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US 2012/0238383 A1Published application
Device and method for detecting and commenting on a game event in the immediate vicinity of a goal
AssigneeTarek OMRI
InventorsPatrick Simonnet, Francis Bras
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Abstract
A device capable of automatically detecting game actions that take place in the vicinity of a goal for sports or activities in which the objective is to make a projectile enter the goal. The device is suitable for triggering, always in an automatic manner and in real time, audio or visual animations suited to the game situation thus detected. A method for processing information suitable for qualifying a game action according to information gathered from various types of sensors placed in the playing area is also described.
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A device for the practice of an activity using a projectile, wherein said device comprises:
- a closed space lit by a source of artificial light, said space comprising a cage whose plan of entrance is delimited by a framework bearing a net;
- a projectile of a given color shade;
- sensors comprising a vision device capable of detecting the color shade of the projectile in a volume comprising the cage;
- the colors of all the elements likely to be in the scene seen by the vision device, when they are lit by the artificial light source, being selected so that none of the mixtures of the aforesaid colors cannot comprise the color shade of the projectile.
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