Information terminal, golf club management method, and program

• US 9,433,837 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2011
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Django, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Django, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sawatari, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuff, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/977,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20130274034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,714 Days
• Field of Search: 473/407
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Provided is a golf club management system that enables easy management of detailed information on golf clubs and information on golf club settings. A golf bag display control unit (54) determines, from a golf bag configuration information table (58b), golf clubs stored in a golf bag designated by the user and further determines, from a golf club information table (58a), the type group each golf club belongs to. Next, it determines the type groups the types of the golf clubs stored in the golf bag are distributed to, and in accordance with the distribution pattern, determines the positions on a display device to show the images of the golf club heads. The image of a golf club head is created from a head image obtained with a head image data name, which is acquired from the golf club information table (58a).

Claims

1. An information terminal comprising:

a storage unit for storing a plurality of golf bags, a plurality of groups of golf clubs, a plurality of individual golf clubs, head images of each of the plurality of individual golf clubs, and information indicating, for each of the plurality of individual golf clubs, belonging to a specific one of the plurality of golf bags, wherein each of the plurality of groups of golf clubs includes one or more of the plurality of individual golf clubs;

a display device;

a golf club management unit for managing the golf clubs in association with head images of the golf clubs or head images of other golf clubs; and

a display control unit for controlling head images individually associated with a plurality of golf clubs to be displayed to be shown on the display device,

wherein the display control unit displays a screen for requesting to select any one of golf bags, receives a selection of a golf bag from a user, determines that golf clubs belonging to the golf bag selected by the user from among the golf bags are to be displayed, extracts the head images corresponding to the determined golf club from the storage unit, determines positions to display the head images based on a group distribution pattern indicating how many golf clubs among the determined golf clubs to be displayed belong to each of the groups, and simultaneously displays the head images of the determined golf clubs on the determined positions of the display device, and

wherein when determining the positions to display the head images based on the group distribution pattern, the display control unit makes positions of two or more golf clubs belonging to a same group be partially overlapped with each other so that each of the head images is not fully overlapped with other head images and is selectable by a user.

2. An information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the storage unit stores other information on the golf clubs by individual golf club, and

wherein, when one of the head images is selected, the display control unit shows at least part of the other information on a golf club associated with the selected head image on the display device.

3. An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit shows the head images of the golf clubs in image groups collected by group on the display device.

4. An information terminal according to claim 3,

wherein positions in height to display the image groups are determined depending on corresponding groups, and adjusted to satisfy at least one of the relations:

(A) that a top of an image group determined to be displayed at a higher position is positioned higher than a top of an image group determined to be displayed at a lower position; and

(B) that a bottom of an image group determined to be displayed at a higher position is positioned higher than a bottom of an image group determined to be displayed at a lower position.

5. An information terminal according to claim 4,

wherein the storage unit stores club lengths of the golf clubs by individual golf club, and

wherein the display control unit compares club lengths of golf clubs associated with head images included in an image group for each image group and adjusts positions to display the head images in the image group in such an arrangement that golf clubs having longer club lengths are positioned higher.

6. An information terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a communication control unit for connecting to an external network and controlling data transmission and reception,

wherein the golf club management unit acquires, in accordance with an instruction of the user, at least the head image for each of the golf clubs from a predetermined server via the external network.

7. A golf club management method in an information terminal including a display device for showing information and a storage unit storing a plurality of golf bags, a plurality of groups of golf clubs, a plurality of individual golf clubs, head images of each of the plurality of individual golf clubs, and information indicating, for each of the plurality of individual golf clubs, belonging to each a specific one of the plurality of golf bags, wherein each of the plurality of groups of golf clubs includes one or more of the plurality of individual golf clubs, the golf club management method comprising:

a golf club management step for managing the golf clubs in association with head images of the golf clubs or head images of other golf clubs; and

a display control step for controlling head images individually associated with a plurality of golf clubs to be displayed to be shown on the display device,

wherein the display control step displays a screen for requesting to select any one of golf bags, receives a selection of a golf bag from a user, determines that golf clubs belonging to the golf bag selected by the user from among the golf bags are to be displayed, extracts the head images corresponding to the determined golf club from the storage unit, determines positions to display the head images based on a group distribution pattern indicating how many golf clubs among the determined golf clubs to be displayed belong to each of groups, and simultaneously displays the head images of the determined golf clubs on the determined positions of the display device,

wherein when determining the positions to display the head images based on the group distribution pattern, the display control step makes positions of two or more golf clubs belonging to a same group be partially overlapped with each other so that each of the head images is not fully overlapped with other head images and is selectable by a user.