first signal, when said second sensing means senses without contact with the shot basketball that the shot basketball is at least the second selected amount below the desired flight path at the second selected distance from where the basketball is shot; and means to position said first sensing means and said second sensing means out of the field of vision of the shooter when the shooter looks at the basketball goal to shoot the basketball to the basketball goal so that they are not within the field of vision of the shooter when the shooter looks at the basketball goal to shoot the basketball to the basketball goal. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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