Patent ID: 8517854

Claim:
A golf score real-time automatic counting apparatus comprising: a storage unit for storing information regarding driver shot positions at holes; a communications unit for receiving position computation information for calculating a current position of a golfer; and a control unit for counting the number of driver shots if a condition to count a driver shot based on the information regarding the driver shot positions and information regarding the current position of the golfer is satisfied, wherein the storage unit further stores information regarding fairway positions in fairway regions of the holes and green region positions in green regions of the holes, and wherein the control unit counts fairway shots per hole by accumulating a fairway shot count, and acknowledging a par for each hole if a condition to count a fairway shot is satisfied based on the information regarding fairway positions and the information regarding the current position of the golfer, and wherein the control unit also counts putting shots per hole by accumulation if a condition to count a putting shot is satisfied based on the information regarding green region positions and the information regarding the current position of the golfer, and wherein the control unit selects the positions where the golfer does not move in the green region for a predetermined period of time, selects positions where a golf assistant does not move in the green region for the predetermined period of time, determines if there is the position where a putting shot estimated motion or a putting shot estimated sound occurs, and, if a position where the putting shot estimated motion or the putting shot estimated sound occurs corresponds to one of the positions where the golfer does not move and simultaneously corresponds to one of the positions where the golf assistant does not move, determines that the condition to count a putting shot is satisfied.