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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1999
Richard H. Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
James R. Gloudemans, San Mateo, CA (US);
Stanley K. Honey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Terence J. O'Brien, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan C. Phillips, Los Altos, CA (US);
William F. Squadron, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Marvin S. White, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sportvision, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system is disclosed that can determine the distance a baseball would have traveled after being hit if its path was not interrupted. Thus, when a player hits a home run and the ball collides with an obstruction such as the seating area of a stadium or a wall, the present invention can determine how far the ball would have traveled had the ball not hit the stadium or the wall. The present invention can also be used to determine information about the path of objects other than a baseball.