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GB2337385A
GB2337385A GB9810206A GB9810206A GB2337385A GB 2337385 A GB2337385 A GB 2337385A GB 9810206 A GB9810206 A GB 9810206A GB 9810206 A GB9810206 A GB 9810206A GB 2337385 A GB2337385 A GB 2337385A
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B24/00Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
    • A63B24/0021Tracking a path or terminating locations
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B71/00Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
    • A63B71/06Indicating or scoring devices for games or players, or for other sports activities
    • A63B71/0605Decision makers and devices using detection means facilitating arbitration
    • GPHYSICS
    • G01MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01SRADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S5/00Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations
    • G01S5/02Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
    • G01S5/06Position of source determined by co-ordinating a plurality of position lines defined by path-difference measurements
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B24/00Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
    • A63B24/0021Tracking a path or terminating locations
    • A63B2024/0025Tracking the path or location of one or more users, e.g. players of a game
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2220/00Measuring of physical parameters relating to sporting activity
    • A63B2220/80Special sensors, transducers or devices therefor
    • A63B2220/83Special sensors, transducers or devices therefor characterised by the position of the sensor
    • A63B2220/836Sensors arranged on the body of the user
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2225/00Miscellaneous features of sport apparatus, devices or equipment
    • A63B2225/50Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2243/00Specific ball sports not provided for in A63B2102/00 - A63B2102/38
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Abstract

A Player Tracking System which will monitor each player on a playing area using Transmitters attached to each player and at certain fixed points around the playing area. Data is fed from receivers into a computer which will analyse the position of each player and decide as to whether a player is causing an infringement of the laws of the game. All position data is fed via a transmitter to Officials who have an Audio/visual device, this then will enable a more accurate decision to be made. This is an ideal solution for football where assistant referees have difficulty deciding if a player is in an off-side position.

Description

2337385 PLAYER TRACKING SYSTEM This invention relates to a player tracking
and position analysis system which informs Officials in charge of a game if some rules of the said game are being infringed by the players.
All sports have rules and laws which need to be applied to, to ensure fair play and to allow advantages for clever play of the sport being played in an attempt to win a game or tournament. This invention allows accurate tracking of each player relative to all other players and fixed points within the playing area, giving instant information to Officials at key points of the game. One application of the system would allow officials to give an instant and accurate decision of whether a player was off-side when the ball was played forward in a game of football, without having to have necessarily kept up with play or be perfectly inline with the last defender. Up to now video evidence, used in other sports has often slowed play down while a decision is being made by playing back a tape frame by frame. This is an acceptable method for some lower tempo sports but, sports that rely on a high tempo and an emotional atmosphere, this method is completely unacceptable. This invention would give split second analysis and information for accurate interpretation of events to allow the game to continue without the fast tempo and atmosphere being destroyed.
According to the present invention there is provided a Player Tracking System comprising of a Transmitter worn by all players and at fixed points within the Playing Area, which transmits their position to a computer. This computer analyses the data and transmits output data to Officials, who have an Audio/Visual device, informing them if a player's position is an infringement of the laws of the game, i.e. Such as off- side in football.
A specific embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying diagrams in which:- Fig 1. Shows the Playing Area, Players and. Officials.
Fig 2. Shows the flow of data.
Referring to the drawings, the Player Tracking System comprises miniature Transmitters worn by Players 2 and at Fixed Points 3 around the Playing Area 1. The transmitters continuously send their signals to a master Transmitter/Receiver 4. This Transmitter/Receiver 4 is connected to a Computer System 5 that runs a Computer Program 6 to analyse the Players and Playing Area positions.
The Computer Program 6 will divide the incoming data into two separate halves and deduce if Players 2 are causing an infringement of the rules of the game. It will forward the resulting data to Transmitter/Receiver 4 that in turn will send the data to each separate Official 7, who is responsible for their half of the Playing Area.
In Fig 1, in the right hand side of the Playing Area, an example is shown of a 'white player' in an offside position in a game of football. The Player Tracking System would detect this player's positions and will inform the Official who is responsible for that half of the Playing Area by means of an Audio/Visual device that the Official will have. Whenever the ball is played forward in the direction of that player the Official will already know that a player is in an offside position. The Official can then make a decision as to whether that player is interfering with play and an infringement has been committed.
In order to provide the best results the Transmitters worn by each Player 2 should be as small and as powerful as possib le. The master Transmitter/Receiver 4 should be positioned as to successfully triangul the positions of Players 2. Transmitters will be located around the boundaries of the Playing Area 3 to show the playing boundaries. Each Official will have an Audio/Visual device which will inform him of positions of players and any possible infringements.
Each Official 7 is only responsible for their own half of the Playing Area 3, so each will only receive data relating to that half The Computer System would also recognise if any Transmitters were malfunctioning and alert the Officials.
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Claims (2)

  1. A Player Tracking And Position Analysis System comprising Transmitters worn by each player and placed at fixed pomits within the Playing Area, which send its position to a computer system. This computer analyses the data and passes the results to a Transmitter which sends the data to an Official with a Audio/Visual device, informing that Official if a player is causing an infringement in that said Officials half of the playing area.
  2. 2 A Player Tracking And Position Analysis System as claimed in Claim 1, wherein any statistical information built up from the computer analysis can be used for overall play analysis.
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EP1291042A1 (en) 2001-09-11 2003-03-12 Eitan Feldbau Determining position of players on a sport field
GB2380882A (en) * 2002-02-27 2003-04-16 Steven Mitchell Tagging system for sports fans
GB2383708A (en) * 2001-12-31 2003-07-02 Systems Engineering & Assessme Position determination
WO2003070336A1 (en) * 2002-02-25 2003-08-28 Harold Hugo Gonzalez Rendon System of electronic devices that is designed to assist a football referee
GB2387052A (en) * 2002-03-28 2003-10-01 Datacq Ltd Object tracking within a defined area
GB2402825A (en) * 2003-06-12 2004-12-15 Anthony Michael O'doherty Competitor monitor
FR2873933A1 (en) * 2004-08-03 2006-02-10 Olivier Vauclin Refereeing assisting system for football match, has electronic chips emitting signal and installed in determined part and game units of player, and data processing unit analyzing received signal with respect to determined game rule
WO2007072115A1 (en) * 2005-12-21 2007-06-28 Andrea Lupini The control system of the determination of an offside position in the game of soccer and the position of moving objects in sports
CN104147771A (en) * 2014-08-20 2014-11-19 天津大学 Athletics team athletic contest multiscale visible analysis method based on five-line staff metaphor
CN104318068A (en) * 2014-09-29 2015-01-28 天津大学 Competitive sports teamwork mode analogy method based on chordal graph visualization
CN107715433A (en) * 2017-11-03 2018-02-23 杭州乾博科技有限公司 A kind of table tennis system that positioning is read based on active radio frequency label
JP2021053438A (en) * 2017-06-20 2021-04-08 カシオ計算機株式会社 Notification system, notification method, and program
US11207582B2 (en) 2019-11-15 2021-12-28 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for a user adaptive training and gaming platform
GB2597555A (en) * 2020-01-06 2022-02-02 Dobney David Game system, device and method for playing a game
US11514590B2 (en) 2020-08-13 2022-11-29 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for object tracking
US11657906B2 (en) 2011-11-02 2023-05-23 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for object tracking in coordination with a ball-throwing machine
US11710316B2 (en) 2020-08-13 2023-07-25 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for object tracking and metric generation
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GB2348757A (en) * 1999-04-07 2000-10-11 Athar Ali Chaudhry Offside determination
EP1291042A1 (en) 2001-09-11 2003-03-12 Eitan Feldbau Determining position of players on a sport field
GB2383708A (en) * 2001-12-31 2003-07-02 Systems Engineering & Assessme Position determination
WO2003070336A1 (en) * 2002-02-25 2003-08-28 Harold Hugo Gonzalez Rendon System of electronic devices that is designed to assist a football referee
GB2380882B (en) * 2002-02-27 2006-01-04 Steven Mitchell Tagging system
GB2380882A (en) * 2002-02-27 2003-04-16 Steven Mitchell Tagging system for sports fans
GB2387052A (en) * 2002-03-28 2003-10-01 Datacq Ltd Object tracking within a defined area
GB2402825A (en) * 2003-06-12 2004-12-15 Anthony Michael O'doherty Competitor monitor
GB2402825B (en) * 2003-06-12 2007-02-14 Anthony Michael O'doherty Monitoring system and method
FR2873933A1 (en) * 2004-08-03 2006-02-10 Olivier Vauclin Refereeing assisting system for football match, has electronic chips emitting signal and installed in determined part and game units of player, and data processing unit analyzing received signal with respect to determined game rule
WO2007072115A1 (en) * 2005-12-21 2007-06-28 Andrea Lupini The control system of the determination of an offside position in the game of soccer and the position of moving objects in sports
US11657906B2 (en) 2011-11-02 2023-05-23 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for object tracking in coordination with a ball-throwing machine
CN104147771A (en) * 2014-08-20 2014-11-19 天津大学 Athletics team athletic contest multiscale visible analysis method based on five-line staff metaphor
CN104147771B (en) * 2014-08-20 2016-08-17 天津大学 Sports team sporting contests based on staff metaphor multiple dimensioned visual analysis method
CN104318068A (en) * 2014-09-29 2015-01-28 天津大学 Competitive sports teamwork mode analogy method based on chordal graph visualization
CN104318068B (en) * 2014-09-29 2017-09-29 天津大学 Based on the visual athletics sports team matching model analogy method of string figure
JP2021053438A (en) * 2017-06-20 2021-04-08 カシオ計算機株式会社 Notification system, notification method, and program
CN107715433A (en) * 2017-11-03 2018-02-23 杭州乾博科技有限公司 A kind of table tennis system that positioning is read based on active radio frequency label
US11207582B2 (en) 2019-11-15 2021-12-28 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for a user adaptive training and gaming platform
GB2597555A (en) * 2020-01-06 2022-02-02 Dobney David Game system, device and method for playing a game
GB2597555B (en) * 2020-01-06 2022-08-17 Dobney David Game system, device and method for playing a game
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US11710316B2 (en) 2020-08-13 2023-07-25 Toca Football, Inc. System and method for object tracking and metric generation
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