Filing Information

Inventor(s)	Takayoshi Kojima ·
Assignee(s)	Yosei Kojima ·  View assignee updates
Correspondent	AKERMAN SENTERFITT ·
Application Number	US11057023
Filing date	02/11/2005
Publication date	08/18/2005
Predicted expiration date	02/11/2025
U.S. Classifications	111/200  · 701/50  · 701/301  · 280/DIG.005  · 250/221  ·
International Classifications	--
Kind Code	A1
Foreign Priority	JP2004035358 - 02/12/2004 · JP2004345336 - 11/30/2004 ·

Patent Family

Abstract

There is provided a golf cart capable of repairing surfaces of fairways not manually but automatically. The golf cart is equipped with an image-taking device 31 for taking images of surface conditions on the fairways, a container 32 for accommodating joint soil, an image processing means 41 for recognizing exposed soil surfaces on the fairways based on image information imported from the image-taking device 31, and a repairing means 44 for dropping the joint soil within the container 32 on the exposed soil surfaces recognized by the image processing means 41. Thus, as the cart is moving on the fairways, every time the image processing means 41 recognizes the exposed soil surface, the repairing means 44 drops down the joint soil within the container 32 on the exposed soil surface.

Independent Claims | See all claims (13)

1. 1. A golf cart, comprising: an image-taking device for taking images of surface conditions on fairways; a container for accommodating joint soil; an image processing means for recognizing exposed soil surfaces on the fairways based on image information imported from said image-taking device; and a repairing means for dropping the joint soil accommodated in said container onto the exposed soil surfaces recognized by said image processing means.