Provided is an apparatus for training golf. The apparatus comprises a shaft, a head portion provided at one end of the shaft and a ribbon detachably coupled to the head portion, wherein the ribbon includes a plurality of flags formed at one end of the ribbon.

A system and method for analyzing and improving the performance of a body motion of an animal or human subject requires instrumenting a subject with inertial sensors, monitoring a body motion of interest, converting sensor data into motion data and animation, comparing the motion data with existing data for motion related performance parameters, providing a real-time, information rich, animation and data display of the results in color coded displays; and based on the results prescribing a training regime with exercises selected from a library of standardized exercises using standardized tools and training aids.

An apparatus having a gesture sensor is provided. The gesture sensor includes an image sensing unit and a processing unit. The image sensing unit can capture at least a gesture image of user. The processing unit is electrically connected to the image sensing unit. The processing unit can send at least a control command according to the gesture image to operate the apparatus.

Disclosed herein is a system for testing motor skills involved in locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative activities. The system utilizes joint data created by a motion sensor during a subject's performance of an activity to determine the subject's motor skill proficiency for that activity. The system compares the subject's joint data to benchmark data to detect one or more phases of the activity. Based on the comparison, the system also determines the subject's proficiency in the particular motor skill tested. The system is embodied in a computer-implemented application that provides various user interfaces for navigating through the user interfaces, accessing a database of the system, testing a subject's motor skills, analyzing a subject's proficiency, and facilitating practice of motor skills.

The appropriateness of a motion of a motion actor who makes a motion in response to a motion of at least one moving body other than him/herself is visualized. To display motion information of a motion actor who makes a motion in response to a motion of at least one moving body other than him/herself, an image showing one sequence which is visible or a plurality of sequences which are visible is output. In this case, a relative time which is a position on a relative time axis corresponds to a position on a specific axis of the image. The one sequence or each of the plurality of sequences graphically shows at least a position on the axis which corresponds to a moving body time that is a relative time at which at least one predetermined motion of the moving body was made, and a position on the axis which corresponds to a motion actor time that is a relative time at which at least one predetermined motion of the motion actor was made.

An interactive visualization system has a receiver that receives image data corresponding to one or more biomechanical movements of a user. Further, the interactive visualization system has a processor that performs a biomechanical analysis, via a biomechanical rules engine, of the image data to determine that the one or more biomechanical movements of the user lack compliance with one or more biomechanical rules. The processor generates a virtual sports feedback cue to be rendered, in at least substantially real-time, via a virtual sports performance expert during performance of the one or more biomechanical movements of the user. Finally, the interactive visualization system has a transmitter that transmits the virtual sports feedback cue to the biomechanical data ingestion apparatus so that a rendering apparatus renders the virtual sports performance expert performing the virtual sports feedback cue in a manner visible to the user during the one or more biomechanical movements.

A smart soccer goal for tracking and communicating motion of objects includes a goal frame; a net coupled to the goal frame including a plurality of lights; and one or more sensors coupled to the goal frame. A first sensor of the one or more sensors is directed to detecting movement within and immediately near the smart soccer goal and a second sensor of the one or more sensors is directed to detecting movement outside of the smart soccer goal.

A training aid stimulator for providing fast perceptive feedback is disclosed. The training aid stimulator includes a first skin electrode and a second skin electrode both for making electrical contact to the body of a user, a charging module, a discharge module connected to one or more of the skin electrodes for a feedback discharging, and a processor for controlling the charging of a capacitor equivalent to a predetermined first voltage level, wherein the processor further being connected to the discharge module for controlling a feedback discharge of the capacitor equivalent. The stimulator comprises a voltage measurement module for measuring the level of charge of the capacitor equivalent, and the processor is configured for keeping the stimulator ready to discharge by repeatedly measuring the level of charge and by providing a maintenance charging when the voltage over said capacitance equivalent is at or below a predetermined second voltage level.

An information processing device includes a first member that includes a substantially plate-shaped casing and a predetermined detection unit, a second member that includes a substantially plate-shaped casing and that holds a battery inside the second member, and a connection unit that includes an elastic body and connects a part of an outer circumferential end surface of the first member to a part of an outer circumferential end surface of the second member such that a surface direction of one surface of the first member substantially matches a surface direction of one surface of the second member. The information processing device is worn on a predetermined body part such that the one surface of the first member and the one surface of the second member are located on a side of the body part.

A method and system for monitoring sports performance of an athlete includes a sensor for monitoring movement of the athlete, a sensor for monitoring a position of the athlete, and a controller for receiving information of the monitored signals from the sensors, wherein the controller includes a filter for filtering the received signals. The system also includes a cloud database for receiving and storing the data sent by the controller, and the cloud includes a filter for filtering and processing the data received from the controller. The system further includes a user interface for displaying the processed data showing the sports performance, received from the cloud.