Motion analysis device, motion analysis system, motion analysis method, program, and recording medium

• US 9,999,394 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Shibuya, Kazuhiro, Sato, Masafumi
• Primary Examiner(s): LEGESSE, NINI F
• Application Number:
  US14/965,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20160175673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 473221-223, 473226, 473227, 473409
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6895 Sport equipment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/14 by matching peak patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/24 Credit schemes, i.e. "pay after"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/342 Cards defining paid or billed services or quantities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4016 involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

A motion analysis device that obtains a relation between a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of an exercise tool at a time of starting a swing and a posture of the ball hitting surface at the time of impact during the swing by using output of an inertial sensor.

Claims

1. A motion analysis system comprising:

a wireless inertial sensor that is configured to attach to a shaft of a golf club, and that measures acceleration; and

a processor that is configured to wirelessly communicate with the wireless inertial sensor, and that is programmed to;

calculate an initial position and an initial posture of the wireless sensor at a timing of starting a swing based on measured acceleration data received from the wireless inertial sensor;

detect, based on the received measured acceleration data, a timing of actual impact;

calculate a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of the golf club and an impact posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact;

calculate an incident angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact and a relative angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact based on the movement direction and the posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact; and

cause a display to display projection-related data based on the calculated incident angle and the calculated relative angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact.

2. The motion analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

obtain a face vector indicating the initial posture of the ball hitting surface of the wireless inertial sensor at the timing of starting the swing based on the measured acceleration data received from the wireless inertial sensor.

3. The motion analysis system according to claim 2, wherein the movement direction vector of the ball hitting surface at the timing of starting the swing is projected on a predetermined plane intersecting the ball hitting surface in a vertical direction.

4. The motion analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

calculate a movement direction vector of the ball hitting surface at the timing of starting the swing based on the obtained face vector.

5. The motion analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

obtain a first relationship between the movement direction of the ball hitting surface of the golf club at the timing of starting the swing and the impact posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of the actual impact; and

obtain a second relationship between a posture of the ball hitting surface before starting the swing and the movement direction of the ball hitting surface at the timing of starting the swing based on output received from the wireless inertial sensor.

6. The motion analysis system according to claim 5, wherein the processor is further programmed to:

output data indicating at least one of the first relationship and the second relationship.

7. The motion analysis system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is further programmed to control a display to display data indicating a combination of the first relationship and the second relationship as a two-dimensional graph.

8. The motion analysis system according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further programmed to control the display to display a type of projectile line predicted from the data indicating the combination of the first relationship and the second relationship along with the two-dimensional graph.

9. The motion analysis system according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further programmed to control the display to display a map including an area that is divided in accordance with the type of projectile line, and the two-dimensional graph.

10. The motion analysis system according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further programmed to control the display to display the two-dimensional graph to be located in the middle of the two-dimensional graph.

11. The motion analysis system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is further programmed to control the display to display a plurality of pieces of data regarding a plurality of swings at a plurality of times with a two-dimensional graph and to distinguish recent data from other data that is not recent on the two-dimensional graph.

12. The motion analysis system according to claim 1, wherein output received from the wireless inertial sensor used for determining the posture of the ball hitting surface at the time of actual impact during the swing is received at the time of actual impact, a time before the time of actual impact, or a time after the time of actual impact.

13. A motion analysis method comprising:

calculating an initial position and an initial posture of a wireless inertial sensor at a timing of starting a swing based on measured acceleration data received from the wireless inertial sensor, the wireless inertial sensor being configured to attach to a shaft of a golf club, and to measure acceleration;

detecting, based on the received measured acceleration data, a timing of actual impact;

calculating a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of the golf club and an impact posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact;

calculating an incident angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact and a relative angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact based on the movement direction and the posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact; and

causing a display to display projection-related data based on the calculated incident angle and the calculated relative angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact.

14. The motion analysis method according to claim 13, further comprising:

obtaining a face vector indicating the initial posture of the ball hitting surface of the wireless inertial sensor at the timing of starting the swing based on the measured acceleration data received from the wireless inertial sensor.

15. The motion analysis method according to claim 14, wherein the movement direction vector of the ball hitting surface at the timing of starting the swing is projected on a predetermined plane intersecting the ball hitting surface in a vertical direction.

16. The motion analysis method according to claim 13, further comprising:

calculating a movement direction vector of the ball hitting surface at the timing of starting the swing based on the obtained face vector.

17. The motion analysis method according to claim 13, wherein output received from the wireless inertial sensor used for determining the posture of the ball hitting surface at the time of actual impact during the swing is received at the time of actual impact, a time before the time of actual impact, or a time after the time of actual impact.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores motion analysis program instructions that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to:

calculate an initial position and an initial posture of the wireless sensor at a timing of starting a swing based on measured acceleration data received from the wireless sensor;

detect, based on the received measured acceleration data, a timing of actual impact;

calculate a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of the golf club and an impact posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact;

calculate an incident angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact and a relative angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact based on the movement direction and the posture of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact; and

cause a display to display projection-related data based on the calculated incident angle and the calculated relative angle of the ball hitting surface at the timing of actual impact.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 18, wherein output received from the wireless inertial sensor used for determining the posture of the ball hitting surface at the time of actual impact during the swing is received at the time of actual impact, a time before the time of actual impact, or a time after the time of actual impact.