Process for recording intermediate and final times in sporting events

US5696481A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Wolfram Pejas · Reinheim, DE
• Rolf Schafer

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 2, 1996
• Grant date: Dec 9, 1997
• Expiry date: Jul 2, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C1/24
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

To record times and intermediate times at sporting events, especially large and multi-discipline events, a method is proposed for immediately establishing the result, by which a large number of recording stations are positioned along the competition track which are connected to a central station, which evaluates the arriving information in a wireless or wire-bound manner, that every recording station has a frame antenna to absorb energy in the high-frequency range as well as to receive high-frequency signals and each athlete is handed a passive high-frequency transmitter with a personal code, which he holds in the recording station when the respective station is reached, whereby the recording station first re-charges the high-frequency transmitter via an antenna, afterwards the high-frequency transmitter passes the code to the recording station, the code is received by the recording station and is immediately passed with a further code from the recording station to the central station, where evaluation is carried out.