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System and method for improving a basketball player's shooting including a detection and measurement system

  • US 9,017,188 B2
  • Filed: 06/21/2012
  • Issued: 04/28/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A basketball launcher which enables a player to practice basketball, comprising:

  • a gun/ejector which launches a sequence of basketball passes to the player;

    a display or interface for controlling or programming said gun/ejector which;

    i) indicates several different positions at which said gun/ejector may pass said basketball passes;

    ii) accepts input from a user which selects a sequence of said basketball passes;

    iii) said display or interface has a plurality of indicia for selecting a plurality of predetermined different locations at which one or more of said basketball passes will be launched by said gun/ejector on a basketball court;

    said plurality of indicia arranged in spaced angular positions on said display or interface to generally correspond to said plurality of predetermined different locations corresponding to spaced angular positions on said basketball court; and

    each of said plurality of indicia having an indicator that shows which one of said plurality of indicia has been selected or actuated and said indicator is located at each of said spaced angular positions on said display or interface;

    wherein said display or interface allows programming of a desired time delay between passes and programming of a number of shots that said gun/ejector passes to each of said plurality of different locations at which said gun/ejector passes said basketball passes;

    wherein said gun/ejector further comprises a controller that counts the number of made-shots or missed-shots at each of said predetermined different locations at which basketballs were shot.

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