Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Patent
1997-05-15
1999-03-02
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
342357, 340990, G01S 514
Patent
active
058783695
ABSTRACT:
A player position determining and course management system for a golf course having a plurality of roving units for use by players in playing the course is disclosed. Each roving unit includes a central processing unit (CPU) including a data processor for executing various tasks ranging from fastest execution of a task to slowest execution of a task on a schedule of priorities of task completion, a real-time means for controlling the processor to give the tasks priority ranging from fastest execution of a task with highest priority to slowest execution of a task with lowest priority, and a means for precisely timing functions of the system including modulating means utilizing a common digital modulation technique for digitally modulating data transmitted to and from all of the roving units. Each of the roving units include a monitor for displaying the golf course including each of the holes with its tee box, fairway, green, cup and hazards, as well as the position of the roving unit on the course in real time. Additionally, the system includes a course management base station for transmitting and receiving information to the roving units and a monitor for displaying the the location of each roving unit on the golf course in real time.
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Bingeman Kirk
Coffee John
Lecker Douglas L.
Pham Tuan
Rudow Richard W.
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Leading Edge Technologies, Inc.
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