RF Locating System for Real-Time Sports Analytics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current performance analytics for sports events are resource-intensive and prone to errors, requiring manual review of game recordings to compile statistics, which is time-consuming and limited in accuracy and scope.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a radio frequency locating system to collect and analyze real-time data on player location, movement, and sensor data to automatically recognize formations, plays, and events, enabling the generation of participant statistical data and game status data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual review of game recordings is used to compile statistics, then human expertise can interpret complex player actions, but the process is time-consuming and resource-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual human review with an automated computer-based system that uses algorithms to detect and analyze player actions from video feeds and sensor data, thereby eliminating the time-consuming manual process while maintaining or improving accuracy through consistent automated measurement
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically collecting, processing, and generating statistics without requiring human intervention for data compilation, allowing the system to serve its own data processing needs through automated detection algorithms that continuously analyze game data and generate statistical reports
2Reliability
If manual analysis is used to review complex player formations and movements, then detailed observation can be made, but the process is error-prone and limited in scope
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional automated system that simultaneously performs multiple analysis tasks including detecting player formations, tracking individual player movements, identifying specific game events, and generating comprehensive statistics all through a single integrated system, thereby expanding the scope of data analysis beyond what manual review can achieve
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where detected data is continuously processed and validated against established criteria, with automated correction of detected events and statistics based on predefined rules and algorithms, thereby reducing error rates through systematic verification rather than relying on human judgment consistency
3Quantity of substance
If real-time data collection from multiple sensors is implemented, then comprehensive player performance data can be obtained, but system complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data collection system into distinct functional modules, with each sensor type (video cameras, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers) handled by dedicated processing algorithms that analyze specific data types independently before integrating results, thereby managing system complexity through modular organization while capturing comprehensive multi-source performance data
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach reduces errors and provides rapid, accurate, and comprehensive performance analytics, allowing for real-time tracking and enhanced data analysis that can be used in sports and fantasy games, while also generating exclusive data that cannot be easily replicated.
Implementation Method 1
systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for providing real-time collection and analysis of participant (e.g., player) performance, events, and statistics during a sporting event or other group activity using a locating system, such as a radio frequency locating system
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method is provided for transmitting participant data relating to one or more participants that are available in a fantasy game, the fantasy game is at least partially related to a players performance in a sporting event; receiving a selected participant data indication from at least one user, the selected participant data indication provides selection of at least one participant from the participant data; generating a participant data update for one or more participants based on the selected participant data indication; the participant data is defined by a time period comprising an event and is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and transmitting the participant data update, the participant data update is viewable via a user interface.