# US 12,214,483 B2 · Cricket game intelligent bot umpire for automated umpiring and scoring decisions during cricket match

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- Number: US 12,214,483 B2
- Document ID: US12214483B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/786,036
- Filed: 2020-12-15
- Published: 2023-02-16
- Granted: 2025-02-04
- Earliest claimed: 2019-12-16
- Assignees: Cricketronics Private Limited
- Applicants: Cricketronics Private Limited
- Inventors: Nagarajan Soodammani
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12214483B2

## CPC

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- A63B: APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
- G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)

## Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to a non-intrusive, integrated system comprising an umpire bot for automatically monitoring, umpiring, scoring, analytics, learning and coaching for players while eliminating need for human umpires and scorers. The automated umpire bot with intelligent telescopic function monitors, cognitively recognizes and captures movements from all equipment's, analyses them, moves up and down and even avoid ball collision travelling towards it. The non-intrusive real time system captures all the game moments right from players initiation, toss of coin, commencement of game, monitoring field positions, keeping scores, umpiring decisions, overs, valid/in-valid deliveries, validating balls per over, wickets, catches, boundaries, sixes and displaying scores and statistics all throughout the game.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A cricket umpiring system (100), comprising:
an artificial intelligence (AI) module (115) that trains the system (100), performs analysis based on player profile, assesses contextual information, and facilitates real time decision making during playtime based on the analysis of the player profile and the assessment of the contextual information;
a display interface (70) that is configured to display an umpiring decision and perform autoscoring of a game;
at least a pair of umpire bots (50 a, 50 d) placed at bowler's end; and
at least a pair of umpire bots (50 b, 50 c) placed at striker's end,
wherein each pair of umpire bots are configured with a telescopic functionality;
wherein, during a first over of play, an umpire bot (50 a) placed at the bowler's end is configured as a master and configured to make umpiring and scoring decisions and an umpire bot (50 d) placed at the bowler's end and the pair of umpire bots (50 b, 50 c) placed at the striker's end are configured as slaves; and
wherein, during the first over of play, umpire bots (50 a, 50 b) placed at the bowler's end and the striker's end, respectively, are configured to be fully extended via the telescopic functionality; and umpire bots (50 d, 50 c) placed at the bowler's end and the striker's end, respectively, are configured to be fully retracted into a play area.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 1, wherein the pair of umpire bots (50 a, 50 d) are placed behind bowler's end stumps and square leg side of bowler's end stumps, respectively and the pair of umpire bots (50 b, 50 c) are placed on square legs side of striker's end stump and behind the striker's end stump, respectively.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 1, wherein, the umpire bots (50 a, 50 c) placed at the bowler's end stumps and the striker's end stumps, respectively, alternate from master to slave roles while the umpire bots (50 b, 50 d) placed at the striker's end and at the bowler's end, respectively, continue to assume slave roles throughout the game; and an assigned master umpire bot at the bowler's end and a corresponding slave umpire bot at the striker's end are configured to be fully extended, while remaining slave umpire bots' are configured to be fully retracted.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 1, wherein each pair of umpire bots is configured with a telescopic pole (62) for providing telescopic functionality, a robotic arm (71), and a movable leg (72) to communicate the umpiring and scoring decisions.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 4, wherein each pair of umpire bots is configured to predict ball trajectory and enable tilting towards a secure position via the telescopic pole (62) to avoid collision with a ball.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an electronic camera unit (60) provided with an inbuilt battery, wherein the inbuilt battery is charged via adapters or via use of solar energy.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 1, further comprising of an image detection module (105) that is configured to capture images in real time during the play and store the images in a database (103) for consequent decision making.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The cricket umpiring system (100) as claimed in accordance with claim 6, further comprising of a 360 degree camera provided with a USB-2 type interface and is detachable to operate as an independent camera unit connected with the electronic camera unit (60) for 360 degree video recording of playground.