PERSONAL GOLFING ASSISTANT AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING GOLF RELATED INFORMATION AND FOR COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF GOLF RELATED DATA

Title:

PERSONAL GOLFING ASSISTANT AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING GOLF RELATED INFORMATION AND FOR COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF GOLF RELATED DATA

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO2004042517

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

A personal golfing system comprising software running on a PDA attached to a GPS receiver that enables a user to survey and capture golf data, to use a handheld PDA/GPS device to mark a ball location, to determine distances to selected golf course targets or objects, and/or to analyze golf related data (figure 1). The system software can further adjust golf course related measurements to compensate for environmental condition changes. There is provided a graphical method for measuring and displaying distances between a golfer and an object, displaying multiple measured distances along a line of sight between a golfer and an object, and orienting and displaying an object coincident with a user's line of sight. There is provided a method for collecting and uploading golf course geographic data to an Internet accessible sever (figure 34A), processing the uploaded data, distributing selected data to authorized users, and downloading requested data to a hand held device.

Inventors:

MEADOWS JAMES W (US)
ROOT RICHARD L (US)
NASH DALLAS L II (US)
EDMONSON RICHARD C (US)

Application Number:

PCT/US2003/034551

Publication Date:

February 03, 2005

Filing Date:

October 29, 2003

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

SKYHAWKE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (US)
MEADOWS JAMES W (US)
ROOT RICHARD L (US)
NASH DALLAS L II (US)
EDMONSON RICHARD C (US)

International Classes:

G01S19/19; A63B71/06; G01S1/00; G01S19/42; A63B69/36; G01S5/14; (IPC1-7): A63B57/00

Foreign References:

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US6236938B1	2001-05-22
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