Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mixed-reality golf tracking and simulation
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Application No.: US16013822Application Date: 2018-06-20
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Publication No.: US10409363B1Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Thomas Kudirka , Patrick Bennett
- Applicant: vGolf LLC
- Applicant Address: US NE Omaha
- Assignee: vGolf, LLC
- Current Assignee: vGolf, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NE Omaha
- Agency: Suiter Swantz pc llo
- Main IPC: G06F3/01
- IPC: G06F3/01 ; G06T13/40 ; G06T19/00 ; G06N20/00 ; A63B69/36 ; A63B71/02 ; A63B71/06 ; G02B27/01 ; G06T7/20 ; A63B102/32

Abstract:
A mixed-reality golf simulation system includes a ball-tracking sub-system to generate ball-tracking data when a golf ball is hit by a user, a near-eye display, a storage device to store panoramic images of a hole of a golf course associated with location coordinates of a plurality of locations along the hole, and a controller. The controller may direct the near-eye display to display a mixed-reality environment including a virtual reality scene from the perspective of a first location on the hole over based on images associated with location coordinates of the first location, receive ball-tracking data of a ball hit by the user in real-time, and direct the near-eye display to display the mixed-reality environment including a virtual reality scene from the perspective of a landing location of the ball based on images device associated with location coordinates of the landing location of the ball.
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