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Athletic ball telemetry apparatus and method of use thereof

a technology of telemetry apparatus and athletic balls, applied in the field of athletic balls, can solve the problems of inability to provide athletic balls with the capability of receiving, processing, transmitting and/or relaying gps signal data, and the golf ball to become obscured from view, so as to achieve the effect of improving operability

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-05-18
STARK DAVID A
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"The present invention is about an improved athletic ball telemetry system that can determine its position using GPS signals and a microprocessor. The ball has a receiver that receives GPS signals, a microprocessor that triangles the signals to determine its position, and a transmitter that sends the position information to an output device. This invention allows for better tracking and management of athletic balls."

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Furthermore, during a typical golf game, it is not uncommon for a golf ball to become obscured from view by course terrain.
However, the various devices and methods are inadequate in that the devices and methods do not provide an athletic ball affording capability for receiving, processing, transmitting, and / or relaying GPS signal data pertaining to the ball.

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[0018] Although certain embodiments of the present invention will be shown and described in detail, it should be understood that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims. The scope of the present invention will in no way be limited to the number of constituting components, the materials thereof, the shapes thereof, the relative arrangement thereof, etc., and are disclosed simply as an example of an embodiment. The features and advantages of the present invention are illustrated in detail in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the drawings.

[0019] As a preface to the detailed description, it should be noted that, as used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms “a”, “an” and “the” include plural referents, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

[0020] Referring to the drawings, FIG. 1 depicts a front view of one embodiment of an athlet...

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Abstract

An athletic ball includes a receiver, a processor, a transmitter, a power source and / or a multiplexing signal relay. The athletic ball receives GPS signal date from earth-orbiting satellites in order to determine the location of the ball. An output device is utilized to display the ball location and / or provide analytical data pertaining to movement of the athletic ball.

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BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0001] 1. Technical Field [0002] This invention relates generally to athletic balls. More particularly, this invention provides for an athletic ball comprising a GPS receiver, a microprocessor and a transmitter for determining the telemetry of the ball and a corresponding method of use thereof. [0003] 2. Related Art [0004] Various athletic games, like baseball, softball, lacrosse, golf and other similar sports employ the use of athletic balls. Often it is advantageous to have access to telemetric data pertaining to athletic ball position and / or ball movement dynamics such as variable direction, velocity and / or acceleration. Improvements in sports performance time and again result from investigation into the physics of the sport. Accordingly, athletes and others have a desire to evaluate various physical characteristics of athletic ball movement by analyzing telemetric data pertaining to athletic balls. By way of example, hitting coaches may seek to review tel...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63B43/00
CPCA63B24/0021A63B43/00A63B2024/0053A63B2225/50
Inventor STARK, DAVID A.
Owner STARK DAVID A
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