Golf Training GUI With Virtual Terrain Visualization and Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional golf training systems face challenges with user interfaces that are difficult to visualize selected settings, limited control parameters, and lack interaction, leading to suboptimal skill acquisition.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface (GUI) that displays a virtual graphical representation (VGR) of the physical platform, allowing users to easily visualize and control platform settings, receive feedback, and interact with the training environment for enhanced skill acquisition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional UI with two-dimensional press buttons is used to control the adaptive terrain platform, then the device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the user cannot visualise the selected settings and interaction is limited, worsening the ease of operation and skill acquisition effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual graphical representation (VGR) that is a visual copy of the physical adaptive terrain platform. This VGR displayed on the GUI allows users to see and interact with a digital replica of the platform settings, enabling visualization of terrain configurations without adding physical complexity to the actual platform structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The GUI acts as an intermediary layer between the user and the physical platform controls. Instead of directly manipulating physical buttons or switches, users interact with the visual VGR representation, which then translates their actions into platform adjustments. This intermediary interface significantly improves ease of operation while keeping the physical platform relatively simple.
2Adaptability or versatility
If pre-determined settings are provided via conventional UI, then the device complexity is minimized and reliability is improved, but the parameters controllable are limited and user discovery learning is reduced, worsening the adaptability and skill acquisition potential
Solution Approach 1:
The VGR system transforms static pre-determined settings into dynamic, continuously adjustable parameters. Users can interactively modify terrain characteristics by manipulating the visual representation, allowing real-time adjustments to slope, elevation, and other terrain features. This dynamic control vastly increases adaptability compared to fixed pre-programmed options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a visual dimension to the control interface by displaying the terrain platform in graphical form. This visual dimension allows users to perceive and manipulate terrain parameters spatially, adding a new layer of interaction beyond traditional button presses. The VGR enables control of multiple parameters simultaneously through visual manipulation, greatly expanding versatility.
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AI summary
A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for use with golf training apparatus. The golf training apparatus comprises a physical movable platform including a physical movable platform surface. The GUI is arranged so that it can be associated with and/or communicatively coupled with the physical platform in use. The GUI includes or is arranged to display in use a virtual graphical representation (VGR) of the physical platform and/or physical movable platform surface with which it is associated with and/or communicatively coupled with.