Training System With Embedded Sensors And Illuminated Pathways
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current sporting training systems lack comprehensive, efficient, and safe methods for player development and injury analysis, particularly in team sports, as they often rely on traditional methods that do not provide real-time feedback or simulate game-like conditions effectively.
Innovation Solution
A full-scale practice, training, and diagnostic system that integrates field-embedded sensors and wearable sensors with a processor-driven management system, utilizing illuminated pathways and audio-visual feedback to track player movements, provide injury analysis, and simulate game scenarios, including multi-dimensional sensor profiles and real-time game play simulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional training methods are used, then practice sessions can be conducted without complex equipment, but real-time feedback and injury analysis capabilities are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sensing technologies (pressure sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS) into an integrated sensor system embedded in athletic footwear and wearable devices. This merging of sensors allows comprehensive injury analysis and real-time feedback without requiring multiple separate complex systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a central processing system and communication network as intermediaries that collect data from distributed sensors, process the information, and deliver feedback to coaches and athletes. This intermediary layer enables precise measurement while keeping individual sensor components relatively simple.
2Productivity
If full-scale team practice is conducted, then comprehensive team performance can be evaluated, but practice time and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements real-time feedback systems that provide immediate performance data to athletes and coaches during practice sessions. This allows for instant correction and adjustment, making practice more efficient by eliminating the need for extensive post-practice analysis and enabling faster skill acquisition.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides pre-practice preparations by setting up sensor networks and predefined analysis protocols before practice sessions begin. This preliminary setup automates data collection and analysis, reducing the time needed during actual practice while maintaining comprehensive evaluation capabilities.
3Loss of information
If traditional playbook review methods are used, then players can study plays without special equipment, but visual references for routing, timing, and coverage areas are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital copies of actual game footage and play executions, overlaying sensor data and visual annotations on these copies. This allows players to review plays with enhanced information about routing, timing, and coverage areas without requiring completely new complex visualization systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds spatial and temporal dimensions to traditional playbook review by incorporating 3D visualizations of player movements, coverage zones, and timing data. This multi-dimensional approach provides comprehensive play information while building upon familiar video review techniques rather than requiring entirely new complex systems.
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AI summary
A full scale practice, training and diagnostic system, method and software medium for providing highlighted progression and tempo illuminations of a practicing player in a first variant. Additional variants provide for field embedded pressure sensors in the field/court surface, as well as on the individual training or practicing person or player, in order to provide each of impact/injury analysis as well as multi-dimensional sensor profile analysis for a given practice activity.