Patent ID: 9492708
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: A63B

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for measuring or analysing a golf swing, comprising: a processor, a detection means operable to detect ground-reaction forces, and including a plurality of sensors and one or more force plates or pressure pads having a standing surface, characterised in that a) the plurality of sensors are positioned under the standing surface at different locations, and the detection means is operable to detect load responses to the standing surface and not deformation responses to the standing surface; b) information is separately, and not collectively, received from the plurality of sensors, and after being received, some information from some of the plurality of sensors is processed separately from some information from other of the plurality of sensors, and the processor is operable to determine center-of-pressure information by separately receiving and processing information from the plurality of sensors that are positioned under the standing surface at different locations; c) the apparatus includes an artificial intelligence and the processor includes an early-processing program, and information from the plurality of sensors or the detection means, after being received, is processable by the early-processing program into data which better characterises the swing, before being received by the artificial intelligence; and d) the artificial intelligence is operable to receive and process information from the early-processing program.