Patents by Inventor Tuukka Nieminen
Tuukka Nieminen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20220387854Abstract: A method for tracking performance of player including determining global direction of magnetic field at first court and computing first court specific data; providing rotation for rotating apparatus about spin axis via player, wherein rotating apparatus comprising XYZ-magnetic field sensor; measuring plurality of magnetic field values as function of time when rotating apparatus is rotating about spin axis; computing magnetic field component of magnetic field in direction of local body co-ordinate of spin axis of rotating apparatus; determining direction of spin axis using computed magnetic field component of magnetic field and determined global direction of magnetic field; determining player specific data comprising angle of spin axis with respect to horizontal ground plane and angle of shot direction with respect to horizontal component of spin axis; and calibrating and storing first court specific data and player specific data to track performance of player at first court.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Sstatzz OyInventors: Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Porupudas, Harri Hohteri
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Patent number: 11435376Abstract: A method for determining a direction of a spin axis of a rotating apparatus which includes an XYZ-magnetic field sensor. The method includes determining a global direction of a magnetic field; rotating the rotating apparatus around the spin axis, measuring at least one magnetic field value as a function of time with the XYZ-magnetic field sensor when the rotating apparatus is rotating about the spin axis, computing a magnetic field component of the magnetic field in a direction of a local body co-ordinate of the spin axis of the rotating apparatus from the measured at least one magnetic field value and determining a direction of the spin axis using the computed magnetic field component of the magnetic field and the determined global direction of the magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SSTATZZ OYInventors: Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Porupudas, Harri Hohteri
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Patent number: 11118893Abstract: A method for determining a direction of a spin axis of a rotating apparatus which includes an XYZ-magnetic field sensor. The method includes determining a global direction of a magnetic field; rotating the rotating apparatus around the spin axis, measuring at least one magnetic field value as a function of time with the XYZ-magnetic field sensor when the rotating apparatus is rotating about the spin axis, computing a magnetic field component of the magnetic field in a direction of a local body co-ordinate of the spin axis of the rotating apparatus from the measured at least one magnetic field value and determining a direction of the spin axis using the computed magnetic field component of the magnetic field and the determined global direction of the magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SSTATZZ OYInventors: Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas, Harri Hohteri
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Publication number: 20200408503Abstract: A method for determining a direction of a spin axis of a rotating apparatus which includes an XYZ-magnetic field sensor. The method includes determining a global direction of a magnetic field; rotating the rotating apparatus around the spin axis, measuring at least one magnetic field value as a function of time with the XYZ-magnetic field sensor when the rotating apparatus is rotating about the spin axis, computing a magnetic field component of the magnetic field in a direction of a local body co-ordinate of the spin axis of the rotating apparatus from the measured at least one magnetic field value and determining a direction of the spin axis using the computed magnetic field component of the magnetic field and the determined global direction of the magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas, Harri Hohteri
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Publication number: 20200408797Abstract: A method for determining a direction of a spin axis of a rotating apparatus which includes an XYZ-magnetic field sensor. The method includes determining a global direction of a magnetic field; rotating the rotating apparatus around the spin axis, measuring at least one magnetic field value as a function of time with the XYZ-magnetic field sensor when the rotating apparatus is rotating about the spin axis, computing a magnetic field component of the magnetic field in a direction of a local body co-ordinate of the spin axis of the rotating apparatus from the measured at least one magnetic field value and determining a direction of the spin axis using the computed magnetic field component of the magnetic field and the determined global direction of the magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Porupudas, Harri Hohteri
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Patent number: 10664691Abstract: Disclosed are method and system for automatic identification of at least one player. The system and method are associated with a processing unit, and at least one projectile having a wireless interface and at least one sensor. The sensor collects sensor data at a first moment of time before release of the projectile by the player and communicates the sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit collects and analyses the sensor data to identify similar data, associates such data to a player, and stores the associated data. The sensor collects further sensor data at a second moment of time before release of the projectile by the player, which second moment of time is later than the first moment of time and communicates the further sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit compares the further sensor data to the stored associated data to identify the player.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: SSTATZZ OYInventors: Harri Hohteri, Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas
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Publication number: 20190050635Abstract: Disclosed are method and system for automatic identification of at least one player. The system and method are associated with a processing unit, and at least one projectile having a wireless interface and at least one sensor. The sensor collects sensor data at a first moment of time before release of the projectile by the player and communicates the sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit collects and analyses the sensor data to identify similar data, associates such data to a player, and stores the associated data. The sensor collects further sensor data at a second moment of time before release of the projectile by the player, which second moment of time is later than the first moment of time and communicates the further sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit compares the further sensor data to the stored associated data to identify the player.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Harri Hohteri, Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas
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Patent number: 10159884Abstract: An apparatus including a data acquisition device, a processing unit, a memory and an output device. The data acquisition device obtains at least one attribute of a shot of a basketball towards a basket. The at least one attribute is sensed by at least one sensor carried by the basketball or derived from signal output by the at least one sensor. The memory contains instructions to direct the processing unit to determine whether the shot is a made basket shot or a missed basketball shot by comparing the at least one attribute of the shot to one or more predetermined signature characteristics of a made basket. The output device presents output to a person based on the determination of whether the shot is a made basket shot or a missed basket shot.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Wilson Sporting Goods Co.Inventors: Robert T. Thurman, Kevin L. Krysiak, Harri Hohteri, Jirka Poropudas, Tuukka Nieminen, Vesa-Matti Mäkinen
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Patent number: 10108854Abstract: Disclosed are method and system for automatic identification of at least one player. The system and method are associated with a processing unit, and at least one projectile having a wireless interface and at least one sensor. The sensor collects sensor data at a first moment of time before release of the projectile by the player and communicates the sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit collects and analyses the sensor data to identify similar data, associates such data to a player, and stores the associated data. The sensor collects further sensor data at a second moment of time before release of the projectile by the player, which second moment of time is later than the first moment of time and communicates the further sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit compares the further sensor data to the stored associated data to identify the player.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SSTATZZ OYInventors: Harri Hohteri, Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas
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Publication number: 20160339297Abstract: Disclosed are method and system for automatic identification of at least one player. The system and method are associated with a processing unit, and at least one projectile having a wireless interface and at least one sensor. The sensor collects sensor data at a first moment of time before release of the projectile by the player and communicates the sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit collects and analyses the sensor data to identify similar data, associates such data to a player, and stores the associated data. The sensor collects further sensor data at a second moment of time before release of the projectile by the player, which second moment of time is later than the first moment of time and communicates the further sensor data to the processing unit. The processing unit compares the further sensor data to the stored associated data to identify the player.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Harri Hohteri, Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas
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Publication number: 20160180544Abstract: A sports apparatus is provided. The sports apparatus includes a computing device, an imaging device, and a projectile. The projectile includes a configuration of sensors for collecting sensor data, and a wireless interface for communicating the sensor data to the computing device. The computing device is operable to use the sensor data to detect a beginning of an event of interest, and to use the imaging device to start recording a sequence of still images along an expected trajectory of the projectile based on the detected beginning of the event of interest. The sequence of still images comprises at least one image where the projectile is detectable. Moreover, the computing device is operable to use the at least one image and the sensor data to determine a time-parameterized trajectory of the projectile, and to determine whether the time-parameterized trajectory intersects a specified region in space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Harri Hohteri, Teemu Kemppainen, Tuukka Nieminen, Jirka Poropudas