Operations with instrumented game ball
AssigneeRussell Brands, LLC
InventorKevin William King
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Abstract
This document provides a computer-implemented method that includes placing an athletic ball containing a battery on an inductive charging device; generating an electric or magnetic field, or both with the inductive charging device; receiving energy from the field or fields via a receptor located inside the athletic ball; and charging a battery inside the athletic ball using the received energy. This document also provides devices and methods for detecting events with an instrumented player-controllable game device, such as an event of a basketball or soccer ball passing through a goal.
Claims5
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- identifying, with a computer system, data captured from sensors positioned to sense a magnetic field around, created by, or affected by an inflatable ball as part of an actual sporting event;
- analyzing the data with the computer system, comprising identifying a disruption of defined magnitude in earth's magnetic field around the inflatable ball that is indicative of a scoring event using as part of the sporting event the inflatable ball;
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- registering the occurrence of a scoring event in response to the analyzing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.