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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2001
Douglas C. Winfield, Seneca, SC (US);
William Gobush, North Dartmouth, MA (US);
Diane Pelletier, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of automatically calculating the spatial relationship of a plurality of diffuse dots on a ball, comprising the automated steps of obtaining at least two ball images of the ball at two or more discrete times; calculating a first gray level of the image; smoothing and binarizing the image; locating and determining the number of ball images in the image; locating and determining the number of diffuse dots on each ball image; confirming that the calculated number of dots equals a predetermined number of dots on each ball image; and calculating movement characteristics of the ball.