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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2020
Fast Track Vision, Llc, Hartford, CT (US);
John Alan Davey, Hartford, CT (US);
Robert J. Dyer, Concord, MA (US);
Andrew Robert Nota, Jamestown, RI (US);
Fast Track Vision, LLC, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a practice device for practice of hitting a tennis ball includes a server configured for serving the tennis ball to a user, a net disposed to intercept a flight of the tennis ball after the tennis bell has been hit by the user using a racket and to direct the captured tennis ball back towards the server to be served again to the user, an image detector configured to observe the tennis ball as the tennis ball hurtles towards the net, and a processor. The processor determines, based at least in part on image frames received from the image detector, data indicative of the tennis ball's virtual landing spot. This virtual landing spot is an estimate of where the tennis ball would have landed on an opposing court had the tennis ball not been intercepted by the net.