Thomas W Peters

US Patent:

6068559, May 30, 2000

Filed:

May 15, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/080041

Inventors:

Alan Lubell - New York NY
Thomas S. Peters - Boca Raton FL
Earl Takefman - Montreal, CA

Assignee:

The Visual Edge - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

A63B 6936

US Classification:

473266

Abstract:

A system and method for producing a personal golf lesson videotape from a visual recording of a person's golf swing and a partially prerecorded instructional golf lesson videotape. The partially prerecorded golf lesson videotape has gaps in predetermined locations into which are inserted the full motion video of the person's golf swing and selected still frames. The system contains two cameras for recording a player's golf swing from the back and side, a computer connected to the cameras for digitally capturing and storing the recorded golf swing, and a computer-controlled video recording device for copying the selected video and still frames of the recorded golf swing into the gaps of the prerecorded videotape golf lesson. The still frames are selected to match the player's position to the position of the professional golfer in corresponding still frames so that a split screen, side-by-side view can be produced showing the player's and professional's positions at various points along a golf swing. Time codes are stored in the predetermined gaps of the prerecorded videotape to help the VCR locate the gaps.

US Patent:

61590169, Dec 12, 2000

Filed:

Dec 19, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/994972

Inventors:

Alan Lubell - New York NY
Thomas S. Peters - Boca Raton FL
Earl Takefman - Montreal, Quebec, CA

International Classification:

A63B 6900
A63B 6936

US Classification:

434247

Abstract:

A system and method for producing a personal golf lesson videotape from a visual recording of a person's golf swing and a partially prerecorded instructional golf lesson videotape. The partially prerecorded golf lesson videotape has gaps in predetermined locations into which are inserted the full motion video of the person's golf swing and selected still frames. The system contains two cameras for recording a player's golf swing from the back and side, a computer connected to the cameras for digitally capturing and storing the recorded golf swing, and a computer-controlled video recording device for copying the selected video and still frames of the recorded golf swing into the gaps of the prerecorded videotape golf lesson. The still frames are selected to match the player's position to the position of the professional golfer in corresponding still frames so that a split screen, side-by-side view can be produced showing the player's and professional's positions at various points along a golf swing.

US Patent:

57978050, Aug 25, 1998

Filed:

May 24, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/656156

Inventors:

Alan Lubell - New York NY
Thomas S. Peters - Boca Raton FL
Earl Takefman - Montreal, CA

Assignee:

The Visual Edge - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

A63B 6936

US Classification:

473266

Abstract:

A system and method for producing a personal golf lesson videotape from a visual recording of a person's golf swing and a partially prerecorded instructional golf lesson videotape. The partially prerecorded golf lesson videotape has gaps in predetermined locations into which are inserted the full motion video of the person's golf swing and selected still frames. The system contains two cameras for recording a player's golf swing from the back and side, a computer connected to the cameras for digitally capturing and storing the recorded golf swing, and a computer-controlled video recording device for copying the selected video and still frames of the recorded golf swing into the gaps of the prerecorded videotape golf lesson. The still frames are selected to match the player's position to the position of the professional golfer in corresponding still frames so that a split screen, side-by-side view can be produced showing the player's and professional's positions at various points along a golf swing. Time codes are stored in the predetermined gaps of the prerecorded videotape to help the VCR locate the gaps.