GPS device

• US 8,070,629 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2009
• Issued: 12/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Callaway Golf Company
• Original Assignee: Callaway Golf Company
• Inventors: Balardeta, Joseph, Denton, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY
• Application Number:
  US12/645,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20100311522A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 473/407
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0025 Tracking the path or location of one or more users, e.g. players of a game
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0691 Maps, e.g. yardage maps or electronic maps
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/12 Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/13 Relative positions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/14 Geo-tagging, e.g. for correlating route or track location data with specific information related to that specific location
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/20 Distances or displacements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user

Abstract

A golf GPS device is disclosed herein. The device includes a GPS unit, a memory for storing a plurality of aerial images of a golf course, a display for displaying the plurality of aerial images, a user input for inputting a plurality of location points on an aerial image of the plurality of aerial images displayed on the display, and a processor comprising means for determining a distance between any two points on a golf course.

Claims

1. A golf GPS device comprising:

a GPS unit;

a memory for storing a plurality of aerial images of a golf course, each of the plurality of aerial images comprising a plurality of features on the golf course;

a display screen for displaying the plurality of aerial images;

a user input for inputting a plurality of location points on an aerial image of the plurality of aerial images displayed on the display;

a voice recognition module; and

a processor configured to determine a present geographic position of the device using the GPS unit and configured to calculate and display the distance between a first location point displayed on the view screen and a second location point displayed on the view screen, wherein the first location point and the second location point are not the present geographic position of the device;

a battery and a power management unit,

wherein the power management unit detects a standby condition wherein the standby condition is less than three yards of movement of the golf GPS device as determined by the GPS unit; and

upon detecting the standby condition, enters a standby mode in which the power is deactivated for the processor, the display, and the memory.

2. The golf GPS device according to claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of aerial images is a satellite photograph.

3. The golf GPS device according to claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of aerial images is an aerial photograph.