信息技术持续发展进步并与体育教育不断深入融合，有望成为实现体育教育现代化变革的积极因素。利用信息技术重塑体育教育生态模式，运用创新手段和方法提高教育者和学习者的教学效果是当今体育教育研究的方向之一，但是，目前我国体育教育信息化无论是在理论上还是在实践上都处于摸索阶段。

为了探究信息技术在体育教育领域的发展状况，本文利用专利计量法对信息技术在体育教育领域相关专利从宏观上进行了初步统计分析，进一步结合可视化分析法对专利数据进行技术类别、技术主题、演变发展趋势挖掘。之后，提炼出专利数据标题和摘要描述中的关键信息纳入编码表中进行内容分析。主要研究结果如下：

从专利申请数量和申请发展趋势来看，信息技术在体育教育领域相关专利经历一段酝酿期后迅速增长并达到了一个相对平稳的发展阶段。专利涉及的技术领域主要集中在计分装置、教育设备、以可视化的方式展示研究材料、特殊运动用的训练用品或器械、教育或演示用的教具等。从专利来源国家来看，我国的专利申请数量遥遥领先但高质量专利与专利产出总量的比值较低。利用专利技术主题共现网络进行可视化分析可以发现，音频/视频记录和系统、数字计算机、教育和体育是信息技术在体育教育领域相关专利涉及最多的领域，具体细分为体育和训练器材的计算机处理、培训设备、一般教育设备、运动训练和健身训练等方面而且不同技术领域之间不断进行交叉融合。从时间和技术突现的演变趋势来看，技术发展总体表现为从硬件到软件、从专门设备器材到通用设备器材、从单因素的影响控制到整个教学资源环境的改变。

从专利标题和摘要的内容分析来看，信息技术在体育教育领域相关专利涉及到了体育教学、课余体育、体育保障以及体质测试。其中涉及体育教学频次最多，具体又分为了体育教学方法、体育教学实施、体育教学评价，将信息技术应用于体育教学有助于教师的教和学生的学，丰富了体育教学方法、促进了体育教学实施、发挥了体育评价功能。将信息技术应用于课余体育训练，有助于实现基于数据的精准训练，提高课余体育训练水平。将信息技术应用于体育保障有助于实现体育教育信息数据管理的系统化、规范化、科学化和自动化，开发和利用信息化教学设备和专项器材也有助于提高教学效果，信息技术还为体育教师专业化发展提供了新的途径。信息技术应用于体质测试的成果表现为智能化体质测试仪器，有利于提高体质测试的效率和准确性，还可以进行测量数据的管理、上报和初步分析。合理恰当地将信息技术应用于体育教育各个方面，充分发挥信息技术自身优势和特点，能够使其成为推动体育教育现代化发展的变革力量。

The continuous development and integration of information technology with physical education is expected to be a positive factor to realize the modernization of physical education. In the context of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, structural changes have taken place in the education methods and learning modes of educators and learners, which has profoundly tested the development level of education informatization in China in the past decade. Using information technology to reshape the ecological model of physical education and using innovative means and methods to improve the teaching effect of educators and learners is one of the directions of physical education research. However, at present, the informatization of physical education in China is in the exploratory stage both theoretically and practically.

This paper makes a preliminary statistical analysis on the related patents of information technology in the field of physical education from a macroscopic point of view by using patent measurement method, and further excavates the technology category, technology theme and evolution trend of patent data with visual analysis software. Then, the key information in the title and abstract description of patent data is extracted into the coding table for content analysis. The main results are as follows.

Judging from the number of patent applications and the development trend of the applications, the related patents of information technology in the field of physical education developed rapidly after a period of gestation and reached a relatively stable development stage. The fields covered by the patent mainly focus on scoring devices, educational equipment, visual display of research materials, training supplies or equipment for special sports, teaching aids for education or demonstration, etc. From the perspective of patent source countries, the number of patent applications in my country is far ahead, but the ratio of high-quality patents to total patent output is low. Using patented technology theme co-occurrence network visualization analysis can find that audio/video recording and systems, digital computers, education and sports are the fields with the most related patents in the field of information technology in the field of physical education, which are subdivided into computers for sports and training equipment. Processing, training equipment, general education equipment, sports training and fitness training, and more, there is a constant cross-convergence between different technical fields. Judging from the evolutionary trend of time and technology emergence, the overall performance of technology development is from hardware to software, from specialized equipment to general equipment, from single-factor influence control to the change of the entire teaching resource environment.

From the content analysis of patent titles and abstracts, information technology related patents in the field of physical education involve physical education, after-school physical education, physical education and physical fitness testing. Among them, PE teaching’s frequency is the most, which is divided into methods, implementation and evaluation.  It is helpful for PE teaching and enriches physical education methods, and promotes physical education. The teaching implements and exerts the function of sports evaluation. Applying information technology to extracurricular physical training can help to achieve accurate training based on data and improve the level of extracurricular physical training. The development and utilization of information-based teaching equipment and special equipment also helps to improve teaching effects. Information technology also provides physical education teachers. Professional development offers new avenues. The results of the application of information technology to physical fitness testing are manifested as intelligent physical fitness testing instruments, which are conducive to improving the efficiency and accuracy of physical fitness testing, and can also manage, report and preliminarily analyze measurement data. Reasonable and appropriate application of information technology to all aspects of physical education, giving full play to its own advantages and characteristics, can make it a transformative force to promote the modernization of physical education.