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Baseball batting instruction system and method

Baseball batting instruction system and method description/claims

The present application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/922,661, filed on Apr. 9, 2007.

The present invention relates to a baseball batting instruction system that uses a series of lights to indicate positions of a pitcher as the pitcher delivers a pitched ball, and sequence of moves that a batter performs in correlation with the lights.

Pitching machines are well known to instruct a batter how to hit a pitched ball. Some pitching machines incorporate a video of a pitcher going through pitching motions prior to the pitching machine delivering the pitched ball to the batter. It would be beneficial, however, to provide a system and a method for instructing the batter to initiate and perform his hitting motion with respect to different positions of the pitcher prior to the pitcher pitching the ball.

Briefly, the present invention provides a batting instruction system comprising an indicator assembly having a plurality of indicators disposed thereon, wherein each of the plurality of indicators corresponds to a motion of a pitcher prior to the pitcher delivering a pitched ball.

The present invention also includes a method of instructing a batter comprising providing an indicator assembly having a plurality of indicators disposed thereon; operating each of the plurality of indicators in an indicator sequence; and coordinating a motion of a batter in a batter sequence corresponding to the indicator sequence.

The present invention further provides a batting instruction system comprising an indicator assembly having a plurality of indicator lights disposed thereon. A first indicator light of the plurality of indicator lights corresponds to a motion of a pitcher beginning a pitching motion and a last indicator light of the plurality of indicator lights corresponds to the motion of the pitcher prior to the pitcher delivering a pitched ball.

Also, the present invention provides a method of instructing a batter comprising providing an indicator light assembly having a plurality of indicator lights disposed thereon; operating each of the plurality of indicator lights in an indicator light sequence, wherein the indicator light sequence represents motion of a pitcher prior to delivering a pitched ball; and coordinating a motion of a batter in a batter sequence corresponding to the indicator light sequence, wherein the batter begins the motion upon operation of a first of the plurality of indicator lights.

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein and constitute part of this specification, illustrate the presently preferred embodiments of the invention, and, together with the general description given above and the detailed description given below, serve to explain features of the invention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing movement of a batter in relation to a first light and a corresponding pitcher position according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing movement of the batter in relation to a second light and a corresponding pitcher position according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing movement of the batter in relation to a third light and a corresponding pitcher position according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing movement of the batter in relation to a fourth light and a corresponding pitcher position according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart displaying steps used to perform the method of the present invention; and

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