Patent ID: 9551779
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A63B,G01S,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of controlling a pointing device according to the movements of an object of interest in a monitored field, comprising: attaching to the object, which is or includes a ball or puck involved in playing a game, a Radio Frequency Identification Device which, when triggered, transmits the identification of the object; detecting the transmitted identification at a plurality of different locations sufficient to define the instantaneous space location of the object in the monitored field; inputting the detected identifications into a Real-Time Location Processor; deriving from the Real-Time Location Processor a tracking signal defining the real-time movements of the object within the monitored field; and feeding the tracking signal to the pointing device to cause it to track the movements of said object in a real-time manner; characterized in that another signal, in addition to said tracking signal, is also derived from said Real-Time Location Processor defining another instantaneous condition of the object, and is also fed to the pointing device to control another parameter of the pointing device in a real-time manner; wherein said another instantaneous condition of the ball or puck is its vertical acceleration.