Sports trainer and game
First Claim
1. An arrangement for determining a path and a speed of movement of a moving implement, comprising:
- a) a support;
b) means on the support for generating an optical spatial sector extending away from the support along a longitudinal direction, and having a cross-sectional dimension along a transverse direction normal to said longitudinal direction, said cross-sectional dimension being known along the longitudinal direction; and
c) means for optically detecting a longitudinal distance of the moving implement relative to the support and a speed of the moving implement through the spatial sector, said detecting means including means for determining an entry time when the implement entered the spatial sector, an exit time when the implement exited the spatial sector, and a peak intensity of light located in the spatial sector and corresponding to the longitudinal distance relative to the support.
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Abstract
An arrangement for use in training players of a game during a simulated game session in the correct use of a game implement that has to be moved properly during an actual game to encounter a ball and impart to the latter a desired trajectory of movement after impacting the same includes light-emitting devices that emit at least one initial and two subsequent detection light beams from locations arranged at the corners of a triangle into substantially vertically oriented upwardly conically diverging spatial sectors. A reflective surface associated with the implement reflects the light of the respective detection light beam back to the respective location as the implement passes through the respective spatial sector with an intensity that is in a predetermined functional relationship when reaching the respective location to the distance of the reflecting means from the same location and to the degree of penetration of the reflecting means into the respective spatial sector. Respective photosensors are provided at each of the locations and sense the intensity of the detection light returning to the location substantially only from the spatial sector after having been reflected from the implement as it moves through the respective spatial sector. The thus detected peak of the intensity of the returned light and the time at which such peak had occurred at each of the locations are then used to determine the respective distances of the implement from all of the locations and the times of passage thereof past such locations and from that various parameters of the movement of the implement including its speed and various angles assumed thereby while moving in a path above the arrangement towards a ball encounter location.
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18 Claims
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1. An arrangement for determining a path and a speed of movement of a moving implement, comprising:
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a) a support; b) means on the support for generating an optical spatial sector extending away from the support along a longitudinal direction, and having a cross-sectional dimension along a transverse direction normal to said longitudinal direction, said cross-sectional dimension being known along the longitudinal direction; and c) means for optically detecting a longitudinal distance of the moving implement relative to the support and a speed of the moving implement through the spatial sector, said detecting means including means for determining an entry time when the implement entered the spatial sector, an exit time when the implement exited the spatial sector, and a peak intensity of light located in the spatial sector and corresponding to the longitudinal distance relative to the support. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An arrangement in training players of a game during a simulated game session in a correct use of a game implement that has moved properly during an actual game to encounter an object and impart to the object a desired trajectory of movement after impacting the implement, comprising:
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a) light-emitting means for emitting at least one initial and one subsequent detection light beam from respective predetermined locations into substantially vertically oriented respective spatial sectors; b) reflecting means associated with the implement for reflecting light of the respective detection light beams back to the respective predetermined locations as the implement passes through the respective spatial sectors with an intensity that is in a predetermined functional relationship when reaching the respective predetermined locations to a distance of said reflecting means from the same predetermined location and to a degree of penetration of the reflecting means into the respective spatial sectors; c) photosensitive means at each of the predetermined locations for sensing an intensity of the respective detection light returning to said respective predetermined locations only from said respective spatial sectors after having been reflected from said reflecting means during the passing of the implement through the respective spatial sectors; and d) evaluating means for detecting a peak of the intensity of the returning light and a time at which said peak had occurred for each spatial sector at each of the predetermined locations for determining respective distances of the implement from all of the predetermined locations and times of passage thereof past such predetermined locations and for determining various parameters of the movement of the implement including speed and various angles assumed thereby while moving in a path above the arrangement towards an object encounter location. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An arrangement for determining a path and a speed of movement of a moving implement, comprising:
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a) a support; b) means on the support for generating an optical spatial sector extending away from the support along a longitudinal direction, and having a cross-sectional dimension along a transverse direction normal to said longitudinal direction, said cross-sectional dimension being known along the longitudinal direction; and c) means for optically detecting a longitudinal distance of the moving implement relative to the support and the speed of a moving implement through the spatial sector, said detecting means including means for determining an entry time when the implement entered the spatial sector, and an exit time when the implement exited spatial sector, and means for taking multiple samples of the intensity of light along the transverse direction across the cross-sectional dimension to determine a peak intensity of light corresponding to the longitudinal distance relative to the support. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. An arrangement for determining a path and a speed of movement of a moving implement, comprising:
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a) a support; b) means on the support for generating an optical spatial sector extending away from the support along a longitudinal direction, and having a cross-sectional dimension along a transverse direction normal to said longitudinal direction, said cross-sectional dimension being known along the longitudinal direction; and c) means for optically detecting a longitudinal distance and an angular orientation of the moving implement relative to the support and a speed of the moving implement through the spatial sector, said detecting means including means for determining an entry time when the implement entered the spatial sector, an exit time when the implement exited the spatial sector, a peak intensity of light corresponding to the longitudinal distance of the implement relative to the support, a peak time at which the peak intensity occurred, one angular orientation of the implement relative to the support when the peak time is closer to the entry time than the exit time, and a different angular orientation of the implement relative to the support when the peak time is closer to the exit time than the entry time.
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