Sporting ball with enhanced visual acuity
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsTodd Smith, Alan W. Reichow, Karl Citek
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AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsTodd Smith, Alan W. Reichow, Karl Citek
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Sporting balls with enhanced visual acuity, casings for sporting balls with enhanced visual acuity, and methods for enhancing visual acuity of a soccer ball are described. In embodiments, the sporting ball has an exterior with a substantially spherical surface including a first pole opposing a second pole and an equator circumferentially intermediate the first pole and the second pole. Additionally, in embodiments a first exterior region of a first color may include a first hub section oriented at the first pole generally opposite a second hub section oriented at the second pole on the substantially spherical surface. The first hub section may have one or more first hub spokes extending spherically outwardly therefrom toward the equator, and the second hub section may have one or more second hub spokes extending spherically outwardly therefrom toward the equator. Further, in embodiments, the sporting ball may have a second exterior region of a second color.
A sporting ball with rotation-dependent enhanced visual acuity, the sporting ball comprising:
A casing for a sporting ball with a rotation-dependent enhanced visual acuity, the sporting ball comprising:
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