Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Moving projectile responsive sensor or indicator
Patent
1997-04-14
1999-05-25
Harrison, Jessica J.
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Moving projectile responsive sensor or indicator
473200, 473222, A63B 6936
Patent
active
059065478
ABSTRACT:
This system combines television and computer technology to permit one or more golfers to play a highly realistic round of golf from tees to greens. Each golf clubhead has color-coded bars on the rear lower and outer surfaces. As the clubhead approaches the ball it is multiply strobed and the images of the bars recorded on two color TV cameras perpendicular to each other and to the clubhead direction of travel. The resulting TV color images are digitized and transmitted to the computer. The stroke and club data implicit in the images are sufficient to permit computing the ball's total trajectory on the ground and cause it to be projected on the TV screen as the golfer would see it in actuality. The trajectory is superimposed on a TV view of the hole from the golfer's position. The ball's final position on a map of the hole is used to determine the TV view presented on the screen for his next stroke.
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Harrison Jessica J.
Sager Mark A
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