Positional locating system and method

摘要

A method and system are disclosed for locating or otherwise generating positional information for an object, such as but not limited generating positional coordinates for an object attached to an athlete engaging in an athletic event. The positional coordinates may be processed with other telemetry and biometrical information to provide real-time performance metrics while the athlete engages in the athletic event.

主权项

1. A method of positionally identifying people and objects within a defined space, the method comprising:
associating an identification generated for each person or object with a device to be worn or mounted while the person or object moves within the defined space; controlling a beacon included within each device to emit a signal at an interval specified within a beacon transmission schedule; controlling an instrument to record images representative of at least a portion of the defined space, each image plotting recorded signals within a two-dimensional field defined by a viewing angle of the instrument; calculating image-based positional coordinates for each signal appearing within each of the captured images, the image-based positional coordinates defining spatial positioning of the beacons emitting the signals relative to the two-dimensional field of each image; reducing the image-based positional coordinates to defined space-based positional coordinates, the defined space-based positional coordinates defining spatial positioning of the beacons emitting the signals within at least a two-dimensional coordinate system defined relative to at least a length and width of the defined space; and for each of the images, identifying the person or object at each of the defined space-based positional coordinates based on the identification of the person or object scheduled to emit signals at the time the image was captured.