Patent ID: 8083646

Claim:
An athleticism performance measuring system comprising: a portable, self-contained, sensor unit having a sensor configured to measure an athletic performance of an athlete in its sensor field during a first athletic task without being in physical contact with the athlete, wherein the sensor field extends along a first distance of a first axis from a first boundary to a second boundary, the sensor unit comprising: a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed, permit the sensor unit to be at least one of a first configuration or a second configuration, wherein at the first configuration, execution of the instructions by the processor cause the processor to perform: detecting the athlete entering the sensor field along the first boundary and in response, storing a first time value, but not reporting a triggering event; separately detecting the athlete exiting the sensor field along the second boundary and in response, storing a second time value, but not reporting a triggering event; determining whether a difference between the first time value and the second time value exceeds a dwell threshold; and wherein if the dwell threshold is not exceeded, determining that the first time value, but not the second time value, is the first triggering event, and if the dwell threshold is exceeded, determining that the second value, but not the first value, is determined to be the first triggering event; and wherein at the second configuration, execution of the instructions causes the processor to perform: detecting the athlete entering the sensor field along the first boundary and in response, storing a third time value and initiating a re-arm time threshold in which subsequent detections of the athlete entering the sensor field during the re-arm time threshold are prevented from being utilized as a triggering event.