Intelligent Heavy Bag System

Abstract

An intelligent heavy bag system having a sensor system and an illumination system adapted to provide performance feedback to a user.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An intelligent heavy bag system, comprising a body including:
 a central core disposed within inner and outer layers, the central core and the inner layer having corresponding holes through a thickness thereof,   an illumination system comprising a plurality of illumination elements disposed in the body such that visible light is capable of transmitting through the plurality of holes; and   a sensor system configured to detect impact upon the body of the intelligent heavy bag.   
     
     
         2 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 1 , wherein the system is capable of providing feedback to a user on his performance. 
     
     
         3 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 1 , wherein the sensor system consists of a first sensor disposed at a top section of the body of the heavy bag and a second sensor disposed at a bottom section of the body of the heavy bag. 
     
     
         4 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 1 , wherein the sensor system includes at least first and second sensors, the first and second sensor comprising piezoelectric transducer system mounted to an integrated circuit. 
     
     
         5 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 4 , wherein the piezoelectric transducer system include first and second piezoelectric transducers disposed at ninety degrees of each other. 
     
     
         6 . The intelligent bag system of  claim 1 , wherein the sensor system is capable of determining both vertical and angular location of an impact upon the body of the intelligent heavy bag. 
     
     
         7 . The intelligent bag system of  claim 1 , wherein the sensor system is capable of determining both vertical and angular magnitude of an impact upon the body of the intelligent heavy bag. 
     
     
         8 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 1 , wherein the illumination system elements include an internal LED matrix, and further wherein the LEDs are high intensity LEDs. 
     
     
         9 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 8 , wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes are operatively connected to one or more printed circuit boards or programmable elements on a bus topology or a common controller board. 
     
     
         10 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 8 , wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes define a plurality of lighting zones, and the lighting zones can be actuated independently of each other. 
     
     
         11 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 8 , wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes transmit light according to a training module that can be selected by the user. 
     
     
         12 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 1 , further comprising a computational system, selected from the group consisting of a general purpose computer, an application specific integrated circuit, a microprocessor, microcontroller, a FPGA. 
     
     
         13 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 12 , wherein the computational system is operatively coupled to an output of the sensor system. 
     
     
         14 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 13 , wherein the computational system is operatively coupled to the illumination elements. 
     
     
         15 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 14 , wherein the sensor system is operatively connected to the illumination system such that the color and intensity of the illumination elements provide performance feedback to the user. 
     
     
         16 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 12 , wherein the computational system comprises a readable or writable storage medium encoding at least one training sequence and performance data. 
     
     
         17 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 16 , wherein the bag further includes a peer-to-peer mode in which two users can train against each other with two separate intelligent heavy bags. 
     
     
         18 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 1 , wherein signals obtained from the sensor system are conditioned by a compression algorithm to avoid signal saturation. 
     
     
         19 . An intelligent heavy bag system, comprising a body including:
 a central core disposed within inner and outer layers, the central core and the inner layer having corresponding holes through a thickness thereof,   a sensor system configured to detect impact upon the body of the intelligent heavy bag and   an illumination system comprising illumination elements, wherein the sensor system and the illumination system are operatively connected to provide performance feedback to a user of the intelligent heavy bag system.   
     
     
         20 . The intelligent heavy bag system of  claim 19 , wherein the bag further includes training mode for an individual user and a peer-to-peer mode in which two users can train against each other with two separate intelligent heavy bags