TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF A PLAYER WITHIN A PLAYING ARENA

    公开(公告)号:US20180280759A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15778490

    申请日:2016-11-23

    IPC分类号: A63B24/00 G01S5/00 G01S5/30

    摘要: The system (10) of FIG. 1 uses fixedly-located master and slave smartphone devices (12, 14) to determine a player position of a player (20) within playing arena, such as a tennis court. The master device (12) makes a local determination of the speed of sound using an audible ping to the slave device displaced from the master device by a known distance. The slave device (14) also responds with a time stamp associated with the receipt of one or more pings. Correlation over successive RF-reported time stamps allows the master device (12) to assess, relative to its own internal reference clock, a time offset and drift for a local clock in the slave device (14). A RF connection to a communications circuit and sensor (18) arrangement located in a racket held by a player permits the master device (12) to assess a time offset and drift for a local clock associated with the sensor. The sensor (18) further includes a gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer that cooperate to record movement or orientation of the racket, and which information is uplink reported over the RF connection to the master device. When an amplitude or modelled sound profile for a “hit” event (24) is detected by both the master and slave devices (12, 14) and the hit event time-stamped by the devices in the system and reported to the master by the communications circuits of the racket and slave units, the master unit is able to triangulate the position of the hit event relative to known dimensions of the playing arena. Continuous reporting of movement of the racket relative to the previous hit event can therefore be displayed to show movement of the player around the court relative to detected sound events.

    ENHANCED CONTENT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210326415A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-21

    申请号:US17327304

    申请日:2021-05-21

    摘要: The invention, as shown by the system in FIG. 2, relates to a client-side content tracking system of media files, e.g. digital music files. Audio tracking—or indeed multimedia tracking—is shifted to a client-side perspective, with the client tasked with establishing use of a selected source audio track by tracking—and then reporting uplink to the server—at least one of: entry and exit points associated with playing of at least one of said musical sections in the identified source audio track, and how the identified source audio track was used, performed or manipulated at the client device. Server functionality is designed, having regard to the reported tracking data and its link to a unique identifier to permit the media file (e.g. source audio track) to be selected and/or identified, to store or relay—possibly in the context of a subscription service and billing regime for content use—tracking data related to use of at least a portion of the source audio track at or by the client device. In the context of audio, reporting of use at a client device can, in turn, cause streaming of related multi-media content from a third-party database to the client device. For music, reporting of entry and end points into and out of sections of complete audio tracks can coincide with musically seamless audio transitions between sections.

    ENHANCED CONTENT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190243954A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-08

    申请号:US16387963

    申请日:2019-04-18

    摘要: The invention, as shown by the system in FIG. 2, relates to a client-side content tracking system of media files, e.g. digital music files. Audio tracking—or indeed multimedia tracking—is shifted to a client-side perspective, with the client tasked with establishing use of a selected source audio track by tracking—and then reporting uplink to the server—at least one of: entry and exit points associated with playing of at least one of said musical sections in the identified source audio track, and how the identified source audio track was used, performed or manipulated at the client device. Server functionality is designed, having regard to the reported tracking data and its link to a unique identifier to permit the media file (e.g. source audio track) to be selected and/or identified, to store or relay—possibly in the context of a subscription service and billing regime for content use—tracking data related to use of at least a portion of the source audio track at or by the client device. In the context of audio, reporting of use at a client device can, in turn, cause streaming of related multi-media content from a third-party database to the client device. For music, reporting of entry and end points into and out of sections of complete audio tracks can coincide with musically seamless audio transitions between sections.

    MEDIA-MEDIA AUGMENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMPOSING A MEDIA PRODUCT

    公开(公告)号:US20190164527A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-30

    申请号:US16263201

    申请日:2019-01-31

    摘要: A media-content augmentation system includes a database with a multiplicity of media files and associated metadata. Each media file is mapped to at least one contextual theme defined by beginning and end timings. A processing system couples to the database; and an input couples to the processing system. The input is in the form of temporally-varying events data. The processing system resolves the input into one or more categorized contextual themes, correlates the themes with metadata associated with selected media files relevant to the themes, and then splices or fades together selected media files to reflect the events as the input varies with time, thus generating as an output, a media product in which transitions between media are aligned with the temporally-varying events. The database may contain sections of digital media files. A method aligns sections in digital media files with temporally-varying events data to compose a media product.

    ENHANCED CONTENT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180181730A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-28

    申请号:US15846692

    申请日:2017-12-19

    IPC分类号: G06F21/16 G11B20/00

    摘要: The invention, as shown by the system in FIG. 2, relates to a client-side content tracking system of media files, e.g. digital music files. Audio tracking—or indeed multimedia tracking—is shifted to a client-side perspective, with the client tasked with establishing use of a selected source audio track by tracking—and then reporting uplink to the server—at least one of: entry and exit points associated with playing of at least one of said musical sections in the identified source audio track, and how the identified source audio track was used, performed or manipulated at the client device. Server functionality is designed, having regard to the reported tracking data and its link to a unique identifier to permit the media file (e.g. source audio track) to be selected and/or identified, to store or relay—possibly in the context of a subscription service and billing regime for content use—tracking data related to use of at least a portion of the source audio track at or by the client device. In the context of audio, reporting of use at a client device can, in turn, cause streaming of related multi-media content from a third-party database to the client device. For music, reporting of entry and end points into and out of sections of complete audio tracks can coincide with musically seamless audio transitions between sections.