Enhancement of the presentation of an athletic event

• US 9,044,198 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2011
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Original Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Inventors: Benzel, Edward C., Miele, Vincent J., Bartsch, Adam J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nghiem, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Satanovsky, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US13/184,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20120147009A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,418 Days
• Field of Search: 702/41, 702/42, 345/440, 345/473, 345/619, 700/91
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 3/046 Means for detecting hazards or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0247 Pressure sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0261 Strain gauges
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/028 Microscale sensors, e.g. electromechanical sensors [MEMS]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1114 Tracking parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1121 Determining geometric values, e.g. centre of rotation or angular range of movement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1122 of movement trajectories
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4064 Evaluating the brain A61B5/031, A61B5/369, A61B5/14553 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6803 Head-worn items, e.g. helmets, masks, headphones or goggles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/682 Mouth, e.g., oral cavity; tongue; Lips; Teeth
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7253 characterised by using transforms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7267 involving training the classification device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7278 Artificial waveform generation or derivation, e.g. synthesising signals from measured signals A61B5/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for enhancing a presentation of an athletic event. Data is received at a sensor located at a first location on a first athlete. The data represents an impact applied to the first athlete by a second athlete. One of an acceleration and a force at a second location on the first athlete induced by the impact is determined. A representation of the determined one of the acceleration and the force at the second location on the first athlete is displayed to an audience of the athletic event.

Claims

1. A system for enhancing a presentation of an athletic event, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine readable instructions executable by the processor to perform a method comprising;

receiving data from a sensor located in one of a mouth guard and a lip guard worn a first athlete, the data representing an impact applied to the first athlete by a second athlete;

determining one of an linear acceleration, angular velocity, angular acceleration, a force and orientation induced by the impact from the data received from the sensor at a location of interest within the head or neck the first athlete, the location of interest being remote from the sensor;

selecting a strike class, including at least a type and handedness of a strike, associated with the impact from the determined one of the linear acceleration, angular velocity, angular acceleration, force and orientation of the sensor at the location of interest on the first athlete induced by the impact; and

displaying a representation of the selected strike class comprising an animation of the first athlete receiving an impact represented by the selected strike class from the second athlete and the second athlete delivering an impact associated with the selected strike class to an audience of the athletic event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein displaying the representation of the selected strike class comprises displaying a histogram, representing the second athlete and comprising a plurality of strike classes, and updating the histogram each time one of the plurality of strike classes is selected.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein displaying the representation of the determined one of an acceleration and a force comprises displaying a cumulative sum of a numerical value associated with the one of the acceleration and the force induced at the location of interest over a period of time.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the cumulative sum is displayed graphically as one of a slider and a chart.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the cumulative sum is displayed as a reduction of a predetermined starting value for the one of the acceleration and the force associated with the first athlete.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising comparing the determined one of an acceleration and a force at the location of interest to a threshold value, wherein displaying a representation of the determined one of an acceleration and a force comprises displaying an indicator to the audience when the determined one of an acceleration and a force at the location of interest exceeds the threshold value.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein displaying a representation of the determined one of an acceleration and a force comprises displaying a running total of discrete impacts for which the determined one of an acceleration and a force at the location of interest exceeded the threshold value over a period of time.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein displaying a representation of the determined one of an acceleration and a force comprises displaying a parameter calculated as a function of the determined one of an acceleration and a force.

9. A system for enhancing a presentation of an athletic event, the system comprising:

a sensor assembly being located in one of a mouth guard and a lip guard worn by the athlete, positioned at an associated measurement point on the head of an athlete, configured to measure at least one of a linear acceleration, an angular acceleration, an angular velocity and an orientation of the head at the associated measurement point during an impact to the head;

a sensor interface configured to receive the measured at least one of a linear acceleration, an angular acceleration, an angular velocity and an orientation of the head at the associated measurement point and determine an acceleration of a location of interest on one of a head and neck of the athlete, the location of interest being remote from the measurement point and determine an acceleration at a center of gravity of the athlete'"'"'s head;

a user interface accessible to at least one member of an audience of the athletic event and configured to allow the at least one member of the audience to define a condition related to the representation of the determined acceleration and a wager contingent on a future occurrence of the defined condition; and

a display configured to communicate a representation of the determined acceleration of the location of interest to the audience of the athletic event.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising a feature extractor configured to calculate a plurality of impact parameters from the determined acceleration of the location of interest, the display being configured to display at least one of the plurality of impact parameters.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a pattern recognition classifier configured to associate the impact to the head of the athlete with an associated strike class of a plurality of strike classes according to the calculated plurality of impact parameters, wherein each strike class represents a specific type of strike that can be received by the athlete.

12. A system for enhancing a presentation of an athletic event, the system comprising:

a sensor interface configured to determine an acceleration of a location of interest on one of a head and a neck of an athlete from provided sensor data in response to an impact on the athlete;

a feature calculation component configured to calculate a plurality of impact parameters from the determined acceleration of the location of interest;

a pattern recognition classifier configured to associate the impact to the athlete with an associated strike class of a plurality of strike classes, each representing at least a type and handedness of a strike, according to the calculated plurality of impact parameters, wherein each strike class represents a specific type of strike that can be received by the athlete; and

a display configured to communicate the associated strike class to an audience of the sporting event.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising a sensor assembly, positioned at an associated measurement point on the head, configured to measure at least one of a linear acceleration, an angular acceleration, an angular velocity and an orientation of the head at the associated measurement point during the impact to the head, wherein the location of interest is remote from the associated measurement point.

14. The system of claim 12, where the calculated plurality of impact parameters includes a determined acceleration of the location of interest at a first time and a determined acceleration of the location of interest at a second time which is offset from the first time.

15. The system of claim 12, where the calculated plurality of impact parameters includes a determined acceleration of the location of interest along a first axis and a determined acceleration of the location of interest along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis.