Golf Simulation Displaying Multiple Green Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing putting practice devices cannot improve a user's ability to analyze the terrain of the green, which is crucial for accurate putting in golf.
Innovation Solution
A golf simulation method that displays multiple views of a virtual golf green from different angles, allowing users to select points on the green and simulate the trajectory of a golf ball, thereby improving the user's green target and putting abilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If existing putting practice devices only detect putter head accuracy or estimate putting distance, then the device complexity remains simple, but the user's ability to analyze terrain of the green cannot be improved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the golf green with its terrain features in a simulation environment. This virtual green replicates the essential characteristics of real greens, allowing users to practice terrain analysis without requiring complex physical measurement devices. The virtual model enables accurate terrain assessment through software-based simulation rather than physical instrumentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces physical mechanical measurement systems with computer-based simulation and image processing. Instead of using complex mechanical devices to measure green terrain, the system uses digital images and virtual simulation to represent and analyze green characteristics, substituting mechanical complexity with computational simplicity.
2Loss of information
If multiple views of the green are displayed to improve terrain analysis ability, then the user's green target ability improves, but the information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent displays the green from multiple dimensional perspectives - top view, front view, and side view - allowing users to comprehend three-dimensional terrain features through two-dimensional representations. This multi-dimensional display approach enables comprehensive terrain analysis by presenting information from different spatial angles, helping users visualize breaks and slopes that would be difficult to perceive from a single viewpoint.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the complex terrain information into separate viewable components - top view showing overall layout, front view showing elevation changes, and side view showing lateral slopes. By segmenting the terrain information into distinct visual perspectives, the system makes complex three-dimensional terrain analysis manageable through multiple simplified two-dimensional views.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a golf simulation method including: displaying an image of a first view of a green of a virtual golf course; displaying an image of a second view of the green having a viewpoint different from the first view; and receiving a selection of one point on the green in the image of the first view or the image of the second view.