Baseball Strike Notification System

Abstract

A baseball strike notification system. The strike notification system includes a radar configured to measure the velocity of a baseball, a plurality of cameras having wireless transmitters configured to measure the position of the baseball via velocity information from the radar, and an earpiece having a processor, speaker, and wireless receiver configured to receive the position information from the plurality of cameras. A logic stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, when executed by the processor, causes the strike notification to perform a method including the steps of calculating a strike zone, triangulating the position of the baseball within the strike zone, and notifying the umpire whether the pitch is a ball or a strike via an audible notification emitted through a speaker.

I claim: 
     
         1 ) A strike notification system comprising:
 a radar configured to measure the velocity of a baseball;   a plurality of cameras in operable communication with the radar, each of the plurality of cameras comprising a wireless transmitter, wherein each of the plurality cameras configured to determine the position of the baseball along an axis;   a headset comprising a processor, a speaker, and a wireless receiver configured to receive the position information from each of the plurality of cameras;   a non-transitory computer readable medium operatively connected to the processor;   a logic stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executed by the processor, causes the strike notification system to perform a method, the method comprising the steps of:
 calculating a strike zone, the strike zone being three dimensional spatial volume above home plate 
 triangulating a position of the baseball in a three coordinate space via position information received from the plurality of cameras; 
 if the position of the baseball is within the strike zone, then emitting a first audible notification via the speaker; 
 if the position of the baseball is not within the strike zone, then emitting a second audible notification via the speaker. 
   
     
     
         2 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein the power source of the headset is a rechargeable battery. 
     
     
         3 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of cameras includes a first camera configured to measure the position of a ball along a width axis, a second camera configured to measure the position of the ball along a length axis, and a third camera configured to measure the position of the ball along a height axis. 
     
     
         4 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising strike zone height information relating to one or more batters stored thereon. 
     
     
         5 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein one of the plurality of cameras is configured to measure the distance between a batter's knees and the midpoint between the top of the batter's shoulders and the top of the batter's uniform pants. 
     
     
         6 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of cameras are configured to wirelessly communicate with the headset via a Bluetooth connection. 
     
     
         7 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein the first audible notification comprises an exclamation of the word strike. 
     
     
         8 ) The strike notification system of  claim 1 , wherein the second audible notification comprises an exclamation of the word ball.