Patent ID: 8622832

Claim:
A system comprising: a basketball including a sensor system, disposed within the basketball, for measuring motions of the basketball wherein the sensor system includes a first wireless interface for sending sensor data related to the motions of the basketball to an electronic device; the electronic device including a processor and a memory and a second wireless interface for receiving the sensor data, said processor configured to 1) receive sensor data for a plurality of repeated motions of the basketball, 2) based upon the received sensor data, generate one or more parameters that characterize the plurality of repeated motions, 3) based upon the one or more parameters, generate feedback information that is used to characterize a skill of a person at generating the repeated motions and 4) output the feedback information wherein, when the repeated motions are a plurality of basketball shots, an angle of the trajectory of each of the plurality of basketball shots relative to a plane of a basketball hoop when the basketball is proximate to the basketball hoop is determined from the received sensor data associated with each shot and the feedback information is based upon the determined angles.